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In this issue
- Updated Provider Agreements
- Mandatory Course Reminders
- Supporting Your Practice: CI Update, Roe v. Wade, Monkeypox
- Epic Updates
- Service Line Leadership Announcements
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Updated Provider Agreements: Due August 8 | |
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On July 25, APP sent updated provider agreements (PPA) to all aligned practices.
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Mandatory Course Reminders
CI-1 overview for APP aligned physicians in eUniversity
- Completion by July 31, 2022 – mid-tier target (partial points)
- Completion by Sept. 30, 2022 – low tier target (partial points)
Compliance education in Workday
With the release of Workday, all Advocate Aurora Health team members (employed and non-employed) are being assigned mandatory education through Workday Extended Enterprise Learning (EEL). Non-employed APP aligned providers have historically taken Compliance Education in eUniversity and this is now moving to Workday EEL. This is due by Sept. 30. Learn more.
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Supporting Your Practice
Clinical Integration weekly update: View the latest program update.
Patient outreach: We are conducting patient outreach on your behalf to support quality outcomes and close quality care gaps. Read more.
In case you missed it: Roe v. Wade panel discussion: Tune in for this video panel discussion moderated by Jim Skogsbergh, President and CEO, with Jeff Bahr, MD, Chief Medical Group Officer, Ann Windsor, MD, Vice President, Women's Health service line and Rev. Kathie Bender Schwich, Chief Spiritual Officer, to discuss implications and what this means for our patients and care teams.
COVID-19 prevention reminder: With the highly contagious omicron subvariant BA.5 causing a dramatic increase in COVID-19 cases within our communities, it’s important to ensure we are taking measures to prevent transmission whenever possible. Continue to follow these measures – see the COVID-19 Info Center for more:
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Wear a well-fitting mask, covering nose and mouth, in patient care areas at all times, following our universal masking guidelines.
- All visitors over the age of 2 must wear a mask at all times, including in patient rooms.
- Patients should be supplied with masks and wear it if they are able while a team member is in the room.
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All visitors of patients in isolation are to wear appropriate PPE.
Latest monkeypox updates: It remains important that our physicians, APCs and team members are educated and prepared on monkeypox. Read the latest updates.
Twenty Advocate Aurora hospitals named to ‘Best Hospitals’ list: In the latest U.S. News & World Report ‘Best Hospitals’ list, 19 Advocate Aurora adult hospitals were recognized, in addition to Advocate Children’s Hospital, which was recognized as a top pediatric hospital. See which hospitals made the list.
Value based care education opportunity: Advocate Aurora is joining with the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee to offer a fully online, 16-credit certificate in Value Based Care and Population Health Management. Apply through the university’s graduate school website, and read this FAQ for details.
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Epic Updates
Reminder: Default paperless billing in LiveWell: Advocate Aurora Health is turning on default paperless billing for active LiveWell users
Aug. 1 to further enhance the security of health information while making the payment process easy and convenient for patients. When statements are ready to view in LiveWell, patients will receive monthly notifications via email and/or text notification. You can turn on paperless billing statements in advance under Quick Links > Manage Billing.
Additional Updates
Epic Update: Ambulatory Epic Connect: Updates to SmartSets and BPA link alert and video visits and Android audio issue.
Epic Update: Hospital edition for Physicians and APCs: Discharge readiness, retirement of inpatient consult to physician order and thrive Epic education video – Haiku for Android.
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Service Line Leadership Announcements
Work is underway to formally integrate the Advocate Aurora Health service line structure across Illinois and Wisconsin. Led by the medical group and inclusive of our APP aligned physicians, the service lines include Behavioral Health, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Hospital Based Specialties, Medical Specialties, Neurosciences, Orthopedics, Primary Care Surgical Specialties and Women’s Health.
The leadership structure is being finalized, including a dyad partnership of a single physician and administrative Vice President for each of the service lines. View the full org chart. The next phase of integration will include the formation of Joint Leadership Councils consisting of similar specialty physicians on AAH medical staffs. The councils will focus on care delivery and quality at our hospitals led by each Service Line's leadership team.
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Advancing Consumer First
We recently launched Enhanced Scheduling for Heart Scans – improving access to this simple, $49 preventative scan to help more people live well. Enhanced Scheduling is one of our Consumer First Landmark Initiatives that aims to offer consumers and patients a simple, connected, personalized scheduling experience across any Advocate Aurora access point – at our sites, by phone or online.
Your patients can now self-schedule a Heart Scan from a paper order and consumers can self-refer and self-schedule via LiveWell, advocatehealth.com or by phone.
Our centralized team of cardiac care coordinators will manage the order process for self-referred patients. This team has also standardized the results notification process for self-referred and physician ordered scans and handles care coordination and education needs to enhance the patient experience.
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Research Institute contributes to FDA approval of Dupixent® for eosinophilic esophagitis: FDA approval for the first-ever EoE treatment was granted after clinical trial findings showed Dupixent significantly reduced symptoms in adults and children 12 years of age and older. T.S. Gunasekaran, MD led the research team at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge, IL. Read more.
Patients with blood cancers should receive COVID-19 boosters: Advocate Aurora physicians Sigrun Hallmeyer, MD, Michael Mullane, MD, Stephen Medlin, DO, and James Weese, MD, coauthored a publication in the Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Review that states oncologists should actively encourage their patients, especially those with multiple myeloma, to receive COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. Read more.
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Continuing Medical Education and Events | |
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MEDtalks: Healthcare disparities in emergency care in people of color
Tuesday, Aug. 9, noon – 1 p.m.
A panel of Advocate Aurora Health emergency medicine physicians, Sarah Bunch, MD, Deshon Moore, MD, Oyinkansola Okubango, MD, and David Trotter, MD, will share current disparities in emergency care for people of color and discuss where it exists in pre-hospital care, practice, utilization, and outcomes.
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