Primary care has been grasping for a voice in the conversation. It’s silenced in medical schools. It’s ostracized in society. It’s undervalued by the financial powers that be and our system of health care payment. What does primary care WANT to say? What does primary care NEED to say at this historic moment? Primary care needs a voice – it needs your voice. What should the media, the health care system, payers, Congress, medical educators know about the true value of primary care?
To: Primary Care Clinicians and AdministratorsFrom: The MGH Stoeckle Center for Primary Care InnovationSubject: We need your ideas about rapid testing solutions for primary care! What more would you like to be able to do in your primary care practice that you can’t do today? We would like your help in defining unmet clinical needs in primary care that could benefit from “point-of-care” (POC) technologies. To capture your ideas and opinions, we have created a brief survey to help us prioritize and meet those clinical needs.
You're Invited: Discover the Benefits of Shared Doctors' Visit Notes Attend the OpenNotes Public Meeting or Watch the Live Webcast on October 11OpenNotes, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported initiative, will hold a public meeting on October 11, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Patients at the Crossroads SymposiumOrganized by Samueli InstituteReconciling Patient-Centered Care, Evidence-Based Practice and Integrated Medicine Location:Hilton Old Town AlexandriaAlexandria, VirginiaNov 8—9, 2012Register today at www.SamueliInstitute.org/crossroadsEarly registration discount ends October 15, 2012Description:Engage in rich, solutions-based dialogue with key stakeholders from civilian, veterans and military settings including administrators, clinicians, patients, families, researchers and thought leaders.
Breaking Down Silos of Care: Integration of Social Support Services with Health Care DeliveryMany patients with complex chronic illnesses and/or functional impairments face not only managing the medical care necessitated by their conditions, but also finding ways to access supportive services that help them live independently in their homes and communities. Access to supportive services can be difficult for anyone with complex conditions, and social and economic patient characteristics can complicate the task.
Attend this webinar to learn more about NASHP’s new Multi-Payer Medical Home Learning Collaborative, supported by The Commonwealth Fund. This webinar will discuss activities and goals for the learning collaborative, and offer an opportunity for states to ask questions about the RFA or the application process. This learning collaborative will support up to four states seeking to implement a multi-payer medical home initiative with 18 months of individual and group technical assistance. All states interested should submit an application by October 31, 2012.
Manhasset, N.Y.-based Beacon Health Partners, an independent physician association made up of 90 independent physician practices throughout New York, began moving toward forming an ACO in 2010, shortly after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act first passed. The IPA was officially added as a Medicare Shared Savings accountable care organization in July of this year. This month, Beacon took another step to offer patients the most coordinated, dedicated care possible — it began the process to turn 60 of its independent physician offices into patient-centered medical homes.
Check out these health system vital signs: Fewer hospital admissions. Emergency room visits down significantly. Better diabetes control and coronary artery disease management. By combining sophisticated data tracking, reducing payments for hospital admissions resulting in complications, and more intensively managing patients with chronic diseases, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota and health providers across the state are seeing results from an initiative launched three years ago.
