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Volume 14 • Issue 1• $5.00 July 2017
THE REGIONʼS MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

Advances In Technology SFHHA NEWSLINE

SFHHA 11th Annual Health Care

Summit: Chasing the Triple Aim

BY VANESSA ORR

One of the Summit’s keynote speakers, Nick Westfall, Chief Executive Officer, VITAS
Healthcare, took a look inward at how VITAS Healthcare measures results, integrates tech-
nology planning and examines their patient experience roadmap around the three dimensions
of Triple Aim.
Dr. Arthur E. Palamara
Triple Aim provides the opportunity for differ-
ent providers across the health care spectrum—
Dr. Barry T. Katzen acute and post-acute—to improve patient out- Major Actions
comes while reducing cost through appropriate
transitions of care at the right time based upon a at American
Image-Guided patient’s goals of care. Our goal as the nation’s Medical
largest hospice provider is to further align pallia-
Therapy tive and hospice care across the healthcare contin-
uum while also helping patients and their families
appropriately and thoughtfully transition into the Association
Transforms hospice benefit at the right time.
Decades of research continue to demonstrate House of
Cardiovascular that the building blocks of hospice are designed to Delegates Annual
achieve exactly what the Triple Aim is designed to
Care do - improve the health of populations, particular- Nick Westfall Meeting
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BY BARRY T. KATZEN, M.D.
LEGAL PROFILES
1. Model Medical Staff Code of
The expanding field of image-guided Conduct and Application to Employed
therapy exists in high-tech healthcare Statewide Law Firm Helping Physicians
environments where science, art and imag- The AMA advocate for the separation
ination have intersected to save and Healthcare Clients Meet Challenges of terms of employment contracts and
improve the lives of patients. medical staff privileges. There is the
Teams of specialists, including interven- right to review for all physicians regard-
tional radiologists, vascular surgeons, in a Rapidly Changing Environment less of employment status. This includes
interventional cardiologists, electrophysi- the right to review and may include a
ologists, cardiac surgeons and interven- physician whose conduct has been char-
tional neuroradiologists, continue to BY DANIEL CASCIATO acterized as “disruptive, intimidating, or
transform cardiovascular care by pioneer- inappropriate.” (Submitted in part by the
ing complex procedures using minimally Healthcare law can Broward County Medical Association.
invasive, image-guided techniques. sometimes be complex Also FMA policy)
It’s not just about heart attacks and since it encompasses a 2. Revision of Research Certification
stroke, but cancer lesions and benign number of traditional law and Institutional Review Board
tumors and aneurysms — any condition practices such as corpo- Protocols (IRB)
that can be diagnosed or treated by access- rate and litigation. Also, To do even minimal research, the
ing blood vessels like a highway, rather since the industry is high- “researcher must obtain CITI researcher
than cutting open the body. ly regulated, healthcare certification. This takes about 6-10
The recently completed, $120 million attorneys are often neces- hours and costs $3,500-$4,000.
expansion of Miami Cardiac & Vascular sary to help you navigate Physicians who are engaged in research
Institute serves as a showcase for these this terrain. must have IRB approval before initiating
medical and technological advances. To With deep experience the research. This includes research
design and equip new interventional suites in the healthcare industry, Heather Miller Mike Segal derived from retrospective patient files
at the Institute, brainstorming sessions the attorneys at Broad and (off the shelf research) which exposes
with a team of multidisciplinary cardiovas- Cassel LLP are committed to representing the best interests of its healthcare clients the patient to negligible risk. IRBs
cular specialists, administrators and archi- across Florida. One source of pride for the firm is its breadth and depth of experience should grant a “Category 5” exemption
tects were held to envision an optimal in the health care practice group. The attorneys’ insight and knowledge of health law but often don’t. Cost to publish this
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