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New Webinars to Explore Partnerships in Patient-Centered Care: The Virtual Medical Home and the Accountable Care Organization

The ACO — a network of primary care physicians, one or more hospitals and subspecialists that provide patient-centered care — provides a financial framework for patient-centered care delivery, while the virtual medical home offers a more complete array of services (such a behavioral health) across the healthcare continuum through a series of community, public or private partnerships in a way that is seamless to patients and health plan members.

Special savings are available to participants who register for two or more of these Medical Home Open House sessions, available in live, Web-based on-demand, DVD and CD-ROM training formats. Find out more about the latest virtual medical home and ACO Medical Home Open House webinars.

NEWS FACTS:

• Session 1: Coordinating a Virtual Medical Home in Your Community: Lessons from the Iowa Collaborative Safety Net Provider Network on 9/23/10 at 1:30 pm Eastern. In this 45-minute webinar, Sarah Dixon Gale, lead contract manager, Iowa/Nebraska Primary Care Association and Michelle Stephan, chief executive officer, Siouxland Community Health Center, will share how the primary care providers in this community work with other local, community-based organizations, as part of a virtual medical home, to improve access to and the quality of care.
  
  
• Session 2: The Colorado Accountable Care Collaborative: Practical Lessons from an ACO on 9/29/10 at 1:30 pm Eastern. With a January 2011 go-live date for an accountable care organization pilot, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing is entering into the final stages of an RFP process to identify regional organizations that will function as ACOs, the medical homes that will serve as providers within the ACO and a state-wide data and analytics vendor that will provide real-time data to the providers within the ACO. During this 45-minute webinar, Laurel Karabatsos, deputy Medicaid director and Jerry Smallwood, Medicaid reform unit manager, will walk participants through the ACO development process in Colorado.
  
  
• Webinar Formats: Each session includes a 15-minute Q&A; “On-Demand” rebroadcast available two days after the session; 45-minute training DVD or CD-ROM with printed transcript available three weeks later. Participants may add a DVD or CD to their live session registration to share with colleagues.

  The sessions are the latest in HIN's ongoing Medical Home Open House series, which presents key topics in PCMH implementation — staffing, care delivery, patient education, case management, reimbursement, medication management and more.

QUOTE ATTRIBUTABLE TO MELANIE MATTHEWS, HIN EXECUTIVE VP AND COO:

Click here for Melanie Matthews's profile.

“Our research indicates that most healthcare organizations are invested in some way in patient-centered care, but the virtual medical home and the ACO offer additional opportunities to expand the care continuum in a way that benefits patients without straining staff or financial resources. And the ACO is increasingly eyed as a firm financial foundation for medical home efforts, both by hospitals and providers struggling to increase profitability and by payors that are looking for more accountability for care delivery."

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