Training and Professional Development

  • 8/30 CME/CPE - Delivering Care Anywhere

    Delivering Care Anywhere: Improving Health Outcomes Through Remote Patient Monitoring

    Provided by 

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

    Date: Monday, August 30, 2021
    Time: 5:00-6:00PM
    Location:  WebEx Live Event. Register Here

    Presenters: 

    • Thomas Agresta MD., MBI, Director of Clinical Informatics - UConn Health
    • Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, Chief Executive Officer – Back9 Healthcare Consulting
    • Richard Albrecht, MS., Executive Director of Telehealth - Community Health Network of Connecticut Holdings, Inc.

    This is a knowledge-based activity.

    Learning Objectives:  Participants will (be able to):

    1. Define Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and discuss the benefits to patients and providers

    2. Discuss how the collection and utilization of RPM data improves chronic condition management and health outcomes

    3. Describe how to utilize health information technology to collect, exchange, and analyze RPM data to support patient-centered care

    4. Identify challenges and best practices to implement and apply RPM to practice

    5. Describe how CT providers are utilizing RPM to better aid underserved populations

    Speaker Disclosure Statement:

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

    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.

    The University of Connecticut, School of Pharmacy, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a Provider of Continuing Pharmacy Education and will award 0.10 CEU’s (1 contact hour) to pharmacists in attendance who complete an evaluation form; ACPE 0009-9999-21-049-L04-P. CE Statements of Credit will be electronically uploaded to the CPE Monitor system within 24 hours of submission via the learning management system.

    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. Kashrup, Ms. Burke, Ms. Magennis, Mr. Ruth 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 Connecticut Office of Health Strategy and 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.  An email from MyEvaluations.com with instructions will be sent to participants.  Please complete the evaluation within one week of receiving the email. If you do not receive an 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