Thank you for your interest in the 2018 Texas Primary Care and Health Home Summit call for breakout proposals.  

The Summit Planning Committee seeks to offer workshops related to innovations in primary care in the following broad categories:
  • Population health
    • Getting started with population health
    • Managing risk in Medicare/Medicaid populations
    • Stratifying high risk patients for better outcomes
    • Chronic care management: documentation and getting paid
    • Building and maintaining effective health care teams
  • Telemedicine
    • Understanding the new rules
    • Case studies in making telemedicine work in primary care
  • Practice improvement tools
    • Motivational interviewing
    • Improving clinical performance through data
    • Scheduling/template examples
    • How to make measurement work for your practice
    • Engaging patients in QI
    • Improving Medication Adherence 
  • Best practices from Federally Qualified Health Centers/Community clinics
  • Decreasing ethnic and racial disparities in health care
  • Incorporating social determinants of health into practice
  • Achieving true integration in primary care practice
    • Behavioral health
    • Oral health
  • Update on payment
    • MACRA (Quality Payment Program)
    • 1115 waiver
    • Federal/state updates
  • Engaging payers and employers in new care models
  • Best practices in pediatric health homes
    • Transition from pediatric to adult medicine
    • Confidentiality issues in caring for youth
    • Care coordination for children and youth with special healthcare needs
  • PCMH and ACOs: benefits of belonging to both
  • Specialty Medical Homes such as: Oncology, LGBTQ, Maternity, HIV, Homelessness
  • Direct Primary Care model

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