Announcements June 30, 2016
Q Corp is pleased to announce the release of its second round of Clinic Comparison Reports. Earlier this month, reports were sent to 176 primary care clinics across the state.
Q Corp is pleased to announce the release of its second round of Clinic Comparison Reports. Earlier this month, reports were sent to 176 primary care clinics across the state.
Washington, D.C., June 17, 2016 – On June 17, Q Corp joined the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform (CHQPR) and 100 senior healthcare leaders from across the country to discuss eight barriers to successful health care payment reform.
During this presentation, leaders from Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation, Meredith Roberts Tomasi and Doug Rupp, and guest speaker Micheal Whitbeck from Northwest Primary Care, will share the story of their state’s TCOC reporting program
You've submitted your 2015 data to CMS under requirements for PQRS and/or MU and/or another program. Your feelings are:
Oregon has been selected as one of fourteen regions to take part in the CPC+ initiative that will start on January 1, 2017. Practice applications for CPC+ are now open on the online portal through September 15, 2016. The CMS website has practice application questions, along with additional important information for practices and vendors regarding Health IT requirements (Appendix B and C from the original RFA).
"By 2035, current primary care production rates will be unable to meet demand, resulting in a shortages in excess of 33,000 primary care physicians" (Petterson, et al., 2015). However, high-functioning teams that utilize registered nurses (RNs) to manage some conditions can help narrow this gap. Join us on August 16 for a sample of Nurse Visit types - vetted through the Nursing Innovation Collaborative - to bring back to your practice.
Over the past several years, HealthInsight Management Corporation, HealthInsight Oregon (formerly Acumentra Health) and Q Corp have been partners in a variety of health care quality improvement activities nationally and in Oregon, including the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Program and other QI activities.
The concept of medical home was first introduced in 1967 by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as a model specifically designed for children and youth with special healthcare needs (CYSHCN).
Given the need to control health care spending and to address social factors that impact the lifelong health of children and costs, there is a need to identify WHICH children would most benefit from complex care management. Secondly, there is a need to identify WHAT team will best meet the needs of child and family.
Join us for part one of this two-part webinar series that reviews the nuts and bolts of screening and treatment of depression in primary care.
Join us for part two of this two-part webinar series that reviews the nuts and bolts of screening and treatment of depression in primary care. This section will review workflow and clinical engagement.
Please join Q Corp staff for a monthly orientation to the resources available to primary care practices and other stakeholders through the Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute. This 30 minute orientation is limited to up to 20 participants each session, and is an ideal welcome for people who are new to their positions within primary care transformation.
Please join Q Corp staff for a monthly orientation to the resources available to primary care practices and other stakeholders through the Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute. This 30 minute orientation is limited to up to 20 participants each session, and is an ideal welcome for people who are new to their positions within primary care transformation.
Looking to learn more about how CPC+ will work to “dramatically improve the infrastructure of primary care clinics”? Moderators from Care Management Plus and the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network will field questions from Oregon practices interested in participating in CPC+.
The Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) recently released their “Roots” Anthology; a compilation of individual histories, areas of expertise and highlights of how each RHIC is advancing the transformation of health and health care.
Member organizations include hospitals, local public health agencies, and health plans.
Find their Community Health Improvement Plans (CHIP) or Community Health Assessments (CHA) here >>>
In 2014, the Healthy Columbia Willamette Collaborative created Community Health Improvement Teams (C-HITs), comprised of content experts, to develop work plans and evaluation protocols for community health improvement strategy areas including the promote of breastfeeding/breast milk support, and prevention of prescription opioid misuse.
The results of these projects are below.
Lactation in the Workplace Toolkit