Healthcare

Four categories defined by MIPS correlate with four strategies SETMA defined in 2000-2005

This is a three-part series that examines SETMA’s work over the last 20 years and how it anticipated the categories of the MACRA and MIPS. While I personally like MACRA and MIPS, there are elements of its design that perpetuate past healthcare reform design flaws. This series examines those flaws and recommends means of resolving them.

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SETMA’s innovations over the past 20 years have prepared us for MACRA and MIPS

Sept. 20, SETMA’s provider training session focused on MACRA, the acronym for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, and MIPS, the acronym for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.

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Delegation of healthcare executives from China

June 16, 2016, SETMA received a note from our friends in China. They have previously made two visits to SETMA and as this note indicates they want to visit a third time. The note stated:

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Automated Medication Reconciliation, Part 1 of 4

SETMA’s Medication Reconciliation Tutorial is online at www.setma.com/epm-tools/medication-reconciliation-tutorial. This is important because the most critical function in medical record keeping is the maintenance of and access to an accurate, valid list of the medications a person is taking.

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Healthcare address from Dec. 2, 1971, Part 3

The context of my visit with the Lamar pre-professional students included my discussion of the OSR and the AAMC. My relationship with the founding dean of the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio is part of that context.

(Author’s Note: This letter was sent to the founding dean of the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio School of Medicine upon the occasion of the Dedication on Feb. 17 of the Dr. and Mrs. James L. Holly Auditorium)

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Healthcare Address from Dec. 2, 1971

In the spring of 1970, at the Student American Medical Association – renamed American Medical Student Association in 1975 – I was elected the first chairman of the OSR. The first national meeting of the OSR was held in December 1971.

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Northwestern State University Commencement Address 2016

Today, you stand upon the precipice of the rest of your life. Precipice – “a very steep side of a mountain or cliff; a point where danger, trouble, or difficulty begins” – is not often used in this context. More often, one would choose threshold, which means “the point or level at which something begins or changes.” In actuality, both precipice and threshold apply to commencement.

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Role of e-prescribing of controlled substances in quality and safety of healthcare, Part 1

In a nationwide lecture and Webinar on electronic prescribing of controlled substances (ePCS), the benefits of ePCS were discussed this week in Austin. Performed in the context of identifying safety and quality issues related to all medication prescribing habits and methods, the discussion included “medication reconciliation,” one of the most important aspects of prescribing medications.

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General health dependent upon dental health

March 22, The Texas Health Institute (THI) invited SETMA to participate in an initiative for the promotion of dental health as an integrated part of patient-centered care. The Oral Health 2020 project was convened by The DentaQuest Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that promotes dental health.

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Northwestern State and the Long Purple Line, Part 2

After tossing the chalk into the air, I asked, “What made the chalk fall to the floor?” I answered my own question, saying, “You think it’s gravity, but it is the little green people. They live in the air and are cleaning their homes.” I then gave a 15-minute speech on the little green people. I had one in my pocket. Part of my speech was a brief dialogue with my invisible friend, one of the little green people.

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