RPA 2006 Annual Meeting: Nephrology Practice in the Information Age   
Part 1: (Robert Provenzano, MD; Janet M. Marchibroda; William E. Haley, MD; Carolyn Hartley; David Kibbe, MD; Michael Germain, MD; Steven Fadem, MD. RPA Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD. March 2006.) Provenzano: Year in review. Marchibroda: Using information technology in medical practice. Haley: Implementation of the RPA CKD Toolkit and its Potential Impact on P4R and P4P. Hartley: How to Implement Information Technology in Your Practice. Kibbe, Germain, Fadem: How to Invest IT Without Going Broke.

Part 2: (Susan Price; Lori LeBlanc; Michael Somermeyer, MD; Franklin Maddux, MD; Victor Villagra, MD; Wilson Wang, MD, MPH; Domenic Ruscio, Jennifer Shevchek, Robert Blaser, MD. RPA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD; March, 2006 ) Price, LeBlanc: Overall practice performance. Somermeyer: CKD Outcomes. Maddux: Dialysis Outcomes - Real Time Applications of Information Technology. Villagra: John Dickmeyer Lecture: Integrating Disease Management into Nephrology Care. Wang, Ruscio, Shevcheck: Influencing Lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Blaser: The RPA's advocacy agenda. (Slide/audio and lecture handouts; no transcripts). Free for RPA members.

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Updated: May 08, 2008 (M08)
M08 Dr. Marmot honored as recipient of Baxter-funded health services research prize for his work describing links between heart failure and socioeconomic status.
M07 New hospital superbug to worry about: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
M05 ASN Renal Week abstract archives 2003-2006 now available on-line in .pdf format.
M05 National Physician Identifier number must be used on insurance claim forms to get paid after May 23rd.
M04 Give young persons 50,000 dollars to donate a kidney? Skeptics fear abuse and exploitation.
A29 Families, CEOs, to testify before Congress on tainted heparin.
A28 AAMC taskforce frowns on free pizzas for medical school lunch gatherings, and faculty participation in pharma speaker bureaus.
A28 Am J Med supplement (May, free full text) focuses on computer-assisted diagnosis and errors in diagnosis by physicians.
A25 Lancet Inf Dis: Five percent of health care workers have MRSA.
A22 CMS releases standards for e-prescribing of drugs.
A21 Massachusetts Senate unanimously passes a law banning all pharma gifts to doctors.
A17 NEJM sounding board article considers impact of patient controlled health records on medical research.
A16 Advanced practice nurses seek wider scope in 24 states.
A15 CMS adopts 26 new CPMs effective April 1, 2008
A12 Admissions clerk at New York hospital charged with identity theft; sold data on 50,000 patients.
General Advances Emphasis
archive
Explaining and Correcting PD Underutilization (Madhukar Misra, MD; John Burkart, MD; Allen R. Nissenson, MD, FACP; Irum Shahab, MD; Martin Schreiber, MD; Rajnish Mehrotra, MD, MBBS; Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACP; Martin Schreiber, MD) ADC 2006 (audiofiles)
Nursing Home Dialysis: A Primer (Stephen Korbet, MD; Steven Bucher, CPA, MBA) ADC 2006 (audiofiles)
International Conference on Dialysis (Various speakers) RRI 2006 (handouts)
RPA 2006 Annual Meeting (Various) RPA 2006
International Conference on Dialysis (Various speakers) RRI 2005 (audiofiles)
RPA 2005 Annual Meeting (Various) RPA 2005

House Passes Major Changes in ESRD Program (King et al) Dial Transplant 10-07
Should the Medicare ESRD Program Pay for Daily Dialysis? An Ethical Analysis (Ananttharaman P, Moss AH) Adv CKD (Jul 07)
Gadolinium use in patients with kidney disease: A cause for concern Semin Dial 05-07
Starting a home hemodialysis program (Moran and Kraus) Sem Dial (02-07)
The ESRD uninsured matter (Williams ME). Adv Chronic Kidney Dis (01-07)
Understanding recent haemoglobin trials in CKD: methods and lesson learned from CREATE and CHOIR NDT (02-07)
Major Difficulties the US Nephrologist Faces in Providing Adequate Dialysis (Diaz-Buxo and Crawford-Bonadio) Blood Purification 01-07
International differences in dialysis mortality reflect background general population atherosclerotic cardiovascular mortality. (Yoshino et al.) JASN 12-06
Dialysis facility design - Part IV: Color, sound, and materials (Steven B. Bower) Dial Transplant 11-06
Should dialysis patients ever receive warfarin and for what reasons? (Bennett) CJASN 11-06
Dialysis facility design - part III: How to outfit an existing building for use as a dialysis clinic (Steven B. Bower) Dial Transplant 10-06
Dialysis facility design - part II: Minimize costly plan changes (Steven B. Bower) Dial Transplant 09-06
Dialysis facility design - part I: Developing a strategic and financial plan (Steven B. Bower) Dial Transplant 08-06
Lessons for Medicare Part D in the hemodialysis community (Nayeem, Chertow) BMC Nephrology 07-06
Policy, Quality Links
GENERAL
Renal Physicians Assoc
HDCN Topic Pages (KEY)
Cost, QA in CKD, ESRD