This session describes how to develop strategies for your medical center using a collaborative approach in VTE prevention, how applied technology will help standardize practices and minimize variations in care, and how one organization developed metrics and exercised data abstraction to measure performance and improve care.

To download your CPHIMS/CAHIMS continuing education tracking form, click here.

Contact hours available until 3/29/2016.

Requirements for Successful Completion:
Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online CNE evaluation.

Speakers, Faculty, Planners and Authors Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
Speaker(s) have no disclosures to declare.

Commercial Support and Sponsorship:
No commercial support or sponsorship declared.

Accreditation Statement:
This educational activity is jointly provided by Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. (AJJ) and ANIA.

Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number, CEP 5387.

This program is approved for up to 1.00 continuing education (CE) hours for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the Certified Professional in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CPHIMS) and the Certified Associate in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CAHIMS).

Objectives:

Describe how to develop an integrated approach to designing a DVT prophylaxis strategy.
Discuss how to utilize technology to help minimize variation in care.
Identify measurement strategies that can drive improvement in VTE prophylaxis rates and hospital-associated outcomes.

Kim Orozco MSN, BSN, BC-Informatics

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