Care Management Plus -- Oregon Health & Science University

Issue 3: July-September 2010
Issue 2: April-June 2010
Issue1: January-March 2010

News About Care Management Plus

David Dorr, MD, at the Brookings Institution to discuss improving care for older adults
David Dorr, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU, was invited to be a panelist in this public forum that took place on January 28th, 2010. The forum focused on efforts to contain health care spending and improve care across a range of institutional and community-based care settings. Payment and delivery system reforms were discussed…more

Leadership Profile Released
NCQA and Pfizer Inc have released a publication which features the CMP program and is entitled Focus on Supporting Quality Improvement Through the Use of Health Information Technology. The Leadership Series profiles the efforts of leading health plans to improve outcomes and engage patients in their own care. To order a free copy of this publication follow the link.

David Dorr, MD, at White House to discuss primary care
David Dorr, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU, participated in a White House roundtable on health care reform on August 10. Led by President Obama's Health Reform "Czar" Nancy-Ann DeParle, the group was called together to report on the potential of medical homes to enhance primary care delivery…more

Proactive Care Saves Lives of Seniors, Study Finds (December 2008)

Care Management Plus article published in JAGS:

Large-scale, three-year study shows that hospitalization and death rates of chronically ill seniors are significantly reduced when they are enrolled in a proactive care management program supported by multidisciplinary teams and dynamic electronic tracking and care coordination tools... more

Care Management Plus awarded R18 grant from AHRQ
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awarded CM+ a grant to test Care Coordination and Quality in care management as models for future reimbursement policy. This entails the creation and assessment of the impact of an Integrated Care Coordination Information System (ICCIS) based on CM+ information technology used in the care management process of patients with complex illness.

AGS News Release of IOM Report
The Care Management Plus model was cited in an American Geriatrics Society (AGS) news release announcing the April 14, 2008 Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report entitled “Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce”. more

AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange Profile
Care Management Plus is featured as a profile in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Care Innovations Exchange, a comprehensive program intended to accelerate the development and adoption of innovations in health care delivery. This program is designed to support health care professionals in sharing and adopting innovations that improve health care quality, and offers opportunities to interact with innovators and fellow adopters in learning networks. more

OHSU Professor David Dorr Wins AMIA 2007 New Investigator Award (November 13, 2007)
David Dorr, M.D., assistant professor of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, has received the 2007 New Investigator Award at the annual symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in Chicago.

The award – presented at the AMIA leadership dinner on Nov. 10 – is given annually in recognition of an individual’s early informatics contributions and significant scholarly contributions on the basis of scientific merit and research excellence.... more

OHSU Physician To Address U.S. Special Senate Committee On Aging
On May 9, 2007, David Dorr, MD, MS, a faculty member and Hartford grantee at the Oregon Health & Science University, provided written testimony to the Senate Special Committee on Aging entitled “Care Coordination for Older Adults with Complex Chronic Illness.” In his testimony, he discusses the crisis in chronic illness and the ways in which care coordination, especially through the use of information technology, can help manage chronic illness. He describes the Care Management Plus model, which he and others developed at Intermountain Healthcare, as well as other Hartford-funded models that have provided cost-effective and positive benefits to patients... more

Special Senate Committee on Aging Webcasts, Statements of Committee Members, Witness Testimony... more

New OHSU Senior Care Program Gets $2.5 Million Boost (March 28, 2007)
The John A. Hartford Foundation grant supports expansion of Care Management Plus: Information Technology Tools for the Care of Seniors... more

Care Management Plus is sponsored by the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Oregon Health & Science University. /span>