American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)

May 21, 2020, 12:00pm Eastern Time. Register here.

Course Description: After a brief didactic presentation, a panel of leading occupational physicians and mental health providers will conduct an open Question and Answer session with the audience.

Panelists coming soon!

This discussion forum is intended to provide guidance and solutions to behavioral health-related issues as presented to the panel by the audience. To maximize the time and format of the session, we ask all registrants to submit their questions using the registration form. We will try to address as many as possible during this session. Additional questions may be raised during the webinar using the zoom Q&A function.

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Originally recorded May 5, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: As part of AMIA’s ongoing COVID-19 Webinar Series, we take another look at how the Clinical Research Informatics community is contributing to better understanding the clinical nature of the coronavirus. Members of the Accrual to Clinical Trials (ACT) network will present an overview of the existing network, which is funded by NIH NCATS, and will describe the goals of the ACT COVID-19 project. Presenters will discuss how they have been able to apply proven ACT technology, governance and Data Use Agreements to quickly implement a scalable COVID-19 research platform. Specifically, they will focus on COVID-19 extensions to the ACT query ontology, rapid implementation of a COVID-19 focused subnetwork and our process to rapidly design, develop, implement, evaluate and incrementally improve to meet the changing needs of COVID-19 research. Attendees will be able to understand how ACT fits into the variety of other efforts focused on COVID-19 research and how they can use the ACT and ACT COVID-19 project for their research.

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Originally recorded April 28, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) is the automated generation and transmission of case reports from electronic health records (EHRs) to public health agency surveillance systems. The value of eCR is several fold, including more complete, accurate data in near real-time for case management, contact tracing, situational awareness and reporting, connecting with lab results, as well as helping to coordinate isolation and other response measures.

This presentation will focus on eCR as part of AMIA’s COVID-19 Webinar Series and explore the “eCR Now” initiative to rapidly deploy eCR capability for COVID-19. Presenters will discuss the informatics opportunities and challenges with implementation of eCR and discuss ways, among other things, that FHIR and CDA technology standards and eHealth Exchange and Carequality policy frameworks can be leveraged to provide eCR functionality across various EHRs nationwide.

American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)

Originally recorded April 24, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every company in the U.S. and there are many unanswered occupational health questions related to monitoring the COVID-19 health status of workers in order to guide return-to-work decisions. Leaders of several countries have suggested that serologic tests can identify workers who are immune to COVID-19 and would be a “passport to work.” There is intense activity at universities and companies to develop serology tests for COVID-19 for widespread use. Unfortunately, many of the early released tests have poor sensitivity and specificity characteristics. The presenters will discuss basic serology issues, the pattern of serologic changes over time during the 2003 SARS epidemic, the quality of currently available serologic tests for COVID-19, and the pattern of serologic test results among health care workers in The Netherlands and Italy. The presentations will be followed by live, moderated Q&A.

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Originally recorded April 23, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: Presenters will discuss how:

• Indiana University Health initiated rapid coordination of ambulatory visits using an existing telehealth platform to onboard more than 9,000 clinic visits statewide in March and the use of centralized clinical algorithms in a virtual COVID hub that has screened thousands of patients across Indiana;
• Mount Sinai’s virtual urgent care practice was able to onboard many new providers from various specialties and provide timely, appropriate COVID guidance, based on official recommendations and available evidence, to patients with a broad range of disease severity; and
• Boston Children’s Hospital leveraged telehealth to promote physical distancing and preserve PPE while taking care of hospitalized patients.

We will also hear from AMIA collaborators at the AMA who have developed a Digital Health Implementation Playbook series designed to support physicians and practices in expediting implementation, especially during this public health emergency, so care can continue to be provided to those who need it most and practices have a path to sustainability.

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Originally recorded April 14, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: In collaboration with AMIA’s Nursing Informatics Working Group and the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, the AMIA COVID-19 Webinar Series continues with a presentation highlighting the contributions of nursing informatics.

The lack of a national or global unified response to the COVID-19 pandemic presents health care professionals with the greatest challenge of their careers. As informaticians create systematic responses to a host of issues – eg, creating terminologies, tracking and predicting outbreaks, ensuring practitioners’ personal safety, establishing telemedicine systems, and using AI to develop new diagnostics and treatments – it is critical to exchange information in real time to determine best practices in uncharted territory. During this webinar, nurse informaticians share information about how they are “building the airplane while flying” and using nursing informatics to respond to this global crisis. This webinar does not offer nursing contact hours.

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Originally recorded April 13, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: The COVID-19 global emergency raises many difficult questions, such as: What are the key risk factors, what are the best prognostic indicators, what are best practices for ethical resource allocation, and which drugs are the most viable candidates for patients?

To address these and many other questions, the National Center for Data to Health (CD2H) and NCATS are leading the creation of a centralized, secure portal for hosting row-level COVID-19 clinical data – called the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). This initiative is a partnership among NIH institutes, HHS, VA, FDA, the CTSA program, and distributed clinical data networks PCORnet, OHDSI, ACT/i2b2, and TriNetX. The N3C will accept data via multiple data models and transform them into a common analytic model. The cloud-based collaborative portal will enable development of machine learning and other informatics tools that require a large row-level dataset, and will be overseen by a data access committee.

This global pandemic presents a unique opportunity to bring together top informatics experts from around the country to address our collective challenges. The N3C resource will offer a valuable and complementary contribution, not only for aiding the COVID-19 crisis, but for transforming how we perform global research as a nation. We believe this portal will provide additional assets needed to rapidly develop the analytics that clinical centers and physicians need now.

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Originally recorded April 10, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: In collaboration with AMDIS, this session will feature clinicians who are leveraging electronic health records and other health IT tools to deploy rapid screening processes, laboratory testing, clinical decision support, reporting tools, and patient-facing technology related to COVID-19. Presenters will discuss strategy and pitfalls related to managing clinical information related to COVID-19 patients and reporting such data to public health authorities during this national epidemic. Presenters will also discuss some of the long-term implications to clinical informatics caused by responding to the coronavirus. This session will offer CME.

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Originally recorded April 9, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: In collaboration with AMIA’s Clinical Information Community of Practice, this session will feature AMIA members who are working to develop and deploy tools to manage COVID-19 patients in the local health systems, and across state-wide geographies. Presenters will discuss the role of clinical informatics plays in facilitating the rapid switch from traditional modes of care delivery to virtual care modes, informing the workflow and monitoring of inpatient care through the development of patient dashboards and remote monitoring. Informatics clinicians and researchers working together with healthcare operations is an essential partnership for the development of structured documentation tools, tracking utilization, planning for staffing, and for predictive models. This session will offer CME.

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Originally recorded April 7, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: As part of AMIA’s ongoing COVID-19 Webinar Series – and in collaboration with Digital Square – this webinar will provide an up-to-the-minute presentation of the use of informatics on a global scale to screen for and manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The session will include officials in China and Vietnam, and a view from the situation in Singapore, Korea, and Hong Kong. Presenters will engage in frank discussions of successes and innovations as well as the challenges and roadblocks. There will be a particular emphasis on the development, deployment, and evaluation of medical information systems in East Asia, and the lesson learned from China’s initiatives to bring the outbreak under control.

American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)

Originally recorded April 7, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a sharp rise in the use of telehealth to deliver medical services and this has led to controversies regarding the scope of use beyond traditional health care delivery. There is wide variation in how well occupational health care providers and clinics are prepared to appropriately use telemedicine.

This webinar will discuss best practices for telemedicine, recent changes in both telehealth rules and in the pattern of use, with a focus on occupational and environmental medicine impacts. A real-life example of telehealth use in an occupational health setting will be presented, including problems encountered and suggested solutions. This session will be moderated with opportunity for Q&A.

American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)

Originally recorded April 3, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: Worldwide, health care workers (HCWs), the front-line defense force against COVID-19, have been infected with and died from this disease. Occupational health care providers in the United States (U.S.) are currently addressing emergency protocols for protecting HCWs from COVID-19. However, there are many unanswered questions related to protecting HCWs especially with the limited supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as N95 respirators.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), should release guidance documents this week on decontamination of filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs), elastomeric respirators, powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs), and covering a respirator with a surgical mask.

In this webinar, the speakers will review the NIOSH/CDC guidance followed by a discussion of studies on and systems for the decontamination of N95s. The speakers have conducted research on decontamination and use of respirators in health care setting. The presentations will be followed by live, moderated Q&A.

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)

Originally recorded April 2, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: This webinar, the first in a series on COVID-19 from AMIA, will be an overview of Public Policy issues, including shifts in the regulatory landscape and new legislation passed by the US Congress. We will focus on the key health informatics policy issues to watch and discuss additional steps that may be needed to address this ongoing epidemic.

American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)

Originally recorded April 1, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: Health care workers (HCWs) are at high risk for exposure to SARS-CoV2 from patients and co-workers, and many have died from the infection. Occupational health care providers in the U.S. are currently developing and implementing emergency protocols for protecting HCWs from COVID-19. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has guidance on return to work for HCWs with confirmed or suspected COVID-19. In additiona, there are many challenging clinical and administrative issues for occupational health providers. Speakers will describe current knowledge about the epidemiology, treatment, and virology of COVID-19, followed by recommendations for best practices for occupational health providers. Of special note, an attending physician with occupationally-acquired COVID infection will describe her own experience with this disease. The presentations will be followed by live, moderated Q&A.

American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)

Originally recorded March 30, 2020. Watch the recording here.

Course Description: COVID-19 has affected many industries including transportation. Truck drivers and many other transportation workers have been identified as essential critical infrastructure workers during this pandemic. Commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers and others face unique challenges during normal operations, but during this crisis, many of their routine regulatory, health and safety, and lifestyle challenges have become more complicated. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) have issued several emergency declarations and guidance documents including those affecting CMV medical examinations and drug and alcohol testing.

During this webinar, Dr. Natalie Hartenbaum, co-chair of ACOEM’s Transportation Section, will discuss the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic by those in the transportation industry with a focus on truck drivers. She will review pertinent regulatory relief and other guidance provided by DOT or the transportation agencies which relate to the occupational health professional. This webinar is brought to you with support from the ACOEM Transportation Section.

American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)

Originally recorded March 27, 2020. Watch the recorded webinar here.

Course Description: As the leader in developing clinical guidelines and standards in addiction medicine, ASAM takes its responsibilty very seriously. Many providers and programs are urgently working to mitigate risks related to COVID-19. ASAM convened a COVID-19 Task Force comprised of national experts recognized in the field of addiction medicine to rapidly develop comprehensive resources tailored to addiction treatment within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This webinar will provide an overview of the resources available to help you adjust your practices during this challenging time.