A source of information for Hospital-practice Acupuncturists and their Hospital Sponsors. This blog is part of the Hospital Handbook project which also includes social network sites to start or continue topic discussion.
Goals: to share collective wisdom of hospital practice
to create community
to encourage each other
to improve our knowledge and practice standards together
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keywords: telehealth, hospital-based acupuncture programs, remote work options for clinicians, policy and procedures, hospital-based acupuncture & telehealth programs, telehealth & Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM), VA acupuncture telehealth program, inpatient telehealth acupuncture, new program creation, wisdom-sharing, billing & reimbursement, coding for hospital-based acupuncture work, hospital-based acupuncture program manager, hospital-based acupuncturist, hospital-based integrative health programs, telehealth programs and policy for hospital-based integrative health providers, pandemic prep & response for integrative health care providers
Telehealth for oncology patients receiving treatment at
the infusion center(s)
Minute 31 -32
John discusses how the acupuncture team collaborated on
the development of a training/competency program to deliver “TCM Acupuncturist
Directed Therapeutic Strategies”.
Minute 32 -33
Setting up reimbursement for telehealth services by LAcs.
Coding, billing, reimbursement agreement with third party
payors (3PP)
Getting LAcs the access to tech for virtual visits and the
system’s EHR compatibility
keywords: community survey, pandemic prep & response, telehealth, acupuncture programs, hospital-based acupuncture, FQHCs, county clinics, community health centers, phased re-opening and closing, tiered re-opening and closing, remote work options, community resource
Background
As you know, I have been hosting community discussion zoom sessions since mid-March to help the hospital-based acupuncture community discuss and share ideas on the pandemic prep & response. And, all the share-able content generated from those sessions so far is (and continues to be) uploaded to the online resource module here.
Three weeks ago a colleague recommended creating a survey to capture all the information on all the changes in a format that can:
Be edited by the data entrant [because things change!]
Create some summaries
Be a quick source of share-able community information
Situation
I finished edits on it last week and it is up and running! It is available for acupuncturists and program managers who work with acupuncturists to input their information.
Assessment & Recommendation
This could be a useful resource for the community during this time of great change if enough of us complete it.
Please complete the survey to the best of your knowledge for your program and share this link with other hospital-based practice colleagues.
Who can take the survey?
Anyone who works in an organization or facility that is accredited by or eligible for accreditation by The Joint Commission.
What is "hospital-based"?
For purposes of this survey, I define "hospital-based" as any organization or workplace that is accredited by or eligible for accreditation by The Joint Commission. This definition includes FQHCs, county clinics, community health centers, and other federal health care spaces.
keywords: telehealth, pandemic prep & response, virtual health care, hospital-based acupuncture programs, coding and reimbursement for telehealth services for integrative health practitioners, acupuncture employee, acupuncture program manager, program examples, online event
Join our experienced panel of hospital-based acupuncture program leads and managers to discuss setting up a telehealth program in medium to large healthcare systems and pivoting the work during the pandemic as part of phased re-opening/closing plans.
Telehealth Programs in Hospital-based Acupuncture Practice: Pivoting in the Pandemic
Lessons Learned, Benefits (patients, providers, system), Issues, Examples of Innovation, and Discussion
Why this online event?
The Hospital Practice Handbook Project has been hosting
community discussion space online and in live zoom sessions at least weekly since
mid-March for the hospital-based community to provide space for discussion,
problem-solving, and sharing examples of innovation as we all respond to the
pandemic in our various programs and through different stages of closing and
re-opening.
Out of these sessions came a consistent need to do even
more, particularly to host our own conference on telehealth.
Why a telehealth event specific to hospital-based
acupuncture programs?
Telehealth capability is critical for all clinicians in the
phased clinic opening/closing as communities respond to the pandemic. Some
organizations had a telehealth program in place before the pandemic, but many
stood theirs up during the pandemic as a way to support and protect both provider
personnel and patients during a respiratory-based pandemic. Some are still in
the process of standing theirs up and looking to the community for examples
that match their system.
However, not all systems have been supportive or
understanding of how acupuncturists can work via telehealth (vs. in-person),
citing “lack of access to current examples”.
So, here we are, presenting current examples of telehealth
programs in hospital-based acupuncture practice. And, having a professional Socratic
discussion on the related topics.
I hope you are able to attend or if you are otherwise
engaged that day, consider supporting via the “recordings only” ticket and
submitting your questions to the panelists in your ticket form.
All ticket revenue goes directly toward the outgoing costs of
this event (platform hosting, data, recordings, video editing, etc.). My time
and work are 100% volunteer.
For more information on confirmed panelists and updates
Go to our Facebook Event page and choose “interested” or “going” to see social media updates on this event.
Event Agenda
Introduction
Panelists each give short summaries of their programs
Socratic discussion of the topic by panelists
Some Qs from attendees posed to the panel for more discussion
Panelists include (confirmed to date)
Paul Magee, lead acupuncturist, Penny George Institute of Health and Healing, Allina Health, Minnesota
Christine Kaiser, acupuncture program manager and quality assurance, University Hospitals Connor Integrative Health Network, Cleveland, Ohio
John Burns, acupuncture program manager, Advocate Aurora of Wisconsin and Illinois
Juli Olson, National Lead, Acupuncture, Integrative Health Coordinating Center, Veterans Health Administration
Mori West, C.P.C. of AcuClaims, coding & billing expert
Nancy Gahles, Integrative Health Policy Consortium, IHPC
Please buy a ticket and share this event with anyone who may benefit from it or enjoy attending and supporting. Thank you.
More resources on telehealth
University of WA Survey of Acupuncturists during the COVID-19 Pandemic
For those of you practicing as acupuncturists, check out this IRB-approved survey from a colleague who is doing this research through the University of Washington. Looks like she is collecting data on how the pandemic is affecting practice, from direct clinical care to pivots in online resources including the use of telehealth: https://redcap.iths.org/surveys/?s=7FTTYN73X9&
suspension date: the survey closes June 8th, 2020
More info:
The survey is intended for ALL licensed acupuncturists. You don't need to have a telehealth service in place to respond to the survey. One of the aims of this survey is to set the stage for larger survey studies of profession-wide effects similar to the benchmark studies in other healthcare professions.
The estimated time to complete the survey is 5 minutes.
Principal Investigator: Tamsin Lee, DAOM
New Research Paper on Relevance of Telehealth Programs During Pandemic and Beyond, from a Duke University Team
At a time when I hear disagreement in the definition of "telehealth", I offer this very useful definition they published, which dispels all previous confusing terminology I have heard in the medical field the last year or so:
"The term 'telehealth' refers to the entire spectrum of activities used to deliver care at a distance--without direct physical contact with the patient. Telehealth encompasses both provider-to-patient and provider-to-provider communications and can take place synchronously (telephone and video), asynchronously (patient portal messages, e-consults), and through virtual agents (chatbots) and wearable devices."
Jedrek Wosik, Marat Fudim, Blake Cameron, Ziad F Gellad, Alex Cho, Donna Phinney, Simon Curtis, Matthew Roman, Eric G Poon, Jeffrey Ferranti, Jason N Katz, James Tcheng, Telehealth transformation: COVID-19 and the rise of virtual care, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa067
More Community Resources on Pandemic Prep & Response
keywords and topics: community discussions, COVID-19 pandemic, integrative health programs, acupuncturists in hospital-based practice, telehealth in hospital-based acupuncture programs, what does tiered re-opening look like for outpatient integrative health programs?
www.thehospitalhandbook.com
The HHP-hosted Community Discussions on Pandemic Prep
& Response, a review of the work & resources so far
This video is a review of my past 3 months of work supporting
the hospital-based acupuncture community with community discussion space to
share ideas, concerns, and issues on the pandemic prep & response.
Included in this video:
·How you can support this community-building work
·How to access the resource content created
·How you can join in future discussions
·Review of the work so far
·Short review of resources for the two currently
most common topics
otelehealth
and
owhat
does tiered re-opening look like?
·Announcing the future telehealth roundtable
panel:
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to participate, submit questions, and space for sponsorships
I define this as working at a facility or organization
that is accredited by or eligible for accreditation by The Joint Commission.
This includes FQHCs, some county clinics and hospitals, and hospice.
The Hospital Practice Handbook Project has multiple
platforms (website, blog, and social media page & closed discussion groups)
to connect hospital practice East Asian Medicine Practitioners (Acupuncturists)
with each other (living resources) and to published resources. Learn more about
this community resource project at http://www.thehospitalhandbook.com/
How to participate in the virtual community discussions
First, you must be a hospital-based acupuncturist or a program manager of hospital-based acupuncturists.
see definition above for "what is "hospital-based practice"
Then, contact me via the website about your interest, where you work, and how you heard about this work.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
This work sounds valuable, how can I support it? I am not a hospital-based acupuncturist.
I am interested in this content as a clinician. However, I am not a hospital-based acupuncturist. How can I support this work and get access to the content?
I am a hospital-based acupuncturist or program manager of hospital-based acupuncturists. I am not able to attend all the sessions due to my schedule. How may I access the content?
