As Washington works toward national health reform, we’re pleased to announce that Children’s has established an unprecedented partnership with the state’s largest health plans to help accelerate the transformation of the pediatric care delivery system by expanding innovative approaches and models of care. Working with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, Children’s and its physicians volunteered to cut its fiscal year 2010 payment rates. A portion of these savings will be targeted to support such efforts as:
- SCAMPs (Standardized Clinical Assessment and Management Plans) – a revolutionary way to provide clinicians with immediate feedback on the success of their treatments. It uses the best evidence to guide testing and treatment decisions, and the best judgment of practicing physicians to standardize care plans for clinical situations. Most important, the approach allows clinicians to continually refine treatment approaches to deliver the best outcome.
- Integrated Care Models – a crucial element of the primary care model known as the family-centered Medical Home, in which a primary care provider works in partnership with families to coordinate care for their children. The fund will expand and accelerate implementation pilots to more efficiently coordinate care of chronically ill patients with diabetes, asthma and other conditions.
- Next Generation Information Technology – are vital to our role as innovators of models of care and the patient experience. In addition to the technology behind SCAMPs, Children’s developed “MyChildren’s,” the first pediatric patient and family controlled medical records fed by both pediatric and specialist health care providers. Full story »
