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June 2024
Get June-Spired!
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The 4th Annual Health Information Exchange (HIE) Conference last week was a complete success. The keynote speaker, Dr. Tim Pletcher, showed us how to harness the power of information technology to empower communities and bridge the public-private divide. Yasir Bakko, MBA, a Director of Informatics from Oakland Physician Network Services, examined the effectiveness of remote patient monitoring devices. We heard from Sophia Speroff, MPH, RD, a Population Health Project Manager at Medical Network One, about ways to support primary care practices with actional data, and strategies for how to engage in patient experience of care surveys. Jenifer Hughes, M.Ed., Melissa Kirshner, MPH, Alex Tracy, and Angela Vanker, MPH, talked about how Michigan HealthLink, an Organized System of Care comprised of GMP Network, Livingston Physician Organization, Olympia Medical, and Oakland Southfield Physicians, leveraged key clinical indicators supplied through health information exchange (HIE) data to bolster the identification and engagement of the pre-diabetes patient population. Megan Cogswell, MPH, and Lisa B Brown, MD, FAAP, at We Are For Children, LLC, went over Post-Partum Depression (PPD) in the Pediatric Medical Home.
Lastly, there was a panel discussion with Sharon Kim as moderator with panelists Elizabeth Haberkorn, DNP, FNP-BC at Medical Network One and Judson Center Family Health, Jenifer Murray, RN, MPH, a Public Health Consultant at Northern Michigan Community Health Innovation Region, Janée Tyus, MPH, a Senior Program Director at Greater Flint Health Coalition, and Trevor Youngquist, MPA, a Population Health Data Exchange Analyst at University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Care Network (UMH-SCN). The panel explained the growing importance of data sharing in improving health equity, discussed how provider organizations and community-based organizations are leveraging SDOH data to make improvements across the care continuum, and recognized the importance of a Community Health Worker when building community partnerships.
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June Blog
We may often think that only older people get cataracts. But did you know that if there is someone in your family with cataracts, you are at a higher risk for them yourself? June is a National Health Observance Month for cataracts so the public can be educated on this leading cause of vision loss, along with the symptoms, types, and surgery.
Did you know that cataracts are the world’s leading cause of blindness in approximately forty-two percent of all cases? That was surprising to hear. Here in the United States, there are more than twenty-five million people that are estimated to have cataracts.
What is a cataract?
It is a clouding of the lens of the eye. The lens blocks or changes as light passes through the eye and is normally transparent. It is located behind the pupil and the colored iris. Having a cataract stops light from passing to the retina so vision may be blurry or dim.
Symptoms:
- Light seems to be too dim to read or do close-up work
- Bright lights cause the loss of clear vision
- Hard to drive especially at night
- May see halos around lights
- Colors may not seem as bright
- Blurry vision, double, vision, feeling like a film is over the eyes
- Seeing a yellowish or milky spot in your pupil
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Risk factors:
- Older age
- Hereditary
- Intense heat, radiation, exposure to UV sun rays
- Eye inflammation
- Diabetes, arthritis, metabolic disorders
- Eye injuries
- Eye infections
- Certain medicines such as long-term steroid use or cancer medication
- Infection during pregnancy with measles or rubella
- Smoking
If you have any of the symptoms along with the risk factors listed above, see your eye care professional who will be able to diagnose a cataract during a dilated eye exam. You and your doctor can discuss what treatment would work best for you at this time. Surgery doesn’t always have to be done early on. Sometimes brighter lights at home, anti-glare sunglasses, or new glasses or contacts can help. If cataracts progress, then surgery becomes the option.
Cataract surgery is an elective procedure done with lasers. Providers recommend to patients to have it done when the cataract causes enough vision loss to interfere with their daily lives. The clouded lens is removed and replaced with an artificial lens implant. It is an outpatient procedure. Often times, patients can resume their normal activities in a few days with vision continuing to improve in the weeks and months ahead.
It is nice to know that cataracts are easily treatable. In this Cataract Awareness Month, it is important to stay informed about one of the leading causes of vision loss in our country.
http://preventblindness.org/cataract/
https://preventblindness.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/MK08-Cataract-Facts-1.pdf
https://www.nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-health/eye-conditions-and-diseases/cataracts
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Practice Transformation Institute is a Michigan Institute of Care Management and Transformation (MICMT) approved statewide trainer. The MICMT is the coordinating center for the BCBSM Provider Delivered Care Management (PDCM) program.
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The Introduction to Team-Based Care course helps the learner better understand how to work in a multidisciplinary care team and in collaboration with the patient. Open to all members of the practice to gain foundational knowledge in Team-Based Care. Introduction to Team-Based Care will include:
- Why, What, Who and How: Team-Based Care
- Care Management Process
- Outcomes and Triple AIM
- Billing Applications
*This course is required for all care team members new to their role in order to bill PDCM codes.
Cost: $300 per participant
Course Date and Time: (Live Virtual)
Successful Course Completion includes:
- Attendance at the entire course. If attending live virtual, you must have audio and see the live slides
- Completion of the course post-test: need to have a score of 80% or greater
- Completion of the course evaluation
Please visit the MICMT website or www.transformcoach.org for additional information.
Opportunity to earn continuing education contact hours are available. Click here for more information.
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The Patient Engagement’s goal is for all Care Team Members to learn engagement tools/skills in order to have productive conversations with patients about their health including basic motivational interviewing skills.
The Care Team Member will build upon this foundation, to utilize patient engagement skills in different situations such as Medication Assisted Treatment, (MAT) and Palliative Care.
*It is strongly recommended to take Introduction to Team Based Care before taking this course.
For additional details, please visit https://micmt-cares.org/training/patient-engagement
Cost: $300 per participant
Course Date and Time: (Live Virtual)
Successful Course Completion includes:
- Attendance at the entire course. If attending live virtual, you must have audio and see the live slides
- Completion of the course post-test: need to have a score of 80% or greater
- Completion of the course evaluation
Please visit the MICMT website or www.transformcoach.org for additional information.
Opportunity to earn continuing education contact hours are available. Click here for more information.
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The Foundational CM Codes and Billing Opportunities course builds upon the Introduction to Team-Based Care course, focusing on reimbursement for care management services. The course is designed to support and train physician organizations and practice staff on care management billing.
The course includes:
- Care Team Coding and Billing is a Team Sport
- Billing Optimization
- Billing Applications
- Billing Resources
*This course is open for identified Physician Organization billing subject matter experts.
Learning Objectives:
Members of the health care team; Nurses, Social Workers, Pharmacists, Registered Dietitians, Medical Assistants, Community Health Workers, and others will be able to:
- Identify members of a care team
- Define health care coding and health care billing
- Describe the two common health care coding classification systems
- Explain the importance of documenting the encounter
- Illustrate how a care team member may impact risk adjustment and the financial model of a practice
Cost: $150.00 per participant
Course Date and Time (Live Virtual):
Opportunity to earn continuing education contact hours are available. Click here for more information.
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