Presentation - The Future of Home HealthC Sam Smith
"Instead of it being described as home healthcare, in a few years the services performed by home health care agencies will simply be known as "modern healthcare".
-Dr. Steve Landers, VNA Health Group, New Jersey
Improving ruli district hospital's patient referral system, final, 4.12.11Wendy_Leonard
Presentation by team of MBA students from Ross School of Business at University of Michigan. Describes recommendations for improving the referral process for rural health centers to the district hospital in rural Rwanda.
The Paradigm Shift from Healthcare to Population HealthPractical Playbook
This document discusses the need to shift from a healthcare system focused on treatment of illness to a population health system focused on preventative care. It notes rising healthcare costs in the US and projections that Medicare and Medicaid will consume all tax revenue by 2050 without reforms. The document outlines Trinity Health's vision of building a "people-centered health system" through initiatives in population health management, care management, and addressing social determinants of health. It provides examples of Trinity Health's work in accountable care organizations, bundled payments, and community engagement initiatives.
Population Health Management PresentationCANorfolk
The document discusses population health management (PHM) and its role in supporting integrated care systems (ICS) in the UK. Key points:
- ICSs will be established everywhere by 2021 to integrate primary/specialist care, physical/mental health, and health/social care.
- PHM solutions will help ICSs understand health needs and match NHS services accordingly through data analysis.
- PHM aims to improve population health through proactive, data-driven care that prevents illness and reduces health inequalities.
The Structure of a 12-month Residency Program and Stories from Former Residen...CHC Connecticut
The goal of the Postdoctoral Psychology Residency program is to train the next generation of psychologists in the Patient Centered Medical Home model. Through weekly seminars, group and individual supervision and clinical work with diverse, underserved populations, residents will fine-tune assessment and therapy skills.
This FREE learning collaborative opportunity will provide health centers with the support, resources and structure to implement a Postdoctoral Clinical Psychology Residency program at their organization.
Engines of Success for U.S. Health Reform?
Eric B. Larson, MD, MPHVice President for Research, Group Health Executive Director, Group Health Research Institute
1) The Sudbury District Nurse Practitioner Clinics (SDNPC) are a group of NP-led primary care clinics in Sudbury, Ontario that aim to provide access to care for underserved populations.
2) The SDNPC consists of 3 clinics with a multidisciplinary team including 5.5 NPs, 2 part-time physicians, and other health professionals. They provide comprehensive primary care.
3) The SDNPC was established in 2007 in response to thousands of residents lacking access to primary care. It has shown successes in improving access to care and detecting previously undiagnosed health issues, with a 7% reduction in ER visits attributed to increased access.
Presentation - The Future of Home HealthC Sam Smith
"Instead of it being described as home healthcare, in a few years the services performed by home health care agencies will simply be known as "modern healthcare".
-Dr. Steve Landers, VNA Health Group, New Jersey
Improving ruli district hospital's patient referral system, final, 4.12.11Wendy_Leonard
Presentation by team of MBA students from Ross School of Business at University of Michigan. Describes recommendations for improving the referral process for rural health centers to the district hospital in rural Rwanda.
The Paradigm Shift from Healthcare to Population HealthPractical Playbook
This document discusses the need to shift from a healthcare system focused on treatment of illness to a population health system focused on preventative care. It notes rising healthcare costs in the US and projections that Medicare and Medicaid will consume all tax revenue by 2050 without reforms. The document outlines Trinity Health's vision of building a "people-centered health system" through initiatives in population health management, care management, and addressing social determinants of health. It provides examples of Trinity Health's work in accountable care organizations, bundled payments, and community engagement initiatives.
Population Health Management PresentationCANorfolk
The document discusses population health management (PHM) and its role in supporting integrated care systems (ICS) in the UK. Key points:
- ICSs will be established everywhere by 2021 to integrate primary/specialist care, physical/mental health, and health/social care.
- PHM solutions will help ICSs understand health needs and match NHS services accordingly through data analysis.
- PHM aims to improve population health through proactive, data-driven care that prevents illness and reduces health inequalities.
The Structure of a 12-month Residency Program and Stories from Former Residen...CHC Connecticut
The goal of the Postdoctoral Psychology Residency program is to train the next generation of psychologists in the Patient Centered Medical Home model. Through weekly seminars, group and individual supervision and clinical work with diverse, underserved populations, residents will fine-tune assessment and therapy skills.
This FREE learning collaborative opportunity will provide health centers with the support, resources and structure to implement a Postdoctoral Clinical Psychology Residency program at their organization.
Engines of Success for U.S. Health Reform?
Eric B. Larson, MD, MPHVice President for Research, Group Health Executive Director, Group Health Research Institute
1) The Sudbury District Nurse Practitioner Clinics (SDNPC) are a group of NP-led primary care clinics in Sudbury, Ontario that aim to provide access to care for underserved populations.
2) The SDNPC consists of 3 clinics with a multidisciplinary team including 5.5 NPs, 2 part-time physicians, and other health professionals. They provide comprehensive primary care.
3) The SDNPC was established in 2007 in response to thousands of residents lacking access to primary care. It has shown successes in improving access to care and detecting previously undiagnosed health issues, with a 7% reduction in ER visits attributed to increased access.
This document discusses quality of care in healthcare. It defines quality of care according to the WHO as services that improve desired health outcomes. The aims of quality care are identified as safe, effective, timely, efficient and equitable care. Key indicators of quality are also outlined, such as medication errors, bed sores, and urinary tract infections. Improving quality can provide patient-centered care and increase access. Challenges include lack of consent, disrespectful care, and discrimination. The conclusion advocates assessing risks, reporting incidents, engaging in prevention, and providing education to enhance quality of care.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home in the Transformation From Healthcare to He...Paul Grundy
Surgeon General of the Navy VADM Matthew L. Nathan, MC USN
Fortunately, we have a way to address this crisis—the
Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model launched at Naval Hospital Pensacola and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland (formerly the National Naval Medical Center) in 2008. It is now being implemented throughout the Military Health System (MHS) and carries great promise. It provides the clinical framework we need to meet our strategic objectives in terms of quality of care, impact on costs, population health, and readiness. One of the most significant benefits of the team-based, collaborative approach is that it allows us to embed within a primary care environment the psychologists, nutritionists, tobacco cessation specialists, mind-body medicine therapists, and health educators our patients need in order to develop and maintain mindful, healthy behaviors—along with the “mental armor,” our active duty military personnel need to increase their operational effectiveness and their resiliency in bouncing back from stressful situations. As we move ahead with this more comprehensive approach to health, we can begin to better address so many of our patients for whom we can find no specific reason for pain and discomfort. The PCMH model also provides a positive impact on our costs. Early data reporting from the PCMH clinics at Bethesda show reduced visits to the emergency room, lowered pharmacy costs, and significant per beneficiary per year savings and improved Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set metrics, access, and patient satisfaction and trust. These positive impacts on the bottom line can be applied directly to improved costs or toward the reallocation of resources from reimbursing those who are sick to the population health-based programs that can make and keep our patients healthy.More significant, however, the PCMH environment allows us to go beyond mere collaboration and to a much more proactive approach to managing our patient populations. It is within the context of the medical home that we can begin to surround our patients with the tools and resources they need to move them from health care to health.
Krames Patient Education is the only choice for enterprise-wide patient education. In this presentation, practices will learn who Krames Patient Education is and What we can do for you.
We will review Patient-Centered Care and Patient Education; The Case for a Patient Education Investment, The Krames Differencet; Return on Investment; and Krames Solutions.
The document summarizes a presentation by Paul Grundy on extracting value from the patient centered medical home model. It discusses:
1) How the patient centered medical home model creates partnerships across the healthcare system to drive primary care redesign, offer population health management, and move away from an episodic, fee-for-service model.
2) Studies that show improvements in costs, quality, access, and utilization from implementing the patient centered medical home model, including reduced hospital and ER use.
3) How payment models are shifting towards value-based purchasing tied to quality, utilization, and patient satisfaction outcomes rather than volume of services.
This document outlines research priorities related to improving health systems and community care. It identifies priorities such as exploring how other jurisdictions have organized health systems to improve outcomes and reduce costs, ensuring the needs of vulnerable populations are met, and redesigning mental health and addiction services to improve access and outcomes. Other priorities include exploring models of integrated health and social services, enhancing care transitions between settings and sectors, developing housing support options, expanding self-management support, and redesigning community care and payment systems to improve care coordination and reduce system utilization.
Chronic diseases account for $93 billion annually in Canada to manage. Despite this spending, 12% of Canadians report being unsatisfied with healthcare quality, posing a challenge for policymakers. The document proposes several projects to identify effective interventions for improving primary care practices and outcomes for patients with chronic conditions. It will analyze policies across Canadian provinces to better integrate health, social, and community services and identify best practices. It will also evaluate tools to screen for social determinants of health and characterize high healthcare users.
Leanne Wells, Chief Executive Officer, Consumers Health Forum of Australia, gave the Ian Webster Health for All Oration to the annual forum of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity on 13 August 2015.
National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence. Plenary talk Paul Grundy
explaining how the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) platform for healthcare deliver is more likely to support domestic violence prevention and creat a safer environment than the FFS episode of care system we are in now. The medical Home is a home for the data where the all the data goes and is held accountable this idea was first articulated by Dr. Calvin C.J. Sia, a Honolulu-based pediatrician in 1967.
This concept of the medical home was integrated with Ed Wagners Chronic disease Model and Thomas Bodenheimer Kevin Grumbach advanced/proactive primary care at the request of the Patient Centered Primary care Collaborative into a set of principles Know as the Joint principles of the Patient centered medical home.
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH), is a team based health care delivery set of principles led by a physician that provides comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with the goal of obtaining maximized health outcomes. It is "an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults" The provision PCMH medical homes allow better access to health care, increase satisfaction with care, and improve health. Joint principles that define a PCMH have been established through the cohesive efforts of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American College of Physicians (ACP), and American Osteopathic Association (AOA).[10] Care coordination is an essential component of the PCMH. Care coordination requires additional resources such as health information technology, and appropriately trained staff to provide coordinated care through team-based models. Additionally, payment models that compensate PCMHs for their effort devoted to care coordination activities and patient-centered care management that fall outside the face-to-face patient encounter may help encourage coordination.
This document provides a summary of evidence on the impact of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) and primary care innovations on cost and quality from 2013-2014. It finds that PCMH interventions are associated with modest improvements in quality of care and reductions in utilization and costs. It also discusses challenges in evaluating PCMHs and outlines opportunities to further integrate primary care with other specialties and engage consumers. The future of the PCMH relies on continued financial support, training interprofessional teams, harnessing technology, and partnering with patients and communities.
The document discusses AltaMed's Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model and its Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).
AltaMed uses a team-based care coordination approach in its PCMH model, with teams including nurses, health coaches, behavioral health specialists, pharmacists and others supporting primary care providers. For its PACE program, AltaMed provides comprehensive medical and social services to elderly patients to allow them to remain in their communities. Data shows AltaMed's PACE program achieves lower costs, utilization and mortality compared to other models through its integrated care approach.
The document discusses the Andersen Model of health care access. The model conceptualizes access as being determined by population characteristics (contextual and individual factors) that predispose people to use services or enable/impede their use. These include demographic, social, health beliefs, and enabling resources factors. The model also considers people's need (perceived and evaluated by professionals) and how this influences health behaviors and outcomes. It provides a framework for examining equitable access to care based on need rather than social characteristics or enabling resources.
The document discusses challenges with access to primary healthcare in India, particularly in rural areas. It notes a lack of medical infrastructure and insufficient investments have led to high out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Other challenges include underutilization of existing resources, inadequate healthcare workforce numbers, and pressure on rural infrastructure from population growth. Solutions proposed include expanding government health insurance, improving primary healthcare centers, and public-private partnerships to increase coverage and efficiency.
This document summarizes a study evaluating the implementation of an integrated care policy called Partners in Recovery (PIR) for people with severe and complex mental illness in Western Sydney, Australia. PIR aims to improve coordination of clinical and other support services for these individuals. The study is prospectively evaluating PIR's impact on individual recovery outcomes, service delivery processes, and system integration over three years. Preliminary findings after the first year will describe any indications of improved system integration found so far and factors facilitating or impeding the integration process. The study setting presents challenges as the target population and their needs were previously unknown, requiring discovery during implementation. However, this practice-based enactment also allows for positive innovation and regional variation in services.
June 27/2017 - SPOR-PIHCI Network presentations from the pre-CAHSPR conference day in Toronto, Ontario
Sharing Practical Advances in Research Knowledge-
Translating Findings to Action from PIHCIN Research
Electronic health records have limitations for supporting effective population health management and care coordination required by health homes. While EHRs are designed for documenting care within provider systems, health homes require sophisticated technology to perform functions like comprehensive care planning, collecting a wide range of health data, and supporting continuous care workflows across multiple provider systems. Unlike EHRs, health management systems can enroll and track populations, establish networks, coordinate referrals, perform utilization review, and monitor quality/outcomes on a larger scale.
Four Strategies for Compassionate, Complete Behavioral HealthcareKarl Michelfelder
This document discusses strategies for improving behavioral healthcare. It advocates for integrating behavioral and physical healthcare to provide more holistic care for patients' overall needs. Barriers between primary and behavioral care need to be bridged to close gaps in patient care. An electronic health record can help providers treat all of a patient's needs by creating a single, integrated care record to improve information sharing between providers.
Patient Engagement Presentation - MPN Network Forum April 18, 2017Alexandra Enns
April 18, 2017
In April we held a Network Forum on engaging policymakers and patients/public effectively and appropriately. We would like to give a warm thanks to both Carolyn Shimmin, Patient Engagement expert of CHI's Knowledge Translation team, and Marcia Thomson, Assistant Deputy Minister of Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living for their presentations. Below you can see Carolyn's presentation - to see more of her work on patient engagement and to learn more about knowledge translation at CHI, please check out the blog Knowledge Nudge here. If you would like more information, helpful tools or advice about patient/public engagement in research, please contact Carolyn Shimmin at cshimmin@exchange.hsc.mb.ca
Patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) are intended to actively provide effective care by physician-led teams, Where patients take a leading role and responsibility. Objective: To determine whether the Walter Reed PCMH has reduced costs while at least maintaining if not improving access to and quality of care, and to determine
whether access, quality, and cost impacts differ by chronic condition status. Design, setting, and patients: This study
conducted a retrospective analysis using a patient-level utilization database to determine the impact of the Walter Reed PCMH on utilization and cost metrics, and a survey of enrollees in the Walter Reed PCMH to address access to care and quality of care. Outcome measures: Inpatient and outpatient utilization, per member per quarter costs, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set metrics, and composite measures for access, patient satisfaction, provider communication, and customer service are included. Results: Costs were 11% lower for those with chronic conditions compared to 7% lower for those without. Since treating patients with chronic conditions is 4 times more costly than treating patients without such conditions, the vast majority of dollar savings are attributable to chronic care.
NCQA_Future Vision for Medicare Value-Based Payments FinalTony Fanelli
This document discusses principles for achieving an optimal future state of quality measurement to support performance-based clinician payment under MACRA. It outlines five principles: 1) Every Medicare enrollee needs a dedicated and well-organized primary care team; 2) Measurement must be specified appropriately for each different unit of accountability; 3) Measurement should support rapid improvement and clinical decision making; 4) A core set of measures will let all stakeholders make comparisons across programs; 5) Quality measure results should be easy for consumers and payers to get and use. The document emphasizes the importance of coordinated, team-based primary care and having measures tailored to different payment and delivery models.
The Healthcare Quality Coalition wrote to CMS Administrator Berwick to provide feedback on the proposed Medicare Shared Savings Program and ACO regulations. The coalition supports the goals of improved care coordination and reduced costs through alternative payment models like ACOs. However, the letter outlines several concerns with the proposed rule, including that it requires reporting on too many quality measures in year one, does not adequately account for patient acuity, and may not provide sufficient incentives for high-quality organizations to participate. The coalition urges CMS to address these issues in the final rule.
This document discusses quality of care in healthcare. It defines quality of care according to the WHO as services that improve desired health outcomes. The aims of quality care are identified as safe, effective, timely, efficient and equitable care. Key indicators of quality are also outlined, such as medication errors, bed sores, and urinary tract infections. Improving quality can provide patient-centered care and increase access. Challenges include lack of consent, disrespectful care, and discrimination. The conclusion advocates assessing risks, reporting incidents, engaging in prevention, and providing education to enhance quality of care.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home in the Transformation From Healthcare to He...Paul Grundy
Surgeon General of the Navy VADM Matthew L. Nathan, MC USN
Fortunately, we have a way to address this crisis—the
Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model launched at Naval Hospital Pensacola and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland (formerly the National Naval Medical Center) in 2008. It is now being implemented throughout the Military Health System (MHS) and carries great promise. It provides the clinical framework we need to meet our strategic objectives in terms of quality of care, impact on costs, population health, and readiness. One of the most significant benefits of the team-based, collaborative approach is that it allows us to embed within a primary care environment the psychologists, nutritionists, tobacco cessation specialists, mind-body medicine therapists, and health educators our patients need in order to develop and maintain mindful, healthy behaviors—along with the “mental armor,” our active duty military personnel need to increase their operational effectiveness and their resiliency in bouncing back from stressful situations. As we move ahead with this more comprehensive approach to health, we can begin to better address so many of our patients for whom we can find no specific reason for pain and discomfort. The PCMH model also provides a positive impact on our costs. Early data reporting from the PCMH clinics at Bethesda show reduced visits to the emergency room, lowered pharmacy costs, and significant per beneficiary per year savings and improved Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set metrics, access, and patient satisfaction and trust. These positive impacts on the bottom line can be applied directly to improved costs or toward the reallocation of resources from reimbursing those who are sick to the population health-based programs that can make and keep our patients healthy.More significant, however, the PCMH environment allows us to go beyond mere collaboration and to a much more proactive approach to managing our patient populations. It is within the context of the medical home that we can begin to surround our patients with the tools and resources they need to move them from health care to health.
Krames Patient Education is the only choice for enterprise-wide patient education. In this presentation, practices will learn who Krames Patient Education is and What we can do for you.
We will review Patient-Centered Care and Patient Education; The Case for a Patient Education Investment, The Krames Differencet; Return on Investment; and Krames Solutions.
The document summarizes a presentation by Paul Grundy on extracting value from the patient centered medical home model. It discusses:
1) How the patient centered medical home model creates partnerships across the healthcare system to drive primary care redesign, offer population health management, and move away from an episodic, fee-for-service model.
2) Studies that show improvements in costs, quality, access, and utilization from implementing the patient centered medical home model, including reduced hospital and ER use.
3) How payment models are shifting towards value-based purchasing tied to quality, utilization, and patient satisfaction outcomes rather than volume of services.
This document outlines research priorities related to improving health systems and community care. It identifies priorities such as exploring how other jurisdictions have organized health systems to improve outcomes and reduce costs, ensuring the needs of vulnerable populations are met, and redesigning mental health and addiction services to improve access and outcomes. Other priorities include exploring models of integrated health and social services, enhancing care transitions between settings and sectors, developing housing support options, expanding self-management support, and redesigning community care and payment systems to improve care coordination and reduce system utilization.
Chronic diseases account for $93 billion annually in Canada to manage. Despite this spending, 12% of Canadians report being unsatisfied with healthcare quality, posing a challenge for policymakers. The document proposes several projects to identify effective interventions for improving primary care practices and outcomes for patients with chronic conditions. It will analyze policies across Canadian provinces to better integrate health, social, and community services and identify best practices. It will also evaluate tools to screen for social determinants of health and characterize high healthcare users.
Leanne Wells, Chief Executive Officer, Consumers Health Forum of Australia, gave the Ian Webster Health for All Oration to the annual forum of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity on 13 August 2015.
National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence. Plenary talk Paul Grundy
explaining how the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) platform for healthcare deliver is more likely to support domestic violence prevention and creat a safer environment than the FFS episode of care system we are in now. The medical Home is a home for the data where the all the data goes and is held accountable this idea was first articulated by Dr. Calvin C.J. Sia, a Honolulu-based pediatrician in 1967.
This concept of the medical home was integrated with Ed Wagners Chronic disease Model and Thomas Bodenheimer Kevin Grumbach advanced/proactive primary care at the request of the Patient Centered Primary care Collaborative into a set of principles Know as the Joint principles of the Patient centered medical home.
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH), is a team based health care delivery set of principles led by a physician that provides comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with the goal of obtaining maximized health outcomes. It is "an approach to providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults" The provision PCMH medical homes allow better access to health care, increase satisfaction with care, and improve health. Joint principles that define a PCMH have been established through the cohesive efforts of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American College of Physicians (ACP), and American Osteopathic Association (AOA).[10] Care coordination is an essential component of the PCMH. Care coordination requires additional resources such as health information technology, and appropriately trained staff to provide coordinated care through team-based models. Additionally, payment models that compensate PCMHs for their effort devoted to care coordination activities and patient-centered care management that fall outside the face-to-face patient encounter may help encourage coordination.
This document provides a summary of evidence on the impact of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) and primary care innovations on cost and quality from 2013-2014. It finds that PCMH interventions are associated with modest improvements in quality of care and reductions in utilization and costs. It also discusses challenges in evaluating PCMHs and outlines opportunities to further integrate primary care with other specialties and engage consumers. The future of the PCMH relies on continued financial support, training interprofessional teams, harnessing technology, and partnering with patients and communities.
The document discusses AltaMed's Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model and its Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).
AltaMed uses a team-based care coordination approach in its PCMH model, with teams including nurses, health coaches, behavioral health specialists, pharmacists and others supporting primary care providers. For its PACE program, AltaMed provides comprehensive medical and social services to elderly patients to allow them to remain in their communities. Data shows AltaMed's PACE program achieves lower costs, utilization and mortality compared to other models through its integrated care approach.
The document discusses the Andersen Model of health care access. The model conceptualizes access as being determined by population characteristics (contextual and individual factors) that predispose people to use services or enable/impede their use. These include demographic, social, health beliefs, and enabling resources factors. The model also considers people's need (perceived and evaluated by professionals) and how this influences health behaviors and outcomes. It provides a framework for examining equitable access to care based on need rather than social characteristics or enabling resources.
The document discusses challenges with access to primary healthcare in India, particularly in rural areas. It notes a lack of medical infrastructure and insufficient investments have led to high out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Other challenges include underutilization of existing resources, inadequate healthcare workforce numbers, and pressure on rural infrastructure from population growth. Solutions proposed include expanding government health insurance, improving primary healthcare centers, and public-private partnerships to increase coverage and efficiency.
This document summarizes a study evaluating the implementation of an integrated care policy called Partners in Recovery (PIR) for people with severe and complex mental illness in Western Sydney, Australia. PIR aims to improve coordination of clinical and other support services for these individuals. The study is prospectively evaluating PIR's impact on individual recovery outcomes, service delivery processes, and system integration over three years. Preliminary findings after the first year will describe any indications of improved system integration found so far and factors facilitating or impeding the integration process. The study setting presents challenges as the target population and their needs were previously unknown, requiring discovery during implementation. However, this practice-based enactment also allows for positive innovation and regional variation in services.
June 27/2017 - SPOR-PIHCI Network presentations from the pre-CAHSPR conference day in Toronto, Ontario
Sharing Practical Advances in Research Knowledge-
Translating Findings to Action from PIHCIN Research
Electronic health records have limitations for supporting effective population health management and care coordination required by health homes. While EHRs are designed for documenting care within provider systems, health homes require sophisticated technology to perform functions like comprehensive care planning, collecting a wide range of health data, and supporting continuous care workflows across multiple provider systems. Unlike EHRs, health management systems can enroll and track populations, establish networks, coordinate referrals, perform utilization review, and monitor quality/outcomes on a larger scale.
Four Strategies for Compassionate, Complete Behavioral HealthcareKarl Michelfelder
This document discusses strategies for improving behavioral healthcare. It advocates for integrating behavioral and physical healthcare to provide more holistic care for patients' overall needs. Barriers between primary and behavioral care need to be bridged to close gaps in patient care. An electronic health record can help providers treat all of a patient's needs by creating a single, integrated care record to improve information sharing between providers.
Patient Engagement Presentation - MPN Network Forum April 18, 2017Alexandra Enns
April 18, 2017
In April we held a Network Forum on engaging policymakers and patients/public effectively and appropriately. We would like to give a warm thanks to both Carolyn Shimmin, Patient Engagement expert of CHI's Knowledge Translation team, and Marcia Thomson, Assistant Deputy Minister of Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living for their presentations. Below you can see Carolyn's presentation - to see more of her work on patient engagement and to learn more about knowledge translation at CHI, please check out the blog Knowledge Nudge here. If you would like more information, helpful tools or advice about patient/public engagement in research, please contact Carolyn Shimmin at cshimmin@exchange.hsc.mb.ca
Patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) are intended to actively provide effective care by physician-led teams, Where patients take a leading role and responsibility. Objective: To determine whether the Walter Reed PCMH has reduced costs while at least maintaining if not improving access to and quality of care, and to determine
whether access, quality, and cost impacts differ by chronic condition status. Design, setting, and patients: This study
conducted a retrospective analysis using a patient-level utilization database to determine the impact of the Walter Reed PCMH on utilization and cost metrics, and a survey of enrollees in the Walter Reed PCMH to address access to care and quality of care. Outcome measures: Inpatient and outpatient utilization, per member per quarter costs, Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set metrics, and composite measures for access, patient satisfaction, provider communication, and customer service are included. Results: Costs were 11% lower for those with chronic conditions compared to 7% lower for those without. Since treating patients with chronic conditions is 4 times more costly than treating patients without such conditions, the vast majority of dollar savings are attributable to chronic care.
NCQA_Future Vision for Medicare Value-Based Payments FinalTony Fanelli
This document discusses principles for achieving an optimal future state of quality measurement to support performance-based clinician payment under MACRA. It outlines five principles: 1) Every Medicare enrollee needs a dedicated and well-organized primary care team; 2) Measurement must be specified appropriately for each different unit of accountability; 3) Measurement should support rapid improvement and clinical decision making; 4) A core set of measures will let all stakeholders make comparisons across programs; 5) Quality measure results should be easy for consumers and payers to get and use. The document emphasizes the importance of coordinated, team-based primary care and having measures tailored to different payment and delivery models.
The Healthcare Quality Coalition wrote to CMS Administrator Berwick to provide feedback on the proposed Medicare Shared Savings Program and ACO regulations. The coalition supports the goals of improved care coordination and reduced costs through alternative payment models like ACOs. However, the letter outlines several concerns with the proposed rule, including that it requires reporting on too many quality measures in year one, does not adequately account for patient acuity, and may not provide sufficient incentives for high-quality organizations to participate. The coalition urges CMS to address these issues in the final rule.
How Providers Can Reshape their Operations to Master Value-Based ReimbursementsCognizant
Healthcare providers must make sweeping system, process and operational changes to thrive under the inevitable move to value-based payments. Here are our recommendations on how to get started.
A New Payer Model for Medical Management ExecutionCognizant
To combat rising costs and inefficient use of resources, payers can streamline utilization management and optimize care management through medical management delivered as a service.
Business Strategies in Healthcare (1).pdfTEWMAGAZINE
The healthcare industry is a vast and complex ecosystem that provides medical services, manufactures medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, and develops healthcare technology. Given its critical role in society, the strategies businesses employ within this sector are very important.
These strategies determine the success of individual companies and impact the overall quality, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare. This article explores key business strategies in healthcare, focusing on innovation, patient-centric care, strategic partnerships, and technology integration.
White Paper - Building Your ACO and Healthcare IT’s RoleNextGen Healthcare
The tools needed to capture, organize, and share healthcare data are truly evolving at the speed of light. Patient Centered Medical Homes play a vital role in the path toward accountable care and technology, staff, and workflow transformation are necessary to achieve PCMH recognition. This transformation allows healthcare providers to deliver higher quality coordinated care by streamlining and rationalizing the patient experience.
The document discusses challenges that health systems face in managing costs under new bundled payment programs and global budgets. It provides an example from a pilot program in Maryland where costs have been capped and prices set in an effort to cut Medicare spending. The document outlines some of the key areas health systems need to address in both acute and post-acute care settings, such as optimizing patient mix and readmission rates, in order to successfully meet budget targets and quality measures. It provides details on specific strategies used by one Maryland health system to improve performance, such as reducing readmission rates from over 23% to less than 7%.
This document summarizes an initiative by Duke Medicine's Private Diagnostic Clinic to improve patient access and appointment availability across several departments. It discusses:
1. FTI Consulting partnering with Duke to develop new governance structures and use analytics to increase appointments.
2. Two key elements of the project - a new appointment management framework and an "Access Algorithm" tool to measure and score access.
3. Recommendations to consolidate resources into a new "Access Practices Team" to oversee scheduling and hold departments accountable to access standards.
4. The "Access Algorithm" used 12 metrics like lag times, no-show rates, and utilization to score and compare access across specialties and identify areas for
The Evolution of Physician Group from Patient Centric Medical HomesVitreosHealth
A Quest to Achieve Higher Quality and Bend the Employers Health Care Cost Curves. Medical Clinic of North Texas (MCNT) enjoys a stellar FY 2010 performance with Total Medical Cost trend for their managed population 2.4% better than market. We tried to understand the journey and the drivers behind the success of Medical Clinic of North Texas from its early years and its future direction.
The document describes the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) initiative, which aims to strengthen primary care through multi-payer partnerships and alternative payment models. It has three main goals: 1) allow practices to provide more comprehensive care, 2) accommodate practices at different transformation levels, and 3) achieve better care, smarter spending and healthier people. CPC+ will run in up to 20 regions over 5 years, selecting practices to participate in one of two tracks. It emphasizes the importance of aligning Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payers to support practice transformation.
A Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) is a selective partnership of physicians collaborating with
hospital(s) and other providers to deliver evidence-based care, improve quality and efficiency,
manage populations and demonstrate value to the market. Once these objectives are met, the network may contract on behalf of participants
Overhauling the current Medicare Home health reimbursement system, the CMS has finalized a new payment system called Home Health Grouping Model. HHGM aims to eliminate the use of therapy service thresholds and concentrate on the clinical characteristics and other patient information. Check out the whitepaper to know all about the changes- additions, deletions and modifications in the new payment system.
This document discusses Edifecs' Population Payment Strategic Solution (PPSS) which helps health plans transition to value-based reimbursement models. PPSS uses population payment products and domain expertise to identify target populations, design programs, administer pilots, and monitor programs. It addresses challenges like performing data analysis, identifying quality metrics, modeling spending scenarios, and monitoring incentives. The solution analyzes claims, clinical and financial data to assist with accountable care programs from the pilot stage to ongoing administration.
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In an article for Healthcare Executive, Don Seymour, Kevin Talbot, and Chad Stutelberg share their insight on developing compensation strategies that link executive and physician compensation models to acute care outcome-based payment methodologies.
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A detailed evaluation of the current condition at hospitals helps care providers identify gaps in crucial healthcare functions. They include, patient outreach, triaging, medication management and emergency management.
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This document discusses case management in healthcare. It defines case management and describes the case management process and goals. It discusses challenges in case management like workflow issues. It also discusses how technology is changing case management by enabling better communication between patients and providers through EHRs, apps, and remote monitoring. New models for case management focus on keeping patients connected to care after leaving healthcare settings to improve outcomes.
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This particular slides consist of- what is hypotension,what are it's causes and it's effect on body, risk factors, symptoms,complications, diagnosis and role of physiotherapy in it.
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Home Health Agency (HHA) is a key player in
effective care delivery of patients with chron-
ic conditions. The new home health Condi-
tions of Participation (CoPs) finalized in
January 2017 centers on how HHAs qualify to
participate in Medicare and Medicaid by re-
structuring the requirements. The conditions
emphasize on the care coordination, patient
rights by following a structured approach.
The new rule takes effect July 13, 2017
with a proposed delay to January 13,
2018.
This gives agencies only a few months from
today to implement changes to their policies,
procedures and practices necessary to com-
ply with the revisions.
CoPs focuses on organizational structure, pa-
tient-centered care, and oversight of staff to
ensure patients are safely and effectively re-
ceiving services. This completes the efficient
care delivery cycle from self-assessment of
the Home Health Agencies (HHA) to quality
of care delivered.
CoPs – a patient centered, data-
driven, outcome oriented process
that promotes high quality patient
care at all times through efficient
and lower-cost care!
HHAs must meet the Medicare HH CoPs in
order to participate in the Medicare program.
Agencies that fail to meet any of the HH
CoPs are at risk, at a minimum, for the impo-
sition of a number of sanctions and poten-
tially at risk for program termination.
This presents an opportunity for EHR vendors
to support their providers by easing the HHA
workflow through incorporation of integrated
communication system for efficient care co-
ordination.
SPUR OF CHANGES
CMS has used the following guidelines to
assist in development of the new HHA CoPs:
Develop continuous, integrated care pro-
cess across home health services
Use a patient-centered, interdisciplinary
approach that recognizes the contribu-
tions of various skilled professionals and
their interactions to meet patient needs
Stress quality improvements by incorpo-
rating an outcome-oriented, data-driven,
quality assessment and performance im-
provement program specific to each HHA
Eliminate the focus on administrative pro-
cess requirements that lack adequate
consensus or evidence of being indicative
of achieving clinical outcomes or prevent-
ing harmful outcomes for patients
Safeguard patient rights along with HHAs
flexible approach to care delivery. The
new requirements improve performance
results for HHAs, helping them achieve
desired outcomes for patients, and in-
creasing patient satisfaction.
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