The Chronic Care Model for Physician Offices Preventing Medicare Consumers from Getting Sick The prevention of major illness is the first step in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It seems so simple, yet every day Medicare consumers who can and should get screenings and vaccinations don’t. There is a very real need for more effective strategies for delivering preventive medicine to those who need it the most.
In the 9th Scope of Work, we are helping health care providers to use their electronic health record systems to implement care management processes to improve the rate of patients that receive:
Breast & colorectal cancer screenings
Influenza & pneumococcal immunizations
For more information about these projects, contact us.
To subscribe to the physician listserv, a discussion forum that utilizes e-mail as its means of communication, follow this link. The listserv is for providers participating in the Pennsylvania Physician Office Prevention Project.
Visit Medicare's new Web site to find out about the Medicare and Medicaid incentives for electronic health records adoption as provided for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. You will find:
- A fact sheet
- A press release about meaningful data
- Privacy and security resources
Download Medicare's Practical Guide to the E-Prescribing Incentive Program
Download the inclusion criteria for breast and colorectal cancer screenings and influenza and pneumococcal immunizations for the following quarters:
June 2009 data details
March 2009 data details
January 2009 data details