Adfm's 2013 Winter Meeting Focus: Moving to Value-Based Health Care

Evolving Perspectives on Population Health Management

“…A major pressure most academic health centers are currently facing is a need to enhance primary care capabilities to provide even the institution's own employees with highly accessible, well-coordinated, affordable care. We have devoted considerable effort in ADFM to understand how we can help move our academic health centers from volume-based to valuebased care delivery 8 with the ultimate goal of delivering the Triple Aim to all populations served by these large institutions.…”

Health System Change and Academic Departments

“…As part of this meeting, ADFM members engaged in workgroup discussions around 4 major themes: creating a strong partnership with the academic medical center (AMC); improving quality and reducing costs for patients, employers, and payers; collaborating effectively with other specialties; and improving the practice of family medicine and preparing the family physicians of the future. 2 Following this session, a white paper with specific recommendations for how departments of family medicine (DFMs) can play a leading role in helping the nation with the transition to value-based health care was produced and shared with ADFM members. 3 To ascertain how DFMs are meeting the challenge of health system change in their local environments-and the degree to which change has been implemented-questions about each of the specific recommendations were asked on the 2013 version of ADFM's annual member survey.…”