Healthcare in the USA: What Clinicians Need to Know!

The Business of Medicine is an ever-changing multi-faceted and complicated industry. This presentation aims to provide the healthcare provider with relevant, practical knowledge about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on clinical practice, how standards of care and evidence based medicine are integral components, and the legal ramifications of clinical decisions and product selection.  

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to examine how the ACA has impacted HAI prevention strategies.

2. Participants will be able to analyze the importance of implementing evidence based standards of care and products.

3. Participants will be able to explore approaches for improving outcomes and liability minimization.

Speaker: Russ Nassof, Esq.

Mr. Russ Nassof, Esq. is an attorney who has been involved in the fields of health risk consulting and clinician education for over 10 years concentrating his work in the areas of infection prevention, and risk/liability minimization for vascular access issues. He has presented hundreds of seminars and webinars to legal, insurance, loss control, healthcare, and risk management groups throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. While Mr. Nassof has been involved as a consulting/testifying expert on a variety of diverse events, his passion is focused managing risk and liability for vascular catheter-associated risk, and was recently the first non-clinician elected to the AVA Board of Directors. He also served as a reviewer on the 2016 INS Standards and has coauthored books on environmental/healthcare issues. Mr. Nassof received his Juris Doctorate and undergraduate degrees from Emory University in Atlanta.

* Sponsored by our friends at Ethicon ~ thank you!

A note from GulfVAN: Mr. Nassof is an incredibly dynamic and entertaining speaker and you DO NOT want to miss this opportunity to hear him. We are extremely fortunate to have him come to Tampa for GulfVAN. He is a person that will speak for an hour and you wish he would speak for one more- guaranteed. Please share this invitation with your Infection Control and Risk Management departments, along with your nursing colleagues. The information he provides should be heard by every clinician. EVERY. CLINICIAN.