Primary Care Medical Home - Ambulatory Pre-Conference - 11/7Date: 11/7/2012Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Location:Doubletree Hotel Oak Brook1909 Spring Rd.Oak Brook, IL 60523United States The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources2012 Annual Ambulatory Care Conference Preconference SessionThe Joint Commission’s Primary Care Medical Home (PCMH) Certification OptionBack By Popular Demand!
WhyNotTheBest.org gives health care professionals and researchers a tool to benchmark health care performance and find resources to guide their improvement efforts.
Pilot program yields financial incentives in its first year
Maryland’s patient-centered medical home pilot program did better than expected in its first year.The three-year pilot program gives participating groups money and technical support upfront to help them make the administrative and organizational changes needed to operate as a patient-centered medical home.Groups can get additional incentives if their patients’ health care costs are below the anticipated expense.
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.
