155H: iMedConsent

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155H iMedConsent

• Comprehensive User Training

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Presenters

• Ray FrazierProgram Analyst, iMedConsent Project
  ManagerVHA National Center for Ethics in Health
  Care
• Paul MillerAccount RepresentativeDialog Medical

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Goals

• Hands-on experience
• Support shared decision making

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iMedConsent What it is and what its not

• What it is
• Tool used to facilitate compliance with
• VHA Informed Consent Policy (Handbook 1004.1)
• JCAHO Standards
• Code of Federal Regulations(38 CFR 17.32)
• Clinical content reviewed/approved by VHA subject
  matter experts (FAC)
• What its not
• Not a substitute for patient/provider
  communication.
• Cannot ensure good informed consent process

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Patient Mr. VEHU

• Prospect VAMC
• Visits provider after noticing bulge in groin
  area
• How can iMedConsent add value to patient/provider
  communication?

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Sign-on to CPRS

• Find your student number by your
  computerClick this Icon
• Access Code VEHU
• Verify Code VEHU
• Your patient isltyour number spelled outgt,patient
• Your Signature Code is VEHU

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Informed Consent Handbook

• Currently being revised
• Revisions under consideration
• Extension of validity of signed consent forms (30
  ? 60 day expiration)
• Limiting need to obtain witness signature
• Widen the scope of practitioner who can sign
  consent form
• Practice unchanged until new policy is finalized
  and released

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For more information and assistance

• Local experts usually your CACs
• Contact IRM if iMedConsent does not appear on
  your tools bar (program may not be loaded on your
  workstation)
• VHA iMedConsent initiative Electronic Support
  for Patient Decisions (ESPD) vaww.patientdecisions
  .va.gov
• VHA National Center for Ethics in Health Care
  vaww.ethics.va.gov
• Local IntegratedEthics resources can assist with
  policy or ethics concerns