As patient-centered medical homes continue to offer the promise of improved patient outcomes, innovators are looking for better ways to leverage the medical neighborhood and coordinate care across settings. During this webinar, participants will hear from leading experts about managing chronically ill populations, including the frail elderly, and engage in discussions about the role of home health care in partnership with the PCMH.
As the incredible work of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) national Beacon Community Program wraps up this fall, we look forward to welcoming Janhavi Kirtane from the ONC, and representatives from Beacon communities around the country to share their lessons learned and how their achievements will shape future directions and community collaborations.
Please join us on September 17 at 3:00 pm EDT for the release of Implementing Physician Payment Reform: Lessons from Community Health Plans, ACHP’s new report on member organizations’ successful alternatives to fee-for-service payment models. ACHP members are community-based plans that are national leaders in health care quality, and annually rank among the top-performing health plans in the nation.
The report highlights payment reforms currently in place at seven ACHP member organizations:
· Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan (Albany, New York)
Primary care in the U.S. is already stretched thin, and with millions of Americans set to gain health care coverage in 2014 and beyond, there is growing urgency to strengthen the workforce to ensure access for all. The current momentum behind transforming health care delivery and payment models could also provide a natural opportunity to address critical workforce challenges.
This webinar will explore the dynamics behind workforce shortages as well as strategies for increasing primary care capacity. Speakers will discuss the following:
Join the Alliance for Health Reform for a live webinar that will give you the latest on a flurry of state legislation to allow nurse practitioners and other medical providers to do more to care for patients.
More than 25 million people are expected to gain insurance coverage through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, increasing the demand for care. At the same time, the Association of American Medical Colleges has projected a shortage of 90,000 physicians over the next ten years.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has identified a gap in health care and public health practitioners’ knowledge of health information technology (IT) using multiple mechanisms, including the findings of the continuing education (CE) planning group. This series of Webinars is designed to increase practitioners’ ability to improve health care decision making, support patient-centered care, and improve the quality and safety of care through the use of health IT.
There is a growing need to improve health care, especially at the interface between general medicine and mental health and substance abuse. Better integration of the artificial separation between physical health and mental health is the embodiment of the Triple Aim. Focusing on improving health behaviors, this webinar will describe what integrated care is at the primary care level and how it can improve Triple Aim outcomes at the clinic and system levels.
As states nationwide explore Medicaid health homes as a viable solution to addressing the needs of individuals with multiple chronic conditions, there are many lessons to be learned from Missouri, one of the first states to implement Medicaid health homes and the first state to implement health homes for populations with serious mental illness. What can we learn from Missouri’s first year of implementation, where they enrolled 17,000 individuals? How has this model of integration and health delivery improved coordination and service delivery?
