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Newsletter of the American College of Medical Quality
March 2011
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Medical Quality 2011: A Great Success!
Alan Krumholz, MD
As your newly elected president, it is my first responsibility to update the college on our successful meeting in beautiful San Antonio, Texas- Transformative Changes in Healthcare: A Roadmap to Improve Quality, Efficiency and Outcomes. For those that didn't or couldn't attend, I strongly recommend holding the dates (Feb 22-25) for the 2012 Medical Quality Meeting at the Buena Vista Palace Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The 2011 meeting's focus was on learning about ACOs and how they can relate to quality of care, prevention and management of chronic illness. Continue reading
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Missed the 2011 National Conference? Visit the ACMQ Website
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Don Fetterolf passes the Presidential Gavel to Alan Krumholz.
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If you were not able to join us in San Antonio for Medical Quality 2011, visit the ACMQ website to see what you missed. This was an exciting and one of our most successful meetings. Photos of the Awards Reception and Annual Business meeting have been posted for our members to view. The College has posted the ACMQ presentations as well as the ACPM general session presentations. Click Here to see what you missed.
Hopefully you will make your plans to join us in 2012 at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Fl from Feb. 22-25th.
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Value Based Purchasing 
Greg Wise, MD
Co-editor Focus
Many of us who work in the quality field have longed for respect. Respect and financial advantage are often tied together. Over the years there have been finally increasing opportunities for pay for performance. Those institutions that have excelled in clinical quality rightly expect to receive some financial benefit for their success. Those payers who have rewarded quality have traditionally chosen to increase reimbursement or providing a bump in payment rather than take money away from those who don't meet the expectations. Other payers have taken the position that quality is expected and does not warrant a payment premium. Continue reading
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The QUEST Continues: Achieving More Effective and Efficient Care Through a Collaborative Execution Model
Richard Bankowitz, MD & Carolyn Scott, MD
What began in January 2008 as an experiment in collaboration and transparency among acute care providers is now proving to be significant method to accelerate the delivery of high value healthcare. Background Beginning with a group of 169 hospitals in 2008, and growing to include a present day cohort of 220, the Premier QUEST hospitals set about to transform the way value is defined, measured and achieved in healthcare delivery. This was a varied set of initial hospitals whose members ranged from small rural community hospitals to large inner city teaching institutions. However they all shared one common goal: to deliver high value healthcare as defined broadly by five domains. Within each of these domains, reduction of hospital wide mortality, delivery of evidence based care, prevention of harm, improvement of patient experience and reduction of cost, the group defined a measurement process and together agreed on a top performance threshold to which they would each hold one another accountable. All members of the collaborative agreed to three things: 1) that they would be open and transparent with all data and results within the cohort. 2) that they would proactively share the best practices and methods which each found to be successful, and 3) that the institution would have executive sponsorship at the highest level of the organization. Continue Reading |
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Antibiotic Stewardship
James Keegan, MD, CMO Regional Health CEO Regional Health Physicians
In discussion of antibiotic stewardship, four key areas will be examined. First, what are the clinical challenges we face to justify the time and expense of having a program in place. Second, what is the proven value such a program can provide to the patient community and healthcare organization. Third, what is the clinical evidence available in the medical literature to support this effort. Fourth, what is the evidence for various elements of a stewardship program in order to assure success. Continue Reading |
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ACMQ CE Learning Portal
ACMQ is pleased to announce the ACMQ Quality in Healthcare Learning Portal! Through a unique partnership with CECity, ACMQ has developed a web-based solution to support your Continuous Professional Development (CPD), Performance Improvement (PI), & Lifelong Learning. As an ACMQ member, you can access the learning portal free of charge! Learn More
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Do n't Lose Access to your Benefits
Last chance to renew your ACMQ membership for 2011. An invoice has been mailed to you and we encourage you to renew today!
As a loyal member you know about the benefits your annual dues provide.
- You will continue to receive copies of The American Journal of Medical Quality, the official journal of ACMQ, as well as have access to the journal online, free of charge.
- ACMQ members also pay special discounted registration fees to attend the annual meeting.
- ACMQ members are granted free access to the monthly Audio Conferences .
- Only members are able to access the CE Portal.
Click Here to login and renew your membership dues. If you have questions regarding your dues renewal please contact the ACMQ office at 301-718-6516 or acmq@acmq.org.
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Reminder: ACMQ Change of Address
As of July 1, 2010, the ACMQ office contact information is now:
American College of Medical Quality
5272 River Road, Suite 630
Bethesda, MD 20816
Phone: (301) 718-6516 ** Fax: (301) 656-0989 ** e-mail: acmq@acmq.org
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