Event Overview
This networking conference is for those who have a stake in practicing better care.
Conference attendees will leave with ideas and practices that they can adapt to their own settings. Participants will learn how to better involve patients and their families as partners in managing chronic diseases, and specific strategies for better care.
Continuing medical education credit will be available for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, social workers, and pharmacists.
Featured Speakers
Patients and providers share how innovative practices really work, including an array of speakers from: community health centers and consortia -- community hospitals -- health plans -- integrated health systems -- medical groups -- public hospital clinics -- small practice providers. Plus, Chip Heath, co-author of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, will be the dinner speaker on November 6.
Learning Objectives
- Identify specific ideas that make a difference and can be adapted in your own setting to improve chronic disease care.
- Describe strategies to support team-based and collaborative care and how these can be implemented.
- Identify ways to support patient activation and self management and to involve patients and families as partners in managing chronic diseases.
- Assess the applicability of adopting information technology to support chronic disease care.
- Gain networking opportunities to discuss innovative practice methods for improving chronic disease care.
Who Should Attend
This event is aimed at individuals concerned about chronic disease care and able to make or lead change: primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, mid-level providers, nurses, pharmacists, medical assistants, social workers, and other clinical staff; quality improvement staff; health IT specialists; administrators; payers; and purchasers from California-based organizations.
Sponsors
The California HealthCare Foundation, based in Oakland, is an independent philanthropy committed to improving California's health care delivery and financing systems. CHCF works to improve health care in California by promoting innovation in care and access to information so that people can get the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford.
The California Improvement Network is a project of the California HealthCare Foundation that seeks to strengthen, coordinate, and expand improvement programs across the state.