Healthcare Intelligence Network

Over 220 healthcare organizations describe the role of patient-centered medical homes in their organizations.

The developer of the PAM(TM) and a DM director using the measure will describe the use of the tool to tailor healthcare interventions during the webinar, "Patient Activation Measure(TM): Assessing the Engaged Healthcare Consumer for Self-Efficacy."

For EHR-shy healthcare organizations, other technologies can be installed in a medical home to enhance care coordination and streamline costs. Learn more during the webinar, "Wiring the Medical Home: Healthcare IT to Power a Patient-Centered Model."

Experts will describe new models in health risk stratification that are achieving big payoffs in reducing acute and chronic care costs during the webinar, "Reducing Acute and Chronic Care Costs Through an Effective Health Risk Stratification Model."

Industry experts will examine how disease management programs can continue to prove their worth during an April 29, 2009 webinar, "The Strategic Ongoing Role of Disease Management in the Healthcare Continuum: Achieving the ROI."

IBM and Aetna, major stakeholders in the medical home, describe their strategies for achieving an ROI from the patient-centered medical home (PCMH).

New HIN webinar offers metrics and measurements for calculating ROI from health coaching and other health improvement programs.

"Obesity & Weight Management Benchmarks and Case Studies" offers metrics, profiles in obesity management and prevention.

Over 220 healthcare organizations describe their tobacco cessation and prevention programs.

During a March 18, 2009 webinar, two industry experts will examine the 2009 PQRI measures and provide advice on how to overcome submission errors based on an analysis of previous reporting experience.