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Complimentary from the publishers of
VBP News December 2018 |
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"Advancing Health IT is inextricably bound up with what may be the most
important priority that HHS has today, which is transforming our
healthcare system into one that pays for value. Nowhere is that truer
than with interoperability. It is actually impossible to move to a
future health system, one that we need, one that pays for value rather
than sickness, without a truly interoperable health IT system."
- HHS Deputy Secretary Eric D. Hargan at the Office of
the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) annual
meeting.
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In a six-month pilot
that integrated family medicine providers, a university-based medication
management telepharmacist and an interprofessional care coordinator
using telehealth solutions for CCM and pharmacy education services, "the
telepharmacist completed 200 interventions – an average of 2.89 per
patient -- for safety (49%), vaccines (24.5%), care gaps per national
consensus guidelines (13.5%), adherence (10%) and cost savings (3%)."
Excerpted from:
VBP News, Volume 3 Issue
24, December Second Edition 2018, Journal Scan: ‘Integrating Innovative
Telehealth Solutions into an Interprofessional Team-Delivered Chronic
Care Management Pilot Program.’
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New Medicare physician payment regulation
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently
reformed the way Medicare pays for the most commonly used
physician services. In a keynote presentation, CMS
Administrator Seema Verma gives her perspective on the Medicare
program, its movement toward value-based payment, and the
prospects for future reforms.
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Jake Zientz: 4 Key Steps to Prepare Your Practice for
Value-Based Care
1. ALIGN - know which patients drive costs
2. CREATE - create your care model
3.
Continue reading here
Source:
SWC Technology Partners, December 11, 2018 |
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Colorado, Texas Value Experiments Yielding Results
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Journal Scan: JMCP, Health Affairs, NEJM Catalyst
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