Guest guest Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Reassurance From Drain, Gordon, if they were to call me...in case anyone is interested in Value Based Management of the Drain medical "system", I'll be very nice. These are the guys with the money after all. But I read their policy statements, and they are not mine. I have read Adam , waded through all 600 pages of Wealth of Nations from the price of cattle in the 1650s to the breeding habits of palm trees owned by the East India Company in the South Pacific. According to his precepts, free competition does not work if you allow corporations to get into cahoots with each other. Ours are bogus-pile into cahoots with each other. I'm voting for a single payer plan. At least we would know where to go when they goof up. Joanne, the Old MD in Drain, Oregon "L. Gordon " wrote: Hi folks I gave a presentation of the Ideal Micro Practices project to the Value Based Purchasing committee of the National Business Coalition on Health. They are very interested in our work. They love that the participants in the project can deliver patient centered collaborative care, that the practice model is so much more satisfactory for the docs and the patients they serve. They love that the project is exploring how primary care practices step up to helping their patients better manage across silos in health care (we're stepping into this arena in our first steps by helping patients better manage what happens when they go for specialist consultations and follow up). The increased quality and reduced cost (i.e. value) of the work we do sets us clearly apart from typical U.S. health care. I shared the IMP Google map: http://maps.yourgmap.com/v/c_ne_Ideal_Micro_Practices.html I'm proud of every point on that map and pointed out that each practice is unique and whether participating directly in the project or not, each has some or many of the key components working for them and their patients. Committee members in your region may find you on the map and give you a call out of the blue. If you receive a call from one of the committee members, consider yourself very lucky. These folks might be able to help us accomplish things that I would never have dreamed of a year ago as we launched the project. Gordon No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Along those lines, I see some new posters to the listserve whom I would like to add to the IMP Map, if that is applicable. I added Jeff Huotari (Welcome!) and Haresch (I know you're not quite open yet but close enough). I would like to ask the following if their associated practices are or aspiring to be an Ideal Micro Practice, and if so, I would like to include them on the IMP GMap (which is located in Gordon's previous post below): Tom Piergallini (for Piergallini) Beth Sullivan Tom Mala Singh Margaret Coughlan Hilsbos (for Ken Hilsbos) Pedro Ballester Schul-Heik Conley Aenor Sawyer (okay, you're not new but we haven't heard from you in a while) Shay Hosseinion I just KNOW that there are other lurkers out there on the listserve who have Ideal Micro Practices but who have not posted or otherwise made themselves known. I would encourage anyone with an IMP who is not already on the GMap to post their practice info so that I can add it to the map. I believe that the more visible we are to the public, policymakers, employers, media, insurers, etc, the more likely it is that we will be seen as a serious movement, as opposed to just another health fad. For those keeping count, so far there are 94 practices and 97 doctors listed. I have also reserved a new domain name for the IMP map, since the current name is wayyyyyy too hard to remember. Hopefully in the next day or so, all you have to do to find the IMP map is to go to http://www.impmap.com. Seto South Pasadena, CA Hi folks I gave a presentation of the Ideal Micro Practices project to the Value Based Purchasing committee of the National Business Coalition on Health. They are very interested in our work. They love that the participants in the project can deliver patient centered collaborative care, that the practice model is so much more satisfactory for the docs and the patients they serve. They love that the project is exploring how primary care practices step up to helping their patients better manage across silos in health care (we're stepping into this arena in our first steps by helping patients better manage what happens when they go for specialist consultations and follow up). The increased quality and reduced cost (i.e. value) of the work we do sets us clearly apart from typical U.S. health care. I shared the IMP Google map: http://maps.yourgmap.com/v/c_ne_Ideal_Micro_Practices.html I'm proud of every point on that map and pointed out that each practice is unique and whether participating directly in the project or not, each has some or many of the key components working for them and their patients. Committee members in your region may find you on the map and give you a call out of the blue. If you receive a call from one of the committee members, consider yourself very lucky. These folks might be able to help us accomplish things that I would never have dreamed of a year ago as we launched the project. Gordon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 , I will be starting up in July as: T. , MD DABFP Sammamish Diabetes and Lipid Clinic Primary care for patients with cardiovascular risk. 3854 E Lk Sammamish Pkwy NE Sammamish, WA 98074 Phone: Fax: DonS@... http://www.SammamishDiabetesAndLipid.Org thanks for adding me. don From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Seto Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:20 PM To: Subject: Re: GMap practices Along those lines, I see some new posters to the listserve whom I would like to add to the IMP Map, if that is applicable. I added Jeff Huotari (Welcome!) and Haresch (I know you're not quite open yet but close enough). I would like to ask the following if their associated practices are or aspiring to be an Ideal Micro Practice, and if so, I would like to include them on the IMP GMap (which is located in Gordon's previous post below): Tom Piergallini (for Piergallini) Beth Sullivan Tom Mala Singh Margaret Coughlan Hilsbos (for Ken Hilsbos) Pedro Ballester Schul-Heik Conley Aenor Sawyer (okay, you're not new but we haven't heard from you in a while) Shay Hosseinion I just KNOW that there are other lurkers out there on the listserve who have Ideal Micro Practices but who have not posted or otherwise made themselves known. I would encourage anyone with an IMP who is not already on the GMap to post their practice info so that I can add it to the map. I believe that the more visible we are to the public, policymakers, employers, media, insurers, etc, the more likely it is that we will be seen as a serious movement, as opposed to just another health fad. For those keeping count, so far there are 94 practices and 97 doctors listed. I have also reserved a new domain name for the IMP map, since the current name is wayyyyyy too hard to remember. Hopefully in the next day or so, all you have to do to find the IMP map is to go to http://www.impmap.com. Seto South Pasadena, CA Hi folks I gave a presentation of the Ideal Micro Practices project to the Value Based Purchasing committee of the National Business Coalition on Health. They are very interested in our work. They love that the participants in the project can deliver patient centered collaborative care, that the practice model is so much more satisfactory for the docs and the patients they serve. They love that the project is exploring how primary care practices step up to helping their patients better manage across silos in health care (we're stepping into this arena in our first steps by helping patients better manage what happens when they go for specialist consultations and follow up). The increased quality and reduced cost (i.e. value) of the work we do sets us clearly apart from typical U.S. health care. I shared the IMP Google map: http://maps.yourgmap.com/v/c_ne_Ideal_Micro_Practices.html I'm proud of every point on that map and pointed out that each practice is unique and whether participating directly in the project or not, each has some or many of the key components working for them and their patients. Committee members in your region may find you on the map and give you a call out of the blue. If you receive a call from one of the committee members, consider yourself very lucky. These folks might be able to help us accomplish things that I would never have dreamed of a year ago as we launched the project. Gordon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 OK , you have nudged me out of the “lurker” category into the “poster” category. Your encouragement to get “put on the map” plus the absence of any IMP mark in the 4+ state area around me has led me to become visible. While not a member of the official cohort of the IMP, certainly I plan to follow the model and ascribe whole heartedly to the spirit. Sorry I won’t be attending the camp event in Colorado this summer to thank you in person for the GREAT ideas I have stolen/borrowed in setting up my practice. My practice: Plains Synergy Healthcare Location: Glendive, MT Web: www.mutt.yourmd.com Phone: EMR: Soapware v. V wth IMH/Appointmentquest Solo/Solo/Solo Opening the doors 4/2/07!! About me: Carpenter to truck driver to RN to MD dual board certified in Family Practice and Psychiatry via combo residency at WVU where Charlie Vargas was my chief resident (hi Charlie!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Congrats on opening tomorrow Nice web site I have spent some time in Crow agency MT so I know where you are, and i have long waited to see us have an IMP in the northern plains. But i see on your web site that you list electroconvulsive therapy as a common procedure. You are that depressed?? RE: GMap practices OK , you have nudged me out of the " lurker " category into the " poster " category. Your encouragement to get " put on the map " plus the absence of any IMP mark in the 4+ state area around me has led me to become visible. While not a member of the official cohort of the IMP, certainly I plan to follow the model and ascribe whole heartedly to the spirit. Sorry I won't be attending the camp event in Colorado this summer to thank you in person for the GREAT ideas I have stolen/borrowed in setting up my practice. My practice: Plains Synergy Healthcare Location: Glendive, MT Web: www.mutt.yourmd. <http://www.mutt.yourmd.com/> com Phone: EMR: Soapware v. V wth IMH/Appointmentquest Solo/Solo/Solo Opening the doors 4/2/07!! About me: Carpenter to truck driver to RN to MD dual board certified in Family Practice and Psychiatry via combo residency at WVU where Charlie Vargas was my chief resident (hi Charlie!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Thanks for asking, . I am new, though I have posted once. I am planning on opening in mid June or maybe July. I will send more practice information as I figure it out. I do plan to have an IMP style practice and am going to IMP camp. I'm looking forward to meeting some of you then! Lonna Larsh 406 Mission St Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Re: GMap practices Along those lines, I see some new posters to the listserve whom I would like to add to the IMP Map, if that is applicable. I added Jeff Huotari (Welcome!) and Haresch (I know you're not quite open yet but close enough). I would like to ask the following if their associated practices are or aspiring to be an Ideal Micro Practice, and if so, I would like to include them on the IMP GMap (which is located in Gordon's previous post below):Tom Piergallini (for Piergallini)Beth SullivanTom Mala SinghMargaret Coughlan Hilsbos (for Ken Hilsbos)Pedro Ballester Schul-Heik ConleyAenor Sawyer (okay, you're not new but we haven't heard from you in a while)Shay HosseinionI just KNOW that there are other lurkers out there on the listserve who have Ideal Micro Practices but who have not posted or otherwise made themselves known. I would encourage anyone with an IMP who is not already on the GMap to post their practice info so that I can add it to the map. I believe that the more visible we are to the public, policymakers, employers, media, insurers, etc, the more likely it is that we will be seen as a serious movement, as opposed to just another health fad. For those keeping count, so far there are 94 practices and 97 doctors listed.I have also reserved a new domain name for the IMP map, since the current name is wayyyyyy too hard to remember. Hopefully in the next day or so, all you have to do to find the IMP map is to go to http://www.impmap. com. SetoSouth Pasadena, CAHi folksI gave a presentation of the Ideal Micro Practices project to the Value Based Purchasing committee of the National Business Coalition on Health. They are very interested in our work. They love that the participants in the project can deliver patient centered collaborative care, that the practice model is so much more satisfactory for the docs and the patients they serve.They love that the project is exploring how primary care practices step up to helping their patients better manage across silos in health care (we're stepping into this arena in our first steps by helping patients better manage what happens when they go for specialist consultations and follow up).The increased quality and reduced cost (i.e. value) of the work we do sets us clearly apart from typical U.S. health care.I shared the IMP Google map:http://maps. yourgmap. com/v/c_ne_ Ideal_Micro_ Practices. htmlI'm proud of every point on that map and pointed out that each practice is unique and whether participating directly in the project or not, each has some or many of the key components working for them and their patients.Committee members in your region may find you on the map and give you a call out of the blue. If you receive a call from one of the committee members, consider yourself very lucky. These folks might be able to help us accomplish things that I would never have dreamed of a year ago as we launched the project.Gordon No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2007 Report Share Posted April 1, 2007 Good luck! A. Eads, M.D. Pinnacle Family Medicine, PLLC phone fax P.O. Box 7275 Woodland Park, CO 80863 www.PinnacleFamilyMedicine.com From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Mutt Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 2:57 AM To: Subject: RE: GMap practices OK , you have nudged me out of the “lurker” category into the “poster” category. Your encouragement to get “put on the map” plus the absence of any IMP mark in the 4+ state area around me has led me to become visible. While not a member of the official cohort of the IMP, certainly I plan to follow the model and ascribe whole heartedly to the spirit. Sorry I won’t be attending the camp event in Colorado this summer to thank you in person for the GREAT ideas I have stolen/borrowed in setting up my practice. My practice: Plains Synergy Healthcare Location: Glendive, MT Web: www.mutt.yourmd.com Phone: EMR: Soapware v. V wth IMH/Appointmentquest Solo/Solo/Solo Opening the doors 4/2/07!! About me: Carpenter to truck driver to RN to MD dual board certified in Family Practice and Psychiatry via combo residency at WVU where Charlie Vargas was my chief resident (hi Charlie!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Hi to Pedro Ballester and Beth Sullivan! Welcome. Sign up for the next IMP cohort. Someone will be sure to tell you how to do it. Think about coming to IMP camp weekend of July 1st. Mutt, what are we supposed to call you? Nice bio! I like that. Shirley Pigott MDTexasOn 4/1/07, Eads <michelle.eads@... > wrote: Good luck! A. Eads, M.D. Pinnacle Family Medicine, PLLC phone fax P.O. Box 7275 Woodland Park, CO 80863 www.PinnacleFamilyMedicine.com From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Mutt Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 2:57 AM To: Subject: RE: GMap practices OK , you have nudged me out of the "lurker" category into the "poster" category. Your encouragement to get "put on the map" plus the absence of any IMP mark in the 4+ state area around me has led me to become visible. While not a member of the official cohort of the IMP, certainly I plan to follow the model and ascribe whole heartedly to the spirit. Sorry I won't be attending the camp event in Colorado this summer to thank you in person for the GREAT ideas I have stolen/borrowed in setting up my practice. My practice: Plains Synergy Healthcare Location: Glendive, MT Web: www.mutt.yourmd.com Phone: EMR: Soapware v. V wth IMH/Appointmentquest Solo/Solo/Solo Opening the doors 4/2/07!! About me: Carpenter to truck driver to RN to MD dual board certified in Family Practice and Psychiatry via combo residency at WVU where Charlie Vargas was my chief resident (hi Charlie!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Keep us updated as to how “cash only” goes. Glendive, Montana does not strike me as the type of setting where patients would be willing to pay for health care out of pocket. RE: GMap practices OK , you have nudged me out of the “lurker” category into the “poster” category. Your encouragement to get “put on the map” plus the absence of any IMP mark in the 4+ state area around me has led me to become visible. While not a member of the official cohort of the IMP, certainly I plan to follow the model and ascribe whole heartedly to the spirit. Sorry I won’t be attending the camp event in Colorado this summer to thank you in person for the GREAT ideas I have stolen/borrowed in setting up my practice. My practice: Plains Synergy Healthcare Location: Glendive, MT Web: www.mutt.yourmd.com Phone: EMR: Soapware v. V wth IMH/Appointmentquest Solo/Solo/Solo Opening the doors 4/2/07!! About me: Carpenter to truck driver to RN to MD dual board certified in Family Practice and Psychiatry via combo residency at WVU where Charlie Vargas was my chief resident (hi Charlie!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Help, I would love to have my practice added to the IMP map but I don't even know for sure what an IMP is let alone whether I subscribe to the concept. If an IMP is a practice where I am chief cook an d bottle washer then count me in. If it isn't or is someone wants to take pity on an over worked lack of sleep doctor, send me a link so I can find out if I fit the bill as well. Thanks Dr. Beth Sullivan, DORidgeway Family Practice, PCCommerce, GAFax: Re: GMap practices Along those lines, I see some new posters to the listserve whom I would like to add to the IMP Map, if that is applicable. I added Jeff Huotari (Welcome!) and Haresch (I know you're not quite open yet but close enough). I would like to ask the following if their associated practices are or aspiring to be an Ideal Micro Practice, and if so, I would like to include them on the IMP GMap (which is located in Gordon's previous post below):Tom Piergallini (for Piergallini)Beth SullivanTom Mala SinghMargaret Coughlan Hilsbos (for Ken Hilsbos)Pedro Ballester Schul-Heik ConleyAenor Sawyer (okay, you're not new but we haven't heard from you in a while)Shay HosseinionI just KNOW that there are other lurkers out there on the listserve who have Ideal Micro Practices but who have not posted or otherwise made themselves known. I would encourage anyone with an IMP who is not already on the GMap to post their practice info so that I can add it to the map. I believe that the more visible we are to the public, policymakers, employers, media, insurers, etc, the more likely it is that we will be seen as a serious movement, as opposed to just another health fad. For those keeping count, so far there are 94 practices and 97 doctors listed.I have also reserved a new domain name for the IMP map, since the current name is wayyyyyy too hard to remember. Hopefully in the next day or so, all you have to do to find the IMP map is to go to http://www.impmap. com. SetoSouth Pasadena, CAHi folksI gave a presentation of the Ideal Micro Practices project to the Value Based Purchasing committee of the National Business Coalition on Health. They are very interested in our work. They love that the participants in the project can deliver patient centered collaborative care, that the practice model is so much more satisfactory for the docs and the patients they serve.They love that the project is exploring how primary care practices step up to helping their patients better manage across silos in health care (we're stepping into this arena in our first steps by helping patients better manage what happens when they go for specialist consultations and follow up).The increased quality and reduced cost (i.e. value) of the work we do sets us clearly apart from typical U.S. health care.I shared the IMP Google map:http://maps. yourgmap. com/v/c_ne_ Ideal_Micro_ Practices. htmlI'm proud of every point on that map and pointed out that each practice is unique and whether participating directly in the project or not, each has some or many of the key components working for them and their patients.Committee members in your region may find you on the map and give you a call out of the blue. If you receive a call from one of the committee members, consider yourself very lucky. These folks might be able to help us accomplish things that I would never have dreamed of a year ago as we launched the project.Gordon No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 HI Beth You are an imp IF: 1 you have a low over head hgih tech practice that leveages technology in a relentless search for truth justice and the american way No oops In a relentless seacrh for acheiving the steep curve mnemonic of thent-cneered equitable reliable etc care. You are supposed to imporve yourprocesses and fow and do open access so you are accesible to paitetns UNfettered access!is the 11th commandment. You are allowed to have satff Not much! see idealhealthnetwork.org idealmicroptactce.org or callme. Re: GMap practices Help, I would love to have my practice added to the IMP map but I don't even know for sure what an IMP is let alone whether I subscribe to the concept. If an IMP is a practice where I am chief cook an d bottle washer then count me in. If it isn't or is someone wants to take pity on an over worked lack of sleep doctor, send me a link so I can find out if I fit the bill as well. Thanks Dr. Beth Sullivan, DO Ridgeway Family Practice, PC Commerce, GA Fax: _____ Re: GMap practices Along those lines, I see some new posters to the listserve whom I would like to add to the IMP Map, if that is applicable. I added Jeff Huotari (Welcome!) and Haresch (I know you're not quite open yet but close enough). I would like to ask the following if their associated practices are or aspiring to be an Ideal Micro Practice, and if so, I would like to include them on the IMP GMap (which is located in Gordon's previous post below): Tom Piergallini (for Piergallini) Beth Sullivan Tom Mala Singh Margaret Coughlan Hilsbos (for Ken Hilsbos) Pedro Ballester Schul-Heik Conley Aenor Sawyer (okay, you're not new but we haven't heard from you in a while) Shay Hosseinion I just KNOW that there are other lurkers out there on the listserve who have Ideal Micro Practices but who have not posted or otherwise made themselves known. I would encourage anyone with an IMP who is not already on the GMap to post their practice info so that I can add it to the map. I believe that the more visible we are to the public, policymakers, employers, media, insurers, etc, the more likely it is that we will be seen as a serious movement, as opposed to just another health fad. For those keeping count, so far there are 94 practices and 97 doctors listed. I have also reserved a new domain name for the IMP map, since the current name is wayyyyyy too hard to remember. Hopefully in the next day or so, all you have to do to find the IMP map is to go to http://www.impmap. com. <http://www.impmap.com./> Seto South Pasadena, CA Hi folks I gave a presentation of the Ideal Micro Practices project to the Value Based Purchasing committee of the National Business Coalition on Health. They are very interested in our work. They love that the participants in the project can deliver patient centered collaborative care, that the practice model is so much more satisfactory for the docs and the patients they serve. They love that the project is exploring how primary care practices step up to helping their patients better manage across silos in health care (we're stepping into this arena in our first steps by helping patients better manage what happens when they go for specialist consultations and follow up). The increased quality and reduced cost (i.e. value) of the work we do sets us clearly apart from typical U.S. health care. I shared the IMP Google map: http://maps. yourgmap. com/v/c_ne_ Ideal_Micro_ <http://maps.yourgmap.com/v/c_ne_Ideal_Micro_Practices.html> Practices. html I'm proud of every point on that map and pointed out that each practice is unique and whether participating directly in the project or not, each has some or many of the key components working for them and their patients. Committee members in your region may find you on the map and give you a call out of the blue. If you receive a call from one of the committee members, consider yourself very lucky. These folks might be able to help us accomplish things that I would never have dreamed of a year ago as we launched the project. Gordon _____ No need to miss a message. Get <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43910/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail> email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43910/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail> started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Beth -May I send you to a link specifically on IMPs? Might help with the definition.http://www.idealmicropractice.org/ GuinnAlbquerqueHelp, I would love to have my practice added to the IMP map but I don't even know for sure what an IMP is let alone whether I subscribe to the concept. If an IMP is a practice where I am chief cook an d bottle washer then count me in. If it isn't or is someone wants to take pity on an over worked lack of sleep doctor, send me a link so I can find out if I fit the bill as well. ThanksDr. Beth Sullivan, DORidgeway Family Practice, PCCommerce, GAFax: Re: GMap practicesAlong those lines, I see some new posters to the listserve whom I would like to add to the IMP Map, if that is applicable. I added Jeff Huotari (Welcome!) and Haresch (I know you're not quite open yet but close enough). I would like to ask the following if their associated practices are or aspiring to be an Ideal Micro Practice, and if so, I would like to include them on the IMP GMap (which is located in Gordon's previous post below):Tom Piergallini (for Piergallini)Beth SullivanTom Mala SinghMargaret Coughlan Hilsbos (for Ken Hilsbos)Pedro Ballester Schul-Heik ConleyAenor Sawyer (okay, you're not new but we haven't heard from you in a while)Shay HosseinionI just KNOW that there are other lurkers out there on the listserve who have Ideal Micro Practices but who have not posted or otherwise made themselves known. I would encourage anyone with an IMP who is not already on the GMap to post their practice info so that I can add it to the map. I believe that the more visible we are to the public, policymakers, employers, media, insurers, etc, the more likely it is that we will be seen as a serious movement, as opposed to just another health fad. For those keeping count, so far there are 94 practices and 97 doctors listed.I have also reserved a new domain name for the IMP map, since the current name is wayyyyyy too hard to remember. Hopefully in the next day or so, all you have to do to find the IMP map is to go tohttp://www.impmap. com. SetoSouth Pasadena, CAHi folksI gave a presentation of the Ideal Micro Practices project to the Value Based Purchasing committee of the National Business Coalition on Health. They are very interested in our work. They love that the participants in the project can deliver patient centered collaborative care, that the practice model is so much more satisfactory for the docs and the patients they serve.They love that the project is exploring how primary care practices step up to helping their patients better manage across silos in health care (we're stepping into this arena in our first steps by helping patients better manage what happens when they go for specialist consultations and follow up).The increased quality and reduced cost (i.e. value) of the work we do sets us clearly apart from typical U.S. health care.I shared the IMP Google map:http://maps. yourgmap. com/v/c_ne_ Ideal_Micro_ Practices. htmlI'm proud of every point on that map and pointed out that each practice is unique and whether participating directly in the project or not, each has some or many of the key components working for them and their patients.Committee members in your region may find you on the map and give you a call out of the blue. If you receive a call from one of the committee members, consider yourself very lucky. These folks might be able to help us accomplish things that I would never have dreamed of a year ago as we launched the project.GordonNo need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 I am back from the California Academy of Family Physicians Annual meeting in San Francisco and had the pleasure of meeting Greaves and Marty Schulman there. The 3 of us got to compare notes while we described our practices to a group of about 12-15 FPs at a seminar on Practice Redesign. We even got to meet a few "lurkers" who normally stay in the shadows of this listserve, and hopefully they won't stay anonymous for too long. You know who you are. Anyways we had a great time, and hopefully sparked some interest in IMPs. We would've had more attendees if they didn't charge $59 and if it wasn't the last event on the final day of the conference, but we'll work on that next year.Thanks to Mutt and for posting your practice info; I have added you both to www.impmap.com. That brings up up to IMPs in 32 states. Thanks also to Marius and Lonna for letting us know how your practice plans are going. I know a few others on the listserve are close to opening their practices, but I will wait until you are "officially" open before listing you on the IMP Map (or at least close enough to taste it). To Beth Sullivan, thanks also for responding and for your honesty in not knowing what an IMP practice is. We all started in the dark, too. If you wouldn't mind describing your practice a little (are you solo? # of employees? open access?), that would probably be a good start in figuring out how IMP-y your practice is. SetoSouth Pasadena, CAOK , you have nudged me out of the “lurker” category into the “poster” category. Your encouragement to get “put on the map” plus the absence of any IMP mark in the 4+ state area around me has led me to become visible. While not a member of the official cohort of the IMP, certainly I plan to follow the model and ascribe whole heartedly to the spirit. Sorry I won’t be attending the camp event in Colorado this summer to thank you in person for the GREAT ideas I have stolen/borrowed in setting up my practice. My practice: Plains Synergy HealthcareLocation: Glendive, MTWeb: www.mutt.yourmd.comPhone: EMR: Soapware v. V wth IMH/AppointmentquestSolo/Solo/SoloOpening the doors 4/2/07!! About me: Carpenter to truck driver to RN to MD dual board certified in Family Practice and Psychiatry via combo residency at WVU where Charlie Vargas was my chief resident (hi Charlie!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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