The Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Registry- Hosted by the US Wound Registry: A Qualified Clinical Data Registry for MIPS Reporting

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The Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Registry- Hosted by the US Wound Registry: A Qualified Clinical Data Registry for MIPS Reporting

Objectives:

1. The listener will understand what is the purpose of a Qualified Clinical Data Registry under current Medicare law.
2. The listener will understand how to use a certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) to participate in the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Registry (HBOTR).
3. The listener will understand how HBOTR research can be performed by tying appropriately developed quality measures to national registry participation.
4. Discuss how registries can be used in medicine.
5. Describe the essential components of successful registries.
6. Explain the limitations and potential pitfalls of registries.
7. Understand the importance of a registry for the future of hyperbaric medicine.
8. Understand the organization of the Dartmouth registry and the reasons for the design chosen.
9. Review the types of questions that can be answered using a hyperbaric outcomes registry.

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Estimated time to complete this activity: 2 hours

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Physician CME: The Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM . Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Nursing/RRT: This enduring material is approved for 2 contact hours provided by Florida Board of Registered Nursing/RRT Provider #50-10881.

For NBDHMT: This enduring material is approved for 2 Category B credit hours by National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology, 9 Medical Park, Suite 330, Columbia, South Carolina 29203

Termination Date: May 1, 2022

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Goal: For over 40 years the UHMS has been the primary source of information for hyperbaric medicine and physiology worldwide. This enduring material has as its goal to address identified professional practice gaps and provide a quality CME opportunity which will improve scientific knowledge and skills for hyperbaric and wound care: physicians, nurses and technicians, and other clinicians and personnel whose practice includes hyperbaric medicine and wound care.

Target Audience – physicians, nurses, CHT’s or anyone with an interest in diving and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

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About the presenters:

Caroline Fife completed a Family Medicine residency at the University of Texas, Southwestern in Dallas followed by a two year Fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine at Duke University. Until 2013 she was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston where she initiated the Memorial Hermann Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine and the Lymphedema Center. She is now a Professor of Geriatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and the Medical Director of the CHI St. Luke's Wound Care Clinic in The Woodlands, Texas. She is also the Chief Medical Officer of Intellicure, Inc., a health information technology company, and the Executive Director of the U.S. Wound Registry, a non-profit organization recognized by CMS as a qualified clinical data registry. The USWR develops quality measures and helps wound care and hyperbaric practitioners meet the requirements of Medicare’s new Quality Payment Program.

Judy Rees is a physician-epidemiologist at the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College. She graduated in medicine from Oxford University in England, and completed a three-year general practice residency in the UK, before moving to the US where she completed a Masters and PhD in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley. Her work in disease surveillance and registry methods includes the CDC’s Emerging Infections Program, the New Hampshire Birth Conditions Registry, and she is now the Director of the New Hampshire State Cancer Registry. She is the Co-Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, and the Co-Director of the Cancer Center’s Registry Shared Resource. In that capacity she began her collaboration with Dr Buckey several years ago, to develop a multi-center Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment Registry.

Jay Buckey is a Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and directs the Hyperbaric Medicine program there. At Dartmouth they have been collecting data in an outcomes registry for the past four years.

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