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| Defining Team Roles for Improved Access and Quality |  |
Who's Who in the Medical Home
By Diane Cardwell, MPA, ARNP, PA-C
TransforMED Director of Practice Transformation
Case in Point Magazine - September 2011
"I get phone calls from someone at my doctor's office, but I am not sure who she is or why she is calling me."
"My day is so hectic. Many times I come out of a patient's room with a task that needs to be done and I don't know who to go to or who will ensure that the task is completed."
These are common complaints in the primary care setting, and all reflect opportunities to improve the team-based approach to healthcare...
Read the complete article
Need help creating effective, integrated, accountable medical teams? Contact TransforMED
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| Explore Strategies for Patient-Centered Care Transitions with TransforMED Experts at the Conference on Practice Improvement | 
Register for the Conference on Practice Improvement |
WHEN: December 1-4, 2011
WHERE: Newport Beach, California
The Conference on Practice Improvement will build on its 7-year history as the meeting place for health care providers to learn cutting-edge office improvements: organize the practice around the patients, streamline processes, engage staff, increase revenue, and provide consistent evidence-based care.
TransforMED's PCMH experts will present a highly interactive half-day mini-course entitled Navigating the Healthcare Maze: Care Transitions from the Patients' Perspective. The mini-course will be lead by Diane Cardwell, MPA, ARNP, PA-C, TransforMED Director of Practice Transformation with Noelle King-Whitlow, RN, MS, MHSA and Jettie Eddleman, BSN, RNC, TransforMED Practice Enhancement Facilitators.
Learn more about TransforMED's Pre-Conference Mini-Course
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Small Practice Solutions from TransforMED
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Small Practice Solutions are designed -- and priced -- exclusively for small practices with 1-4 providers, because small practices' flexibility and adaptability gives them an advantage in achieving measurable results from PCMH transformation. Find out more
 PCMH Assessment - identify expectations, define processes and clarify objectives- Gap Analysis - pinpoint both your practice's current state and any "low hanging fruit" PCMH opportunities that you can take advantage of now
- Comprehensive Transformation Plan - prioritize and operationalize roadmaps and timelines that meet your practice's PCMH needs and objectives
- Dedicated Program Advisor to provide guidance and feedback
- Memberships in Delta-Exchange - the online learning community for primary care. Access useful PCMH resources, connect with like-minded colleagues, ask questions of experts, and share "what works" with practice leaders who've "been there"
- ACO Resources and Services for PCPs
- On-site and On-line Learning Collaboratives - get everyone on the same page, educated, informed ... and working together
- PCMH Transformation Workbooks
- Assistance with NCQA Recognition
Interested in Small Practice Solutions? Click here
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| Small Primary Care Practices Take Center Stage with New McKesson Service | |
McKesson to leverage expertise of TransforMED for Patient-Centered Medical Home
"The PCMH model continues to gain momentum due to its high standard of care quality and the opportunity to be financially rewarded," said Dr. Terry McGeeney, president and CEO, TransforMED. "We are pleased to support McKesson in this significant new offering because we believe the company has a deep appreciation for the needs of today's primary care practice."
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"We felt like we were drowning in paperwork. We added McKesson's Practice Partner Patient Record EMR and then we started looking for ways to improve our processes and our quality. We wanted to create a better design for our workflow and we wanted to make our office more of a team."
Kristen K. Brown, MD
Westshore Family Medicine
Muskegon, MI
Read more in "Making Margin with the Medical Home"
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 Inspiring words about Delta-Exchange from the
September - October edition of Annals of Family Medicine
| | "...As its name implies the Delta-Exchange is a tool to create, refine, and disseminate change. It provides a place to "ask the experts" about an issue or topic. It allows one to disseminate and view online seminars. It contains "how to" articles on things like group visits and building teams. It allows us to build a wiki - a Web site developed collaboratively by a community where members can add and edit content using interlinked Web pages. It allows us to post ideas and build on them as a community. In essence, it is our asynchronous boardroom..."
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"The new CMS Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative will compensate primary care practices via a blended payment of a risk-adjusted care management fee averaging $20 pmpm, continued fee for service and a shared savings component. The shared savings flows directly to primary care practices and not hospitals or large systems as in the ACO pilots. CMS has clearly defined the future in what is expected of primary care going forward. The future that everyone has been talking about since 2004 is now..."
Terri Kuhn, BSN, RN, CCRP joins the team as a Practice Enhancement Facilitator
Stephanie Plumb, RHIA, MBA is a Practice Enhancement Facilitator
Sarah Stahl, MBA joins TransforMED as a Project Manager