Medicare’s New Oncology Care Model (OCM) Strategic Opportunities and Imperatives Wes Chapman June 3, 2015 Introduction On February 12th of 2015, Medicare (CMS) introduced a new integrated payment and quality model for oncology care in the US for Medicare beneficiaries, the oncology care model [...]
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Building the Oncology Medical Home Trainings and Certifications February 21, 2015 Wes Chapman, Aaron Lyss, Gina Todisco, Carolyn Craig Building a Medical Home: It takes a trained team Our team set out just over a year ago to build a prototype patient centered medical home [...]
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Making Medical Oncology Pathways Work for Patients, Providers and Payers Using the PSO Structure to Benefit all Parties Finding the Unicorn – Making Order from Chaos Wes Chapman & Aaron Lyss December 6, 2014 In our September blog regarding medical oncology pathways, we examined what [...]
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On the Escape of Tigers & Other Public Health Hazards Considering the Ebola Outbreak in Haddon’s Matrix and Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model October 16, 2014 Wes Chapman Preface: In 1970, Dr. William Haddon wrote a brilliant editorial that changed forever how we evaluate accidents [...]
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Converting an Academic Medical Center to NIAHO/ISO 9001 Dr. Glen Crotty, Vicky Grate & Wes Chapman September 29th, 2014 This is the first in a series looking at the motivations, methods and outcomes from our efforts at Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) to [...]
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