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Physician Office Quality
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| To fulfill our contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), HealthInsight continues promoting transformational change in outpatient clinics to achieve more reliable delivery of preventive services and effective management of patients with chronic diseases through: |
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| In the physician's office, CMS continues to promote the quality of services with concentration on improving preventative care. The focus is on two cancer screening tasks (breast cancer and colorectal cancer), two immunization tasks (influenza and pneumococcal), and tasks on diabetes self-management (emphasis on reducing disparities in care) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) prevention. Preventative 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 preventative 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 Resources DOQ-IT University (register at http://elearning.qualitynet.org/) MedQIC (Medicare Quality Improvement Community) at http://www.medqic.org Clinical Guidelines (internet, professional societies) Community Resources (see Links) |
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