TOA 2025 Leadership Conference CME

Understand the shift in leadership roles within private practices as they pertain to clinical roles. | Identify staff realignments that can be utilized to enhance clinical care. | Determine strategies to enhance prior authorization outcomes for patient outcomes. | Review changes to the Texas telemedicine rule as it relates to Maximum Medical Improvement exams. | Review the process to become certified to conduct impairment ratings for Texas Workers' comp. | Evaluate how medical practice culture influences physician well-being, patient care outcomes and team dynamics. | Examine common practice culture related challenges in a medical practie, including burnout and conflict, that can harm the clinical side of a practice. | Describe the core principles of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning as they apply to orthopaedic surgery and musculoskeletal care. | Explore how AI-enhanced robotics and predictive analytics are improving preoperative planning, intraoperative precision, and patient outcomes. | Discuss emerging AI technologies, their potential integration into orthopaedic workflows, and strategies for clinicians to stay updated on advancements. | Identify AI-driven tools that can optimize patient engagement, postoperative rehabilitation, and long-term outcome tracking in orthopaedic care. | Examine new and evolving ancillary services in orthopaedics. | Identify key steps for evaluating, implementing and scaling ancillary services within an orthopaedic practice while maintaining high-quality care. | Determine how to bring clinical change to large institutions as it relates to the total episode of care, such as frailty programs. | Review the science been "food as medicine" and perioperative medicine. | Determine how to incorporate perioperative nutrition/optimization into a small practice. | Evaluate current Medicare payment models and determine what changes that your practice should make, if any, to meet the clinical outcomes required by the models. | Discuss the impact of declining Medicare reimbursement rates and determine how they affect the delivery of care in your practice. | Identify the distinctions between PRO, PROM and PRO-PM. | Determine how AI can be utilized to enhance PROMs. | Determine how to use PROMs to inform clinical decision making. | Explain why measuring outcomes is essential to improving value in health care. | Define value in health care. | Discuss emerging trends, including technologies and new educational methodologies, and their implications for academic orthopaedic practice. | Review different anesthesia models to address the limited supply.