Training and Professional Development

  • 11/8 CME - Exchanging Electronic Medical Images

    How Image Sharing Can Add Value to a Health Information Exchange

    Provided by 

    University of Connecticut School of Medicine Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and Center for Quantitative Medicine

    Date: Monday, November 08, 2021
    Time: 5:00-6:00PM
    Location:  WebEx Live Event. Register Here

    Presenters: 

    • Thomas Agresta MD., MBI, Director of Clinical Informatics - UConn Health
    • Ryan Bramble, MS, Executive Director, CRISP DC
    • Alan Kaye, MD, Independent Radiologist

    This is a knowledge-based activity.

    Learning Objectives:  Participants will (be able to):

    1. Discuss the benefits of medical image sharing for patients and providers

    2. Discuss the additional value that medical image sharing can provide through an electronic exchange  

    3. Identify challenges and best practices to implement and apply medical image sharing to practice

    4. Describe how a Health Information Exchange can facilitate medical image sharing in Connecticut

     

    Speaker Disclosure Statement:

    Dr. Kaye has a financial interest/arrangement with Sirona Medical that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of his role as a speaker. The following safeguard(s) have been put in place: the activity director determined that the financial relationship is outside the area of the content of the program.

    Dr. Agresta and Mr. Bramble do not have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation.

    Dr. Agresta, Dr. Kaye, and Mr. Bramble will not be discussing the off-labeled use of any product.

    This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.

    Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this CME activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations.  Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.

    Activity Director Disclosure Statement:

    Dr. Agresta as the activity director does not have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation.

    Planning Committee Disclosure Statement:

    Dr. Burrows, Dr. Kashrup, Ms. Burke, Ms. Magennis, and Mr. Tran, as member(s) of the planning committee, do not have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation.  Dr. Jeffery has a financial interest/arrangement with CVS Health that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of his/her role as the activity director. The following safeguard(s) have been put in place to avoid the insertion of commercial bias into the content: The following safeguard(s) have been put in place to avoid the insertion of commercial bias into the content: The activity director will restrict the planner’s involvement to areas outside the area of conflict

    This CME activity is supported by an educational grant from Connie, which did not influence the content of the program. 

    Evaluations: Participants are required to complete an electronic evaluation in order to obtain CME Credits. A Qualtrics survey containing the evaluation will be emailed to all external participants, while UCHC participants will receive an email from MyEvaluations.com. Please complete the evaluation within one week of receiving the email. If you do not receive an email or evaluation assignment from MyEvaluations.com within 10 business days of this activity, please contact the Department that hosted this activity (indicated above) to ensure that your MyEvaluations.com account is set up and your participation in this activity was forwarded to the CME office.  

    For more information, contact: Ryan Tran at rytran@uchc.edu