The Case for Medical Interoperability: Why Health Information Systems Must Work Together

Tune in to this live broadcast on overactive bladder! Experts David Staskin, MD, and Roger Dmochowski, MD, discuss evidence-based best practices in the management and treatment of OAB and integrate challenging case studies throughout the broadcast.

An advanced practice-provider’s role in treating patients with IBD is very critical, especially at a time when emerging data supports the multidisciplinary team’s positive impact on patients' experiences. Joining Dr. Matt Birnholz is nurse practitioner Kimberly Kearns to illuminate the impact advanced practice-providers have on patient outcomes.

Whether you’re a seasoned veteran in the field or a newly practicing clinician, successful time management and work-life balance can be difficult to achieve. Tune in for key tips and tricks from Dr. Uma Mahadevan.

The recipe for a healthy gut involves much more than just prescribing medications and diet restrictions. Treating the whole patient by identifying malnourishment, dermatologic conditions, and psychosocial needs can help ensure that IBD doesn’t have any negative impacts beyond the gut. Join Dr. Matt Birnholz as he digests the highlights from the 2020 Crohn's and Colitis Congress session "IBD: Beyond the Gut" with guest Dr. James Lewis.

As emerging data supports the idea that patients with IBD can be managed by focusing on the microbiome, discussing dietary needs, and using cognitive behavioral therapy, it’s important that providers are attentive to the changing paradigms. During the 2020 Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Congress, Dr. Maria Abreu leverages her triple-threat perspective on bench research, clinical research, and clinical care to share how we can improve care for patients with IBD.

Since the brain-gut connection directly impacts the biopsychosocial well-being of IBD patients, Dr. Matt Birnholz sits down with Dr. Tiffany Taft, Director of Psychogastroenterology Research in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Northwestern University, to discuss how integrating psychogastroenterology principles and techniques into your practice can help alleviate the burden of IBD on your patients.

At the third annual Crohn’s & Colitis Congress in Austin, Texas, Co-Director of the IBD Program and Section Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Dr. Corey Siegel sat down with Dr. Matt Birnholz to share his approach to presenting risk data to his IBD patients.

To gain more insights into how inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects our young patients, Dr. Jennifer Caudle connects with Caroline, a 12-year-old patient who was diagnosed with IBD at the age of 4, and her parents, Preston and Rachelle, about the challenges they face and the strategies and solutions available that can help children and teens like Caroline manage this condition.

It can be easy to think of heat exhaustion and heatstroke as the same condition, but there’s a key difference between the two that we need to help our patients understand, especially during the warm summer months.

It’s an unfortunate reality that an increasing number of patients are refusing to get vaccinated—regardless of whether that’s the recommendation for themselves or their children. But luckily, there are ways you can talk to your patients about this, as Dr. Jennifer Caudle explains.