HEALTHCARE IS CHANGING, SAYS TOP EMERGENCY MEDICINE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND FUTURIST

It’s a brave new world for health care pros, and emergency medicine keynote speakers and medical futurists have adapted their range of speaking topics in turn to span:

• Trends in ED utilization – Discussing increases in emergency department visits, causes (aging population, lack of primary care, mental health needs), and solutions like improving access to care.
• ED overcrowding – Reviewing factors driving overcrowding as emergency medicine keynote speakers like non-urgent cases, boarding admitted patients, influenza season. Strategies to address flow like streaming, fast track, and bed management.
• Violence and injuries – Covering latest data on gun violence, motor vehicle accidents, trauma cases. Prevention and community-based solutions.
• Opioid crisis – Strategies to deal with opioid abuse and overdoses in the ED. Medication-assisted treatment, distributing naloxone, prescriber education.
• Mental health and substance abuse – Models that emergency medicine keynote speakers offer for managing psychiatric emergencies, suicide risk, alcohol and drug intoxication. Collaboration with behavioral health services.
• Pediatric emergencies – Discussing specialized approaches for children like developmental considerations, family-centered care, sexual assault cases.
• Geriatric emergencies – Addressing needs of older adults including delirium, polypharmacy, falls, cognitive impairment.
• Telehealth and mobile health – Using technology as emergency medicine keynote speakers to expand care access like telemedicine, mHealth apps, wearables. Impact on underserved communities.
• Disaster preparedness – Steps EDs are taking to prepare for mass casualty events. Coordination with EMS and public health agencies.
• Provider wellbeing – Reducing burnout by using techniques emergency medicine keynote speakers suggest to address factors like work demands, lack of control, poor work-life balance. Improving resiliency.