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January 12, 2012
MAFP E-BULLETIN,
January 2012,
VOL.6, NO. 1
In this issue:
Earn Up to 9 Credits
With MAFP CME in February ... And More!
MAFP Members Active
on Maryland's Health Care Delivery Reform Subcommittee
National Health
Service Corps Critical Access Hospital Pilot Program
Asthma Practice
Quality Improvement Study
Public Health
Informatics Certificate Training Program
Request for
Nominations: External Review Panel
Environmental Scan and News You Can Use
Earn
Up to 9 Credits With MAFP CME in February ... And More
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Calling readers’ attention
to the Winter, 2012 edition of “The Maryland Family
Doctor” (members will soon receive in the mail if they
haven’t already),
here’s the link to the edition. If you scroll
down to pp. 22-23, you will see a detailed promotion for
MAFP’s 2012 Winter Regional CME Conference, “Selected
Challenges in Primary Care,” scheduled for Saturday, February 25 at the Baltimore Hunt
Valley Inn. Highlights in the promotion: |
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Special invitation from MAFP Education Chair Dr. Eva S.
Hersh
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Preview of topics to include Pediatric Immunizations,
Obesity, DUB, Diabetes, Hepatitis C, Breast Cancer, EKG
Workshop
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Expert clinical faculty and special guest Maryland Health
Secretary Dr. Joshua Sharfstein
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Detailed flyer describing extra-credit dinner session (no
additional fee) on Adult Immunizations
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Information about the pre-conference SAM Study Hall on
February 24th
Other conference features:
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Special display booth entitled, “Highlight on Diabetes” made
possible by an educational grant from the AAFP Foundation.
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Technical trade show featuring current products and services
from vendors and suppliers to PCPs!
Don’t miss this terrific conference!
Register online at
www.mdafp.org or call 410-747-1980.
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MAFP Members Active on Maryland's Health Care Delivery
Reform Subcommittee
January 6, Annapolis - The first
meeting the Maryland Health Care Delivery Reform Subcommittee
was held today at Anne Arundel Health System. Twenty-five
subcommittee members, appointed by Maryland Secretary of Health,
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, represent legislators, health systems,
unions, private payers, state and local health departments,
FQHCs, CHCs, large and small employers, primary care and
specialty physicians, nurses, and ancillary providers. Three
MAFP members are members of the subcommittee: Drs. Pat Czapp,
Laura Herrera (co-chair) and Andrea Mathias. Highlights of the
proceedings:
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A new
part of the Maryland Health Care Commission web site (http://mhcc.maryland.gov)
was introduced – specifically this web site showcases
programs under way in Maryland that demonstrate clinical AND
fiscal innovations with measurable (or soon to be
measurable) results.
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Three
such innovations were presented at this meeting by their
developers: The Maryland P3 program, The HSCRC’s innovations
in hospital revenue (TPR, ARR, and an in-development program
with an ACO flavor ), and Hopkins’ ElderCare Plus Program.
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Discussion ensued about how we can apply successes in
innovations demonstrated in small scale to larger scale
populations that are diverse in multiple ways.
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Wrap-up discussion focused on homework prior to next meeting
in the Spring: Identifying the subcommittee’s mission,
focus, and goals. PC
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National Health Service Corps
Critical Access Hospital Pilot Program
The Health Resources and Services Administration has
released its 2012 guidance for the
National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program
(LRP) , which includes a pilot program that expands eligibility
to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and eligible clinicians
working in CAHs. The NHSC CAH Pilot Program was created as part
of the
White House Rural Council.
CAHs and interested clinicians should review the
2012 guidance. CAHs that want to become service sites have
to be in a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) and meet
other basic program requirements. Currently, approximately 64
percent of CAHs are located in HPSAs. Of these, 36 percent have
HPSA scores of 14 or more. Once they are approved as service
sites, their clinicians can apply for loan repayment. The NHSC
will pay up to $60,000 for an initial 2 years of full-time
clinical practice to clinicians serving at an NHSC-approved
service site with a HPSA score of 14 or higher. Applicants
working at NHSC-approved service sites with HPSA scores of 13 or
lower are eligible to receive up to $40,000 for an initial 2
years of full-time clinical service. The NHSC will pay up to
$60,000 for an initial 4 years of half-time clinical practice to
clinicians serving at an NHSC-approved service site with a HPSA
score of 14 or higher. Applicants working at NHSC-approved
service sites with HPSA scores of 13 or lower are eligible to
receive up to $40,000 for an initial 4 years of half-time
clinical service.
The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) and the NHSC have
conducted
Webinars related to this change. The NHSC has a contact
available to answer questions:
Lindsey Toohey. Additional contacts include the
Maryland State Offices of Rural Health. You may also Contact
the
Maryland PCO for assistance, or the Maryland ORHP project
officer or regional liaison.
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Asthma Practice Quality
Improvement Study
The AAFP
National Research Network (NRN) is looking for practices to
participate in an important two-year collaboration between the
AAFP NRN and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and
Immunology. The collaboration is designed to improve patient
outcomes in a primary care setting. This study will examine
whether the use of the ASTHMA IQ primary care online tool will
improve asthma care and asthma outcomes using a randomized trial
of the ASTHMA IQ system versus usual asthma care in the primary
care setting. Qualified participants must be a practice of 2-4
physicians, each of which will be asked to recruit a minimum of
10 patients with chronic persistent asthma. Practices can
receive up to $4000 depending on the number of participating
physicians. Patients will also be compensated. Contact
Laura
Nichols at ext. 3175 with questions, for more information,
or to sign up.
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Public Health Informatics
Certificate Training Program
Targeting public health
professionals, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Schools of
Medicine and Nursing and the Public Health Data Standards
Consortium (PHDSC), is pleased to announce that the Public
Health Informatics Training Program is accepting applications.
This program results in a Maryland State-approved
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Public Health Informatics. The
goal of the program is to offer training in methods and concepts
of health informatics and health information technology for
application to public health. It is designed for current and
future public health professionals who wish to develop expertise
or specialization in this area. Courses for this program are
available completely online. Individuals residing in the
Mid-Atlantic region may also take selected courses on site. The
training program focuses on the following core informatics
topics:
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Overview of public health and biomedical informatics
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Health information systems design and development
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Health information technology standards and systems
interoperability
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Systems evaluation in health sciences informatics
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Population health informatics
Tuition subsidies are available.
Application deadline is March 15, 2012. More information about
the Public Health Informatics Certificate Training Program,
including application forms and detailed instructions, can be
found at:
http://www.jhsph.edu/dept/hpm/certificates/informatics. If
you have further questions, please contact Ms. Pamela Davis, the
program coordinator at
pdavis@jhsph.edu or 410-614-1580.
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Request for Nominations:
External Review Panel
TThe Pfizer Medical Education Group
(MEG) is adopting a new model of grant-making that endeavors to
acknowledge the synergies that can be achieved by supporting
quality improvement initiatives along with continuing education
for healthcare professionals. We believe that to truly have an
impact we must support solutions to public health issues, help
meet the educational needs of healthcare professionals and play
a more direct role in support of quality improvement initiatives
that close professional practice gaps. The new system employs a
Request for Proposal (RFP) model and includes the addition of
External Review Panels whose charge will be to review, evaluate
and ultimately approve or deny submitted Letters of Intent and
proposals. Panel members may also consult on the development of
RFP’s. Members of the External Review Panels will consist of
professionals from the healthcare community with advanced
degrees and expertise in a particular clinical area, or
expertise in CME, CE, Continuing Professional Development (CPD),
Quality Improvement and/or Public Health Administration.
Ideally, all members will have published previous works and/or
have proven accomplishments.
Membership on an External Review Panel would include the
following:
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One
year tenure, with an option for a second year
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Compensation (honorarium), based on Fair Market Value, for
services rendered
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Travel and expense reimbursement for any live panel
meeting(s)
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Participation in virtual meetings with the full panel
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Appropriate resolution of any Conflicts of Interest
We are seeking nominations of
qualified, interested individuals in the following areas of
expertise:
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Clinical Focus
Vaccines
Oncology
Smoking Cessation
Pain & Inflammation
Infectious Disease
Women’s Health |
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Please submit nominations, along
with contact information and a current CV or resume to
mededgrants@pfizer.com NO LATER THAN February 29, 2012. All
submissions and/or inquiries will receive a response. For
additional information, or to submit questions please contact
the MEG team at 1-866-MEG-4647 or email
mededgrants@pfizer.com.
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Environmental Scan and News
You Can Use
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Sign Up for the MedChi Doctor of
the Day Program:
Please consider signing up to be the official "Doctor of the
Day" at the Maryland State Legislature this year. You get an
assigned free parking space in the Calvert Street State
Employee Garage. You can get introduced on the floor of the
House and/or the Senate and you can sit in on some of the
floor proceedings if you so desire. By noon or so the
morning session is over and you can grab lunch in Annapolis,
go home or, if appropriate, stay and testify at one of the
afternoon Committee hearings.
There are 70 plus lawyers in the state legislature and
countless lobbyists. There are nurses, pharmacists and lots
of "Para Docs" as well. There is now only ONE physician, Dr.
Dan Morhaim in the House and NO docs in the State Senate.
Help Family Medicine, help our profession, spend a day or
two talking to your representatives in the comfortable
environment of the State "First Aid Room" where nurse
Colleen runs the show and will show you the ropes. Let's get
Family Docs in Annapolis to tell our story to our
legislators. We can be our own best lobbyists! JWZ
More details at
http://www.medchi.org/search/node/Doctor A Day. For open
dates and to sign up contact Stephanie Wisniewski, MedChi
Legislative Coordinator at
swisniewski@medchi.org, (410) 539-0872, ex 6001
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Mid-Atlantic Public Health
Training Center Training Menu for Early 2012!
Start the New Year off right by participating in a MAPHTC
training day.
We have three offerings open for registration now! Please
register on our
website’s events calendar.
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Community Assessment and
Formative Evaluation
January 20, 2012; Howard County
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Using Social Marketing
Principles to Influence Decision Makers
January 27, 2012; Anne Arundel County
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Achieving Outcomes Through Best
Process Program Design and Evaluation
February 7, 2012; Frederick County
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Maryland Medicaid Pharmacy
Advisories:
Advisory #107 regarding the Updated Preferred Drug List (PDL)
effective January 1, 2012.
Advisory #108 regarding late refills of HIV/AIDS
medications.
These and prior/future advisories at
http://www.dhmh.state.md.us/ mma/mpap/provadv.html.
Anyone interested in directly receiving upcoming Advisories
may forward his/her name, company affiliation and email
address directly to
SullivanK@dhmh.state.md.us
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5710 Executive Drive, Suite 104
Baltimore, MD 21228
Phone:
(410) 747-1980 - Fax: (410) 744-6059
E-Mail:
info@mdafp.org
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