February 21, 2019 Issue 75

KMA Membership: A Resolution
to Keep

We’re almost two months into 2019, and I know many of us are working hard to make sure the resolutions we declared several weeks ago don’t fall by the wayside. With each passing day, it seems like these things just get harder, especially when work, family and community obligations start to compound.  

February Public Health Minute: Opioid Abuse

Kentucky’s overall overdose death rate is nearly twice the national average, and the Commonwealth ranks third in the nation in overdose deaths.

In this month’s Public Health Minute, Commissioner Jeffrey Howard, M.D., discusses treatment options and resources for both physicians and their patients. FindHelpNowKY.org is a real-time substance use disorder treatment locator that can help connect providers, patients and their families with available treatment facilities. A brochure for FindHelpNowKY.org also details important information for those seeking treatment. 
 
Drug abuse is one of the five focus areas of KMA’s AIM for Better Care: Administrative Improvements in Medicine initiative. More information about AIM is available at kyma.org/AIM . 

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Kentucky Online Gateway –New Portal to Access KASPER

The Kentucky Online Gateway (KOG) is used by Medicaid patients to manage their Medicaid services, learn about online classes, employment opportunities and more with a single sign-on.

Beginning April 1, 2019, physicians will use KOG to connect to the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic System (eKasper). To prepare for this change physicians must take the following actions to ensure uninterrupted access to eKASPER:

2.      Provide a unique email address prior to April 2019.
3.      Delegate account holders must also have a unique email address (multiple eKASPER users will no longer be able to share an email address, such as a practice-wide email.)

If a physician attempts to log into the old eKASPER portal April 1, 2019 or after the system automatically take you to the KOG registration page. (If a KOG account already exists –only a login is required.)

For more information, contact the help desk at eKASPERHELP@KY.GOV or call (502) 564-2703. 
Nursing Degree Led Ashlee Margheim to Learn More and Become a Physician

Ashlee Margheim loves to hike, especially in Glacier National Park. “I’ve been very fortunate to go every summer,” she said. She realizes this yearly pilgrimage may have to change, however, now that she’s a third-year medical school student at the University of Louisville.

Flu Myth Buster Video: "What can my physician do for me if I think I have the flu?"

KPLI graduate Mamata Majmundar, M.D., answers a common question about the flu in this video, which is part of a series of videos for KMA's public health campaign, Focus on Flu.

MEMBER NEWS
Tailor Selected by Louisville Business First to Receive 2019 Young Leaders Award

Vice Speaker of the KMA House of Delegates and KPLI graduate Monalisa Tailor, M.D. , is a recipient of the Louisville Business First 2019 Young Leaders Award. She was among 20 selected based on her notable successes and strong leadership from more than 250 nominees.
Ajkay and Riley Recognized in MD-Update Magazine for Brown Cancer Center Reaccreditation

KMA members Nicolas Ajkay, M.D. and Beth Riley, M.D. , were quoted in MD-Update magazine about the three-year/full reaccreditation of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.
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