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A "Meaningful User" is a Patient Centered Medical Home
 "…the TransforMED model for PCMH has nine components: the Patient, HIT, Practice Management, Quality and Safety, Team Care, Care Coordination, Care Management, Practice-Based services, and Access. Six of these nine modules are essentially the requirements for stage 1 meaningful use. TransforMED also adds practice-based services, access and team care which can certainly be complementary to ARRA while being critically important to primary care practices and patients in improving satisfaction at multiple levels and the financial viability of practices..."
Read Dr. McGeeney's CEO Report » |
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| TransforMED is Hiring Practice Enhancement Facilitators |
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TransforMED, headquartered in Kansas City, seeks qualified candidates for the position of Practice Enhancement Facilitator.
Facilitators are focused on redesigning practices to patient centered medical homes (PCMH) which includes implementing and measuring outcomes in efficiency, financial viability, quality improvement, patient satisfaction and team based performance.
View the responsibilities and requirements » |
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AAFP's new video calls for the Patient Centered Medical Home
to be at the center of any reform effort |
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| Salina Residency Practice Recaps a Successful First Year of PCMH Transformation |
It's been just a year since rural Salina Family HealthCare Center and the Smoky Hill Family Medicine Residency Program launched their medical home transformation initiative with the help of TransforMED.
They made significant health information technology improvements for efficiency, quality and safety. They implemented an innovative "Four Team Concept". And they added numerous service enhancements that directly benefit their rural patient population. At the same time, they completed a significant organizational re-alignment. Dr. Freelove's group's accomplishments are both astonishing and inspiring.
Read about their PCMH transformation accomplishments » |
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Popular Health IT webinar series from TransforMED and AMA now archived for on-demand access
The well-attended four-part Health IT webinar series co-presented by TransforMED and the AMA has concluded. If you missed the live sessions, you can still learn what it means to be a meaningful user of Health IT learn from experienced TransforMED facilitators and well-known HIT experts such as Dr. David Kibbe, Bruce Kleaveland, Dr. Todd Taylor, and Dr. Steve Waldren. To view the archived webinars – anytime, on your schedule – click here. |
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| Join TransforMED at PCPCC Stakeholder's Working Group Meeting
The March 30th PCPCC Stakeholder's Working Group Meeting will convene hundreds of CEOs, senior executives and government officials from the nation's largest employers, hospitals, health systems, physician practices, health plans, pharmaceutical companies and leading government agencies. TransforMED President/CEO, Terry McGeeney, MD, MBA, will speak. Space is limited, so register today!
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Planning for Performance –
Develop your staff to work at their highest level of licensure |
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The beginning of a new year is often the time when practice leaders and managers consider goals for the coming year. Those goals should then be translated into the performance expectations for the staff. If you are transforming your practice to become a medical home, the review of the performance plan is an ideal time to discuss development opportunities with your staff members. Medical Home leaders should consider three factors in discussions with staff members. These should be focused on opportunities that will prepare them to become vital members of the Medical Home.
Click here for this workingpaper by Ana-Elena Jensen, PhD » |
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| Meaningful Discussions on "Meaningful Use" for Practices |
Recently on Delta-Exchange, TransforMED's online, collaborative network, DX member Ken Bertka launched an interesting and valuable discussion among the social network's clinicians and thought leaders about the latest "meaningful use" criteria. Ken also posted documents that summarized the proposed criteria for physicians offices.
Other members provided links for users to submit comments regarding the criteria and contributed links to relevant websites and commentaries. As usual, the comments were thoughtful and to-the-point.
Wish you were part of a substantive, transformative discussion on the Patient-Centered Medical Home — with access to an expanding selection of resources and educational webinars?
Join with clinicians, PCMH experts and Health Reform thought leaders at www.transformed.com/delta-exchange. |
"It's the conversations between meetings that really matter.
TransforMED's Delta Exchange is better than any listserv tool to help
vet ideas, share learnings and promote collaboration. It's th"e next
best thing to face-to-face meetings!
Jay Fetter
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| FOCUS ON PATIENT EXPERIENCE |
What kind of experience are your patients having at your practice? Patient experience is core to the patient-centered medical home. TransforMED's Patient Experience Assessment Tool is a short, easily administered questionnaire, either online or via paper, that provides practices with information and insight on their patients' view of the services provided.
Costs vary, but typically start at $110 per month.
Find out more about the Patient Experience tool » |
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| Evaluating Patient Experience Key to Improving Practice |
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Measuring and improving patient satisfaction may be the most direct route to improving your practice. "The patient is at the center of the practice," Elaine Skoch, RN, MN, EMBA, CNAA, said during a TransforMED presentation on evaluating patient experience. "The first step is to measure how well you are doing so you know where and what to improve."
Read the article from AAFP's publication
UPCLOSE - A View of the Scientific Assembly » |
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| TransforMED | Welch Allyn EHR Prep-Select Webinar |
The new government economic stimulus package has provided significant incentives for physician practices to purchase and put to "meaningful use" an electronic health record (EHR) system — but the high costs, time and complexity of implementing an EHR system can be challenging for your team and your budget.
This archived online seminar demonstrates how the new EHR Prep-Select tool helps practices meet the challenge by walking you through a simple and effective step-by-step process of planning and preparation. Learn more about the year-1 meaningful use criteria for physicians at AAFP's "Noteworthy" blog.
This webinar will help you get your EHR transformation on track. CLICK HERE to access the webinar » |
Jonathan Hager, MD, an internist with Alexander Medical Group in Rochester, New York piloted the EHR Prep-Select program. Read what he had to had to say about it in Modern Medicine's "10 EHR lessons from 10 practices". |
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TransforMED and MGMA Launch Transformation Series
of Patient-Centered Medical Home Workbooks |
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TransforMED Practice Enhancement Facilitators are sharing their learnings in a series of workbooks that provide practices concise, step-by-step information on relevant topics in health care delivery and will be instrumental in ensuring success for your practice. The first two books titled the Patient-Centered Medical Home Access Workbook and the Patient-Centered Medical Home Care Management Workbook are now available for purchase.
Click here to find out more and get a promotional code so you can take advantage of the discounted TransforMED Member price » |
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| Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and TransforMED Join with Primary Care Physician Groups in Medical Home Pilot |
 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and TransforMED, a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), have introduced a pilot program in which 13 primary care physician groups in the Kansas City area will adopt a new model of health care known as the patient-centered medical home.
David Gentile, president and CEO-elect of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City said, "The undertaking of this pilot program is a critical initiative for our company."
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TransforMED's practice enhancement facilitators will work directly with doctors and their staff as they implement new technologies and processes to improve patient access and care outcomes, increase patient and physician satisfaction, and reduce errors to lower health care costs. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City will provide financial sponsorship for the two-year pilot program. Click here to read the press release »
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Download Your Blueprint for Practice Transformation:
The Updated TransforMED
Patient-Centered Model 2.3.3 |
In response to learnings from multiple Medical Home pilots and comments coming from health reform policymakers, the TransforMED model has recently been refined.
Download your copy »
Learn more about the model's new elements »
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| New evidence of the value of facilitation |
 The Robert Graham Center has released a new one-pager entitled "The Effect of Facilitation in Fostering Practice" by Carlos Roberto Jaén MD PhD, et al. The report summarizes the researchers' findings that "Working with facilitation agents measurably improves the ability of motivated primary care practices to move towards improved models of care." Read the Graham Center report »
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| Practice transformation services for practices of all sizes |
Every primary care practice needs to be at the helm of its own destiny, especially when it comes to changing habits and processes to serve patients better. But organizations are most likely to thrive in this course of action when they enlist an experienced guide who can ask the right questions, provide experience-based answers and increase access to strategic tools and resources. TransforMED's facilitated services combine wise counsel and a deep knowledge base with implementation options to fit any size practice or budget.
 • Medical Home Facilitation
• Baseline Practice Assessment
• Practice Retreats
• Delta-Exchange collaborative network
Let's discuss a work plan for your team's transformation.
Contact Dan McKean:
(913) 906-6323 or dmckean@transformed.com.
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| 22 TransforMED PCMH Pilot Practices Receive NCQA Recognition! |
 Transformation to a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a challenging task in and of itself, not to mention that payers often require participating practices to achieve NCQA certification in order to qualify for enhanced reimbursement within a pilot project. We're proud to announce that we helped 22 practices reach and often exceed their NCQA recognition goals — in less than a year. Click here to read more »
Click here to find out more about TransforMED's PCMH facilitation services »
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Joseph Mambu, MD : Achieving NCQA Level III
Family Medicine, Geriatrics and Wellness in Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania was recently recognized as a NCQA Level III Patient-Centered Medical Home. Practice leader, Joseph Mambu, MD answered a few questions about his practice's experience and offered some persuasive numbers: "As a participant in the SEPA Chronic Care Collaborative, we were financially incented to obtain our NCQA medical home certification...Our PPC-PCMH™ earned us approximately $57,000 for year one and $106,000 in both years two and three of the collaborative."
Read this fun and insightful Q&A with Dr. Mambu » |
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PATIENT EDUCATION TOOLS FOR PRIMARY CARE PRACTICES
TransforMED Partners with Emmi Solutions to Educate Patients About the Benefits of the Patient-Centered Medical Home
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Emmi Solutions, TransforMED and the PCPCC have partnered to create a web-based patient education tool designed to play an integral role in the transformation of primary care practices to Patient-Centered Medical Homes.
The result is an engaging and educational multimedia experience that helps patients understand the Patient-Centered Medical Home and their important role in the collaborative health and wellness relationship with their primary care practice. Click here to find out more »
Put this exciting patient education tool on your website for FREE by clicking the "Download it" button, above. |
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"How has your practice transformation journey
changed your leadership style?"
That's just one of the questions we asked the members of TransforMED's Touchstone Group at the recent Touchstone Reunion learning collaborative. The video responses are as inspiring, interesting and varied as the physician leaders themselves. The Touchstone group is a continuation of the collaboration between TransforMED and many of the practices that participated in the Medical Home pilot National Demonstration Project.
See all the Touchstone Group Leadership Videos »
Read about the Touchstone Group Learning Collaborative »
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| NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT UPDATE |
Preliminary Answers to Policy-Relevant Questions
From the Early Analyses of the Independent Evaluation Team of the National Demonstration Project of TransforMED |
Preliminary Answers Part 1: Is it easier for practices to provide chronic disease management if they have a self-populating disease registry integrated within the EMR? What are the primary challenges facing medical practices as they implement EMR and other forms of HIT? Is implementing HIT enough to transform a PC practice into a medical home? What type of support/resources, if any, do practices need as they attempt to make transformative changes? Read Part 1 for preliminary answers to these questions and more »
Preliminary Answers Part 2: What is the value of self-populating disease registries in chronic disease management? What has been the experience of small practices trying to implement an EHR and related technology? What is the concurrent issue of quality of life for primary care physicians when they have implemented the concepts of the patient centered model of care in their practice? What do we know about patient engagement and empowerment in a primary care practice making transformative changes? How long before we might see outcomes? Read Part 2 for preliminary answers to these questions and more » |
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Charles Moses and Glenn Seils Join TransforMED as Practice Enhancement Facilitators
TransforMED announces the addition of Charles Moses, MBA, MSHA, FACMPE and Glenn Seils to the TransforMED team of practice enhancement facilitators. Moses and Seils will be responsible for assisting primary care practices in implementing various components of the patient-centered medical home model of care. TransforMED facilitators have expertise in working with practices in many areas of focus such as change management, practice finance, team-building, leadership development, practice efficiencies, developing and understanding practice metrics, and more. Read more » |
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Toll Free 1.866.826.8700 | Phone 913.906.6330 | Fax 913.906.6326 | info@transforMED.com
TransforMED
also coordinates a residency demonstration initiative known as P4
– which stands for Preparing the Personal
Physician for Practice. P4 is leading the transformation of
family medicine residency education training to prepare tomorrow's physicians
for new models of care and demonstrate the value of science-based, high
quality, patient centered primary care. 
28 AAFP Chapters are now taking advantage of TransforMED's new AAFP Chapter Partner program. The partnership provides TransforMED tools, access to TransforMED speakers with expertise in areas related to the patient-centered medical home, special events, and other TransforMED resources to AAFP Chapters who join the program.