Innovations in Care Delivery

​Neurology: Clinical Practice has just launched their next Practice Current survey on a universally controversial topic —Practice Current: How do you manage patients with a "hot carotid"? Please consider completing the survey to add your own perspective.

​An important perspective about new medical equipment in low resource countries -  Dr. Omar Siddiqi, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Global Neurology Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, shares his experiences with the unforeseen negatives to innovative, medical technology in resource limited settings. He states, 'Near as I can tell, the only purpose they serve is to charge patients for a sham test.’ ”  

The AAN recently offered a webinar course iNeurology: Best IT Practices covering "core functionalities of electronic health records, using health information technology to effectively report on payer programs, and identifying tools to improve patient care." An earlier course, Open Your Heart, Open Your Notes: A Guide to Patient Engagement, was offered in September in order to "familiarize practitioners with current patient engagement technology, employ tactics to enhance patient engagement and explore the OpenNotes concept of sharing medical information." If you missed either of these courses, it’s not too late to gain this useful information and earn CME by registering and viewing the recorded versions of the webinars on the AAN website. For specific questions, contact Jessica Nickrand, Program Manager, Policy and Practice Programming, at JNickrand@aan.com.