Presentations

“Clear Communication Practices for Safer Healthcare (Safe Practices 12-16)”, web conference with TMIT, Presented by Kimberly Visconti, RN, November 19, 2009. To view this webinar, click on the hyperlinked title of the presentation.

“Project RED: The Steps Boston Medical Center Took to Implement National Quality Forum (NQF) Safe Practice 11 by using Discharge Advocates to Reduce Hospital Re-Admissions”, Case Study for The World Health Care Congress Annual Leadership Summit on Hospital Re-Admissions, Presented by Chris Mannaseh and Shaula Forsythe, January 28, 2010.

"The Re-Engineered Discharge Program", Northern New England Geriatric Education Center's Effective Geriatric Care Transitions: A Patient and Family Centered Approach, Presented by: Brian Jack, MD, Thursday, December 10, 2009.

“Reducing Hospital Readmissions Using a Re-Engineered Hospital Discharge Process”, AHRQ sponsored webinar for CVE members, Presented by Brian Jack, November 23, 2009.

“Project RED, The Re-Engineered Hospital Discharge Program”, CIMIT: Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, Presented by Timothy Bickmore, October 27-28, 2009.

“Care Transitions Panel”, AMA-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® (PCPI), Presented by Larry Culpepper, October 23, 2009. 

“Intelligent Caring Machines: Real Emotions in Virtual Worlds”, Future of Health Technology Summit 2009, MIT, Presented by Timothy Bickmore, September 29, 2009.

“Project RED: The ReEngineered Discharge” Reduce Hospital Readmissions for High Risk Patients: A Conference for Health Plans on Translational Care Models, Presented by Brian Jack, September 23, 2009.

“Personal Health Advocates”, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne Computer Science Colloquium, Presented by Timothy Bickmore, September 23, 2009.

“Personal Health Advocates”, University of Twente Computer Science Colloquium, Twente, Netherlands, Presented by Timothy Bickmore, September 17, 2009.

“The ReEngineered Discharge”, Plenary Presentation at AHRQ 2009 Annual Conference, September 14, 2009.

“Reengineer Your Discharge Process to Reduce Rehospitalizations and Protect Your Bottom Line”, Webinar with AHA Media, August 4, 2009.

“Taking the Time to Care: Empowering Low Health Literacy Hospital Patients with Virtual Nurse Agents” webinar to Innovation Learning Network, Presented by Timothy Bickmore, July 24, 2009.

“Relational Agents for Patient Education and Counseling”, Mass General Hospital Anesthesiology Staff Meeting, Presented by Timothy Bickmore, May 8, 2009.

“The ReEngineered Discharge”, Grand Rounds Presentation at the University of Scranton, Presented by Brian Jack, May 5, 2009. 

“Relational Agents: Adding the Human Touch to Telemedicine”, Patient-Centered Computing and eHealth: Transforming Healthcare Quality, sponsored by Partners Healthcare and Harvard Medical School, Presented by Timothy Bickmore, May, 2, 2009. 

"Taking the Time to Care: Empowering Low Health Literacy Hospital Patients with Virtual Nurse Agents", CHI 2009 Conference, Presented by Timothy Bickmore, April 8, 2009.

“Health IT to Improve Anticoagulation Use”, National Association of Thrombophelia and Thrombosis (NATT), Presented by Brian Jack, April 6, 2009. 

“Interface between Hospital Discharge and the Medical Home”, Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians, Presented by Brian Jack, April 3, 2009.

"Improving Patient Safety: Implementing Re-Engineered Hospital Discharges Web Conference", web conference with AHRQ, Presented by Dr. Brian Jack and Dr. Timothy Bickmore, March 31, 2009. To view this webinar click on the hyperlinked title of the presentation and then fill out the AHRQ registration form.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, Webcast with National Association of Health Plans, Presented by Brian Jack, February 26, 2009.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, Webcast with CMS contract recipients, Presented by Brian Jack, January 12, 2009.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, UMass Memorial Medical Center Grand Rounds, Presented by Brian Jack, December 9, 2008.

“A RCT to Reduce Cariopulmonary Rehospitalizations”, American College of Physicians’ National Health Communications Conference, Washington, DC, Presented by Timothy Bickmore and Brian Jack, November 19 2008.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, NAPCRG, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Presented by Chris Manasseh, November 17, 2008.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, National Patient Safety Foundation, Nashville, TN, Presented by Brian Jack, May 14, 2008.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, American Data Network Leadership Conference, Little Rock, AR, Presented by Brian Jack, May 1, 2008.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, Hungary, April 17, 2008

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, Society for Teachers of Family Medicine’s Conference on Practice Improvement, Newport Beach, CA, Presented by Chris Manasseh, November 8-11, 2007.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, Yankee Alliance Senior Executive Conference, Woodstock, VT, Presented by Brian Jack, October 23, 2007.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, UCSD Medical Center’s Patient Safety Conference: Safe Passages, San Diego, CA, Presented by Brian Jack, September 28, 2007.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Discharge”, AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference: Improving Healthcare, Improving Lives, Bethesda, MD, Presented by Brian Jack, September 27, 2007.

“Re-Engineering the Hospital Discharge”, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, Presented by Brian Jack, July 3, 2007.

“Re-Engineering the Hospital Discharge”, East Boston Best Practices, Boston, MA, Presented by Brian Jack, June 13, 2007.

“Re-Engineering the Hospital Discharge”, National Patient Safety Meeting, Washington, DC, Presented by Brian Jack, May 4, 2007.

“Re-Engineering the Hospital Discharge”, Society for Teachers of Family Medicine, Chicago, IL, Presented by Brian Jack, April 26, 2007.

“Re-Engineering the Hospital Discharge”, Boston Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine Research in Progress Meeting, Boston, MA, Presented by Brian Jack, February 27, 2007.

“Re-Engineering the Hospital Discharge”, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, MA, Presented by Brian Jack, November 30, 2006.

“Re-Engineering the Hospital Discharge Process”, NIH Grantee Meeting: Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy, Presented by Michael Paasche-Orlow, October 31, 2006.

“Relational Agents Group Demonstrations: Portable Exercise Coach and Virtual Nurse”, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Presented by Timothy Bickmore, September 25, 2006.

“Testing the Re-Engineered Hospital Discharge”, Agency for Healthcare and Quality, Washington, DC, Presented by Brian Jack, June 5, 2006.

“NQF Safe Practice: Discharge Systems”, NPSF Patient Safety Congress, San Francisco, CA, Presented by Brian Jack, May 12, 2006.

“Re-Engineering the Hospital Discharge for Safety and Accountability: Introducing the Discharge Advocate”, Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Conference, Washington, DC, Presented by Jeffrey Greenwald, May 5, 2006.

“Understanding and Re-Engineering the Hospital Discharge Towards Safety and Accountability”, Presented by Jeffrey Greenwald, March 11, 2006.

“Patient Safety in the Transition from Hospital to the PCP”, Presented by Brian Jack to the National Quality Forum, December 2, 2005.