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Telemedicine is a popular model for delivering care because of its accessibility and convenience for patients. With its growing popularity, telemedicine has become part of the standard consultation process, meaning providers now have more compliance standards to abide by. During this session, our expert will guide attendees through the telemedicine interpretive guidelines and show how easy it can be to maintain compliance.

This program will cover the federal regulations on telemedicine, CMS interpretive guidelines on telemedicine standards, and TJC’s crosswalk that follows telemedicine standards. Our expert will discuss the most problematic standards in the telemedicine interpretive guidelines and provide recommendations that boards, medical staff and hospitals must follow to ensure compliance with the CMS and TJC standards.

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After this webinar participants will be able to:

1. Describe the regulations for TJC and CMS hospital telemedicine credentialing.
2. Describe TJC standards on telemedicine in the Leadership chapter.
3. Explain that CMS now includes a mechanism for hospitals to use proxy credentialing with Medicare-certified hospitals or other telemedicine entities.
4. Explain the responsibilities of distant-site hospitals in order to meet the credentialing requirements.

Agenda topics:

- Distant site telemedicine entity (DSTE)	- Agreements with Medicare certified hospitals
- 16 pages of federal law	- Credentialing by proxy
- CMS deficiencies	- Effect on The Joint Commission hospitals
- Change CoP tag numbers	- Privileges based on medical staff recommendations
- Peer review issues	- Third party verification organizations
- Basic hospital functions	- Policies & procedures
- CoP board changes	- Ensuring compliance with the CoPs
- Written agreement requirements	- 27 page interpretive guidelines by CMS for CoPs
- Adverse events & notifications	And that's just the beginning!

 

Your Speaker: Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD

Sue is a nurse attorney, medico-legal consultant and long-time educator for nurses, physicians, and other healthcare providers. She is a frequent speaker and is well known across the country in the areas of healthcare law, risk management, and patient safety. She has authored over 100 books and hundreds of articles. For AHC Media, she authored Cracking the Code: Understanding the CMS Hospital CoP Standards on Anesthesia.

Ms. Calloway received her Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Additionally, she is certified in healthcare risk management by the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management and is the first in the country to be certified in CMS regulatory compliance.

Target Audience:

Anyone involved with or interested in compliance regulations and standards, including but not limited to: CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CMOs, CNOs, CE Directors, Department Directors, Quality Improvement Staff, Physicians, Nurses (all levels), Compliance Officers, CMS Liaisons, TJC Liaisons, Registration Staff, Safety Officers and Staff, Pharmacy Staff, Ethics Committee Members, Consumer Advocates, Risk Managers, Legal Counsel, Behavioral Health Staff, Psychiatry Staff, Social Workers, Discharge Planners, Case Managers, Hospice Staff and Regulatory Affairs Staff.