4. How can you realistically change practice
patterns?
Risk-sharing practices explored
Which P4P programs actually work?
What can plans do to ensure good physician
documentation practices?
How can plans and practices effectively
engage providers?
27. rethink your assumptions
that physicians don’t care
about quality
give us all of the data
work with us to help us analyze it
do this in small groups
stand back and watch what happens
29. take advantage of
where physicians
come from
we are high achievers
we are competitive
we recognize patterns
we use data to solve problems
we always want what’s best for the patient
50. MYTH MY OFFICE NOTES ARE FOR HELPING YOU
#4 WITH YOUR BLAH BLAH BLAH
51. lay enthusiasts have have imbued routine
office notes with more value than they
actually have
Clement McDonald, MD
Director, Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
National Library of Medicine
52. CMS began making Medicare EHR
incentive payments in May 2011 and, as
of September 2012, had paid about
$4 billion to 82,535 professionals and
1,474 hospitals
Daniel Levinson
November 2012 report, “Early assessment finds that CMS faces obstacles in
overseeing the Medicare EHR incentive program”
Office of the Inspector General
53. CMS anticipates spending an estimated
$6.6 billion in incentive payments
between 2011 and 2016
Daniel Levinson
November 2012 report, “Early assessment finds that CMS faces obstacles in
overseeing the Medicare EHR incentive program”
Office of the Inspector General
68. what’s the solution?
have a system that identifies new HCCs
use NPs for documentation
EHRs may be helpful but they have
to be interoperable
69. the real solution is to rethink medical education
to teach core behaviors, not core knowledge
to be thorough, accountable, reliable, 100%
Larry Weed, MD
Father of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record
82. make the new way of doing things,
feel just like the old way of doing things
to get faster adoption, quicker results
behavior change that will lead to a
change in attitude