Week in Review: Trendsetters in Patient Care
Week in Review: Trendsetters in Patient Care
Thursday, December 5th
Dear Members & Friends:

I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving break, but boy is it hard to believe 2013 is almost over! We're excited to kick off one of our new projects with the American Cancer Society that identifies the role of the medical home team in supporting patients and caregivers after receiving a cancer diagnosis, and during and after treatments.

More information about this three-part webinar series (Dec. 5th, 12th and 16th) can be found here on our project webpage, which also includes helpful checklists developed by health literacy experts to help foster dialogue between patients and their provider teams around care management and treatment plans.

Join us for our first webinar today - "Working With Your Care Team After Diagnosis"  - from noon to 1 pm ET, where Dr. Amy Shaw from the Redwood Regional Medical Group will discuss the design of a patient-centered oncology practice. You can still register for the webinar here. 

And if you can't make it, you'll find the slides and recording here within 24 hours. We look forward to having you join us!

Sincerely,


Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH
Chief Executive Officer
Farzad Talks: Aha! Moments
"But that’s population health management — the ability to see for the first time ever that everybody counts."
 
After stepping down as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Dr. Farzad Mostashari provided a retrospective of his many achievements and lessons learned in an "exit interview" with TEDMED.

Credited with the launch of the meaningful use of electronic health records program, Mostashari is an accomplished policy maker and data hawk that talks candidly about the many lessons he learned throughout his tenure, including how data ensures that "everyone counts."
PCPCC Cancer Care Webinar Series: Working with Care Teams After Diagnosis 
TODAY from Noon to 1:00 PM ET, the PCPCC will host: "Working With Care Teams After Diagnosis," where Dr. Amy Shaw will discuss the features of her “primary care oncology” practice, which screens for and treats lingering and late-onset effects of various cancer therapies.

Register here.
Download checklist here.
Upcoming Events
Dec 5 -  Dec 12
Facebook
Twitter
Website
Rocky Mountain High Savings for Medicaid ACO
Just in its second year, Colorado's Medicaid accountable care collaborative now covers more than half the state's Medicaid population and has yielded an additional $44 million in health care savings. An early adopter of ACO strategies, the program uses a combination of incentive payments and health IT to encourage coordinated, value-based primary care.

In addition to savings, the program has seen reductions in hospital admissions and high-cost imaging services among enrollees, encouraging other states to follow suit.

Read the full article here.
In Case You Missed It...
Chronic Disease Prevention in the Medical Neighborhood
Matthew Longjohn, MD, MPH, from the YMCA of the USA joined us to discuss the role community organizations play in preventing chronic diseases. Access slides here, or download our podcast from iTunes available here!
Welcome Executive Committee Member:
YMCA of the USA
YMCA of the USA is the national resource office of the Y, a leading nonprofit for strengthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Y-USA works to support and build capacity of the 2,700 YMCAs in the U.S. to improve the nation’s health and well-being with evidence-based programs and practices that address public health and healthcare needs. (www.ymca.net)
Keeping it Clean in 2014...
Some PCPCC Housekeeping

Newsletter Holiday Schedule: To accommodate the holidays, please note that we will not distribute the Week in Review on December 26th or January 2nd.

Monthly Briefing Schedule & Format Changes: There will also be no Monthly National Briefing in December! We'll return on Thursday, January 30th to reveal the PCPCC's 2014 Annual Report. Please note that Briefings will continue to take place on the last Thursday of the month with two important changes: 1 - registration is now required through our webinar platform; and 2 - briefings will now occur at 1 pm instead of 11 am on the last Thursday of the month.






This email was sent to <<Email Address>>
why did I get this?    unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences
Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative · 601 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 430 North · Washington, DC 20005 · USA

Go to top