National Primary Care Week (NPCW) is an annual event to highlight primary care’s indispensable role in our health care system. NPCW brings together health care professionals and students from all disciplines to champion new models and approaches within primary care and to engage others in celebrating primary care. In 2015, NPCW is Oct. 5-9, however PCP will celebrate all month and we encourage you to do so as well.
Dr. Karen Feinstein, CEO and president of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, will anchor a live virtual event that will explore how consumer activation can be an engine for health and healthcare improvement across a range of communities. How can you innovate to inspire consumers to become change agents? How can individual consumer empowerment turn into systemic improvement? And tune in for when Dr.
Although quality improvement (QI) initiatives have helped to improve health care outcomes and safety in recent years, many faculty members feel ill-equipped to teach improvement skills to learners.
In this webinar, Dr. Linda Headrick and Dr. Les Hall will summarize a decade of experience in teaching QI to interprofessional health professions learners at the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo).
Join a PCPCC webinar to hear Mark McClellan of the Brookings Institution discuss the important role primary care leadership plays in health care transformation, including physician-led ACOs and other payment reform initiatives.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has just posted a prospectus and announced an informational call for the new Collaborative program – Optimize Primary Care Teams to Meet Patients’ Medical AND Behavioral Needs.
Have you been poring over some patient survey or patient experience data lately? Chances are good you have. How did you make sense of what you saw? What actions are you taking as a result of what you learned? Not sure? Unclear what to make of the information or what to do with it? You are not alone! In fact, as the ways to learn about how patients experience their care and their caregivers have grown, so has the confusion about how to interpret the data and how to make the best use of it.
Palliative care is one of the fastest growing areas in health care, with three times as many hospitals providing palliative services today as did just 15 years ago. Offering personalized, coordinated treatment to address the pain, symptoms and stress associated with serious illness, palliative care has been shown to reduce emergency department use and hospital re-admissions while improving quality of life and extending survival times. However, access to these services remains inconsistent across hospitals and even more limited in other care settings.
This monthly call is reserved for the e-Health Special Interest Group to discuss the latest news, activities, and upcoming learning opportunities and initiatives related to the topic of Health Information Technology.
Call Details
Date: First Tuesday of every month Time: Noon - 1:00pm ET Dial in: (712) 432-0900 Access Code: 868853#
