80062025 - Sixth Annual Architecture of High Value Health Care: National Conference of the HVPA

Thursday, October 12, 2023, 10:00 AM - Saturday, October 14, 2023, 6:00 PM, Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD


The cost of healthcare has risen to unacceptable levels. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, healthcare expenditures for 2019 are projected to be $3.4 trillion. Notably, the Institute of Medicine estimates that approximately $750 billion spent on healthcare in 2009 was "wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud and other problems, and more recently estimated of wasted healthcare spending approach $1.2 trillion. The Architecture of High Value Health Care Conference is the premier information sharing venue for physician-led care transformation, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The meeting is designed to efficiently advance high value care performance improvement across the country. The mission of the annual conference is to share leading practices and provide immersive skill-building experience around value-based care. Poster and podium abstract presentations from medical centers across the US and beyond will detail initiatives that improve health care quality and safety while reducing costs of care for patients. Goals include investigation of outcomes to ensure that practice refinement maintains or improves diagnostic and therapeutic efficacy and determining the best methodologies to improve the value of care providers deliver. Performance improvement guidance and support are provided through focused workshops and round-table information sharing sessions monitored by national experts.

1. Identify unnecessary tests, procedures, and treatments to target for reduced utilization.
2. Appraise the most effective methods for impacting provider ordering and prescribing behavior (education, CDS, and provider feedback).
3. Assess the safety outcomes of value-based improvement to ensure that these initiatives do not compromise diagnostic and therapeutic efficacy.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT 
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CREDIT DESIGNATION STATEMENT 
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine designates this live, in-person course for a maximum of 18.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

POLICY ON PRESENTER AND PROVIDER DISCLOSURE 
It is the policy of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine that the presenter and provider globally disclose conflicts of interest. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine OCME has established policies in place to identify and mitigate relevant conflicts of interest prior to this educational activity. Detailed disclosure will be made prior to presentation of the education.

American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program 
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 18.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

OTHER CREDITS

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners National Certification Program accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM from organizations accredited by the ACCME. 

Maryland Board of Pharmacy credit is pending approval.

National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) 
PAs may claim a maximum of 18.25 Category 1 credits for completing this activity. NCCPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society.

The Johns Hopkins University has approved this activity for 18.25 contact hours for non-physicians.  

PAIN MEDICINE STATEMENT 
This activity should cover topics that are required under the Maryland Board of Physicians pain management requirement.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Johns Hopkins University adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.