Primary Care Measurement: What's Working and What's Not

In the webinar “Primary Care Measurement: What’s Working and What’s Not” as Rebecca Etz, PhD, Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Population Health and Co-Director, The Larry A. Green Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, Vice President, Clinical Policy, American College of Physicians, discuss the pros and cons of the person-centered primary care measure and how it can be utilized to assess the aspects of care thought to represent high-value primary care by patients, clinicians, and payers.

We will also hear from Jay Lee, MD, Director of Primary Care, CareMore and Janice Tufte, Patient Advisor, Hassanah Consulting, who will discuss what person-centered primary care measure means for physicians and from the patient prospective.

Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, MHA, MRCP(London), FACP

Vice President, Clinical Policy and Center for Evidence Reviews, American College of Physicians
Dr. Qaseem is trained as a physician, health economist, methodologist, clinical epidemiologist, business administrator, and a leader. He is responsible for leading the American College of Physicians' evidence-based medicine and clinical practice guidelines program, oldest program in the United States, including writing of the clinical guidelines, and overseeing the College’s Clinical Guidelines Committee. Dr. Qaseem also leads ACP's performance measurement program and is responsible for ACP’s Performance Measurement Committee. He directs ACP’s high value care Initiative evaluating and publishing the benefits, harms, and costs of various overused, misused, and underused diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions. Dr. Qaseem’s work includes development and implementation of ACP’s quality improvement and educational programs. Dr. read more

Janice Tufte

Janice Tufte was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She has also resided in Wisconsin, Minnesota, California, Vermont, and New Mexico. She attended college in Washington, Minnesota, and California with a focus on sociology and special education. Tufte has a passion for connecting communities, organizations and or individuals to one other. She is an expert at taking learned best practices and information gained from one organization or institution and sharing that important knowledge with others at diverse levels: Patient to C Suite. She calls this practice of connecting the dots “pollination.” She currently presents as an individual to college classes, on panels and at medical conferences. read more

Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Director of Primary Care, CareMore Health
Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is Director of Primary Care at CareMore Health, where he leads the development and implementation of a next-generation primary care model across all markets and continues to serve his medically and socially complex panel of patients in Long Beach, CA. read more

Rebecca Etz, PhD

Co-Director, Larry A. Green Center
Rebecca Etz, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist at Virginia Commonwealth University with expertise in qualitative research methods and design, primary care measures, practice transformation, and engaging stakeholders. She has spent the last ten years dedicated to learning the heart and soul of primary care. Her career has been shaped by iterative research cycles that expose and reflect on the tacit norms and principles of primary care in which clinicians, thought leaders, and patients are equally invested. read more
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