News About Care Management Plus

Care Management Plus Receives Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has invested $1.6 million to enhance OHSU’s Care Management Plus program. Led by OHSU’s David Dorr, M.D., M.S., the nationally recognized program integrates health information technology and personalized, coordinated care and has already been shown to increase patient and health provider satisfaction while improving health outcomes. The new grant will enable Dorr’s team to develop the program further and ultimately transform delivery of care for those living with multiple chronic conditions..

Dorr Appointed Vice Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
David Dorr, MD, MS, Associate Professor, was recently appointed to the position of Vice Chair of the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University.

‘For the Record’ Article Features Dorr as Electronic Health Record Expert
The ‘For the Record’ article titled “Extraction Expert” about secondary use of patient data, published March 2011, featured David Dorr as an expert in Electronic Health Records. Link

Modern Healthcare Website Highlights CM+ HIMSS Presentation
The Healthcare Business News section of the Modern Healthcare.com Website featured Dr. Thomas Yackel and Nima Behkami’s Healthcare Information And Management Systems Society (HIMSS) presentation on “Future of Meaningful Use and Care Coordination: Stage 2”. Link

Care Management Plus Receives Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) Grant
The OHSU Foundation Board of Trustees designated funds to Care Management Plus: $67,000 from the Elizabeth N. Gray Fund of the OCF and the Leon and Esther Feldstein Fund of the OCF. The support will help CM+ to continue to work with underserved communities across the state and through the nation, and aid in helping others to take advantage of the opportunities for positive change in primary care and in their communities.

Brookings Institution Paper on Chronic Care
In October 2010, a summary of the Care Management Plus model was included in the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings paper entitled “Achieving Better Chronic Care at Lower Costs Across the Health Care Continuum for Older Americans”. Link

Behkami Appointed To JAMIA Student Editorial Board
Nima Behkami, MS, BS, was appointed to the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) Student Editorial Board for 2010 to 2012.

CM + Headlined In Diabetes Practice Options
Care Management Plus was featured in the Diabetes Practice Options Newsletter in March of 2010. Link

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

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.