This session includes two presentations.

Optimizing Care: Managing the Hepatitis C Patient Registry

Using clinical decision support and disease registries can provide value by increasing efficiencies and reducing waste. This session will explore how correctional health care programs can use clinical decision support and disease registries to improve communication, safety, prioritization, identification of population trends, and longitudinal management of individuals who have hepatitis C. The advantages of using spreadsheets to risk-stratify and identify specific clinical parameters will be demonstrated.

Educational Objectives

• Describe the advantages of using external clinical decision support
• Discuss the advantages of creating and/or customizing internal clinical decision support
• Explain the advantages of creating disease registries

Level: Intermediate

Why a Chronic Kidney Disease Registry is a Must

Diabetes, hypertension, and chronic kidney disease are complex and costly diseases with significant rates of morbidity and mortality that are growing among incarcerated individuals. Chronic kidney disease is a key driver for the burgeoning cost of health care delivery and death in prisons; hypertension and diabetes are the two most common causes of CKD. This session will explore the use of chronic disease registries in CKD to promote best practices, improved outcomes, and health equity.

Educational Objectives

• Discuss the challenges of managing chronic diseases within a prison
• Describe the purpose, components, and functions of chronic disease registries
• Explain how using a chronic kidney disease registry can help promote health care equity, outcomes, and cost savings.

Level: Intermediate