LRB-0581/P2
SWB:cjs
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0036 - Dementia training for health care providers
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Health
1. Dementia training for health care providers
This bill requires DHS to establish a two-year academic detailing primary care clinic dementia training program for health care providers in ten primary care clinics in the state through a contract with the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute. As part of the training program, DHS must provide primary care providers with clinical training and access to educational resources on best practices for diagnosis and management of common cognitive disorders and referral strategies to dementia specialists for complicated or rare cognitive or behavioral disorders. DHS must also ensure that the program includes at least the following components: 1) the most current research on effective clinical treatments and practices is systematically evaluated by the academic detailing team; 2) information gathered and evaluated regarding the effective clinical treatments and practices is packaged into an easily accessible format that is clinically relevant, rigorously sourced, and compellingly formatted; and 3) training is provided for clinicians to serve as academic detailers.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 9119.
Nonstatutory provisions; Health Services.
(1) Academic detailing training program.
(a) In this subsection, “academic detailing” means a teaching model under which health care experts are taught techniques for engaging in interactional educational outreach to other health care providers and clinical staff to provide information on evidence-based practices and successful therapeutic interventions with the goal of improving patient care.
(b) The department of health services shall establish and implement a 2-year academic detailing primary care clinic dementia training program in 10 primary care clinics in the state through a contract with the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute.
(c) The department shall, as part of the training program, provide primary care providers with clinical training and access to educational resources on best practices for diagnosis and management of common cognitive disorders, and referral strategies to dementia specialists for complicated or rare cognitive or behavioral disorders.
(d) The department shall ensure that the training program under this subsection includes at least the following three components:
1. The most current research on effective clinical treatments and practices is systematically evaluated by the academic detailing team.
2. Information gathered and evaluated under subd. 1. is packaged into an easily accessible format that is clinically relevant, rigorously sourced, and compellingly formatted.
3. Training is provided for clinicians to serve as academic detailers that equips them with clinical expertise and proficiency in conducting an interactive educational exchange to facilitate individualized learning among participating primary care practitioners in the target clinics.
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