Upcoming Blog Topics

As a continuation of my first post, here’s an outline of the topics we plan to cover on the Wellcentive Blog.  Stay tuned for information on some of the most pressing issues for providers, their organizations, and other members of the healthcare community.

Physician Office Series

1. Quality Improvement Benefits
2. Quality Improvement Goals
3. Collaborating and Sharing Data
4. Overcoming Physician Barriers to Engagement
5. Overcoming Staff Barriers to Engagement
6. The Quality Manager
7. Physician and Staff Roles
8. Staff Empowerment
9. Alert Fatigue
10. Work Flow Strategies
11. Basic Care Management
12. Patient Outreach
13. Benefits of Un-blinded Reporting
14. Physician and Staff Incentives and Rewards

Physician Engagement Series

1. Pay for Performance
2. Patient Centered Medical Home
3. Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting System
4. Accountable Care
5. Meaningful Use
6. Public Reporting of Physician Performance
7. Other Programs
8. Maintenance of Certification
9. Physicians with EMRs

Patient Engagement Series

1. Point-of-Care Benefits
2. Patient Outreach Strategies
3. The Patient Portal
4. Targeted Patient Education
5. Secure Messaging for Communication and Collaboration

Clinical Integration Series

1. Goals and Requirements
2. Collaborative Community Care
3. Clinical Integration HIT needs
4. Primary Care Clinical Integration
5. Specialty Care Clinical Integration
6. Documentation and Legal Review

Care Management Series

1. Gaps in Care
2. Population Management
3. Predictive Modeling/Risk Assessment
4. Case Management
5. Transitions of Care
6. Patient Outreach
7. Patient Education
8. Special Quality Improvement Initiatives
9. Cost and Utilization Reporting
10. Care Management Tracking

Data Management Series

1. Interfacing Basics
2. Developing an Integration and Interfacing Strategy
3. Data Aggregation
4. Data Normalization
5. Data Mapping
6. ICD-10
7. The Data Analyst
8. Data Management Reporting and Administration

Reporting Series

1. Patient-Physician Attribution
2. Identifying and Reconciling Duplicate Patient Records
3. Outcome Measure Reporting
4. Predictive Modeling and Risk Assessment
5. Cost and Utilization Reporting
6. Reporting Strategies at the Office, PO, and HIE Levels