Re: Re: NCQA -useful?

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I need to shape up and do my work and talk lessBUt I a m glad you laugh I see no harm in using the comments I suppose you should leave my name off.(one never knows..)I suspect many people will not see the humor We live in a world where people take this stuff seriously

Now yesterday on a phone call JOhn Wasson said you know he said we need a musical theme MAybe Nero fiddling while primary c are burns to the ground:)Good to know you LouHey IMP camp tentatively next August,, and definelty seattle

I definitely owe you a beer for the last two posts. They made my

day, I'm still laughing. The thing is, they are taking this stuff

very seriously here at our hospital and are making an effort to get

some of the practices recognized. Again, I'm not sure we would get

any real money out of it etc. I would love to have permission to

clip out your comments with or without your name to send them to the

head of the family practice department here.

Just great-I owe you.

(You really need to have a health blog or health rant complete with

the typos-I think just in advertising you could make some bucks)

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> Too bad I cannot formulate words like this on t he spot when i

need

> them, but----

> I mean I suppose maybe that some practices out there could go

through this

> tool and find some things that- whether they got Recognized by

NCQA or not-

> that they would say oh we do not do this, good point, we can do

better in

> our practice about t his or that. BUt I am not sure there is much

of that

> in this tool .MAybe some

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> And IF good stuff is in there being measured i,t is just coated

by heavy

> layer s of the bureaucratic stuff- the " make up a policy about

what you

> already do " I understand we must be accountable This tool for

doing that

> seems no t to really measure the best things and is highly

burdensome to do

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> For a laugh I can tell you that you get points for having the

patient's

> name recorded

> Really

> The thing starts with- do you have ,in a searchable data field,(

> bureaucrat-ese for a place that is the same in every chart so

that you can

> find it , not buried in t he text)

> 1 patient name

> 2 DOB

> 3 address etc

>

> Call me if you know any practices that do not have the patient's

name on

> chart. I mean please!

> If they are in t hat much trouble they probably don;t know

where their

> underwear is either.May I gently say.

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