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Thursday, November 17th at 11:00am ET we will hold a call for the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.
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Collaborative Announcements
SAVE THE DATE - Spring Stakeholder Conference, April 23-24, 2012, Washington, DC Wardman Park Marriott
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PCMH Happenings
1. IT Bricks and Mortar to Optimize PCMH - ONC Annual Meeting
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will be holding its 2011 ONC Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 17th in Washington, D.C. This public meeting will be webcasted live online. Click HERE to register or go to http://www.healthit.gov/oncmeeting2011/register/index.php
Track 1: IT Bricks and Mortar to Optimize PCMH (2:45-4:15pm EST) will be webcast live with social media participation via twitter (#ITPCMH). You are invited to join in on the conversation.
Description: This session will showcase concrete examples of how information technology-enabled Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) care models have led to improvements in health outcomes. Panelists will discuss their use of strategies and tools (such as registries, clinical decision support and panel management) to increase IT-enabled PCMH-effectiveness in a variety of healthcare settings, and will discuss how to support better uptake and spread of promising practices. Questions the panelists will address include: How can providers on the ground “decrease the noise” and focus on high yield HIT investments to optimize PCMH cost, quality and population health outcomes? What are the key operational learnings for practices across the country? What should other stakeholders (i.e., payers, employers, state government, vendors) consider to improve IT-enabled PCMH performance?
Question and Comments for in person and webcast audience: Tweet #ITPCMH – we’ll be pulling down questions and comments real time.
Facilitator: Janhavi Kirtane, Director of Clinical Transformation, Beacon Community Program, ONC
Panelists:
Rhode Island Beacon Community:
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Darby Buroker, Director, Beacon Program Management / Rhode Island Quality Institute
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Chuck Jones President and CEO / Thundermist Health Center
Crescent City Beacon Community (New Orleans):
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Eboni Price-Haywood, MD, MPH, Co-Executive Director, Tulane Community Health Centers
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Elizabeth Pharo, Director of Client Services at SuccessEHS, Project Facilitator, CCBC/PCMH project
Western New York Beacon Community:
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Sarah Fleming Cotter, Director, Ambulatory Health Information Technology at Catholic Medical Partners
Special Guests:
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Steven Waldren, MD, MS, Director, Center for Health Information Technology / American Academy of Family Physicians
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David Nace, MD, Vice President and Medical Director /McKesson and PCPCC Board Chair
2. Partnership for Patients-National Priorities Partnership Webinar - TODAY!
Join us on Thursday, November 17th for the Partnership for Patients-National Priorities Partnership Webinar, “Engaging Patients and Their Families.” Featured speakers include Don Berwick, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Carolyn Clancy, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, NPP Partner. This presentation will include an audience discussion with a family who was affected by medical error and is now actively involved in improving patient safety in their local healthcare organization. Click here to Register now or go to http://eo2.commpartners.com/users/pfp/
Other speakers include:
Tim McDonald, MD, JD, Chief Safety and Risk Officer for Health Affairs, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago
Robert and Barbara Malizzo, Patient Advocates, Members, Medical Staff Review Board, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago
Meeting Objectives:
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Provide an opportunity for thought leaders in patient safety to share best practices, success stories, and strategies for effectively engaging patients and their families to improve systems of care
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Provide an overview of the Partnerships for Patients - National Priorities Partnership (PfP-NPP) public-private partnership and collaborative efforts underway to improve patient safety in alignment with the National Quality Strategy
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Generate action in organizations and communities nationwide
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Provide examples of families working collaboratively with hospital senior leadership to achieve results
3. Free Webcast Available of ACO Learning Session with Dr. Berwick - November 17-18 – Baltimore, MD
Later this week, to aid organizations, CMS is offering the third and final
of 2011 on November 17-18 in Baltimore.
The ACO Accelerated Development Learning Sessions are free sessions designed to teach providers interested in becoming ACOs what steps they can take to improve care delivery and how to develop an ation plan for moving toward providing better coordinated care. The content at each ACO Learning Sesion is repretitive and is not part of an ongoing series. Portions of the ADLS program will be available to the public via free live webcast at www.cms.gov/live.
For more information about these wecasts and the ADLS visit the ADLS web site at: https://acoregister.rti.org/
4. New Brief and White Paper from AHRQ: Improving PCMH Evidence and Evaluations
AHRQ has produced a decisionmaker brief and white paper that offer suggestions on how to improve the quality of current PCMH evidence and evaluations. The decision-maker brief, “Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home,” offers a concise description for decision makers of why and how to commission effective evaluations of medical home demonstrations. It provides insights into what outcomes to assess, why to include control practices, and why not accounting for clustering can doom an evaluation.
The white paper, “Building the Evidence Base for the Medical Home: What Sample and Sample Size Do Studies Need?” provides information about how to determine the effect sizes a given study can expect to detect, identifies the number of patients and practices required to detect policy-relevant, achievable effects, and demonstrates how evaluators can select the outcomes and types of patients included in analyses to improve a study’s ability to detect true effects.
Both resources can be found on AHRQ’s PCMH website, pcmh.ahrq.gov or by using the following links:
Power brief (Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home)
Power paper (Building the Evidence Base for the Medical Home: What Sample and Sample Size Do Studies Need?)
Other white papers and decisionmaker briefs available on the website address topics such as care coordination, the medical neighborhood, health IT, and patient engagement. Upcoming resources include a review of the current evidence on the medical home and a guide to organizations who provide practice facilitation. Additionally, the website contains a searchable database of approximately 1,000 articles relating to the PCMH that is updated several times a year.
5. Improving the Medical Home Through the Use of HIT - A Fact Sheet for Health Care Professionals
The National Center for Medical Home Implementation (NCMHI) is pleased to announce the availability of this new resource for health care professionals. This fact sheet, developed in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Child Health Informatics Center (CHIC), demonstrates the relationship between HIT and medical home and provides information, tools, and resources related to implementing them in practice. The fact sheet can be found on the Health Information Technology (HIT) page of the NCMHI Web site or click here to access the fact sheet directly.
Upcoming Conferences and
Webinars
1. Engagement and Innovations: Lessons regarding Community Transformation from New Jerseys
Presenters:
Kevin Maher, RN, MHA, Director of Clinical Innovations, Horizon HealthCare Innovations
Robert Eidus, MD, Cranford Family Practice
Hear from our two speakers as they discuss the how community collaboration, partnerships and engagement are promoting patient-centered medical home and continuous transformation in care delivery in New Jersey.
Kevin Maher, Director Clinical Innovation from Horizon Healthcare Innovation, a subsidiary of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey whose mission is to change and improve the health care system. Mr. Maher is responsible for the creation and launch of the various pilots with our providers, consumers and hospital.
Dr. Bob Eidus, a board certified family physician. His practice, Cranford Family Practice was one of 35 practices which participated in the TransforMed national demonstration project. It has also received NCQA recognition in Patient-Centered Medical Home and Diabetes. He speaks frequently on the topics of practice transformation and the Medical Home.
Click HERE for the archived presentation.
2. 2012 Accountable Care and Health IT Strategies Summit January 17-19, 2012, Intercontinental, Doral, Miami, Florida
The 2012 Accountable Care and Health IT Strategies Summit delivers critical insights into the information powered health system that will lay the foundations for clinical improvement, operational and financial efficiencies in Era of Accountable Care.
Healthcare providers, payers and ACO Pilots are rapidly determining their organization's strategy to succeed in an Accountable Care setting, a critical part of establishing a successful ACO is to plan and implement the IT systems that will enable the improved workflow, care coordination and support new incentive and payment models.
The 2012 Accountable Care and Health IT Strategies Summit is produced in close collaboration with Co-Sponsors The Care Continuum Alliance, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) and The Advisory Board Company.
Click HERE to learn more.
3. American College of Physicians Free Webinar on Medical Home Builder 2.0
Dates
Thursday, November 17, 2011; 6:30 pm, ET
Tuesday, November 29, 2011; 5:00 pm, ET
Thursday, December 15, 2011; 8:00 am, ET
Thursday, December 29, 2011; 7:00 pm, ET
Do you want to see how the Medical Home Builder works? Participate in a free, 30 minute live/interactive demonstration webinar and learn how to improve patient care and office efficiency!
Medical Home Builder 2.0 is an online practice support tool from the American College of Physicians (ACP) that provides primary care practices with an affordable, self-paced means to improve office operations, quality, and/or transition to a Patient-Centered Medical Home model. Medical Home Builder 2.0 features 13 modules, an online community and hundreds of online resources in a virtual library.
The newly updated version features new elements and functions to help clinicians improve patient care, office efficiency, and move toward PCMH recognition and accreditation. Included in Medical Home Builder 2.0 are expanded patient-centered care modules, a new scoring methodology, module-specific resource libraries and a searchable master resource library.
Additionally, a robust reporting function is particularly suited for large practices, groups, institutions and regional programs.
Sign up today and see how Medical Home Builder 2.0 can help you provide quality patient care and achieve a well-managed practice.
To register, visit the ACP web site at: http://www.acponline.org/running_practice/pcmh/help.htm or contact Ayanna Wells at awells@acponline.org
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A. Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstration
The primary objective of the Center for Multi-Stakeholder Demonstrations (CMD) is to serve as a clearing house for information on Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) pilot efforts around the country that include multiple private sector payers. The CMD will aim to recruit payers to devote covered lives to demonstration projects, while assisting them with demonstrations efforts through sharing of lessons learned and best practices from existing PCMH demonstrations. This will be accomplished by the CMD serving as an information exchange where Plans can discuss innovative reimbursement models to test in pilots as well as program design. The CMD will also be responsible for working with local convening entities to support regional pilots.
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Care Coordination Taskforce -The Care Coordination Taskforce has reconvened their calls and will be discussing future activities and strategies for addressing care coordination in the PCMH. They have received input from PCPCC stakeholders toward the development of an outline for a PCPCC publication on care coordination.
B. Center for Public Payer Implementation
CPPI is tasked with a very broad mandate encompassing over 50% of all payors in the US Healthcare System. Growing out of the work that the Collaborative had undertaken within the Medicaid environment the CPPI is charged with promoting the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) concept in all facets of the public payer system.
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Task Force on Education and Training - The Task Force is hosting a presentation by Dr. Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer, the President and Co-Founder of Primary Care Progress. The presntation is titled, Primary Care Progress: Engaging Trainees in the Transformation of Primary Care.
C. Center for Employer Engagement
The Center for Employer Engagement (CEE) promotes large and small employer interest in - and implementation of - the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model through educational resources, sharing employer best practices, implementation tools, and evaluation measures to demonstrate the value of this strategy and build market demand. They are hosting a webinar with, Cathy Baase, Dow Chemical Company, on Wednesday, December 14th at 3 p.m. ET.
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Task Force on Behavioral Health - This Taskforce is collecting best practices and behavioral health screening tools for use in primary care. They are looking for resources to publish a more comprehensive guide to Behavioral Health in PCMH and possibly an on-line database of resources.
D. Center for eHealth
On Wednesday, September 22nd, from 1:00-2:30pm ET, the Center for eHealth co-hosted a presentation with the Center for Public Payer Initiatives entitled: “Health Information Technology and the Indian Health Service ‘Improving Patient Care’ Program." This presentation is available for viewing on the PCPCC web site at: www.pcpcc.net/media
E. Center for Consumer Engagement
The primary objective of the Center for Consumer Engagement (CCE) is to ensure the medical home model is truly patient-centered by: facilitating consumer involvement and leadership in the design and evaluation of the PCMH, strengthening the consumer voice in the PCPCC, and by developing a set of "Best Practices" for consumer engagement in PCMH. The CCE partners with large consumer groups to capitalize on their visibility and existing efforts.
F. Center for Accountable Care (CAC)
The CAC works to ensure that the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) serves as the foundation for all ACO’s, and that ACO’s thrive as a result of strong robust PCMH support. The center is tasked with strengthening the collaboration between the PCPCC and evolving ACO stakeholders, as well as espousing strategies and positions that strengthen the notion of a strong PCMH foundation for evolving ACO guidelines and practices. Their last call was held on Monday, November 14th at 2 pm ET.
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