Blueprints for Building a Medical Home
Webinar Series
An 8-Session Webinar
Series to Transform Your Osteopathic Family Practice Into a Patient-Centered Medical
Home
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To define the quality of the
care you provide and to keep your practice financially viable in the coming
years, you need to transform your osteopathic family practice into a recognized
Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH).
The ACOFP’s new 8-session Blueprints
for Building a Medical Home webinar series will provide you with a
step-by-step methodology for achieving Level 1 NCQA recognition at a minimum,
whether or not you use an electronic medical records system at this time.
Sessions include:
- Session A. Introduction
to the Medical Home
- Session B.
Standard 1 – Enhance Access & Continuity
- Session C. Standard
2 – Identify & Manage Patient Populations
- Session D.
Standard 3 – Plan & Manage Care
- Session E.
Standard 6 – Measure & Improve Performance
- Session F.
Standard 5 – Track & Coordinate Care
- Session G. Standard
4 – Provide Self-Care Support & Community Resources
- Session H.
Medical Home Wrap-Up
Who Should
Participate
The Blueprints webinar series is designed for participation by
osteopathic family physicians and their office staff who are on the health care
quality team and whose goal is to provide quality care while making a
difference in the lives of their patients.
By becoming a recognized Medical Home, your practice may be
eligible for increased reimbursement that is available through participating
private and public health care plans.*
Webinar Format
Each monthly one-hour webinar will begin at 8:30 pm Eastern and include live
audio presentation with slides, followed by a question-and-answer session with
the speaker. One hour of AOA Category
1-A Continuing Medical Education credit is anticipated.
Select individual sessions at a registration fee of $25 per
session, or register for the entire series for the reduced registration fee of
$150.
Schedule
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Thursday, November 10, 2011 –
Speaker: Carol L. Henwood, DO, FACOFP
dist.
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Session A
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Introduction to the Medical
Home
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Session
Description: This session will provide
an overview to the PCMH certification program and the rationale behind its
use. In addition, we will discuss how
to prepare your practice staff, your own clinical workflows and processes for
certification.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 –
Speaker: Carol L. Henwood, DO, FACOFP
dist.
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Session B
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Standard 1 – Enhance Access
& Continuity
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Session
Description: This session will discuss
how to provide patients with increased access to care and information. Cultural and linguistic considerations will
be presented, as well as the importance of continuity of care.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012 – Speaker: Carol L. Henwood, DO, FACOFP dist.
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Session C
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Standard 2 – Identify &
Manage Patient Populations
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Session Description: This
session will discuss how to collect demographic and clinical data for
management of specific groups of patients (with high-risk conditions such as
diabetes, asthma, or CAD). In
addition, this session will demonstrate how to pro-actively identify patients
in need of preventative screenings such as mammograms, colonoscopies, etc. as
well as routine tests for certain conditions (i.e. HgA1c in diabetic patients
or bone density measurements in postmenopausal women).
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
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Session D
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Standard 3 – Plan &
Manage Care – Speaker: Algirdas A. Juocys, DO
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Session
Description: This session will address
how the practice identifies patients with specific conditions, including
high-risk or complex care needs and conditions related to health behaviors,
mental health or substance abuse problems. Pre-visit planning, assessment of
patient progress toward treatment goals, and identification (and solution of)
patient barriers to treatment goals will be covered. Medication reconciliation and electronic
prescribing will also be discussed.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012 – Speaker: Thomas G. Zimmerman, DO, FACOFP
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Session E
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Standard 6 – Measure & Improve
Performance
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Session
Description: This session will discuss
how the practice must use performance and patient experience data (such as
rate of hospitalizations and ER visits) to continuously improve the quality
of care and provider performance using both EMR as well as paper-based
systems.
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Thursday, April 12, 2012 – Speaker: Thomas. G. Zimmerman, DO, FACOFP
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Session F
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Standard 5 – Track &
Coordinate Care
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Session
Description: This session will address
how the practice tracks, follows-up, and coordinates tests, referrals, and
care at other facilities (such as hospitals, physical therapy, chemo, etc.). In particular, the use of both electronic
medical records (as well as paper-based systems) to achieve these
requirements will be discussed.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 – Speaker: Joseph C. Mazzola, DO, FAAFP
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Session G
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Session Description: During this session it will be demonstrated
how to assesses patient/family self-management abilities, and how to work
with patient/family to develop a self-care plan. Methods and strategies on how to connect
patients with educational materials and community resources will also be
discussed.
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Thursday, June 14, 2012 – Speaker: Carol L. Henwood, DO, FACOFP dist.
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Session H
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Session Description: This
session will summarize what has been covered in the previous sessions as well
as provide guidance on the how to prepare and submit your application to
become a recognized Patient-Centered Medical Home.
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*ACOFP cannot guarantee that your practice will be approved to receive this reimbursement, nor can ACOFP guarantee that your practice will achieve Medical Home recognition.