BMC2 Q3 - Q4 2024 Meeting Summaries

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Did you miss a meeting or do you need a refresher? Read our meeting summaries.

  • The BMC2 PCI 2025 P4P Goal Meeting and VBR planning was held on July 9th, 2024, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm on Zoom.
     
  • The BMC2 PCI Coordinator Meeting –was held July 11th, 2024, from 10 am – 11 am on Zoom. 
    A recording and slides of the following highlights and key takeaways area available via our secure file sharing space on Nextcloud:
     
    • BMC2 Tech Team Lead, John Sly, explains the merge process for BMC2 and NCDR data.
    • BMC2 PCI Quality Lead, Kathleen Frazier, discusses Redcap reports.
    • BMC2 PCI Quality Lead, Amy Shirato, provides a live overview of resources available on BMC2.org.
       
  • The BMC2 VS Physician and 2025 P4P Goal Webinar was held on July 18th, 2024, from 6 pm – 8 pm.
     
  • The BMC2 VS Coordinator Meeting was held on September 18th, 2024, from 11 am – 12 pm. Vascular Surgery Quality Lead, Rebecca Fleckenstein, presented an overview of BMC2 VS quarterly reports and VS REDCap reports including a live demo of the completion reports in REDCap that are available to abstractors. Please run these reports and review the results regularly and review the results. You can view a recording of this meeting via our secure file-sharing space on Nextcloud.
     
  • The BMC2 PCI Physician Meeting was held September 21st, 2024 from 1 pm – 3 pm at Grand Traverse Resort, Acme.

    A PDF of the slides – including the following presentations – is available via our secure file-sharing space on Nextcloud.
    • “DanGer Shock Trial and Its Relevance to Contemporary Practice” by Babar Basir, DO
    • “Recent Trends in Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock in Michigan” by Devraj Sukul, MD
    • “Contemporary Saphenous Vein Graft PCI” by Sunil Rao, MD.
       
  • The BMC2 VS Coordinator Meeting was held November 6th, 2024 from 10 am - 3 pm at the H Hotel in Midland, MI.

    Visit our secure file-sharing space on Nextcloud to view meeting presentations including:
    • Grace Djapri, from MyMichigan Health, presenting a case review about rural disparities and how the BMC2 publications process helped her team to write manuscripts.
    • Information on Surgical Site Infections (SSI) with strategies to prevent SSI and reduce SSI readmissions by MyMichigan Health’s Cindy Noack and Chuck Hyde and AnneMarie Pomeroy from Trinity Health Grand Rapids.
       
  • The BMC2 VS Collaborative Meeting was held from 12 pm - 5 pm at the H Hotel in Midland, MI.

    Visit our secure file-sharing space on Nextcloud for presentations including:
    • Data reviews on their respective registries from Ash Mansour, MD and Nick Osborne, MD.
    • Updates from the BMC2 Vascular Surgery Publication and Strategy Committee by Constantinos Constantinou, MD.
    • “Health Economics of Vascular Surgery” by Sean Roddy, MD of Albany Medical College
    • MVC data on variations in health care spending in Michigan by Mark Bradshaw, MSc and Craig Brown, MD
       
  • The MiCR Meeting was held at the H Hotel in Midland, MI on November 8th from 10 am – 3 pm.

    The meeting presentations listed below are available via this PDF on michigancr.org:
    • “Open Heart Cardiac Rehab Follow-Up Consultation” by Gregory Scharf
    • “Planning and Implementation of Heart Failure University” by Ashley Dailey
    • “Increasing Use Of Cardiac Rehab For Patients With Heart Failure: A Case Study in Implementation” by Tara Lagu
    • “Emerging Digital Technologies in Cardiac Rehabilitation” by Jessica Golbus
    • “This is How We Do It: ‘Walk it Out’” by MiCR Grant Awardee, Justin Erickson
    • “MSCVPR Updates and 2025 Legislative Advocacy Plan” by Cindy Haskin-Popp, Jackie Evans, and Mary Casey
    • “Sex Differences in CR Enrollment” by Mike Thompson
    • “CR Dashboard Report” by Jana Stewart
    • “Women-Centered Cardiac Rehab” by Lisa Cardillo
    • “A Non-Traditional Approach to Cardiac Rehabilitation: Hybrid CR” by Steven Keteyian
       
  • The BMC2 PCI Coordinator Webinar was held on Thursday, November 14th from 10 am – 11 am.

    Presentations now available in our secure file-sharing space on Nextcloud include:
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    • A review of the BCBSM Biennial survey by BMC2 PCI Quality Lead, Kathleen Frazier
    • BMC2 PCI Quality Lead Amy Shirato discusses Trinity Health St. Joseph Oakland’s successful “P2Y12 Duration Documentation” QI project with the team’s Christine Weber.
    • Kathleen Frazier and Amy Shirato reviewed abstraction fields, IVUS/OCT Optimization trends and suggestions related to using the new detail reports.  
    • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Amy Shirato shared updates and reminders and her personal experience while attending the NCDR Quality Summit. 
       
  • The BMC2 VS Coordinator Webinar was held on Wednesday, December 18th from 11 am to 12 pm.
    • ​​​​​​​Trinity Health Muskegon’s Kayla Lopacki presented about the SSI Subcommittee with which she collaborates.
    • BMC2 VS QI Lead, Rebecca Fleckenstein, presented the database changes for 2025.The 2025 BMC2 VS Data Dictionary and Worksheets are posted to bmc2.org under “Coordinator Resources.”
    • The 2025 version of the BMC2 VS registry link in REDCap will be available 1/7/25.

      ​​​​​​​You can view the entire meeting via our secure file-sharing space on Nextcloud.