The Practice Improvement Bundle of HRS 2023 sessions includes complimentary access to the following:
Excellent AF Care Delivery: It Takes the Whole Village - Maximizing AF care delivery requires a comprehensive approach. Building relationships with anesthesia, working with administration to adequately staff the EP lab, and evaluating the feasibility of same day discharge may help create a winning environment for you AND your patients. (Speakers: Walid Saliba, MD, Cleveland Clinic & Joshua Silverstein, MD, Allegheny Health Network)
I Just Got a Pay Cut! RVU, VBC – OMG: Can & Should We Make Everybody Whole? - Timely discussion regarding provider compensation models given changing landscape of reimbursement for EP procedures. We will examine this from both a private practice versus employed model and include physicians, administrators, and legal counsel. (Speakers: Thomas Deering, MBA, MD, Piedmont Heart Institute & Amit Thosani, MD, Allegheny Health Network)
If You Build It, Will They Come? Strategies for Practice Management and Growth - Hear from practicing physicians, advanced practice providers and physician administrators on strategies to increase access to care for AF patients. In this session, we will explore how to create a business plan, streamlined referral pathways, team-based care delivery and quality outcome management. (Speakers: John Catanzaro, MBA, MD, University of Florida Health & Andrea Robinson, MSN, ACNP, Riverside Methodist Hospital, OhioHealth)
Improving Arrhythmia Care Delivery: More than Catheters & CIEDs - Improve your practice by reducing opioid dependance, reducing vascular complications, identifying causes of syncope, and screening for ARVC (Speakers: Heather Bloom, MD, Atlanta VA Medical Center & James Peacock, MD, MS, White Plain Hospital)
My AF Ablation Was a Great Success! Really? How Should We Measure Success? - What is most relevant to determining AF ablation success? Whether that is AF burden, first recurrence, symptom burden or quality of life - it is important to create an organizational strategy to help define success and create goals for improved care of the AF patient. (Speakers: Christian de Chillou, MD, PhD, University Hospital Nancy & Paul Varosy, MD, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System/University of Colorado)
Shark Tank: Hooking AFib - Come see our top 3 submitters present to a panel of AHA/HRS 'sharks' during a competition of research ideas related to the extensive GWTG-AFIB registry! See if their ideas will make the sharks want 'more skin in the game' or say 'for that reason, I'm out!' The winner of this competition will receive the AHA/HRS Bill Lewis Investigator Award plaque. Additionally, mentorship will be provided to the award winner to assist with project completion. (Panel: Mina Chung, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Dept. of Cardiology; Larry Jackson, II, MD, MHS, Duke University Medical Center; Bradley Knight, MD, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine; Jonathan Piccini, Sr., MD, MHS, Duke University Medical Center & Andrea Russo, MD, Cooper University Hospital)
Equity in Heart Rhythm Research - Studying Representative Populations and Training Representative Investigators. As heart rhythm advances become increasingly specialized, complex, and often costly, disparity in research of therapeutics may develop among the patient populations who need them. This session seeks to explore the opportunities and challenges in conducting equitable research in heart rhythm diseases, recruiting representative populations including women, training diverse study investigators, and promoting global heart rhythm care among vulnerable populations. Hosted by HRS Research Committee. (Speakers: Christine Albert, MD, MPH, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center & Samuel Omotoye, MD, Cleveland Clinic)