|
Recently, Jim Lehrer's NewsHour on PBS has aired a series of reports and conversations about the health care reform debate. Central to the debate is the issue of managing health care costs and improving health care quality. Several CAPP medical groups have been identified by the Obama administration as being models for a health care delivery system that can work.
The following is a story about the benefits of integrated delivery systems, such as Mayo, the Cleveland Clinic, and the Billings Clinic of Montana:
Montana Clinic Aims to Deliver Top-quality Care for Less:
For written story, click here. For video, click here.
The Cleveland Clinic's CEO, Dr. Toby Cosgrove, was interviewed recently on NewsHour about how physician collaboration could improve overall quality while lowering costs:
Cleveland Clinic Chief: Lower Care Costs Must Be Focus in Reform Efforts:
For written story, click here. For video, click here.
Change the Microenvironment: Delivery System Reform Essential to Controlling Costs, by Francis J. Crosson, MD, April 27, 2009
In this commentary, Dr. Crosson, chairman of the Council of Accountable
Physician Practices reminds policymakers that the most effective
policy solutions proposed to change payment and/or structural
delivery system reform will depend ultimately on their ability
to positively affect the "microenvironment" of the actual physician
practice.
See full story
Public and the Health Care Delivery SystemThis recent
NPR/Kaiser/Harvard survey highlights the public's attitudes and
experiences with the American health care delivery system. It
sheds light on Americans' experiences with issues such as electronic
medical records (EMR), coordination of care and comparative effectiveness.
NPR is planning a series of news reports on these findings.
See full story
Integrating Services for Low-Income Seniors Shows
Health Care Benefit, by Claire Sowerbutt, Contributing
Writer, MedPage Today, December 11, 2007.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 11 -- For low-income seniors, the likelihood
of providing the recommended standard of health care services
could be enhanced by integrating home-based and institutional
services, found researchers here.
See full story
“From
High Tech to Soft Touch: The Everett Clinic uses innovative ways
to control health care costs,” by Bryan Corliss, Washington CEO, November 26, 2007.
See full story
“CAPP’s
35 MSMGs [multispecialty medical groups] share a common vision
as learning organizations dedicated to the improvement of clinical
care. Their features include physician leadership and governance;
commitment to evidence-based care management processes; well-developed
quality improvement systems; team-based care; the use of advance
clinical information technology; and the collection, analysis,
and distribution of clinical performance information. These features
are congruent with the [Institute of Medicine’s] recommendations
on key elements needed to redesign delivery systems.”
From Chapter 5, “Developing the Test Bed—Linking Integrated Service Delivery Systems: Council of Accountable Physician Practices,” by Michael A. Mustile, MD. The Learning Healthcare System: Workshop Summary (IOM Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine), edited by LeighAnne Olsen, Dara Aisner, and J. Michael McGinnis, National Academies Press, 2007.
See full
story
“A shift from the current care model to a more coordinated care model centered on primary care is one potential way to help stave off the healthcare dilemma.”
“It's
too expensive to be a primary-care doctor,” by Debra A. Geihsler, president and CEO of Harvard Vanguard Medical
Associates & Atrius Health. Boston Globe, July 25, 2007.
See full story
|
©
2009 Council of Accountable Physician Practices. CAPP is a 501(c)(6)
organization affiliated with AMGA’s 501(c)(3) foundation.
Updated11/30/2009