The Education Planning Committee Needs Your Help -

Hello Everyone,  

We're excited this year that at our Annual Update on April 10-11th we will be holding a poster competition for Family Medicine Residents. The poster competition first begins with judging of abstracts that are currently being sent in to us. From this we hope to select three finalists, who will then give 10 minute oral presentations on Friday, April 11th.

We need assistance from our Family Physician colleagues to volunteer to participate as reviewers or judges. We will need two or three abstract reviewers. If you would be able to volunteer as an abstract Our Executive Director, Deborah Halbach will send out the abstracts March 1st to those who are interested with an evaluation form link (via Survey Monkey tool) that will need to be filled out.

Please email Deborah at the MAFP if you are willing to be a reviewer - thank you! 

In addition, on April 11th, we will need three judges on-site, who will sit in on all three oral presentations and select a winner. I will provide evaluation forms for the abstracts and judging forms for the oral presentations.

The education committee would appreciate any help that can be provided for this part of the conference. We hope it will provide more resident attendance and encouragement as well as increase our prowess for academic medicine in the Family Medicine community in Maine.

 

Primary Care Practice Reports Being Sent to all Primary Care Practices in Maine

On Jan. 30, the Maine Health Management Coalition Foundation began distributing Primary Care Practice Reports to all Primary Care practices in Maine. This work is supported by the State of Maine's State Innovation Model (SIM) award.

The goal of the Primary Care Practice Report is to demonstrate practice pattern variation in cost and quality compared to state benchmarks.  The Primary Care Practice Report displays information based on medical and pharmacy claims data for all patients attributed to a given primary care practice. The report is based on ALL of the attributed patient's claims data, regardless of where care was received. Example: Jane Doe is attributed to Fictional Family Practice. Fictional Family Practice's Primary Care Practice Report is based on all of healthcare services Jane received, regardless of the servicing provider or location of service. For instance, all of the specialty care Jane received for a knee replacement, outside of her primary care practice, will be included in the Fictional Family Practice's report.

Please note that the Primary Care Practice Report is the property of the practice and will not be released directly to the public or distributed to others without written consent.

The Maine Health Management Coalition Foundation will be offering introductory regional trainings throughout March 2014 they will be presenting detailed descriptions of the report content, responding to questions, and providing support to help attendees understand and identify ways to use these reports to drive improvement.  

In the event you cannot make a regional training, a pre-recorded webinar and regional training are available HERE 

Please feel free to follow up with the MHMC data team (data@mehmc.org) to discuss any questions you may have concerning your report.