Upcoming Education & Meetings
In Person Education & Meetings
 
  
March 11-13
MHA Health Summit
Bozeman, MT
Register here  (Early bird deadline February 23!)
**MT Flex Grant will support attendance (travel stipend, one night lodging, conference registration) of one QIC and one DON from each MT CAH with attendance of Flex/PIN sponsored sessions**

March 17-19
Northwest Regional CAH Conference and Rural Health Conference
Spokane, WA

March 20-22, 2015
Hacking Rural Medicine & Ignite Rural Medicine
Missoula, MT
Have you ever come across a problem in healthcare and thought "there must be a better way to do this"?  Do you have an idea but no time to build the solution?  Bring your ideas and leave with a breakthrough innovation!   Help solve rural health challenges such as: ensuring access, telemedicine, preventing avoidable readmissions, workforce shortages, community involvement, home health, hospice, technology, care coordination, transportation, and more! 
April 7 -8
PIN Advisory Board Meeting
Townsend, MT

    
Webinars & Audioconferences: (click on session title for brochure or information)
 
March 4, 2015

Funding Announcement!  Filling the Gaps of Quality Reporting with EMRs - What you need to know!

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Join us for this informational webinar presented by HTS to learn more.  This opportunity is made possible via support from MT DPHHS Chronic Disease Control, MT Performance Improvement Network (PIN), Health Techology Services (HTS) and Mountain-Pacific Quality Health (MQPH). 



March 17, 2015

Standards Review Call

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Third Tuesday of each month.

Call in # = 1-877-594-8353

Participant code =  70979270#

 

May - July, 2015 

CAH Coding Series 2015

May 14 - 10a-12p - ICD-10-CM Case Studies for the Heart

June 11 - 10a-12p - ICD-10-CM Case Studies for the Circulatory System & Hypertension

July 9 - 10a- 12p - ICD-10 Case Studies for Circulatory System Procedures.

 

There is NO CHARGE  to MT CAHs for this series.  Irene Mueller is back to focus on ICD-10 Coding for Circulation System and Coronary Diagnoses.  Content and homework will be from Basic ICD-10-CM/PCS Coding, 2013 Edition by Lou Ann Schraffenberger.  If your hospital did not receive this book from the PIN last year, you will have the opportunity to receive this year.  To prepare for this series, coding staff are encouraged to review previous cardiovascular and circulatory content by visiting the PIN Website at: http://www.mtpin.org/?p=coding