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This is a tool kit to help clinicians address the interoperability of EHRs, to improve their workflows, and to close more referrals. The tool kit provides practical guidance on measures, how to create an improvement plan, sample care compacts, satisfaction surveys, and more.
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Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), with support from the Peterson Center on Healthcare, set out to identify common attributes found among high-performing primary care organizations. CERC reviewed national quality and cost data, and has identified 11 primary care organizations that are delivering exceptional value to their patients. Most importantly, they have key features in common, which can serve as a blueprint for others to achieve high performance.
Throughout the month of June, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Transformation Center is offering a 5-part webinar series focused on clinic-level strategies to increase effective contraceptive use.
The group medical care model (or group visit) is an important inter-disciplinary care delivery innovation to complement the individual medical visit. This guide reviews the current state of group visits in a variety of practice types including primary and specialty groups using generalizable best practices.
The governing boards of Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Q Corp) and HealthInsight Management Corporation have approved a merger of the organizations and their operations in Oregon.
This toolkit is a collection of resources to help the state, CCOs, and oral health and primary care providers and practice transformation leaders as they continue down the path of oral health integration. The topics and tools contained within this tool kit can serve as a framework for learning collaboratives or any other opportunities for learning and sharing best and emerging practices facilitated by the OHA Transformation Center.
Oral health is a key component of Oregon's coordinated care model (CCM), and it is looked to as a national model for integration. Health Management Associates (HMA) was contracted to undertake an environmental scan of both local and national efforts towards oral health integration and conduct extensive interviews with state officials and their key state partners for transformation efforts.
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) combines approved medication with recovery support, lifestyle changes, and professional treatment. SAMHSA’s new online tool helps people with opioid use disorder learn about using MAT treatment options to strengthen their recovery. This tool features content on the stages of medication-assisted recovery, how to build a recovery support team, and recovery resources.
The John A. Hartford Foundation Change AGEnts initiative has released a new and much-needed resource: Patient-Centered Medical Homes and the Care of Older Adults: How Comprehensive Care Coordination, Community Connections, and Person-Directed Care Can Make a Difference. The paper, developed by the project’s PCMH Network, provides a roadmap to guide primary care practices in how to enhance care for older, complex patients and their families.
Antibiotic resistance causes serious harm around the world and in our own communities – much of it due to inappropriate use of antibiotics. HealthInsight’s Get Smart: Preserving the Power of Antibiotics quality improvement initiative and educational campaign is your chance to take a stand for eliminating this harm. Join us for this short call to learn more about how to get recognition as an antibiotic steward in your community by participating in HealthInsight’s Get Smart initiative!
What does a successful quality improvement project look like? Hint: starting with goal setting is key. Join us for this brief webinar to learn about the first steps in developing an effective quality improvement project and practice setting goals in real time.
The Center for Excellence in Primary Care (CEPC) is pleased to announce an open enrollment Practice Coaching for Primary Care Transformation (PCPCT) training on September 12-15, 2017, in San Francisco, California.
The Wallace Medical Concern provides low cost medical and dental services in Southeast Portland and Gresham, Oregon. Around 47% of their patient population needs interpretation services, with Spanish being the language in which services are most often needed.
Sixty-four Oregon practices completed all four years of the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative at the close of 2016 after achieving significant improvements in quality and reducing utilization of care. In response, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched an advanced model of this initiative, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+), in January 2017 with 156 enrolled Oregon practices supported by 15 local payers.
When patients and families are partners in planning and making decisions about their care, health outcomes are better, patient experience and satisfaction improves, and often, costs are lower. The PCPCC Support & Alignment Network (SAN) has designed this toolkit for healthcare practices participating in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative (TCPI). However, it is equally valuable to any practice seeking strategies to improve person and family engagement.
This event will provide a forum for various stakeholders, including primary care providers, specialists, independent practices, health systems, health care payers and policymakers, to hear the latest Quality Payment Program information from national experts and local health care leaders, and better understand what these changes mean for their organization.
This event will provide a forum for various stakeholders, including primary care providers, specialists, independent practices, health systems, health care payers and policymakers, to hear the latest Quality Payment Program information from national experts and local health care leaders, and better understand what these changes mean for their organization.
This quick assessment, designed by Laura Heesacker, LCSW and Melissa Cantwell, Ed.D, is used by Jackson Care Connect as a way to adress pain and behavioral health symptoms in Primary Care.
In February 2017, I attended a “Practice Coaching for Primary Care Transformation” training in Portland, Oregon, developed and co-led by CareOregon and UCSF’s Center for Excellence in Primary Care. I came away with one overarching message from the week: in order to succeed with transforming our healthcare system, we need to slow down in order to go fast.
In March 2017 the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) released the first in-depth report on oral health care data for Oregon’s coordinated care organizations (CCOs). A growing body of evidence shows that oral health is critical to overall health. This report provides Oregon’s CCOs and policy makers with comprehensive oral health data to continue that integration.
The Integrated Behavioral Health Alliance of Oregon (IBHAO) is a workgroup of CCO Oregon. CCO Oregon is a non-profit member organization that aims to be shaped and to serve all stakeholders that touch coordinated care in Oregon. IBHAO promotes the full integration of behavioral and physical health services in primary care settings. This report contains a consensus list of recommended measures.
This article by Michael L. Parchman, MD, MPH, Michael Von Korff, PhD, Laura-Mae Baldwin, MD, Mark Stephens, BS, Brooke Ike, MPH, DeAnn Cromp, MPH, Clarissa Hsu, PhD, and Ed H. Wagner, MD, MPH discusses how the challenge of responding to prescription opioid overuse within the US has fallen disproportionately on the primary care clinic setting, and describes 6 Building Blocks to guide efforts to address opioid use for chronic pain.
Based on the research of Professor Michael Porter, Value-Based Health Care Delivery is a framework for restructuring health care systems around the globe with the overarching goal of value for patients—not access, cost containment, convenience, or customer service. View key concepts here.
The Quadruple Aim recognizes that a healthy, energized, engaged, and resilient physician workforce is essential to achieving national health goals of higher quality, more affordable care and better health for the populations we serve. Yet in a recent study of U.S. physicians, more than half reported experiencing at least one symptom of burnout—indicating that burnout among physicians is becoming a national health crisis.
On March 17, 2017 the Institute partnered with the Oregon Health Authority’s Transformation Center to host a learning and networking event for behavioral and mental health leaders and innovators from across Oregon.
