Week in Review: It's a HIT!
It's a HIT!
Thursday, May 2nd
 
Dear Members and Friends:

Like many of you, we believe that health information technology is a critical tool in achieving a highly effective medical home, and an integrated and interconnected medical neighborhood. It is well documented for improving care coordination, population health management, patient-clinician communications, and health information exchange. However, the adoption and 'meaningful use' of health IT tools can be incredibly challenging, and time and resource-intensive.

This month we're dedicating an entire month of programming to eHealth, and working closely with our members and Stakeholder Centers share knowledge, innovations, and best practices. We're very excited to relaunch our  eHealth group; and our May 16th webinar will feature a fascinating story from Minnesota, where primary care clinics are using eHealth solutions to coordinate care for high-risk, elderly patients.

And finally, we'll close out the month with our Monthly Briefing on May 30th, where RAND's Art Kellerman will address the barriers in today's health care system that are slowing the effects of widespread, rapid adoption of health IT. 

We look forward to having you join us!
 
Sincerely,

Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH
Chief Executive Officer 
 
Recapping Kellerman's 
eHealth Manifesto
 
In January's Health Affairs, RAND's Dr. Art Kellerman addressed the underwhelming impact of health IT on costs and quality, as a result of poor health system design. Kellerman attributed the effect to a number of factors, including: sluggish adoption of health IT systems; the lack of system interoperability or user-friendly systems; and the failure of health care providers and clinicians to redesign processes to reap the full benefits of health IT.

Kellerman offers that the benefits of health IT can be achieved by addressing core issues, such as care delivery redesign; payment reform that rewards value and performance; system interoperability; and patient control over health data. 

Hear more from Dr. Kellerman during our May National Briefing on Thursday, May 30th.
New EHRs with Advanced Features Can Curb Prescribing Errors
According to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, newer electronic health record systems with advanced clinical decision support functions could help reduce prescribing errors.

Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College analyzed nearly 2,000 prescription orders, and found that after adopting an advanced EHR with clinical decision support functions, the prescription error rate was significantly lower.

Full study available here.
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PCPCC eHealth Special Interest Group Kickoff Call
Tuesday, May 7th, Noon - 1PM ET
Join us for the official relaunch of PCPCC's eHealth Special Interest Group!

Meeting Patients Where They Are: A Medical Home Model for High-Risk Patients
Thursday, May 16th, 12PM - 1:30 PM ET
This webinar will highlight a medical home model that uses advanced health IT to provide team-based primary care for over 3,000 high-risk, elderly patients in assisted living and group home facilities.

May National Briefing
Thursday, May 30th, 11AM - Noon ET
Art Kellerman of the RAND Corporation will discuss findings from his January 2013 Health Affairs article What It Will Take to Achieve the As-Yet-Unfulfilled Promises of Health  IT.
Vendors React: Advancing Health Exchange and Interoperability
In response to the federal government's request for comments about health care stakeholders could advance interoperability and health information exchange, the CommonWell Health Alliance -- sent a letter to CMS and ONC stating that a vendor-supported national interoperability framework would require three core components that address transitions in care, data management and security, and linking EHRs to access patient histories. CommonWell also recommended payment reforms that reward care improvements, population health management and lower costs. 

Comments were also submitted by the eHealth Initiative and The Health IT Now Coalition.
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