Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

Are You Ready to Create a (Healthcare) Revolution?

January 28, 2013     Mark Hagland
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The winning teams in this year's Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards program exemplify the spirit of pioneering innovation in our industry

The 2013 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards: Co-Second Place Winner: The Louisiana Public Health Institute

January 28, 2013     Mark Hagland
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The Louisiana Public Health Institute, the animating organization behind the Crescent City Beacon Community, has leveraged the power of EHRs to facilitate a metropolitan area-wide patient-centered model of care.

New NCQA Certification Program Identifies Medical Home Experts

January 17, 2013     Rajiv Leventhal
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has launched a credential program—Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Content Expert Certification—that gives individuals a way to demonstrate their knowledge of the NCQA PCMH recognition program, an innovative program for improving primary care.

Dashboard-Driven Population Health Management in Northwest Ohio

January 16, 2013     Mark Hagland
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Kenneth Bertka, M.D. has been helping to lead his colleagues at Mercy Health Partners, and its parent health system, Catholic Health Partners, forward on data-driven population health management. A key lesson learned? Take everything one step at a time.

Got Velcro?

December 18, 2012     Mark Hagland
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More broadly, the shift towards a new population health-based focus, and towards authentic care management, is requiring not only bridges across the divide between care locations, but also intensive work to develop care delivery and management models healthcare system-wide. It goes without saying that this is difficult work; yet the leaders at many pioneering organizations are powering ahead, forging new paths without waiting for anyone to direct them to the new healthcare. And of course, they’re building new information systems and IT capabilities to support their innovations.

Coordinating Care under Accountable Care: A Complex Web of Strategic, Tactical, and IT Challenges

December 18, 2012     Mark Hagland
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Earlier this month, Jane Metzger, principal researcher in the Waltham, Mass.-based Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices within the Falls Church, Va.-based CSC, authored a new white paper, "Preparing for Accountable Care: Coordinated Care." With the healthcare delivery system facing unprecedented foundational challenges moving into the new environment of accountable, coordinated care, Metzger spoke recently with Mark Hagland about the reality of what providers face going forward.

NQF Elects Member Council Leaders

December 12, 2012     John DeGaspari
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The Washington, D.C.-based National Quality Forum (NQF) has elected new leadership across four of its member councils: the Consumers Council, the Health Plan Council, the Purchaser Council, and the Supplier-Industry Council.

Personalized Medicine, Part 2: Gaps Remaining in Translating Discoveries into Clinical Practice!

December 5, 2012     Michael Craige
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Rapid improvements in technology, semantic data structures, informatics professional collaboration and sequencing technologies are not necessarily the only gaps needed for the realization of personalized medicine (improving genomic and phenotypic data integration) but these must be taken into account on how best to exploit the opportunities to facilitate personalized medicine.

Extracting EHR Data for Care Managers

October 25, 2012     David Raths
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The patient-centered medical home model has the potential to reduce the cost and increase the quality of care for patients with multiple chronic conditions. But are the health IT tools available today adequate to support the tasks of clinic care managers?

Answer to: A Major Glitch for Digitized Health-Care Records

September 19, 2012     Pete Rivera
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Based on a WSJ Opinion piece EMR software is “is generally clunky, frustrating, user-unfriendly and inefficient.” Although I will not disagree with this “generalization,” I do take exception with the articles naïve view that Health IT systems have not improved patient health.

Moving Forward on the New Healthcare in Western New Jersey

September 17, 2012     Mark Hagland
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At Hunterdon Healthcare, executive leaders are moving forward on a broad range of fronts to implement a variety of initiatives, from the patient-centered medical home model among its physician groups, to health information exchange. And they share what they're learning about the opportunities and challenges to integrated health systems going forward.

What They’re Learning about Analytics in Michigan—and Why the Future of Healthcare Depends on It

September 15, 2012     Mark Hagland
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As David Share, M.D. and his colleagues at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan collaborate forward with local providers to master care management and utilization strategies, the criticality of leveraging analytics thoughtfully becomes ever-more-apparent. We’ll be discussing these issues in our upcoming Healthcare Informatics webinar on Sept. 25, and learning from the experiences of some of the most pioneering organizations nationwide.
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