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2014 Spring Primary Care Conference
Revitalize your professional outlook in the new era of healthcare and start living the change!
Join us this spring in downtown Seattle, WA for our annual conference for leaders, staff, and directors of Northwest community health centers. Alongside more than 350 of your colleagues, you'll discover best practices for successfully implementing the Affordable Care Act with the goal of quality healthcare for all.
Timezone:
PST
New Clinical Measures 2014
1. New Tobacco Measure: (combining two previous measures)
MEASURE: Patients age 18 and older (1) screened for tobacco use AND (2) received cessation counseling intervention or medication if identified as a tobacco user one or more times in the measurement year or prior year
2. New HIV cases with timely follow-up:
BPHC Clinical and Financial Performance Measures
Link to Table 7 from HRSA's UDS reporting manual regarding health outcomes and disparities measures.
Quality Improvement and Risk Management Training
Link to some introductory training on quality improvement provided by HRSA and developed by the Morehouse School of Medicine, available as pre-recorded auid and video modules in Real Player software format that cover: defining quality, what to do to improve quality, measuring improvement, and strategies to make quality better.
Duke University Module: What is Quality Improvement?
Module developed by Duke Univeristy and Medical Center Department of Family Medicine which includes essential discussion and tools to assist providers and teams in their quest for QI. The purpose of the module is to help you understand and apply principles and practices of Quality Improvement (QI). It covers: Measures of quality, Models of QI and The differences between QI and research.
Clinical Services Consultation
MCN's expert clinical team can provide both on-site and distance consultation services. The experienced team provides a number of critical services including consultation on clinic systems, protocols and procedures as well as program development and evaluation; patient tracking and bridge case management; environmental and occupational medicine, pesticide awareness, and worker’s compensation issues for health centers; immigration and how it effects health centers.
Integrating the Core Clinical Measures with Performance Improvement
Webcast will occur from 1-2pm EST after which it will be archived to view at your leisure.
All 330 health centers are now required to report on the new core clinical measures (CCMs). Join this webcast to learn how to use your CCM data to improve services and patient outcomes.
Participants will be able to:
The Chronic Care Model
The chronic care model for improved outcomes, with visual aid/diagram.