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Ideal Medical Practices: Breakthroughs in patient outcomes – helping people address lifestyle change and healthy behaviors
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “John emailed to say how happy he was for one of his patients with diabetes. The anecdote: “He rarely ever follows up with me and rarely ever gets his blood work done (I always have to beg his wife to...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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Ideal Medical Practices: More doctors charging extra for services that once were free - Business Monday - MiamiHerald.com
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “Want to see your doctor without an appointment? You may have to pay a little extra. via www.miamiherald.com No surprises here: financial pressures have an impact on behavior. I don't fault the docs for trying to stay in the game...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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Ideal Medical Practices: Strong and weak indicators of quality and outcomes: not what you'd expect
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “The prevailing quality paradigm starts with the simple observation that we can observe gaps in care when we create an evidence based guideline and assess observed care against expected. One study says that we meet these expectations about 56% of...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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Strong and weak indicators of quality and outcomes: not what you'd expect http://t.co/h0dRBvz
Ideal Medical Practices: Our approach to measuring health care quality is broken
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “I'm reading through the Massachusetts AG's report on Examination of Health Care Cost Trends. The report points out many things that are obvious: Payment changes absent substantive changes in care delivery will ultimately fail The logical route to improved (and...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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Our approach to measuring health care quality is broken http://bit.ly/kdzAEc
Ideal Medical Practices: Managing population health: integrating behavioral health and primary care
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “I just read through an interesting policy brief from RWJF on integrating behavioral health and primary care: Druss BG, Walker ER. Mental Disorders and Medical Comorbidity Research Synthesis Report No. 21 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Their review of the literature...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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Managing population health: integrating behavioral health and primary care http://bit.ly/j7mb4a
Ideal Medical Practices: An Open Letter To Primary Care Physicians | Care And Cost
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “via careandcost.com There are two recent posts that deserve a read: Paul M Fischer and Brian Klepper's Open Letter to PCPs alerts us to the deleterious effects of the RUC - the Resource Utilization Committee of the AMA. This committee...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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An Open Letter To Primary Care Physicians | Care And Cost http://bit.ly/iewrvr
Ideal Medical Practices: Treat the Patient, Not the CT Scan: must we lose caring and compassion in pursuit of tech?
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “"...the complaints I hear from patients, family and friends are never about the dearth of technology but about its excesses." Read the very nice op-ed in: www.nytimes.com We hear this from almost everyone who has been on the patient or...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
Most Recently Shared on February 28, 2011 at 4:40 pm By:
Treat the Patient, Not the CT Scan: must we lose caring and compassion in pursuit of tech? http://bit.ly/hZfZb1
Ideal Medical Practices: Measuring and rewarding what matters - Rich Keller from Treo Solutions describes the value of the patient voice
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “There was a good article in the May 2010 issues of Health Affairs written by Christine Bechtel and Debra Ness from the National Partnership for Women and Families. They commissioned a number of focus groups to assess patients' thoughts on...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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Measuring and rewarding what matters - Rich Keller from Treo Solutions describes the value of the patient voice http://bit.ly/htNnsF
Ideal Medical Practices: Dreaming of the ideal practice - IMP article in Feb 10 Medical Economics
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “The February 10, 2011 edition of Medical Economics published an article about our work. Here's a link to the article. Funny title the journal editors chose. I guess that given our current payment and policy environment the ideal is still...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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Dreaming of the ideal practice - IMP article in Feb 10 Medical Economics http://bit.ly/hUawDz
Ideal Medical Practices: Family doc describes the difficulty practicing as a professional in a toxic policy and payment environment
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “My name is John Machata. I am a family doctor, who recently joined a 7 member family practice group after working for 13+ years in a community health center setting. Loved serving patients in great need- was driven out of...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
Most Recently Shared on February 23, 2011 at 3:54 pm By:
Family doc describes the difficulty practicing as a professional in a toxic policy and payment environment http://bit.ly/fAL41i
Ideal Medical Practices: What do the data tell us about quality measurement? Improvement is more likely with aligned incentives.
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “Herb Fillmore (Director of Research at Treo Solutions) was looking at the HEDIS data set again. He figured that on average there would be very little variation in process measures because we all pretty much agree on them (things like...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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What do the data tell us about quality measurement? Improvement is more likelky with aligned incentives. http://bit.ly/h3ACdY
Ideal Medical Practices: Why is it so hard to get primary care practices to change?
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “There is a good deal of talk about support for primary care. That support is demonstrated in AHRQ grants targeting interventions that support independent small and medium size practices, in a blizzard of Medical Home initiatives, and more. There is...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
Most Recently Shared on January 12, 2011 at 7:38 pm By:
Why is it so hard to get primary care practices to change? http://bit.ly/hqAZWA
Ideal Medical Practices: Physician Groups Use of Data from Patient Experience Surveys
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “Patient reported experience of care can be accurately measured and can identify important aspects of practice performance.(1) Patients who report good experience with key attributes are more likely to have good outcomes and cost the health system less.(2) Key attributes...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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Physician Groups Use of Data from Patient Experience Surveys http://bit.ly/ifQpqW
Ideal Medical Practices: Building a high performing medical neighborhood - better care, better outcomes
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “Rich Keller from Treo Solutions has an interesting post. He's talking to health plans about why it might be in their best interest to support high performing local medical neighborhoods. I've worked as a solo physician and in a big...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
Most Recently Shared on January 2, 2011 at 6:23 pm By:
Building a high performing medical neighborhood - better care, better outcomes http://bit.ly/fTZCf2
Ideal Medical Practices: This is the best of times and worst of times for solo and small medical practices
idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com — “We're living in interesting times for primary care. There is widespread recognition that effective primary care is the foundation of any high performing health system and there are a number of programs in the works to better support primary care...” View full resource at idealmedicalpractices.typepad.com
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This is the best of times and worst of times for solo and small medical practices http://bit.ly/i0f5oV
