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A "Meaningful User"
is a Patient Centered Medical Home
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 ...the TransforMED model for PCMH has nine components: the Patient, HIT, Practice Management, Quality and Safety, Practice-Based Team Care, Care Coordination, Care Management, Practice-Based services, and Access. Six of these nine modules are essentially the requirements for stage 1 meaningful use. TransforMED also adds practice-based services, access and team care which can certainly be complementary to ARRA while being critically important to primary care practices and patients in improving satisfaction at multiple levels and the financial viability of practices...
Read Dr. McGeeney's CEO Report
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Popular Health IT webinar series from TransforMED and AMA now archived for on-demand access
 The well-attended four-part Health IT webinar series co-presented by TransforMED and the AMA has concluded. If you missed the live sessions, you can still learn what it means to be a meaningful user of Health IT learn from experienced TransforMED facilitators and well-known HIT experts such as Dr. David Kibbe, Bruce Kleaveland, Dr. Todd Taylor, and Dr. Steve Waldren.
To view the archived webinars -- anytime, on your schedule -- click here.
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18 TransforMED PCMH Pilot Practices Receive NCQA Recognition
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Transformation to a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a challenging task in and of itself, not to mention that payers often require participating practices to achieve NCQA certification in order to qualify for enhanced reimbursement within a pilot project. We're proud to announce that we helped these practices reach and often exceed their NCQA certification goals -- in less than a year. Click here to read more
Click here to find out more about TransforMED's PCMH facilitation services
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Meaningful Discussions on "Meaningful Use" for Practices
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 Recently on Delta-Exchange, TransforMED's online, collaborative network, DX member Ken Bertka launched an interesting and valuable discussion among the social network's clinicians and thought leaders about the latest "meaningful use" criteria. Ken also posted documents that summarized the proposed criteria for physicians offices.
Other members provided links for users to submit comments regarding the criteria and contributed links to relevant websites and commentaries. As usual, the comments were thoughtful and to-the-point.
Wish you were part of a substantive, transformative discussion on the Patient-Centered Medical Home -- with access to an expanding selection of resources and educational webinars?
Join the discussion at www.transformed.com/delta-exchange.
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Salina Residency Practice Recaps a Successful First Year of PCMH Transformation
 It's been just a year since rural Salina Family HealthCare Center and the Smoky Hill Family Medicine Residency Program launched their medical home transformation initiative with the help of TransforMED. They made significant health information technology improvements for efficiency, quality and safety. They implemented an innovative "Four Team Concept". And they added numerous service enhancements that directly benefit their rural patient population. At the same time, they completed a significant organizational re-alignment.
Dr. Freelove's group's accomplishments are both astonishing and inspiring.
Read about their PCMH transformation accomplishments
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Planning for Performance - Develop your staff to work at their highest level of licensures
 The beginning of a new year is often the time when practice leaders and managers consider goals for the coming year. Those goals should then be translated into the performance expectations for the staff. If you are transforming your practice to become a medical home, the review of the performance plan is an ideal time to discuss development opportunities with your staff members. Medical Home leaders should consider three factors in discussions with staff members. These should be focused on opportunities that will prepare them to become vital members of the Medical Home.
Click here for this workingpaper by Ana-Elena Jensen, PhD.
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Charles Moses and Glenn Seils Join TransforMED as Practice Enhancement Facilitators
TransforMED announces the addition of Charles Moses, MBA, MSHA, FACMPE and Glenn Seils to the TransforMED team of practice enhancement facilitators. Moses and Seils will be responsible for assisting primary care practices in implementing various components of the patient-centered medical home model of care. TransforMED facilitators have expertise in working with practices in many areas of focus such as change management, practice finance, team-building, leadership development, practice efficiencies, developing and understanding practice metrics, and more.
Read more about our new Practice Enhancement facilitators
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