Building Partnerships with Patients in Adoption of Choosing Wisely Tools

Hosted the PCPCC Support & Alignment Network

Hosted by the PCPCC Support & Alignment Network, this webinar will:

1. Explore Choosing Wisely as a strategy for improving care and enhancing patient and family engagement.
2. Learn how implementation of Choosing Wisely effectively engages patients at the point of care and increases shared decision making.
3. Discover how involving patient and family advisors positively impacts implementation of Choosing Wisely tools into your practice. 

Guest Speakers:
Mary Minniti, Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care
Kelly Rand, American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation
Kelly Slate-Vitcavage, Maine Quality Counts

* This webinar will address the following TCPI requirements:
PFE Metrics: Shared Decision-Making, Patient Activation
TCPI Change Tactics: 1.1 Patient and family engagement, 1.2 Team-based relationships, 1.5 Coordinated care delivery, 1.6 Organized, evidence-based care
PAT Milestones: 2,3,4,5,9,18

Kellie Slate-Vitcavage, MS

Project Manager, Maine Quality Counts
Kellie currently serves as the Project Manager of Consumer and Community Engagement at Maine Quality Counts (QC), a regional health improvement collaborative for the Northern New England Practice Transformation Network initiative.  Kellie has a particular interest in building partnerships between public health/community support organizations with traditional health systems.  She was the lead developer of an online educational module, “Improving Patient Outcomes with Cost of Care Conversations in the Clinical Practice”, the Implementation Toolkit for Practice Teams,  read more

Kelly Rand, MA, CPH

Program Officer, ABIM Foundation
Kelly Rand is a Program Manager at the ABIM Foundation. In this role, she oversees activities related to grants and the Choosing Wisely Learning Network. Ms. Rand provides technical assistance outside the learning network as well and has offered her expertise to such projects as the advisory technical assistance committee for the Taking Action on Overuse project at Kaiser’s McColl Center for Healthcare Innovation, Vizient’s Shared Decision-Making Appropriate Use of Head and Back Imaging Tests Collaborative and American Society of Hospital Pharmacists’ 2018 Commission on Goals Opioid Council. She has presented on overuse at meeting such as IHI, the Families USA Health Action Conference and the ONC’s Annual Consumer Health IT Summit.   read more

Mary Minniti, BS, CPHQ

Senior Policy and Program Specialist, Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care
Mary Minniti is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality and has over 30 years experience in the field. She joined the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care in 2011 and works as a Senior Policy and Program Specialist. She was lead author on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded report, Individual and Family Engagement in the Medicaid Population: Emerging Best Practices and Recommendations and IPFCC’s publication: Essential Allies Patient, Resident, and Family Advisors: A Guide for Staff Liaisons. read more
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