Addiction provider organizations increasingly provide onsite primary care to the people they serve through partnerships with community health centers or by expanding their in-house capacity. This recent trend is a direct result of national health reform’s emphasis on improving healthcare coordination. Also, the integration of addiction treatment and primary care can help address often interrelated physical illnesses and substance abuse by ensuring higher quality care.
Sponsored by the PCPCC's Behavioral Health Special Interest Group, this webinar will feature The Massachusetts Patient Centered Medical Home's Behavioral Health Integration Toolkit, which is used by practices to integrate behavioral health into the primary care setting. Participants will learn about the processes necessary to develop an integrated care model, and how to use the online tools developed by experts in Massachusetts.
Care coordination is a focal point of health care delivery reform initiatives across the country, yet there has been limited progress in measuring it, particularly for children and between primary medical care and community service providers. How can states and providers begin to measure this crucial element of care? Join speakers from CMS, NASHP, and two states (Oklahoma and Minnesota) that participated in the Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) III Initiative for a national webcast to address this question.
Follow The Patient Journey: Implementing Excellence in Asthma Care to better understand the progression of allergic diseases beginning with eczema in infancy to asthma in childhood and adolescence. Discover diagnostic and treatment pathways that lead to enhanced patient care and improved asthma control.
Upon completion of this program, the participant will be better able to:
This webinar will describe innovations that can increase physician’s work-life satisfaction, attract future physicians to the field, and improve the quality of patient care authors. In research sponsored by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation and published in the Annals of Family Medicine investigators sought to identify challenges facing primary care practices and innovations that could facilitate and restore joy in practice.
Multi-payer payment reform. New delivery models. Patient-centered, value-based care. Significant investment--including funding to states through CMS's State Innovations Models initiative (SIM)—has gone toward transforming care delivery. State officials and key stakeholders seeking to transform health care delivery are invited to learn about a vision for infrastructure necessary to enable this transformation.
This webinar, sponsored by PCPCC's Outcomes & Evaluation Stakeholder Center, will focus on "Lessons Learned from Leading Primary Care Practice Facilitation Programs" and feature leading experts in primary care facilitation: David Meyers, MD, Director, Center for Primary Care, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Ann Lefebvre MSW, CPHQ, Associate Director, North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program; and Jenney Samuelson MS, MCHES, Assistant Director, Vermont Blueprint for Health, Department of Vermont Health Access.
Of the 22 million uninsured expected to gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act in 2014, more than 4 million projected to take-up coverage will have mental health or substance use disorders. On this webinar, after a brief overview of new data made available by SAMHSA, state and local officials and other experts will talk about how states are preparing to ensure service access for these individuals newly covered through Medicaid and Health Insurance Exchanges. The panelists will answer questions about how this data will help to inform state decisions on issues like:
A Team Model for Integrating Self-management Support Into Patient Visits: Skills, EHR Applications, and Training
Speakers: Berdi Safford, MD, and Larry Mauksch, M.ED
July 24, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. Central
Overview:
Team based care is an effective model for implementing patient self-management support within a practice. In this session you hear about practical steps and tools that are effective when utilized by primary care teams to engage patients in improving and managing their health.
Engaging patients in effectively manage their health is essential to improving patient health outcomes. However, every practice faces those patients who require more support and training than can be provided in an office visit. Health coaches can play an important role in improving health outcomes for high risk patients.
