Three Minnesota organizations receive funding to improve diabetes care
( < i > Medica Research Institute < /i > ) The three Minnesota organizations will evaluate how the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model -- known in Minnesota as the Health Care Home (HCH) model -- provide care for patients with diabetes. PCMHs have become widely regarded as the preferred model for delivering care nationwide. In Minnesota, more than two thirds of primary care practices have earned HCH certification in the years since the state passed legislation creating the process in 2008. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 25, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Tracking patients between visits: A new care model
As the health care system transitions to value-based care, new models of care will be a critical part of the new Medicare payment system. Learn how one physician is using a new model of care to track patients in between face-to-face visits in his practice.
What patients and submarines have in common
Imagine your patients, as you probably do every day, out in the world living their lives. You may wonder if their treatment is working, their medication is causing any side effects, their blood pressure is rising or any number of possibilities that could be percolating unknown—but you can’t find out until they come in f...
Source: AMA Wire - July 19, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Making sense of value-based healthcare and how medtech companies should respond
This study showed tremendous benefit in terms of reduced re-hospitalizations, reduced ER visits, and an almost million-dollar savings in cost as a result of those reductions. This was ased solely on a telemedicine intervention in patients who had just been discharged.
So I think telemedicine will be used to help manage the post-acute space increasingly to provide better care, but also to save money. That’s going to be critical, obviously, in the new healthcare world.
SCOTT: Dan, before we move on to a couple of these other programs that fit under this bundling umbrella, anything else to add that you think is worthy of me...
Source: Mass Device - July 19, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: MassDevice Tags: Blog Dorsata medsider Source Type: news
Diabetes Education in a Medical Home Model of CareDiabetes Education in a Medical Home Model of Care
Are patients in a PCMH model more likely to receive referrals for diabetes education than patients in a standard practice? Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Journal Article Source Type: news
The Managed Care Already Argument
One argument against managed care organizations is that the state of Arkansas has already implemented many of the cost-saving methods in its Medicaid programs that managed care organizations use.
The issue can be confusing because health care professionals refer to these methods as “managed care,” but they don’t involve MCOs.
The methods include:
Utilization review, which is a process for determining whether a patient should get the care they or their doctors have requested.
Prior authorization, which requires a doctor to obtain approval from his or her patient’s health insurance plan before prescr...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - July 4, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Here are some simple tips for keeping older adults safe
At all times of the year, older adults should take simple steps to be safe, recommit to eating healthy and exercise at whatever level they can, said Dr. Neela K. Patel, who cares for patients of UT Medicine Senior Health, part of the clinical practice of the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.
UT Medicine Senior Health, in collaboration with partners including CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital — Medical Center, is a “patient-centered medical home,” Patel said.
“Sometimes… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - June 28, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sponsor content from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Source Type: news
Substance use screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment - Levy SJ, Williams JF.
The enormous public health impact of adolescent substance use and its preventable morbidity and mortality highlight the need for the health care sector, including pediatricians and the medical home, to increase its capacity regarding adolescent substance u... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 26, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Substance use screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment -
The enormous public health impact of adolescent substance use and its preventable morbidity and mortality show the need for the health care sector, including pediatricians and the medical home, to increase its capacity related to substance use prevention, ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 26, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Rice U. health economists launch project to study physician-hospital integration
(Rice University) The Affordable Care Act and changing economic conditions have encouraged the integration of physicians and hospitals, particularly through accountable care organizations and medical homes. Vivian Ho, chair in health economics at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy, is launching a first-of-its-kind study to advance the understanding of the association between physician-hospital integration and the quality and price of health care. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Physicians are guiding new payment system, CMS chief says
In the effort to design the new Medicare payment system, Andy Slavitt, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said that the driving factor behind many of the changes was physician input—and the proposed rule attempts to reflect that. But the physician’s role does not stop there.
How physicians are having a voice in regulations
“You represent one of America’s most potent and proudest forces of talent and ability,” Andy Slavitt, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), told physicians Monday at the 2016 AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago. There ...
Source: AMA Wire - June 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
The non-hospital: Putting patients at the center of care
For Melissa Hicks, it’s not the constant pain, the fatigue and the host of other symptoms that come with her autoimmune disease that make her sick. “What makes me feel really sick is all the work I have to do because I’m a patient,” she said. “Being sick became another full-time job. … When you’re sick, you can’t do two full-time jobs.”
Burdens of the current health care environment
Melissa Hicks shares her perspective as a patient with a chronic disease.
Hicks, who suffers from Sjogren’s Syndrome, was talking to a room full of ph...
Source: AMA Wire - June 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Teaching students how to be part of a system should enhance care
This study’s results highlight the potential for integrating students into interprofessional care teams in a wide range of clinical sites to simultaneously add value to the health care system and enhance education,” study authors concluded.
How can students help patients, clinics?
Clinicians who participated in the study said students could work directly with patients to improve their health. Examples of these kinds of activities include:
Monitoring care plans via face-to-face meetings
Facilitating patient access to services and resources, for example medical assistance or exercise programs
Assessi...
Source: AMA Wire - June 9, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
More Family Moves, More Kids' Hospital Trips? (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Changing residence deprives children of medical homes (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - June 4, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
4 ways schools are paving a new path to residency
Several medical schools are overhauling the way their students make the traditionally stressful leap into graduate medicine education (GME).
Schools are implementing these programs as part of their work with the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium, which is working to modernize and reshape the way physicians are trained. The programs are designed to improve competency, leadership and patient care through innovations that bridge the curriculum gap between medical school and internship.
A transition curriculum
“Interns in July are expected to hit the ground running and take care of patients,...
Source: AMA Wire - May 19, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Patient-centered medical homes boost likelihood of preventive care in teens
Adolescents and young adults enrolled in patient-centered medical homes were more likely to receive most kinds of preventive care, according to Dr. Diego Garcia-Huidobro of the University of... (Source: Pediatric News)
Source: Pediatric News - May 16, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
