Zrebl director of Population Health for Hackensack University health network. 234 that role i initiated and was assisted by the hospital in developing our aco. We were in the first group in 2012 for the mssp program. We looked at it a little bit differently. Our philosophy was we were going to use this as a clinical laboratory. We were jumping in to the valuebased reimbursement scheme and so we decided to limit to primary care physicians to mandate patientcentered medical homes for all of our primary care offices that we bore the cost of all of the training for the primary care for the patientcentered medical homes. We mandated Electronic Medical records and we purchased a relative relatively strong Population Health Electronic Health system which emrs fed data into. This was all up front monies that the hospital, surprisingly enough, was willing to invest in this organization. We started with a little over 12,000 mssp patients with a little over 50 physicians and im happy to say we sa
I think this will move it forward. If youre a patient, you care about your metric. Its wonderful were monitoring if doctors give quit smoking advice to patients. Im not a smoker so it doesnt matter to me. What you want to know is i know somebody whos about to have heart valve surgery. They want to know which doctor in their city performs the most heart valve cities and how many patients are alive a year after that. The fact we cannot answer that for that patient today or tomorrow or even next year, like, thats the question we want to answer. Its not like, do your diabetics have their a1c under control . Im not a diabetic, but if im diabetic and its under control for me, i dont care if your other patients are, i care about me. Were a me culture but we have to make sure the data releases can be customizable so the person interested in their own health and their own situation can get some answers from it. Charlie, at the same time, patients are complaining all the time about high copays,
Latest on what is going on. Press effectively what we have right now is a standoff between antigovernment protesters on the one side and riot police on the other. What divides them is a smoldering fire 30 feet wide. That is what that is. A 30 foot wide gap that in some cases has a kneedeep amount of coals. On the far side of that picture, across from the protesters, you see the police. They are not china move over that at the moment. That is independent square at the moment. 7000. Many have come more armed than they have in the past. Almost all of them are armed with clubs. We also have other room other weaponry. This all began when the president ordered the riot police, telling them to clear the square. Injured. 350 people we stopped short of that. See this kicked off at any time this could kick off at any time again. Class is there a possibility we could see an outbreak civil war . Say, no, we want to reject that and move toward. He European Union one is against a popular government
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A look at the cost of health care and the role of Accountable Care organisations. Seized mans he coverage of the kansas governor debate. On wednesday a panel of educational experts will agree that one challenge to the common store in issues to right now is a lack of material available to educators. The panellists analyse the cons of the initiative. This is 90 minutes. Afternoon everybody, thank you, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. As we talk about back water issue that no one is really talking about, today we are about the common core, an issue that has an incredible amount of salience in the media and in politics and we have three outstanding panellists to discuss. Introduce them to you that is a veteran education reporter Education Week, she coauthors the curricular matters and if you want to get up to speed on the common core and how it has been playing out in classrooms the country, catherine and her reporting has some of the best. That would be ricks director of poli