Call for Abstracts Due May 10, 2021

The High Value Practice Academic Alliance (HVPAA) presents:

Architecture of High Value Health Care Conference
Oct. 7–10, 2021
Virtual Conference

Mark your calendars for the Architecture of High Value Health Care Conference. Directed by the HVPAA and sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the conference shares leading practices and provides skill-building experiences in value-based care. The conference is designed to broadly disseminate successful initiatives from medical centers across the country to improve health care quality and safety while reducing costs. Participants can receive continuing medical education credits and maintenance of certification points.

Event Highlights

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

• Participate in targeted sessions on appropriate use of tests and treatments for patients in the ambulatory and pediatric care settings.
• Learn about performance improvement projects through oral and poster presentations delivered by value-based performance improvement champions at institutions across the country.
• Attend immersive workshops directed by faculty experts from multiple academic medical centers.

NOW OPEN! Call for Abstracts

Organizers are seeking abstracts from faculty, staff and trainees who would like to make oral presentations or display posters. Interested individuals can learn more and access the online abstract form here. Quality improvement categories include:

• Diagnostic appropriateness
• Treatment/interventional appropriateness
• Opioid stewardship
• Clinical care pathways
• Reducing unwarranted practice variability
• Optimization of patient care setting to reduce ED visits
• Reducing admissions for ambulatory sensitive conditions
• Care transitions including hospital discharge
• Preventive medicine and evidence-based screening
• Provider behavior modification
• Information technology innovation
• High value care clinical program building
• High value care educational curricula
• Effective cost transparency for patients
• Opioid stewardship
• Equitable health care access
• Reducing out-of-pocket costs for patients