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This week's industry news

1.) Aetna, CMOH Launch First Oncology Medical Home

Designed to increase treatment coordination, and improve quality outcomes and costs for cancer patients, Aetna and Consultants in Medical Oncology and Hematology, PC (CMOH) have launched a first-of-its-kind patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model for oncology.

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2.) Medical Home Neighborhoods: Uplinking Specialists To Create Integrated Systems of Care

This webinar examines the trend toward patient-centered medical neighborhoods and effective strategies for building out the neighborhood. The director of BDC Advisors shares his expertise in developing these systems of care.


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3.) 3 Recommendations for Funding New Team-Based Healthcare Models

Physician-led, team-based models of care are the future of healthcare, according to the AMA, as evidenced by its successes in such healthcare organizations as Mayo Clinic, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare and Kaiser Permanente.

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4.) Case Study in Physician Practice and Payment Transformation: The CDPHP Experience

This resource chronicles the clinical and financial journeys of this network model health plan, sharing practical strategies and lessons learned from this two part-process.



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5.) Healthcare Business White Paper: Mobile Health in 2013 - Diabetes, Heart Disease Top Targets for Technologies

The use of mobile health (mHealth) technologies has transformed the exchange of healthcare data, with mobile apps monitoring everything from blood sugar to medication adherence, and text-based reminders urging smokers not to give into that craving. In its first mHealth e-survey conducted in March 2013, the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN) captured current trends in emerging mHealth technologies. Nearly 150 healthcare organizations describe the technologies they use, the conditions and populations they target, and the challenges and successes they've encountered along the way.

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6.) Staying on Medication May Not Lower Hospital Readmissions

High-risk heart failure patients receiving nursing intervention were four times as likely to take their medication, but their hospital readmission rates were not impacted, according to a study at Duke Medicine.

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7.) New Chart: What's the ROI from Care Transition Management?

Proper management of transitions in care - the handover of an individual's care from one health setting to another - has the potential to dramatically hasten that person's return to health, as well as reduce the likelihood of a return ER visit or rehospitalization. We wanted to see what ROI was generated by care transition management programs.

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8.) 2013 Healthcare Benchmarks: Improving Medication Adherence

This resource provides actionable information from more than 100 healthcare organizations on efforts to improve medication adherence and compliance in their populations. Now in its third year, this annual analysis documents the impact of these programs on adherence and compliance levels, medication costs, ER visits, hospital and skilled nursing facility admissions, risk of death, and other areas of concern.

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10.) 2013 Healthcare Benchmarks: Telehealth & Telemedicine

This resource provides actionable new information from more than 125 healthcare organizations on their utilization of telehealth and telemedicine, and documents trends and metrics on current and planned telehealth and telemedicine initiatives and includes a year-over-year comparison of telehealth trends from 2009 to present.

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11.) 6 Keys to a Successful Care Management Program for Dual Eligibles

Developing a communication hub is critical to a successful care coordination plan for dual eligibles, says Timothy C. Schwab, MD, FACP, former chief medical officer of SCAN Health Plan. It ensures that all members of the immediate and long-term support team are in sync with each other.

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12.) Guide to Dual Eligibles Care Coordination

This resource provides the principles of a comprehensive care coordination effort for Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries, taking into account the medical, behavioral, social and functional needs of this vulnerable population.


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13.) HINfographic: The Medical Home Neighborhood

There are more than 6,037 PCMH sites in the United States, according to the NCQA. To further reduce fragmented care, many PCMHs are expanding to house the entire care continuum - a phenomenon known as the Medical Neighborhood. Medical home neighbors include specialists along with primary care clinicians to better coordinate care, according to a new infographic from the Healthcare Intelligence Network. This HINfographic also includes successful tactics for medical home 'neighbors,' signs of a desirable medical neighborhood, and more.

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14.) Medicare Pioneer ACO Year One: Lessons from a Top-Performer

Lauded for its care coordination service, Monarch had to overcome a few challenges when retrofitting the Naylor Transition of Care (TOC) model for the ACO - among them insufficient patient access, patient skepticism and resource limitations. By focusing on readmissions reductions and four disease management conditions - ESRD, COPD, CHF and diabetes - and creating a care coordination team that included the newly created care navigator, case managers, and pharmacist, the organization has improved patient compliance, reduced negative drug interactions and hospital days and improved patients access to community services.    

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