2024 KCA Fall Convention

Medical Errors

Total Hours: 2

Course Topic: Risk Management

Description: In this two-hour presentation, Dr. Friedman will discuss how documentation oversights can lead to issues and what chiropractors can do to minimize these errors. Real world case studies will be discussed regarding how to successfully navigate through the various documentation procedures.

Course Objectives:

1. Discuss definition of malpractice

2. Illustrate the documentation oversights that can lead to errors

3. Discuss history findings that may alert the doctor to potential issues

4. Discuss how experts defend chiropractors

5. Illustrate the thought process of malpractice attorneys

6. Illustrate how social media can be used by attorneys

7. Discuss what doctors can do to minimize errors

8. Discuss the need for proper documentation after poor outcomes

Outline:

Hour 1

1. Case Study - Coronary Symptoms

2. The Required Components of the Patient History

3. The Required Components of the Examination

Hour 2

1. Informed Consent

2. Tracking Progress

3. Case Study – Vertebral Artery Dissection

Top 10 Things Not to Do

Total Hours: 2

Course Topic: Ethics and Boundaries

Description: In this two-hour course, Dr. Friedman will discuss the Top 10 Things Not to Do as a chiropractor and will illustrate some controversial topics that have gotten some chiropractors in trouble.

Course Objectives:

1. Discuss the four issues of insurance fraud and how to prevent them.

2. Illustrate three types of unlicensed practice.

3. Explain the definition of sexual misconduct.

4. Illustrate excessive treatment and how to prevent it.

5. Discuss four types of violations involving drugs/alcohol.

6. Explain four types of criminal convictions.

7. Discuss false and misleading advertising.

8. Discuss three items that are beyond the scope of practice for California.

9. Explain negligence and incompetence and appropriate standards of care.

10. Discuss patient records release.

11. Illustrate payment for referrals and legal ramifications.

Outline:

Hour 1

1. Insurance Fraud, Unlicensed Practice, Sexual Misconduct

2. Excessive Treatment

3. Violation Involving Drugs/Alcohol, Conviction of a Crime

Hour 2

1. False and/or Misleading Advertising

2. Beyond Scope of Practice

3. Negligence/Incompetence, Failure to Release Patient Records, Payment for Referrals

Patient Outcomes & Reimbursement Technology… Keeping Things Ethical.

CEU Categories: Ethics, Risk Management

Course Description: Chiropractors deal with many challenges on a daily basis outside of actually treating the patient: business methodologies, data privacy and security, understanding emerging tech to drive improved outcomes, educating patients, and social determinants of health. This course is designed to address these issues, bringing awareness to the ethical standards that drive better results for patients and provider alike.

Learning Objectives:

1. Driving ethics through clinical care plan adherence
2. Implementing ethical approaches to protecting your data, patients, practice through data security measures
3. Understanding emerging technology – Big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning
4. Knowledge base around owning YOUR data, know your data and act on your data…ethically
5. Understanding social determinants of health in the patient journey

Outline:

1. Understanding Big Data, Analytics and AI
2. How Big Data uncovers inappropriate payer behavior
3. Data Protection HIPAA compliant ways to approach patient sensitivity with increased technology
4. Social determinants of health – tech that tracks patient journeys and address SDOH
5. Implementing new models of HIPAA compliant care
6. Data privacy and security – steps to take to protect your patients and your practice
7. Understanding technology that can improve employee training and care delivery
8. Identifying APPs that have ethical standards and professional responsibility
9. Patient adherence to clinical care plans

Evidence-based assessments to improve clinical care delivery

Ethical mHealth reward systems

Ethical business methodologies when dealing with data

Adjusted Reality: The Three Secrets of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Care Delivery

CEU Categories: Ethics, Risk Management

Course Description: We are living in an unprecedented time of massive change – certainly in the world at large, and most definitely, in healthcare. While the last decade has focused on the value-based care proposition, triple aim (really quadruple when you include providers), new delivery models, and new payer models, simmering underneath all of those changes is a growing undercurrent with far greater reach. This soon to be tidal wave has the potential for both positive and negative impact. Rapidly evolving technologies – and meeting patients where they are (on their phones!) is creating a massive opportunity to improve patient outcomes and provider income. The application of AI technology is already beginning to have large scale impact. Empowering patients to create improved lifestyle behaviors through mobile app technology drives better patient outcomes. In this course, we will discuss the background data that drove the evolution of the first mobile app in chiropractic to show significant behavior change for patients in attending their prescribed care plan visits and their home exercise adherence. The published study of over 4,000 patients and the second platform in development will be discussed.

Learning Objectives: 1 hour

1. Ensure the audience understands background data and clinical algorithm technology and its application to healthcare and chiropractic
2. Ensure the audience understands evidence-based behavior change science and its application to healthcare and chiropractic
3. Ensure the audience understands data privacy and security technology and its application to healthcare and chiropractic
4. Review the clinical implications of big data and analytics in a 4,000-plus patient clinical study.
5. Build knowledge base on how data is being used to understand value creation in today’s healthcare system
6. Examine various clinical use cases of AI in chiropractic, inclusive of outcome improvement and evidence-based care.
7. Investigate the role of mobile health technology and gamification in enhancing compliance with chiropractic treatment plans and home exercises, including mechanisms for patient and provider behavior change.
8. Discuss the principles of Remote Therapeutic Monitoring in chiropractic, its impact on patient outcomes, and its role in reducing overall healthcare costs.
9. Review the mobile health technology of gamification to improve treatment plan and home exercise compliance. Understand the key mechanisms to patient and provider behavior change to drive improved outcomes and create greater value for patients and the healthcare system

Join your fellow KCA members for lunch and our Annual Business meeting. 

The Neural Reboot: Restoring Gut Health and Optimizing Brain Performance

Dr. Robert Silverman, DC, MS, CNS, CCN, CSCS, CKTP, CES, CIISN, DACBN, DCBCN, HKC, FAKTR

In this new and insightful four-hour seminar, Dr. Rob Silverman elucidates the pathways that control the bidirectional signaling between the gut microbiome and the brain. He clarifies the inflammatory processes that underlie neurodegeneration and reveals ways to manage them effectively. You’ll come away with a thorough understanding of new functional medicine strategies for treating neuroinflammation, autoimmunity, and the neurological impacts of long COVID. Dr. Silverman explores the latest research on the value of implementing proper dietary and supplementation protocols, removing toxins, and adding mental and physical activity. He also discusses the significance of repairing gut and brain barriers and restoring the proper function of the gut-brain axis. This new paradigm may reduce brain and systemic inflammation, help slow neurodegeneration, and restore a balanced gut microbiome. You’ll learn current options for blood testing and other new modalities that will help you attain superior clinical outcomes for your patients. Some additional seminar foci will include a discussion of the science of intermittent fasting.

The practical applications from this illuminating seminar will give you insight into a comprehensive methodology that incorporates proven practices into a clinically integrated system—one you can apply to your practice immediately.

Key clinical takeaways:

•      Review the signs and symptoms of neuroinflammation and the processes that drive neurodegeneration.

•      Utilize dietary improvements and selected supplements to reduce neuroinflammation.

•      Treatment protocols on testing to identify gut barrier and gut-brain axis imbalances.

•      Recognize that neuroplasticity plays a fluctuating but essential role in health and trauma.

•      Assess intestinal and blood-brain barrier dysfunction for better managing chronic neurological disorders.

•      Explicate the effects of intermittent fasting on brain health.

Join your fellow KCA members for lunch and our Annual Business meeting.