Webinar: New Strategies for Using Patient-Centered Technology to Improve Pain Management and Opioid Treatment

Learn about a new Opioid Action Plan that outlines a groundbreaking approach for fighting the opioid crisis through Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support (PCCDS). This plan defines ways to apply computerized clinical decision support tools to address pain management and opioid use disorder treatment. Having the right information at the right time allows providers and patients to better personalize pain management and fully engage patients in their care to ultimately prevent opioid misuse and abuse.

In this webinar, the lead developers of the Opioid Action Plan will walk through the high-value clinical decision support interventions and tools that can be used to fight the opioid crisis and show those tools in action through five future vision scenarios. The webinar will also encourage participants to brainstorm ways to enhance their own efforts around pain management and opioid use and will outline additional steps and recommended actions to help you make that vision a reality.

As a result of this presentation, the participant should be able to:

• Describe PCCDS and how it can be used to address the opioid crisis
• List specific steps that stakeholders could take—and have already taken—to make PCCDS more widely used and valuable
• Identify specific actions your organization could take to better leverage PCCDS to achieve opioid-related goals

About the Speakers:

Barry H. Blumenfeld, MD, MS
Senior Physician Informaticist at RTI International
PI of the Patient-Centered CDS Learning Network
Waltham, Massachusetts

Barry Blumenfeld, MD, MS is a senior physician informaticist at RTI International, with a 30-year record of leadership in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical information systems. He is an authority on Clinical Decision Support and Clinical Documentation and has led the implementation of systems in both academic and commercial settings. Doctor Blumenfeld is boarded in Internal Medicine and completed a fellowship in Medical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ, and a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Pittsburgh.

Jerome A. Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI
Principal, TMIT Consulting, LLC
Naples, Florida

Jerome Osheroff, MD, FACP, FACMI, is a general internist by training, is founder and principal of TMIT Consulting, LLC, and a leader in improving health and care delivery through clinical decision support (CDS). He articulated the “CDS 5 Rights” framework - recommended by CMS as a quality improvement best practice - and has led development of many influential quality improvement (QI) resources for 'getting the CDS 5 Rights right.' He applies these care transformation strategies and tools in a growing portfolio of initiatives that are improving care delivery, QI capacity and health outcomes. He is the lead author of Patient-centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network’s Opioid Action Plan and chaired the working group that developed it.

Addiction Professionals 

This course has been approved by NACCME, LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #182840. NACCME is responsible for all aspects of the programing.