The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) will host an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) webinar July 8 on engaging primary care practices in quality improvement. Primary care can be considered the cornerstone of effective and efficient health care that meets the needs of patients, families, and communities. New resources authored by AHRQ and Mathematica Policy Research offer strategies to help build and sustain practices’ ability to continuously and effectively engage in quality improvement (QI) activities.
Implicit or unconscious assumptions and biases challenge collaborative work within interprofessional teams and affect health equity for the population. Although pattern recognition is used by all healthcare professionals in their work, the results of assumptions made on the basis of past experience can be a hazard to our patients' health. Women can be undertreated for heart disease, wealthy people may not be tested for HIV or people of certain cultures may be undertreated for pain.
On April 16, 2015, President Obama signed into law sweeping changes to the way original Medicare pays physicians. The new law repeals the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and replaces it with a new payment system including incentives for risk-bearing physician organizations. The new law, taken together with Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell's value initiative, provides new oppportunities for risk-bearing physician organizations. Join us to learn more about how this law changes physician payment in original Medicare.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will host a webinar May 18 to discuss current barriers to implementing shared decision making from both the patient and provider perspectives and strategies for overcoming these barriers.
Presenter:
Richard Ries, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Addictions Division
University of Washington Medicine and Harborview Medical Center
Webinar Description:
This webinar focuses on practical issue of brief screening, assessment, intervention, and pharmacotherapy for substance use disorders that can be undertaken in the primary care setting.
This webinar will be recorded and archived to www.pcss-o.org within 2 weeks of the live training.
1. State the value of measuring and evaluating care coordination activities within the context of improved patient experience, improved health of populations, and decreased cost of health care.
2. Identify tools and strategies to facilitate the measurement of pediatric care coordination activities.
3. Provide examples of how practices are utilizing care coordination performance metrics and methodologies to capture value for patients and families.
Far from the epicenter of Washington, DC, and the federal government’s efforts to expand health insurance coverage and usher in health care delivery and payment reform, states are moving ahead with amazing innovations of their own these days. Medicaid waivers, which offer states running room to experiment with public dollars, are one big reason. And one big example of what’s possible is unfolding in Oregon.
Registration is now open for this webinar about new measures of the quality of care coordination for children with medical complexity. There is no cost, but space is limited.
The webinar will feature:
Rita Mangione-Smith, M.D., of Seattle Children’s Research Institute;
David Bergman of Stanford (CMMI grantee); and
Valerie Harder of the National Improvement Partnership Network (CHIPRA Quality Demonstration grantee collaborator).
There will also be time for questions and answers.
Last month, Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, launched the Health Care Value Hub, a networking and resource center for advocates working for lower costs and better value in health care. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Health Care Value Hub will support and connect consumer advocates across the United States, providing comprehensive, research-based information and tools to help them advocate for policies that reduce health care costs and increase quality.
