Comments on: The “Adjust” from the Advisory Group: Part I http://www.tedeytan.com/2007/11/05/448 e-Health. Patient empowerment. Washington, DC. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:13:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Josh Seidman http://www.tedeytan.com/2007/11/05/448/comment-page-1#comment-703 Josh Seidman Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:07:21 +0000 http://www.tedeytan.com/2007/11/05/448#comment-703 Michael's insights are critically important because we have to think creatively about new reimbursement models that suppport longitudinal care and continuity of care in order to provide appropriate incentives for clinicians to deliver patient-centered care. The PCMH model that ACP (and many other primary care-advocacy organizations and purchasers) has developed offers a creative alternative to the historical medical reimbursement approach that primarily rewards providers for what they "do to" people. One issues that Michael and I have discussed in the past is how information prescribing and related patient-centered informational interventions can be more explicitly written into the PCMH model. As we develop PCHIT's recommendations going forward, I look forward to working with Michael and his colleagues in thinking about how to more explicitly structure that guidance to PCMH-oriented clinicians (see my comment in response to "Advisory Group Adjust: Charles Milligan, Jr..." for a quick summary of how the Ix Payer Workgroup hopes to help in that regard). --Josh Michael’s insights are critically important because we have to think creatively about new reimbursement models that suppport longitudinal care and continuity of care in order to provide appropriate incentives for clinicians to deliver patient-centered care. The PCMH model that ACP (and many other primary care-advocacy organizations and purchasers) has developed offers a creative alternative to the historical medical reimbursement approach that primarily rewards providers for what they “do to” people.

One issues that Michael and I have discussed in the past is how information prescribing and related patient-centered informational interventions can be more explicitly written into the PCMH model. As we develop PCHIT’s recommendations going forward, I look forward to working with Michael and his colleagues in thinking about how to more explicitly structure that guidance to PCMH-oriented clinicians (see my comment in response to “Advisory Group Adjust: Charles Milligan, Jr…” for a quick summary of how the Ix Payer Workgroup hopes to help in that regard).

–Josh

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