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Your Update to All Things Beacon and Meaningful Use |
Greetings!
Welcome to the IC3 Beacon Community and Meaningful Use bi-monthly newsletter. You are a valued participant in the HealthInsight Regional Extension Center (REC) and Beacon programs. We hope you find this series of emails educational and informative as we keep you updated on recent program activities. We look forward to working together helping you achieve your Beacon Aims and Meaningful Use goals.
BEACON COMMUNITY UPDATE |
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Join Us for the Patient Centered Care in Action Learning and Action Networks Kick-Off Event
Join HealthInsight's Quality Improvement Program, IC3 Utah Beacon Community, and Regional  Extension Center for our first Learning and Action Network series.
We invite you and your colleagues to this landmark event in Salt Lake City where we will jump-start our community collaboration to promote the best in patient-centered care.
We will start the day with a morning plenary followed by learning and action networks in the afternoon.
Three Learning & Action Network choices for afternoon tracks:
- Cardiac Health
- Care Transitions
- Health Information Technology
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Care Transitions Need Improvement, Simple Technology Can Address Process Ailments
By Janhavi M. Kirtane & Korey Capozza
Today, nearly 1 in 5 patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within 30 days. Simple IT-enabled processes and tools can help make care transitions easier for patients, care givers and providers by addressing the gaps and burdens in care coordination. Doing so will help achieve the mission of better care, better health and lower costs. <<<Read full article on health2news.com>>> |
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The IC3 Utah Beacon is Now on Twitter
The IC3 Utah Beacon Community has officially launched their own Twitter page! Follow @IC3UtahBeacon to learn more about upcoming events, as well as local and national updates about your Beacon Community.
If you have a Beacon-specific message you would like tweeted, please contact Heidi Smith at hsmith@healthinsight.org. |
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REGISTER TODAY!
Transformation of Primary Care Practices Symposium
Please join us on Thursday, May 10th, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM, for the CME-accredited Transformation of Primary Care Practices Symposium. In this symposium, leaders and researchers from the University of Utah's "Care by Design," the University's model of Patient Centered Medical Home, will describe implementation of primary care practice transformation. Members of a distinguished National Advisory Committee for the University's efforts will provide national perspective on the challenges and benefits of transformation.
For more details about speakers, CME information, topics, expected outcomes, and learning objectives, please see the attached PDF flyer. To register by the May 7th deadline, contact Stephanie Barber at sbarber@healthinsight.org.
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Interactive Map of National Type 2 Diabetes Rates
Type 2 diabetes is fast becoming an epidemic in the United States and in other western countries. It is estimated that 25.8 million Americans are affected by the disease-8.3 percent of the population. And the number increases every year.
While lifestyle choices such as an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise are often to blame, it is a little more complicated than that. It's not just an individual's lack of control or motivation that leads him or her to develop type 2 diabetes; it is a whole host of mitigating factors, many of which are systemic in nature.
This data visualization project attempts to help show how poverty and lack of access to fresh fruits and vegetables (defined in this project as a "food desert") can create an environment in which developing type 2 diabetes is, for some people, easier than not.
The interactive map can be access on www.healthline.com. |
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| This material was prepared by HealthInsight as part of our work as the Regional Extension Center for Nevada and Utah, under grant #90RC0033/01 from the Office of the National Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services. |
| This material was prepared by HealthInsight as part of our work as the Beacon Community, under Cooperative Agreement grant #90BC00006 from the Office of the National Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services. |
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