MMS NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
2013 MMS Annual Meeting,
“Navigating the Currents of Change,” Opens Thursday
Don’t miss the biggest event
on the MMS calendar. This year’s 2013 MMS Annual Meeting is “Navigating
the Currents of Change: Integrating Innovative Technologies Into Your Clinical
Practice,” featuring an
extensive slate of speakers, including Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners in Health
founder. Read a full listing of Annual Meeting forums, lectures,
education programs and social events.
Pre-register
no later than Tuesday, May 7 for faster onsite check in. MMS members don’t have
to wait until next week to weigh in on MMS policy matters -- log onto the online community
for MMS members. Share your thoughts now on evolutionary biology, the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act, and voting at the HOD.
AM ’13 Event Spotlight: The Nancy N.
Caron Annual Member Art Exhibit and Silent Auction
The
Nancy
N. Caron Annual Member Art Exhibit and Silent Auction will take place
on Thursday, May 9th. Online bids on artwork and other items will be accepted
until noon on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.
Live
bidding at the event on May 9 will open at 3:00 p.m. and close promptly at 7:30
p.m. To place a bid, please email foundation@mms.org and indicate
the item number, title, and your bid amount.
You may also call Jennifer Day at (781) 434-7044. Please observe the
bidding increments and be sure to include your full name and telephone number.
Medicare Temporarily Delays Enforcement of
Enrollment Requirements
For technical reasons, Medicare has indefinitely
delayed enforcing its May 1 requirement that physicians must be enrolled in Medicare to be
reimbursed for certain Part B claims. For more information about the
Medicare enrollment process, download this fact sheet (.pdf), or visit the AMA website on Medicare enrollment.
MMS Testifies in Support of
Legislation to Improve Mental Health Access
The MMS this week testified in support of “An
Act Relative to Enhancing Access to Mental Health Treatment” before
the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing. This bill would repeal a provision that allows
health insurers to delay implementation of new utilization review requirements for
behavioral health services until 2015. Read more.
History of Medicine Lecture May 13 to
Feature Harvard University’s Daniel Carpenter
The Boston Medical
Library will present the 2013 J. Worth
Estes, M.D. History of Medicine Lecture, “The FDA and the Remaking of Modern
Clinical Research,” at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 13, 2013. The featured speaker
is Daniel Carpenter, Ph.D,, Director of the Center for American Political
Studies at Harvard University. The event
will be held at Armenise Amphitheatre, HMS, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Please RSVP to Roz Vogel at (617) 432-4807 or
by email at rvogel@hms.harvard.edu.
Medical Student
Mentoring Opportunity: Orientation Session June 4
Join the Committee on Senior Volunteer Physicians from 9:30
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on June 4, 2013 for an orientation and training session for
physicians interested in serving as faculty facilitators for a medical student
course. The Integrated Problems Course (IP) is a problem-based learning course
taken by all Boston University School of Medicine students throughout their
first and second years of school. Through the discussion of clinical cases, the
IP Course assists students in methods for integrating information from other
courses and developing clinical reasoning skills through small-group discussion
and individual research. The volunteer
facilitator meets with groups of six to eight students weekly for two hours for
10 to 12 weeks from September to December. To register to attend the session,
please contact Carolyn Maher at (800) 322-2303, ext. 7311, or via email at cmaher@mms.org.
Benefit
Buzz: Online Data Backup Made Easy
Having a backup
policy in place is one of the most important things you can do for your data
protection plan. It outlines what, when, and how data should be backed up,
among other things. But writing it can be a daunting task. VaultLogix offers a
free white paper on how
to set up your backup policy the right way.
Download the white paper here, and receive as a bonus, a free
backup policy template.
EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND EVENTS
Live CME Activities
MMS Ethics Forum – Conflicts of Interest in Medical Publishing
Thursday, May 9, 2013, 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
MMS Annual Education Program – Navigating the Currents of Change: Integrating Innovative Technologies into Your Clinical Practice
Friday, May 10, 2013, 8:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., at the Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
MMS Shattuck Lecture – Chronic Infectious Disease and the Future of Health Care Delivery
Friday, May 10, 2013, 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., at the Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
2013 MMS and RIMS Directors of Medical Education Conference
Thursday, May 16, 2013, 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Home-Based Palliative Care for Patients with Serious Illness: A Team Approach
Monday, May 20, 2013, 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., via live WEBINAR
A Roadmap to Bring an End to HIV and STDs in Massachusetts: What All Health Care Providers Need to Know
Friday, June 7, 2013, 8:15 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Assessing Medication, Mental Health, and Cultural Needs During Sheltering
Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., live conference or via streaming webinar
HIPAA 2.0: Its Impact on Physician
Practice WEBINAR
Tuesday, June 22, 2013, 12:30
p.m. to 1:30 p.m., via live webinar
Getting Men Healthier – A Physician’s Playbook: 11th Annual Symposium on Men’s Health
Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
2nd Annual Addiction Medicine for All Providers Conference
Friday, June 21, and Saturday, June 22, 2013, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The above activities have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Online CME Activities
* Also available in print. Call (800) 322-2303, ext. 7306.
For additional risk management online CME activities, visit www.massmed.org/cme.
THIS WEEK IN HEALTH CARE
Robin Richman,
MD, Appointed to Mass. Board of Registration in Medicine
Robin Richman, MD, chief medical officer and executive vice president of
medical affairs at Reliant Medical Group, has been appointed by Gov. Deval
Patrick to serve on the Board of Registration in Medicine. Dr. Richman is a
member of the MMS Board of Trustees and the Boston Medical Library.
Beth
Israel Deaconess, Cambridge Health Alliance Form Partnership
The
collaboration, announced late this
week, gives doctors with the Cambridge health system greater bargaining power
with health insurance companies and a formal relationship with a major teaching
hospital.
Steward
Health Care Sues Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Rhode Island
Steward Health Care System, which terminated an agreement to buy a Woonsocket,
R.I. hospital last fall, charged in a
lawsuit
this week that Rhode Island's largest health insurance company blocked the deal
by failing to negotiate reasonable health care payments.
One
in Four Mass. Physicians Received Industry Gifts, Payments
One in four physicians in Massachusetts received at least one gift or payment
from pharmaceutical or medical device companies valued at $50 or more in two
and a half years, according to a
new study.
Signature
Healthcare Expands Medical Offices to Easton
Signature Healthcare has opened
new medical offices
in Easton in a move that will relocate about 17,000 patients there.
Expert:
Trauma From Bombings Wide-Reaching
The blasts that shook the city two weeks ago revived
past trauma
even as they created new stresses for war veterans, long-distance runners and
people who work at nearby bars and restaurants, a city health official said.
Boston Victims Face Lifetime of Medical Bills
More
than $30 million has been donated for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Yet it may not be nearly enough to cover the years
of medical bills
for those injured. Related news: Boston Marathon bomb amputees
offered free
prosthetics
Record
Year for Heroin Overdoses in Lynn
Heroin
overdoses killed
22 people
in Lynn in 2012 — double and in some cases even triple the number of fatalities
in previous years — and the deadly trend shows no signs of slackening in 2013.
