Mayo Practice Transformation Network selected to participate in Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative

The Mayo Practice Transformation Network is one of 39 health care collaborative networks selected to participate in the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, announced today by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell. Mayo Clinic will receive up to $9.7 million to provide technical assistance support to help equip clinicians in the Mayo Practice Transformation Network with tools, information and network support needed to improve quality of care, increase patients' access to information and spend health care dollars more wisely.

This initiative is a collaboration between the Mayo Clinic Office of Population Health Management (OPHM) and the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery (CSHCD). It is led by principal investigator Nilay Shah, Ph.D., health services researcher in the CSHCD, and co-principal investigator Kari Bunkers, M.D., primary care physician in the Mayo Clinic Health System and medical director of the OPHM.

The Mayo Practice Transformation Network will support 1,200 clinicians to expand their quality improvement capacity, learn from one another and achieve common goals of improved care, better health and reduced cost. The network will provide technical assistance related to integrated behavioral health, re-admissions, chronic disease management, medication therapy management, shared decision-making and management of patients with complex medical issues, including multiple chronic conditions.

"Mayo Clinic is committed to pursuing goals that improve health and transform health care delivery for patients everywhere," says Dr. Shah. "This award provides us the opportunity to greatly enhance our capabilities to do so, and we expect to see our more than 75 community-based practices become not only patient-centered, but also high-performing, evidence-based care providers."

"We anticipate significant improvements in patient experience, while reducing overall costs within the system and for patients," says Dr. Bunkers. "This will also enable the transition of clinicians and practices in the Mayo Practice Transformation Network from a primarily fee‐for‐service payment-based care delivery model to a value‐based care delivery model."

These awards are part of a comprehensive strategy advanced by the Affordable Care Act that enables new levels of coordination, continuity and integration of care, while transitioning volume-driven systems to value-based, patient-centered, health care services. It builds upon successful models and programs such as the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Organization Program, Partnership for Patients with Hospital Engagement Networks, and Accountable Care Organizations.

Source: http://www.mayoclinic.org/