The Bridge Sessions: Tracking What Treatment Actually
Changes with Patient-Reported Outcomes

Presented by Jared Burkholder

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Description

Join us for the latest installment of The Bridge Sessions, a Webinar Series focused on Connecting Platform Potential to Clinical Practice.

Most clinicians already sense whether a patient is getting better, but that sense is hard to prove and harder to share. Progress lives in visit notes and gut feel, payers and referral partners ask for evidence you can't quickly produce, and there's no consistent way to catch the patient who is quietly plateauing. This session focuses on Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs): standardized, validated questionnaires patients complete themselves, so you can measure change in pain, function, and quality of life over an episode of care and turn clinical progress into evidence you can point to.

We are keeping the slides to a minimum to focus on what matters most: a Live Demonstration within the platform. We will show you exactly how to assign a PRO to a patient, how patients complete it, and how to read score changes over the course of an episode.

Key Takeaways:

Objective Progress: See how validated PRO measures turn “the patient seems better” into a documented, defensible change score you can track from intake to discharge.

Evidence On Demand: Learn how PRO data gives you the outcome evidence payers, referral partners, and leadership increasingly ask for — without adding manual charting.

Early Warning: Walk away knowing how to use score trends to catch a plateauing or declining patient early, while there's still time to change the plan of care.

Register today to see how Patient-Reported Outcomes turn everyday treatment progress into standardized, shareable evidence of the care you deliver.

Instructor

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Jared Burkholder

Jared Burkholder is a dedicated education professional specializing in the intersection of healthcare technology and clinical practice. With a Master of Science in Education (M.S. Ed.), Jared brings a deep understanding of instructional design and adult learning principles to the healthcare space. As the Customer Education…

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Learning Objectives

  • Measures: Know how the right PRO measures for a patient's condition and understand what its score actually represents.
  • Collection: Assign a PRO to a patient and understand how they complete it, so responses come from the patient rather than your interpretation.
  • Interpretation: Read score changes over time and recognize meaningful improvement, a plateau, or a decline.

Agenda

All times in Eastern Time.

3:00pm–3:20pm
Live platform demonstration
3:20pm–3:30pm
Q&A

Medbridge is committed to accessibility for all of our subscribers. If you are in need of a disability-related accommodation, please contact [email protected] . We will process requests for reasonable accommodation and will provide reasonable accommodations where appropriate, in a prompt and efficient manner.

Details

  • August 4, 2026
  • 3:00pm-3:30pm EDT
    • PTs/PTAs, Introductory
    • PTs/PTAs, Intermediate
    • PTs/PTAs, Advanced
    • OTs/OTAs, Introductory
    • OTs/OTAs, Intermediate
    • OTs/OTAs, Advanced
  • Register soon to secure your spot!

* Available August 4

Accreditation

This live event is an informational session only and will not be accredited.

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