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Upcoming Events
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Patient Centered Care in Action Regional Event
Thursday, April 25, 2013
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Registration starts at 8:30 a.m.
This event will be held in Logan, Moab, and St. George.
HealthInsight staff will be in person in each city to help you discover better solutions for patient centered care. Together, we interact, discuss, and share as well as hear from speakers via telehealth in Salt Lake City.
Click here for more information.
Utah Mammography Rates: Call to Action & Platform for Change
Friday, May 3, 2013
7:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
The Grand America Hotel
Register Now!
Join moderator, Dave Clark, President, VisumRx LLC and Former President, Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
in a robust and lively dialogue around mammography screening in Utah and innovative, multi-stakeholder strategies to improving screening rates.
Click here to view the agenda.
The Patient with Hypertension: Treatment Goals & Management Webinar
Friday, June 7, 2013
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. MT
The Health Sciences Institute invites you to join their webinar where they will: - Detail the prevalence of hypertension in the U.S.
- Describe the change in goal BP in 2013 with new guidelines
- Summarize lifestyle changes and hypertension self-care
- Review medication guidelines for treatment of hypertension
Click here for more information. Learning and Action Network: Discovery Learning Series Every 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of the month from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. (ET) Please join us for a series of interactive, dynamic adult learning events that will cover a series of quality improvement topics.
Whether you are planning your next staff meeting or participating in a Learning & Action Network, these sessions will be highly interactive, engaging, disciplined, fast-moving and content rich. Click here for more information
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Welcome to the Clinically Speaking eNewsletter. We hope you find this monthly newsletter a valuable resource as we keep you updated on healthcare specific issues, such as; diabetes care, health information technology, cardiac care, and upcoming events that are relevant to your work.
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Meaningful Use Stage 2 Updates
 "In August 2012, the Federal Register posted the final rule for the EHR incentive program announcing the Meaningful Use Stage 2 criteria. This final rule includes a few changes to 2013 Stage 1 requirements and reporting periods, in addition to the Stage 2 criteria. Click here
to go to the CMS fact sheet.
The reporting period for 2014 is now a 90-day requirement tied to a calendar quarter, instead of the full year. In addition, the total number of required measures has remained the same. However, there are some differences in the distribution between core and menu sets." Read more . . .
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Disparities in Cardiac Health:
What Can You Do?
 "Disparities (whether based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, rural/urban residence) exist in health care. As noted in the most recent National Healthcare Disparities Report, health care quality and access are suboptimal, especially for minority and low-income groups, and these disparities are not improving over time. Just take a look at some the following information from the Utah Department of Health on disparities in heart disease indicators:" Read more. . .
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Smoking Cessation & Meaningful Use
Your patients want to quit, you can help!
"Office visits are a great setting to start a discussion about smoking cessation. In fact, you can't reach meaningful use without discussing the smo  king status of your patients, but that discussion should not stop after the clinic visit. The Utah Department of Health in conjunction with National Jewish Health operates a quit line (1.800.QUIT.NOW) where your patients can speak to a trained coach. These coaches use motivational interviewing techniques to design a tailored quit plan for each patient. Not only do receive patients receive one-on-one coaching/counseling; they can receive pharmacotherapy, e.g. nicotine gum, at no cost. This combination of behavior modification, personal interaction and pharmacotherapy will give your patients best possible chance at beating a nicotine addiction." Read more . . . |
Medication Adherence:
We Didn't Ask and They Didn't Tell
Marie T. Brown, MD, FACP, and Christine A. Sinsky, MD, FACP
 "One of the most effective medical interventions to significantly improve the health of your patients doesn't require the latest technology or expensive medication but simply involves helping them take their existing medication as prescribed.
Increasing the effectiveness of adherence interventions may have a far greater impact on the health of the population than any improvement in specific medical treatments," according to the World Health Organization.1" Read more . . .
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Health IT in Long-term and Post Acute Care
 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology issue brief provides an overview of the opportunities for long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers to use health information technology (IT) to improve care delivery and health outcomes while reducing total cost of care. Read more . . .
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Sign the Million Hearts Pledge Today!
 "Million Hearts™ is a national initiative that was launched by the Department of Health and Human Services in September 2011 to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. To strengthen support for the initiative, Million Hearts™ is seeking commitments and participation from organizations to target improvements in both clinical preventive practice and community prevention. We all have a role to play in achieving the Million Hearts™ goal." Read more. . . Click here to view the pledge map! Click here to sign the pledge. |
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About Our Work
This information is provided by HealthInsight, a private, non-profit, community-based organization dedicated to improving health and health care. HealthInsight serves as the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, Beacon Community, and Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center in Utah. HealthInsight leads an initiative to improve diabetes care, cardiac care, population-based care, and improve the use of health information technology. To learn more about us, visit our website at: www.healthinsight.org
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This material was prepared by HealthInsight, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Nevada and Utah, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. 10SOW-UT-2013-PO-42 This material was prepared by HealthInsight as part of our work as the IC3 Beacon Community, under grant #90BC00006 and as the Regional Extension Center for Nevada and Utah, under Cooperative Agreement #90RC0033/01 from the Office of the National Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services.
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