Clinical Recommendations for Care
Clinicians
Searchable list of treatment recommendations by society.
Clinicians can use to easily locate the treatment recommendations for a vast list of conditions.
Closing the Referral Loop
Practice Facilitators; Practice Medical Director; Practice Manager
Information and tools to use to get leadership/clinician support
This Institute for Healthcare Improvements (IHI) resource provides a 9-step process for closed-loop EHR referral processes.
Cost & Utilization Data
Practice Facilitators; Practice Medical Director; Practice Manager
Provides national and state-wide data on inpatient and ED utilization. May be useful for practice data comparison to national and state data.
HCUP is a family of databases, software tools, and related products developed to enable research on a broad range of health policy issues, including cost and quality of health services. Users can search several databases to determine inpatient and emergency department utilization.
Reducing Medical Overuse
Practice Facilitators; Practice Medical Director; Practice Manager
Information and tools to use to get leadership/clinician support
Unnecessary Medical Care (“Less is More” campaign)
Practice Facilitators; Practice Medical Director; Practice Manager
Provides an overview of unnecessary medical care, with a focus on polypharmacy and education for residents and other learners.
Lown Institute facilitates research, programs, and resources on this issue. Specific resources include:
Resouces (Overuse 101; selection of research articles; list of books, movies, blogs on unnecessary medical care)
Continuing Education offering for Cost and Quality
Practice Facilitators, Clinicians, Practice Staff
Provides flexible and on-demand access to learning opportunities, including online courses, webinars, and learning sessions. Can earn CME credits.
Online learning opportunities for practice facilitators, clinicians, and practice staff.
High Value Care
Clinicians
Learn how to eliminate unnecessary health care costs and improve adult and pediatric patient outcomes while earning free CME and MOC through these 30- to 60-minute online interactive cases.
ACP’s High Value Care initiative aims to improve health, avoid harms, and eliminate wasteful practices.
High Value Care
Clinicians and Practice Facilitators
High Value Care Curricula aims to improve health, avoid harms, and eliminate wasteful practices.
Resources to help medical educators teach the principles of High Value Care effectively in order to successfully pass these lessons along to future generation
CU e-Learning Modules
Physicians, Clinicians and Staff
E-Learning modules available for TCPi practices for CME and Performance Improvement Activity (MOC part IV) credits
E-Learning opportunities for physicians, clinicians, and practice staff about practice transformation and credits toward Performance Improvement Activities (MOC Part IV)
AMA Steps Forward Modules
Physicians, Clinicians and Staff
E-Learning modules that offer innovative strategies that will allow physicians and their staff to thrive in the new health care environment.
E-Learning opportunities for physicians, clinicians, and staff to better understand the new health care environment.
Cost and Utilization Toolkit for Practices
Choosing Wisely Tools to Empower Patients:
Practice Facilitators; Practice Medical Director; Practice Manager
Excellent resource for practices to use to get started with their work around cost and utilization.
This “how to” toolkit provides practices with information and tools for practice workflow and scripting; how to get started with the conversation with patients; and provides clinical evidence-based lists, information, posters, and wallet cards for 3 focus areas.
Choosing Wisely Patient Resources
Patients and Families
Resources designed to help patients make informed choices about medical tests and procedures. Materials are available in both English and Spanish.
Choosing Wisely is an initiative of the American Board of Internal Medicine that seeks to advance a national dialogue on avoiding unnecessary medical tests, treatments and procedures. This website offers over 150 patient-friendly resources.
High Value Care
Patients and Families
Resources designed to help patients understand the importance of seeking appropriate care in order to maximize value and live a healthy life.
Health literate patient education materials that actively engage patients and families in their own care.
Choosing Wisely Patient Resources
Patients and Families
Choosing Wisely is an initiative of the American Board of Internal Medicine that seeks to advance a national dialogue on avoiding unnecessary medical tests, treatments and procedures. This website offers over 150 patient-friendly resources.
Resources designed to help patients make informed choices about medical tests and procedures. Materials are available in both English and Spanish.
How to Talk to Patients about Cost and Value of Care
Practice Facilitators, Clinicians, Patients and Families
A collection of instructional modules to enhance physician and patient communication around the specialty society recommendations. The modules are designed to help physicians and patients think and talk about overuse of health care resources by providing strategies for physicians to build trust and address patient attitudes and beliefs that more care is not always better care.
Educational tool that can be used by clinicians, patients, and other learners.
High Value Care
Patients and Families
Health literate patient education materials that actively engage patients and families in their own care.
Resources designed to help patients understand the importance of seeking appropriate care in order to maximize value and live a healthy life.
The project described was supported by Funding Opportunity Number CMS-1L1-15-002 from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The contents provided are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of HHS or any of its agencies.
