Optimize Clinical Teams to Increase Access to Care

Moderator(s)

• JB

  Jill Blitz, PT

  Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Speaker(s)

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  David Sikes, MD

  Florida Medical Clinic
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  Erin Arnold, MD

  Orthopaedics and Rheumatology of the North Shore
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  Rosemary Walters, -None-

  Rheumatology Associates,PLLC

The value of care provided by traditional rheumatology practices is compromised by workforce shortages and inefficient delivery of care processes. The goal of this presentation is to share practice team and workflow innovations from the Rheumatoid Arthritis Practice Performance (RAPP) Project that have increased access to care for new and established patients, eliminated wait times for necessary care, and provided Treat-To-Target outcomes for many more patients per physician at a lower per patient cost. Utilizing Advanced Practice Clinicians to perform and document patient assessments and coordinate care to allow rheumatologists to focus on new and complex established patients' management are essential to achieving these practice improvements.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the barriers that compromise the value of care (access, outcomes and costs) delivered by traditional rheumatology practices, and how key practice redesigns resolve them
• Review strategies to manage and participate in redesigning the composition and functioning of practice teams to optimize the value of care provided for rheumatic disease populations
• Justify the importance of implementing team care and disease population management in outpatient practices to resolving widespread workforce shortages, waste and runaway costs

Presentations:

• 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM ET

  Re-Engineering Rheumatology Practice: What Was the RAPP Project & What Did It Teach Us?
  David Sikes, MD – Florida Medical Clinic
• 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM ET

  Team Care Optimizes Access & Performance: A Rheumatologist’s Perspective
  Erin Arnold, MD – Orthopaedics and Rheumatology of the North Shore
• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM ET

  Team Care Optimizes Access & Performance: A Practice Manager’s Perspective
  Rosemary Walters, -None- – Rheumatology Associates,PLLC
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM ET

  Q&A