{"id":15985,"date":"2012-04-03T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=15985"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:41:31","slug":"south-florida-health-care-leadership-gathers-to-learn-2012-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/04\/south-florida-health-care-leadership-gathers-to-learn-2012-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida health care leadership gathers to learn 2012 trends."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ask physicians and healthcare administrators to spend an entire workday away from their busy worlds, you better make sure the event is highly beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found this event to be extremely worthwhile, for clinicians and administrators to learn best practices around the county,\u201d said internal medicine physician Deborah Gracia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15990\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15990 size-full\" title=\"Nancy Borkowski\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Nancy-Borkowski.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Borkowski\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Borkowski, FIU\u2019s director of Health Management Programs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She and 80 other CEOs, CMOs and health care executives from South Florida\u2019s health centers attended the \u201c2012 Trends in Patient Care\u201d on January 18, 2012. The event was part of a Health Care Quality Institute series being presented at Florida International University (FIU) by Health Choice Network in partnership with FIU\u2019s Colleges of Business Administration and Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs clinicians, we often talk among ourselves about innovations to improve patient care but it\u2019s important to hear from experts about what\u2019s really working,\u201d Gracia said.<\/p>\n<p>Some top specialists provided information on improving patient care, including topics such as establishing a patient-centered medical home, planned care visits and accountable care organizations.<\/p>\n<p>National presenters included Seiji Hayashi, chief medical director for the U.S. Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) in Washington, D.C. and Adele Allison, national director of government affairs of SuccessEHS. Also from BPHC were Suma Nair, director of the office of quality and data, and Felicia Collins, senior clinical advisor for the central southeast division.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15987\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15987 size-full\" title=\"Adele Allison\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Adele-Allison.jpg\" alt=\"Adele Allison\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adele Allison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTo hear right from national government officials about mandates, EHRs and other issues and to see the support being afforded to networks like ours was extremely valuable,\u201d said Edwin Bosa-Osorio, CMO, clinical affairs, at the Jessie Trice Community Health Center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15988\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15988 size-full\" title=\"Edwin Bosa-Osorio\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Edwin-Bosa-Osorio.jpg\" alt=\"Edwin Bosa-Osorio\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edwin Bosa-Osorio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>South Florida presenters included FIU faculty members Nancy Borkowski, director, Health Management Programs, and Yolangel Hernandez-Suarez, associate dean, Graduate Medical Education.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15986\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15986 size-full\" title=\"Yolangel Hernandez-Suarez\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Yolangel-Hernandez-Suarez.jpg\" alt=\"Yolangel Hernandez-Suarez\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolangel Hernandez-Suarez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis event gave senior health center leadership the latest information on trends specific to our industry, including reimbursement, medical home standards and new technologies,\u201d said Kevin Kearns, CEO of Health Choice Network. \u201cDiscussing all these topics at one event brings a lot of value to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15989\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15989 size-full\" title=\"Kevin Kearns\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Kevin-Kearns.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Kearns\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Kearns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Next in the series is coming up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The second in the 2012 series of Health Care Quality Institute\u2019s events is on April 18<sup>th<\/sup> at FIU.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?group_id=&amp;user_id=23794481@N04&amp;set_id=72157629303372855\/show\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"middle\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ask physicians and healthcare administrators to spend an entire workday away from their busy worlds, you better make sure the event is highly beneficial. \u201cI found this event to be extremely worthwhile, for clinicians and administrators to learn best practices around the county,\u201d said internal medicine physician Deborah Gracia. 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