Institute of Medicine and Public Health of New Jersey Initiatives
NJDHSS COMPREHENSIVE TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAM (CTCP) PHYSICIANS OUTREACH
Provide Physicians and other health care providers with the 2A+R tools to use during office visits to encourage patients to quit smoking—Assess, Advise and Refer
ALPHA—PHYSICIANS COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE
The IOMPHNJ and MSNJ, in collaboration with
Thomson Reuters and
STI Computer Services Inc., are providing New Jersey physicians with a unique opportunity to engage in an electronic data exchange that facilitates improved understanding of the patient populations they treat and the services they deliver.
Through the Alpha Project, small- and mid-sized practices are able to electronically submit the data already stored in their practice management systems (e.g., STI’s Perfect Care® system) directly to Thomson Reuters for analytic purposes. From these data, Physician and Practice Profile Reports are generated, which provide participants with in-depth information about their patients’ demographics, the most common conditions they treat, and the procedures they perform the most.
Alpha Project participants have the option to receive additional information about their quality of care and improvement over time. The project’s Performance Assessment Reports make use of quality measures endorsed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and used in its Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) measures. These reports identify the quality measures that are most applicable to a physician’s patient population, and can help guide physicians in their quest to fulfill quality improvement goals for re-certification purposes.
The Alpha Project is also facilitating physicians’ management of care for chronically ill patients through online disease registries that document the care provided to their patient populations. DocSite, a disease registry vendor, is providing all project participants with direct access to their Web-based reporting tools. The Alpha Project is working with DocSite to use the data from physicians’ practice management systems to build and populate those physicians’ disease registries. This minimizes effort on the part of the practice or physician, and provides them with Web-based access to information about their patients.
PHYSICIAN’S DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Provide MSNJ member physicians and other healthcare providers with information and implementation strategies to be used in the event of a natural or terrorist disaster.
TRI-COUNTY — CAMDEN, GLOUCESTER AND BURLINGTON — CANCER COALITION MEN’S HEALTH CONFERENCE: TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
Serve as fiscal agent, facilitator, and provide program management for the Men’s Health Conference. The Conference focus is the top four men’s cancers in the three counties, screening guideline, and barrier to men getting cancer screening.
CHILDHOOD CANCER WORK GROUP CONFERENCE
Serve as fiscal agent, facilitator, and provide program management for the Childhood Cancer Work Group bi-annual conference. The conference focus is the youth and adolescent cancer survivor.
SMOKEFREE AIR ACT IMPLEMENTATION FUNDED BY THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON
Coordinate the efforts of the NJ Breathes tobacco control coalition to provide assistance to businesses in New Jersey during the early phase of implementation of the New Jersey Smokefree Air Act. Conduct public opinion polls and distribute signage and other ancillary materials to NJ bars and restaurants, meet with various editorial boards and media outlets to inform the public and assist New Jersey businesses.
CME LECTURES.ORG
CME Lectures on-line CME subscription service is available to MSNJ members. Members who subscribe to the service get the convenience of on-line CME at a reasonable month fee. Subscriptions support the charitable work of IOMPHNJ.
CME ACCREDITATION
To increase the effectiveness and efficiencies of offering educational credits to the public health community. IOMPHNJ will sponsor Continuing Medical Education (CME) (AMA Category 1 Credit(s)™) activities accredited for physicians in New Jersey.