CCNC Update: November 2013
In the News
Project Lazarus. On Oct. 30, AccessCare of the Blue Ridge hosted a successful Project Lazarus clinical training with more than 30 participants from 16 diverse backgrounds. In addition, Project Lazarus of Watauga County recently installed a medication drop box at the Watauga Sheriff’s Office. The installation was featured in the Watauga Democrat.
Two permanent dropboxes for safe medicine disposal were placed in the Wilkes County Sheriff’s Department’s office and the North Wilkesboro Police Department. Fred Brason and Dana Zacharias (far left) with Project Lazarus were onsite for the placement.
Publications
HealthLeaders. CCNC is featured in the Nov. 2013 issue of HealthLeaders in an article on engaging the chronic care patient. Check out the full article here.
Formulary Journal. CCNC and GSK’s new approach to analyzing health information that allows healthcare providers and payers to improve health care quality and rein in cost is highlighted in a recent article in Formulary Journal. Click here to read the full article.
Case Management Monthly. CCNC’s transitional care program and the findings from the August 2013 Health Affairs study are featured in the November 2013 edition of Case Management Monthly. Click here to view the issue.
CHCS Policy Brief. CCNC’s success with high-utilizing patients is featured in this brief sponsored by Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit. Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, MPH at the University of California San Francisco, recently undertook a review of super-utilizer programs nationally to help guide the San Francisco Health Plan in designing better ways to care for high-risk, hard-to-reach patients. His examination of 14 high-utilizer programs, including CCNC, uncovered valuable insights for states, health plans, and providers looking to improve care delivery for Medicaid’s sickest, costliest patients. View the full brief here.
Events
NC HIE Trainings. NC HIE, the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation and CCNC are providing three two-hour trainings on NC HIE: Opt-Out training and Super User training. For details on dates and times, visit the NC HIE site here.
Project Lazarus Trainings. Training programs are scheduled for Concord, Greenville, Pinehurst and Reidsville in the coming months. Visit the Project Lazarus registration site for more information and to register for trainings.
NCHICA Forum. The North Carolina Health Care Information and Communications Alliance invites you to attend the second “Thought Leader Forum on Analytics & Informatics” on Nov. 4. CCNC’s Annette DuBard will join other distinguished panelists for a discussion on Analytics for Value-Based Healthcare. Click here for more information.
Other News
Rx Champions Award. Congratulations to Karin Andrea Suess, network pharmacy & behavioral health integrative programs manager at Carolina Collaborative Community Care, on receiving the Cardinal Health Generation Rx Champions Award at the N.C. Association of Pharmacists Annual Convention. The award is for efforts in raising awareness of prescription drug abuse.
NC HIE. The North Carolina Health Information Exchange has seen tremendous growth, onboarding 77 new sites and increasing the number of data transactions by 74% to more than 116M since its launch in April 2012. Read more about the NC HIE’s progress here.
Pharmacy Home Project. The 2013 CCNC Annual Pharmacy Home Project Meeting was held in late October in Raleigh. More than 230 participants from 15 different states representing health systems, academic institutions, business development and technology organizations and pharmacy manufacturers and service providers participated in a variety of breakout sessions and networking.
AmeriCorps. CCNC recently extended the NC ElderCare Assistant Program, funded by the AmeriCorps grant, to Community Care of Wake and Johnston Counties. Since September 2013, both Community Health Partners and Community Care of Wake and Johnston are hosting a total of 13 AmeriCorps members to serve as ElderCare Assistants. The ElderCare Assistants act as an extension of the network nurse care managers performing non-licensed duties that serve to assist patients that are living alone at home or in Adult Care Homes. Angela Floyd is the CCNC Program Director for the AmeriCorps grant.
MARP Updates. CCNC’s recently released Medication Access and Review Program (MARP) version 9.0.0.0, which includes extensive modifications to implement a consolidated database design that spans data from what were previously 125 standalone user site databases with 670 current users and 168,712 patients served since its inception in 2003. The web based front end was modified to account for the new consolidated database design with minimal impact on the current MARP end user experience. Technologies included in MARP which were previously based on Visual Studio 6 have been upgraded to the more recent Visual Studio 2010.