Oracle Healthcare - A New Model for Practicing Medicine
Center for Family Medicine – Verde Valley
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Primary Care is a term used to describe the main healthcare provider for a patient, this term gained recognition when insurance companies began to implement rules that were supposed to create a more effective healthcare management system for patients and decrease the cost of healthcare overall. This has not succeeded. Instead gone are the days of personalized medicine, what we like to call Family Medicine; where a provider knew their patient based upon their personal history, life story and medical past. Instead we find that providers are forced to understand their patient by their insurance carrier, list of medications covered by their formulary and healthcare decisions are made based upon plans, policies and procedures, not always in the best interests of the patient. Who is at fault, not the healthcare providers and hospitals, the “game” of the business of healthcare has been out of their hands for at least two decades.
The Osborne Group, has launched its newest innovation in Healthcare. We would like to introduce you to Oracle Healthcare and the Center for Family Medicine. Oracle healthcare is a company founded upon the principles that:
- The provider and the patient should make all healthcare decisions
- Costs savings can be achieved in healthcare by simplifying the system created by insurance payers and over regulation of healthcare services
- Technology can simplify the administrative process
- Patients should not be denied care based upon their insurance carriers rules or their lack of insurance in general
- The excessive cost per patient to administer healthcare services by providers is directly related to the increasing burden placed upon healthcare providers by insurance carriers
- Rural healthcare providers need to be given new tools and resources to make the practice of medicine viable again
- It is not cheaper to administer Rural Medicine, often times it is more expensive
- The Rural healthcare system is at a “breaking point”, the situation is critical
- Retention & Recruitment of new providers is essential to solving the problem in rural medicine.
Oracle Healthcare will rely on three key components to fix the current situation:
- Patient & Providers lead the Way
- Educational partnerships for patients, providers and the community
- The best technology
As part of Oracle Healthcare’s first major initiative in Rural Arizona, they have launched their flagship medical group practice, the Center for Family Medicine, based in Cottonwood, Arizona. Center for Family Medicine is based upon a proven system of creating a healthcare home for patients, and an ideal place to practice medicine for providers. Relying on “The Medical Home Concept”, a nationally recognized pilot project for Family Medicine and implementing such concept in Rural Arizona at Center for Family Medicine Primary Care will transform itself back to Family Medicine and Center for Family Medicine in the Verde Valley will provide best-in-class care to the community by providing:
1. Personal medical home
The practice serves as a personal medical home for each patient, ensuring access to comprehensive, integrated care through an ongoing relationship.
2. Patient-centered care
Patients are encouraged to be active participants in their health and health care. The practice has a patient-centered, relationship-oriented culture that emphasizes the importance of meeting patients' needs, reaffirming that the fundamental basis for health care is "people taking care of people."
3. Team approach
An understanding that health care is not delivered by an individual, but rather by a system, which implies a multidisciplinary team approach for delivering and continuously improving care for an identified population.
4. Elimination of barriers to access
Elimination, to the extent possible, of barriers to access by patients through implementation of open scheduling, expanded office hours, and additional, convenient options for communication between patients and practice staff.
5. Advanced, data-based information systems
The ability to use an information system to deliver and improve care, provide effective practice administration, communicate with patients, network with other practices, and monitor the health of the community. A standardized electronic health record (EHR), adapted to the specific needs of family physicians, constitutes the central nervous system of the practice.
6. Redesigned, more functional offices
Offices should be redesigned to meet changing patient needs and expectations, accommodate innovative work processes, and ensure convenience, comfort, and efficiency for patients and clinicians.
7. Integrated, whole-person orientation
A visible commitment to integrated, whole-person care through such mechanisms as developing cooperative alliances with services or organizations that extend beyond the practice setting, but which are essential for meeting the complete range of needs for a given patient population. The practice has the ability to help guide a patient through the health care system by integrating care-- not simply coordinating care.
8. Care provided within a community context
A culturally sensitive, community-oriented, population-perspective focus.
9. Emphasis on quality and safety
Systems are in place for the ongoing assessment of performance and outcomes and for implementation of appropriate changes to enhance quality and safety.
10. Enhanced practice finance
Improved practice margins are achieved through enhanced operating efficiencies and new revenue streams.
11. Commitment to provide family medicine's consistent set of services
A commitment to provide patients with family medicine's full basket of services -- either directly or indirectly through established relationships with other clinicians.
Healthcare providers at Center for Family Medicine are part of a team and work to support other providers in the community and the local hospital system. Oracle Healthcare is the business entity that ensures the success of the practices and initiatives it chooses to develop. Center for Family Medicine will change the healthcare environment in the Verde Valley in support of healthcare providers and patients. New services will become available in the coming months and access to healthcare will never again be limited because of insurance status, lack of providers, or a failing primary care system – because primary care is gone and family medicine is back.
Center for Family Medicine invites you to Grow Healthy With Us! Look for announcements in August detailing our drive to bring more new providers to the Verde Valley.
Or if you need support in making your own practice successful again The Osborne Group looks to support providers currently in practice:
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