Dr. Hittner Retires as R.I. Health Insurance Commissioner
The governor's office announced this summer that Dr. Kathleen Hittner, the state's Health Insurance Commissioner, would etire from her position effective July 2017.
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R.I. Community Health Centers Receive $1.1 Million from Health and Human Services for Quality Outcome Achievements
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in August that all eight R.I. Community Health Centers earned a combined $1.1 million from Health Quality Improvement FY 2017 grant awards.
2017 Clinical Quality Measurement Specifications Approved
The CTC Practice Reporting Committee, together with the CTC Data and Evaluation Committee, recommended changes to the 2017 Clinical Quality Measurement Specifications that have been approved by OHIC.
Best Practice Corner: Anchor Medical Standardizes Patient Risk Stratification, Nurse Care Manager Assessment, Care Plan and Follow up Processes
Primary care practices are often challenged by creating consistent processes for stratifying patients based on risk status and using the electronic health record to develop and implement standardized nurse care manager assessment and care plan templates.
Save the Date for the CTC Large Learning Collaborative: November 7, 2017
Practices will want to Save the Date for the November 7 Learning Collaborative: “Primary Care Works: Effective Strategies to Improve Population Health and Patient Activation”. Peter Anderson MD from Team Care Medicine will be one of the featured keynote presenters.
CTC-RI Offers Training in Rhode Island on NCQA 2017 Standards
CTC arranged to have NCQA come to Rhode Island to provide training on the 2017 NCQA training. There were 108 people who attended the “Introduction to 2017 NCQA Standards” session on July 17-18 and 93 people who attended the “Advanced Concepts in NCQA” on July 19. In total, CTC was able to provide attendees with a registration cost savings of $132,465.00 as a result of being able to price the
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The mission of CTC-RI is to support the continuing transformation of primary care in Rhode Island as the foundation of an ever-improving integrated, accessible, affordable, and equitable health care system. CTC-RI brings together critical stakeholders to implement, evaluate and spread effective multi-payer models to deliver, pay for and sustain high-quality, comprehensive, accountable primary care.