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April 18, 2018, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

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Decision aids can be highly-effective tools to promote shared decision making and support patients in becoming engaged participants in their healthcare. This was a first-ever convening with leaders behind a Washington experiment in certifying decision aids, as state officials, health systems, and on-the-ground implementation experts shared lessons learned and discussed policy recommendations for national or statewide approaches to decision aid certification.

This event was part of the Project for Advanced Care and Health Policy, a collaboration between the Petrie-Flom Center and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), a non-partisan, non-profit alliance of over 130 national organizations dedicated to being a catalyst to change the health delivery system, empower consumers, enhance provider capacity and improve public and private policies in advanced illness care.

Funding for this event was provided by Cambia Health Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, the Milbank Memorial Fund, and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC).

Program Overview

Person-centered care presents a unique opportunity to achieve the Quadruple Aim, especially during serious illness when people are the most vulnerable. Building on the work of NQF and others, it is now clear that healthcare purchasers (states, plans, care providers) committed to person-centered care should also be committed to shared decision-making.

A number of policy initiatives have sought to increase the use of decision aids as an effective way to further shared decision making and person-centered care. Washington is the first - and, as of the date of this convening, only - state to recognize and act on this opportunity by establishing a process to certify decision aids across the health continuum, including during serious illness when people are the most vulnerable. This program examined the Washington experience and also explored policy barriers for replication of the Washington model at the state and national levels.

This event was free and open to the public.

Program Schedule

8:00 - 8:30am, Registration

8:30 - 8:35am, Welcome Remarks

  • Mark Sterling, Senior Fellow in Advanced Care and Health Policy, the Petrie-Flom Center and senior strategic advisor, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)

  • Carmel Shachar, Executive Director, the Petrie-Flom Center and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

8:35 - 9:35am, Theory and Knowledge Regarding Decision Aids

Speakers presented an overview of the state of the science.

9:35 - 10:35am, The Washington State Experience

Panelists discussed the use of legislation and policy to promote shared decision-making and utilization of decision aids.

10:35 - 10:45am, Break

10:45 - 11:45am, The Creation of a Decision Aid Certification Process

A representative from the Washington State Health Care Authority Patient Decision Aid Certification committee discussed the development of a statewide decision aid certification program, experiences, challenges, and barriers.

  • Laura Pennington, Practice Transformation Manager, Washington State Health Care Authority

Session Materials

11:45am - 12:30pm, Shared Decision-Making Implementation: What Do We Know?

This session addressed lessons learned from the field, including how one health system successfully implemented shared decision-making, changing the culture of their practice; the challenges they encountered along the way; and where they are today.

  • Matt Handley, MD, Senior Medical Director for Quality and Safety, Kaiser Permanente of Washington

Session Materials

12:30 - 1:30pm, Lunch and Networking

1:30 - 2:15pm, How Decision Aids Can Promote Person-Centered Care for Serious Illness

Panelists introduced the Respecting Choices approach to the creation and utilization of encounter decision aids to promote shared decision-making.

Session Materials

2:15 - 3:30pm, Next Steps: Moving from Science and Policy to Practice

A Call to Action: Building on the Washington state experience, this panel discussion and interactive session explored how key partners can work together to allow decision aids to accelerate the move of shared decision-making into the mainstream of clinical practice, and recommended policies that can overcome barriers to replication in other states and nationally.​

3:30 - 4:30pm, Networking Reception

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Slide Presentations

This event was part of the Project for Advanced Care and Health Policy, a collaboration between the Petrie-Flom Center and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), a non-partisan, non-profit alliance of over 130 national organizations dedicated to being a catalyst to change the health delivery system, empower consumers, enhance provider capacity and improve public and private policies in advanced illness care.

Funding for this event was provided by Cambia Health Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, the Milbank Memorial Fund, and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC).


Videos

Video: Welcome Remarks

Video: Introduction: Theory and Knowledge Regarding Decision Aids

Video: Glyn Elwyn: Theory and Knowledge Regarding Decision Aids

Video: Dawn Stacey: Theory and Knowledge Regarding Decision Aids

Video: Dominick Frosch: Theory and Knowledge Regarding Decision Aids

Video: Audience Q & A: Theory and Knowledge Regarding Decision Aids

Video: Introduction:The Washington State Experience

Video: Ben Moulton: The Washington State Experience

Video: Karen Merrikin: The Washington State Experience

Video: Thaddeus Mason Pope: The Washington State Experience

Video: Audience Q & A: The Washington State Experience

Video: Introduction: The Creation of a Decision Aid Certification Process

Video: Laura Pennington: The Creation of a Decision Aid Certification Process

Video: Audience Q & A: The Creation of a Decision Aid Certification Process

Video: Introduction: Shared Decision-Making Implementation: What Do We Know?

Video: Matt Handley: Shared Decision-Making Implementation: What Do We Know?

Video: Audience Q & A: Shared Decision-Making Implementation: What Do We Know?

Video: Linda Briggs: How Decision Aids Can Promote Person-Centered Care for Serious Illness

Video: Sandy Schellinger: How Decision Aids Can Promote Person-Centered Care for Serious Illness

Video: Audience Q & A: How Decision Aids Can Promote Person-Centered Care for Serious Illness

Video: Moderated Q & A: Next Steps: Moving from Science and Policy to Practice

Video: Audience Q & A: Next Steps: Moving from Science and Policy to Practice

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aging   bioethics   doctor patient relationship   end of life   health law policy   public health   regulation