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herbs and vitamins, for instance, “which can interfere with certain medications, and patients don’t always think about those being important to mention.” The tool also can help prepare physi- cian practices for a health care system moving toward population-based health care, which requires not only increased care coordination and patient involve- ment, but also physician engagement, Dr. Fullerton says. HealthTexas physicians used a simi-
lar paper-based form before adopting an EMR system and before becoming a rec- ognized medical home.
“One idea behind the medical home
and ACOs is [patient] self-management, and [medication reconciliation] is a step along the way,” he said. In addition, “care coordination is a lot of things, but part of it is knowing more about your patients when they walk in that door, and this [tool] provides that additional information.” Whereas traditional medical training
largely taught physicians to diagnose a problem, give patients a recommenda-
tion, and send them on their way, Dr. Fullerton says physicians now have a greater role in helping patients engage in their own care.
A study published in May in the Jour- nal of the American Medical Association (
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article .aspx?articleid=1690707) highlights a number of patient behaviors and barri- ers that contribute to medication non- compliance. For example, patients may not understand the relevance of medica- tion adherence to their continued health and well-being; they conclude the ben- efits of taking medications do not out- weigh the costs; the complexity of medi- cation management can be challenging or patients are not vigilant enough; or patients do not perceive medications to be effective. “We’re now beginning to understand
there are a multitude of reasons why patients are not following through [on their care], whether they forgot or didn’t understand,” Dr. Fullerton said. “Physi- cians do care about patients and this is another tool to help them.”
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Tyler family physician Jonathan MacClements, MD, explains to fellow physicians how UT Health Northeast (formerly University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler) improved quality and access and reduced costs by triaging non-emergent patients who show up in the emergency department to a more appropriate care setting. Dr. MacClements won first place in TMA’s Quality Poster Session at TexMed 2013.
52 TEXAS MEDICINE July 2013
JIM LINCOLN
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