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Letters - CMS/OINC Health IT to Support ACO and Group Reporting" The Past, The Present, The Future
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The Past

http://jameslhollymd.com/Letters/setmas-solution-for-cms-and-onc-meeting

SETMA’s Notebook Prepared for: CMS and ONC Co-hosting a Meeting on “Health IT to Support ACO and Group Reporting” – this is the content of a notebook prepared by SETMA for the CMS/ONC conference.  It was not distributed for administrative reasons.  The hyperlinks allow the downloading of all of the content. Descriptions of each section are given in the above link. 

The Present

http://jameslhollymd.com/Letters/health-it-to-support-aco-and-group-reporting

This is the review of my responses to the CMS/ONC Conference April 23, 2015 in the context of SETMA’s Experience.

The Future

http://jameslhollymd.com/epm-tools/Automated-Team-Tutorial-for-the-EMR-Automated-Team-Function

Genesis of an Idea, May, 2013 - The Automated Team
In 1993, John Patrick set IBM on another course and changed the company's future.  Reading his story made me wonder, is it possible for SETMA to set medicine on another course and to change the future.  John did not want people to work “collaterally,” side by side, maybe going in the same direction, maybe even having the same goal, but working independently and at best in a cooperative manner; he wanted people to work “collaboratively,” synergistically, leveraging the generative power of a team in creating a new future which they partially envision but which even they could not control.

What can we do today in healthcare which would mirror the changes IBM experienced?  How can we change “collaterallists” into “collaborativists”?  How can we use the power of electronics, analytics, and informatic principles to energize radical change to create a new future in healthcare?  Testing and measurement is a science.  In most industries, quality is determined by testing performance.  But, in healthcare we are involved in a new kind of “testing.”  The tests used to measure the performance of healthcare providers are unique.  Therefore, if you are going to measure the quality of care given by healthcare providers.

James (Larry) Holly, M.D.
C.E.O. SETMA
www.jameslhollymd.com

Adjunct Professor
Family & Community Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio School of Medicine 

Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
School of Medicine
Texas A&M Health Science Center