What's in your Patient Portal???

Now consider what could be in your portal…

A revolutionary new way to engage and empower all stakeholders in the healthcare learning system.

Think for a moment about Gamification and The Institute of Medicine's new report  "The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America"

The Characteristics of a Continuously Learning Health Care System...

Science and Informatics

Real-time access to knowledge—A learning health care system continuously and reliably captures, curates, and delivers the best available evidence to guide, support, tailor, and improve clinical decision making and care safety and quality.

Digital capture of the care experience— A learning health care system captures the care experience on digital platforms for real-time generation and application of knowledge for care improvement. 

Patient-Clinician Partnerships

Engaged, empowered patients— A learning health care system is anchored on patient needs and perspectives and promotes the inclusion of patients, families, and other caregivers as vital members of the continuously learning care team.

Incentives

Incentives aligned for value— A learning health care system has incentives actively aligned to encourage continuous improvement, identify and reduce waste, and reward high-value care.

Full transparency— A learning health care system systematically monitors the safety, quality, processes, prices, costs, and outcomes of care, and makes information available for care improvement and informed choices and decision making by clinicians, patients, and their families.

Continuous Learning Culture

Leadership-instilled culture of learning— A learning health care system is stewarded by leadership committed to a culture of teamwork, collaboration, and adaptability in support of continuous learning as a core aim.

Supportive system competencies— A learning health care system constantly refines complex care operations and processes through ongoing team training and skill building, systems analysis and information development, and creation of the feedback loops for continuous learning and system improvement.

These games represent more than education, more than engagement – they represent an innovative way for patients and clinicians to work together for a healthier tomorrow.

We are successfully changing the current landscape through integrated delivery systems, higher quality care, and advanced technology. These innovations are transforming the way we manage populations through big data.

But once the opportunity has been identified, do we have the tools to close the gap?

We do now -

This has been the most amazing journey yet, and now because of your overwhelming interest and support we have a new venture…. www.mHealthgames.com

If you are looking to add games to your current patient portal – this is AWESOME!

If you need a portal and games - We can HELP you too!

Patient enrollment, use, and satisfaction with patient portals

Many physicians are adopting patient portals in response to governmental incentives for meaningful use (MU), but the stage 2 requirements for portal use may be particularly challenging for newer electronic health record (EHR) users. This study examines enrollment, use based on MU requirements, and satisfaction in a recently-adopting fee-for-service multispecialty system. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) financial incentives for meaningful use (MU)1 likely will persuade many reluctant doctors to adopt electronic health records (EHRs). However, there are strong concerns about whether most physicians will be able to adopt and utilize these EHRs to meet MU standards.

The study team examined data from 2010 to 2012 of users of a available patient portal linked to the EHR of a multispecialty academic group practice and 10 affiliated community primary care clinics. Patient portals linked to commercial EHRs are likely to offer the most commercially practical way for new EHR users to meet CMS MU patient access regulations. The results indicate that even some large centers with patient portals will have difficulty with some of their physicians' enrollment targets.

The study suggests that patients at later-adopting centers are moving quickly to embrace online programs, and that primary care, but not specialty physicians, can satisfy many of their expectations even without large redesigns of care.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/274538.php

The next-generation set of standards for patient-centered medical homes, called PCMH 2014.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance has released a next-generation set of standards for patient-centered medical homes, called PCMH 2014.

The accreditation organization uses the standards to assess primary care practices seeking NCQA PCMH Recognition. About 7,000 practice sites with 35,500 clinicians have received recognition and that accounts for more than 10 percent of the nation’s practices, according to NCQA.

The new standards cover six primary areas: patient-centered access, team-based care, population health management, care management and support, care coordination and care transitions, and performance measurement and quality improvement.

Further, there are six must-pass elements necessary for recognition: patient-centered appointment access, components of the practice team, using data for population management, care planning and self-care support, referral tracking and follow-up, and implementing continuous quality improvement.

“To earn NCQA recognition, practices must meet rigorous standards for addressing patient needs; for example, offering access after office hours and online so patients can get care and advice where and when they need it,” according to the organization. “PCMHs get to know patients in long-term partnerships, rather than through hurried, sporadic visits. They make treatment decisions with their patients, based on patient preference. They help patients become engaged in their own healthy behaviors and healthcare.”

NCQA also continues to emphasize the importance of meaningful use of health information technology and health information exchange to support coordinated and patient-centered care, across provider sites.

According to NCQA, changes in the new standards include:

* Integrating behavioral health into a practice: Practices are expected to collaborate with behavioral health providers and communicate the benefits of such treatment to patients.

* Focusing care management on high-need populations:  Practices are expected to address socioeconomic drivers of health and poorly controlled or complex conditions.

* Enhanced emphasis on team-based care: This includes a higher emphasis on collaboration with patients and establishing team-based care as a “must-pass” criterion.

* Implementing the Triple Aim of care: Practices must demonstrate improving use of the three domains of Triple Aim--patient experience, cost and clinical quality.

* Sustained transformation: Practices must show they comply with NCQA standards over long periods.

The new patient-centered medical home standards are available here.

http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/NCQA-Sets-New-Higher-Standards-for-Medical-Homes-47568-1.html