NHPCO’s 2024 Virtual Interdisciplinary Conference (IDC2024) is the premier conference for hospice and palliative care teams and individuals. IDC2024 will focus on key issues facing interdisciplinary team members.
Conference Focus
NHPCO is committed to supporting hospice and palliative care interdisciplinary teams to find practical approaches to complex situations and cases. That is why the 2024 Virtual Interdisciplinary Conference will focus on opportunities and challenges on the front lines.
Conference Audience
Conference content and activities are geared toward one or more of the following audiences to encourage interdisciplinary team learning and collaboration:
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- Bereavement Professionals
- Integrative & Rehabilitation Therapists
- Nurse or Nursing Assistant
- Pediatric Professionals
- Pharmacists
- Physician or Advanced Practice Provider
- Quality and Regulatory Professionals
- Social Workers
- Spiritual Caregivers
- Volunteer Managers
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes will be posted soon.
Conference Topics
Conference educational content is organized based on the following topics:
How is your clinical team…
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- Approaching clinical interventions to ensure optimal outcomes?
- Leveraging the latest research to ensure clinicians are engaging in evidence-based practice?
- Advocating for and investing in clinician safety training?
- Measuring health outcomes?
- Transforming clinical care teams?
- Orienting new staff to the hospice and palliative care field?
- Reducing care variability?
- Implementing safety measures in a variety of settings?
- Engaging patients in their care?
- Balancing patient autonomy/right to self-determination with patient safety?
- Updating care models based on DEI, social determinants of care, etc.?
- Creating a Just Culture of shared accountability for internal reporting?
- Reducing serious safety events and errors?
- Defining and refining individual team member roles and responsibilities?
How is your team…
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- Developing an interdisciplinary team that models that embraces the core tenants of hospice and palliative care?
- Providing effective and efficient care transitions?
- Developing networks and coordinating care across the continuum?
- Engaging the communities you serve?
- Empowering and supporting staff to manage patient care?
- Developing leadership skills, conflict resolution, and crucial conversation techniques?
- Developing relationships between clinical and administrative staff (business development, philanthropy, and marketing)?
- Maximizing the role of each member of the interdisciplinary team?
- Triaging work between team members during lean staff times?
- Advancing patient, caregiver, and clinician engagement?
- Achieving effective case management and highly reliable care?
- Using design thinking to improve patient outcomes?
How is your organization…
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- Growing a culture of quality and compliance that engages staff?
- Generating, tracking, and submitting data for the CMS’ HQRP?
- Monitoring CAHPS survey results for quality improvement?
- Connecting quality, regulatory, compliance, and value-based care?
- Connecting compliance, ethics, and outcomes?
- Structuring and evaluating a compliant and effective QAPI Program?
- Using the STAR rating system to improve quality?
- Using performance improvement tools, like FMEA, RCA, etc.?
- Understanding the implications of future hospice audits?
- Planning for use of HCI data to improve organizational operations?
- Collecting and analyzing claims data and internal reporting?
- Learning from quality data to improve access to equitable care?
How is your clinical team preparing for the future by…
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- Doing things differently and leveraging innovations?
- Acknowledging the differences between and increasing diversity, inclusion, equity, and access?
- Improving care standardization and eliminating care variability across settings?
- Supporting patient and family mental and behavioral health?
- Providing self-care opportunities for clinicians and support for caregivers?
- Understanding the importance and impact of documentation?
- Increasing value and efficiency of care related to risk adjustments?
- Using measurements with social determinants of health?
- Empowering the caregiver to speak up?
- Incorporating predictive analytics with patient data?
- Using virtual platforms to enhance patient engagement?
- Connecting with local academic communities to advocate for hospice and palliative care as a career choice?
