Friday, November 12, 2010

Hcdc10 discussing practical solutions for better health

Katie Templin (carefirst_dance on FB) talking about understanding drivers of health issues.

Great discussions - @aviars "gluttony is the only acceptable deadly sin"

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#hcdc10 fascinating discussions

DC seen as thinnest "state" but actually greatest extremes. Some areas anorexic southeast district is fatter than states like Mississippi

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#hcdc10 Patient centered or primary care medical home

People want choice and medical home allows that. Carefirst PCMH

The PCP is the quarterback. PCMH rewards OCP to focus on critical and High risk members. Looking at unified communications and nursing coordinators to help support pcp's. Launches in January 2011.

Docs Want information. But also want patients engaged. Patients need incentives. HealthyBlue is this program.

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#hcdc10 Kevin O'Neill of @carefirst addressing the camp

Kevin is talking about Carefirst innovations such as HealthyBlue and Primary Care Medical Home (PCMH)

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about to kickoff Healthcampdc #hcdc10

The #hcdc10 HealthCampDC wall is up

The wall is ready to be filled.

We will post the session titles to the wall at http://bit.ly/hcdc10wall

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

#WHIT Panel session on intersection of Meaningful Use, Quality, IT and timelines.

WHIT - the last gasp....

12:00 pm -
1:00 pm
CLOSING KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION: The Intersection of Meaningful Use, Quality, IT and Timelines – Debating Meaningful Use Criteria, Quality Measurements and Cost
  • Update on requirements for measuring quality and implications for physicians and provider organizations
  • Effectively measuring quality
  • Evaluating the cost/benefit of meeting the implementation deadlines
  • Identifying and overcoming challenges
Peter Basch, MD
Medical Director
MedStar Health 

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Nicholas Wolter, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Billings Clinic;
Former Commissioner, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC);
Member, Board of Trustees, American Hospital Association (AHA) 

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Dr. Thomas Tsang, Medical Director, Office of the National Coordinator

Dr Greg Pawlson - NCQA

Moderator of the discussion: Tina Olson Grande - Policy HealthCare Leadership Council

Dr T Tsang: 1st Macro challenge is the more integrated system. Current system is fractured and siloed.
2nd Macro challenge HIT and PHR is shifting the paradigm to Consumer centric

The real potential is being able to measure effectiveness. embed knowledge and evidence-based practices in to daily workflow.

Population data has a big future in quality measures.  We will move from static measures to measuring change.

Peter Basch: We don't know what the ceiling on excellence is. We are now starting to look at the Patient and Doctor stellar performers and work out how to spread the word and practice on that.

Thomas T: Great opportunity to incorporate measures that matter to the patient.

Greg Pawlson: Medical Home - There are plenty of people that can manage the care of a patient. Doesn't have to be just Physician centered.

Thomas T: Federal realization that  we need more longitudinal measures. Move away from the checklist method of quality. Use measure that really measure the outcome for a patient.

My Note: A couple of years ago someone at a Web 2.0 Expo said "Quality of Life" will become a real measure across many industries. That is so true. How come the one industry that has quality of life at it's core doesn't have a quality of life measure.

Thomas T: Indiana has 5 exchanges for providers to choose from. Good for competition and choice. 

My Note: Does that cause fragmentation? Can a provider still get to everyone or only to those in the same exchange?

Paraphrase Peter B: when you make it easy to do - people do it. Doctors or Patients. Make it easy for Doctors to compare their performance and their competitive instinct pushes them to see how they compare. Next comes the question - how can i do better.

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