Physician Office Practices

HealthInsight continues to promote transformational change in physicians’ offices to achieve more reliable delivery of preventive services and effective and efficient management of patients with chronic diseases through support for the adoption, implementation, and effective use of electronic health records (EHR).

Improving Health for Populations and Communities

To fulfill our contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HealthInsight continues to promote transformational change in physicians' offices to achieve more reliable delivery of preventive services and effective management of patients with chronic diseases through:

• Improving population health, focusing the following measures:
• Flu immunization
• Pneumococcal immunization
• Appropriate low-dose aspirin therapy
• Blood pressure control
• Cholesterol control
• Smoking cessation
• Colorectal cancer screening
• Breast cancer screening

• Supporting physicians to use their EHR to participate and report data in the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) program
• Implementing a Learning and Action Network, focused on effective use of clinical decision support, clinical quality improvement, and using the EHR to track and improve population health
• Convening medical experts, community partners, and physicians in a Learning and Action Network to address:

1. Smoking cessation
2. Aspirin therapy
3. Blood pressure control
4. Cholesterol control

• Integrating health information technology to achieve meaningful use and improve care coordination and prevention

Preventive care anticipates the probability of an individual developing a disease based on their individual risk factors. Prevention is any activity that reduces the burden of disease mortality or morbidity.

Who Benefits From Preventive Care?

• The individual patient
• The clinician (and office staff)
• The public in general

Keys to Getting it Done

• Assess and improve workflow (patient specific workflows, population specific workflows)
• Clinical decision support through the effective use of health information technology
• Population care management

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The Million Hearts campaign will be complementary to the HealthInsight Cardiac Learning and Action Network which is convening medical experts, community partners, and physicians to address: smoking cessation, aspirin therapy, blood pressure control, and cholesterol control in Nevada and Utah.

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