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Innovations Conference content now online

By Michael Soman, MD

 If you missed Group Health’s first-ever Innovations Conference on March 25, take the next two minutes to check out the highlight video. My colleagues wowed conference guests like State Health Officeer Maxine Hayes, King County Executive Dow Constantine, thought leaders from Puget Sound Health Alliance, and fellow doctors from Polyclinic, PacMed, Franciscan Hospital and dozens of other groups. 

Pioneering researcher, professor, and author John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH gave the keynote address on “Tracking Medicine: A Researcher’s Quest to Understand Health Care.”

Group Health created this event as a day of industry learning. It was a chance to share things we do know about transforming delivery systems, and more importantly, to talk about the things we have yet to learn.  Continue reading ‘Innovations Conference content now online’

Published on April 21, 2011 in Health Care Innovations, Health Care Reform, Medical Home, Quality Health Care and Research. 0 Comments

ACOs could spread cost saving innovations

By Michael Erikson

Dr. Harold Dash, President of the Board for The Everett Clinic, and I presented at The State of Reform conference on January 5 on the topic of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)  — or as we presented being accountable for the care of patients in ways that increase the quality care and is more affordable.

Much discussion at the conference at SeaTac focused on tough challenges posed by steep state budget cuts that will hit critical health programs as well as the rising cost of medical care.  So there was a lot of interest in the topic of ACOs, which have been held out as one of the few elements of reform aimed at improving care and bringing down costs. Continue reading ‘ACOs could spread cost saving innovations’

Published on January 7, 2011 in Accountable Care Organization, Health Care Reform, Medical Home, Medical Home, Preventive Care and Quality Health Care. 1 Comment

EHR powers the medical home and “mega-epidemiology”

By Eric Larson, MD, MPH

In recent news of Group Health’s success with the medical home, one of my favorite images was CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen sharing her own paper-based medical record with Group Health’s Dr. Eric Seaver. She lugged it from Atlanta to Factoria to make a point: Group Health, with its technology-rich medical home, is a vast improvement over how most Americans get their care.

“How does my doctor find anything in there?” she asked, pointing to the dictionary-sized folders.

“I have no idea,” Dr. Seaver said, returning to his exam-room computer with its tidy, searchable electronic health record (EHR). Just keystrokes away: all he needs to know about each patient’s medical history, prescriptions, lab results, screening schedules, and more.

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Published on May 25, 2010 in Health Care Reform and Medical Home. 0 Comments Tags: , , .