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October 25, 2013

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA

Vol. 32, No. 11

Future of health care arrives with pilot plan

This month thousands of MUSC employees may opt into a new state health plan that is part of a state pilot program. The state Budget and Control Board approved MUSC’s collaboration with the S.C. Public Employee Benefit Authority to offer this type of plan to employees. The pilot will begin Jan. 1 and is expected to run two to three years, providing critical data for the development of plans that can be adopted across the state. It is based on a patient-centered medical home model. Patrick J. Cawley, M.D., MUSC vice president for clinical operations and executive director of the Medical University Hospital Authority, said MUSC has been laying the groundwork for this for awhile. A patient-centered medical home strategy team has been meeting for several years to prepare this model, and there’s watch been a separate group with a large a ViDeo number of enthusiastic supporters working to get the PEBA pilot plan on course, including core team www.musc.edu/ members: Mark Lyles, M.D., chief pr/newscenter/ strategic officer for the MUSC 2013/pcmh.html clinical enterprise; Karyn Rae, managed care; Betts Ellis, MUHA; Mark Stimpson and Dee Crawford of University Human Resources; David McLean, MUHA Legal Counsel; and Mark Sweatman, MUSC special assistant to the president, Columbia office. The next decade will bring radical changes to health care delivery, he said. Beyond this pilot project, hospitals are going to have massive capabilities when it comes to analytics, data and patient information. “Combine this model,” Cawley said of the electronic medical records that have been put in place, “with the future of genomics and knowledge about our own genes — combine all three of those things — and we’re looking at a very different type of care during the next 10 years and here at MUSC. We feel as a traditional academic medical center, we need to be on the cutting edge of that testing of what works and what doesn’t work. That is what we do best.”

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Sickle Cell Researcher

Dr. Julie Kanter-Washko focuses on treating sickle cell disease.

Dr. William Moran (center) and resident Dr. Chad Kurzynske do “teach back”with patient Erica Ingram.

photo by Sarah Pack, Public Relations

By Dawn Brazell Public Relations It’s a conversation you might expect in a classroom, but this one is taking place during Erica Ingram’s visit with her internist, William Moran, M.D. “So tell me what medicines are you going to take?” he asks about controlling her asthma. She answers correctly, and then he asks more questions about how she’ll handle those times when her peak airflow rate drops. “This is called teach back,” Moran said, pausing in the question-and-answer session. “What do we teach you, and what can you teach back to me? We have written details here in case you forget,” he said, handing her an instruction sheet. “That’s why the team approach is great. I’m like

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Coach (Bill) Belichick (New England Patriots head coach) – let’s make a different play next time to keep her out of the emergency department.” That teach-back philosophy is one reason Ingram is here at University Internal Medicine, which practices a patient-centered medical home model in the delivery of health care. The 22-year-old wants to become an occupational therapist and is savvy to the difference in medical models. For example, she likes that they are doing a medication reconciliation to ensure she’s on the best medicines for her condition and that they don’t conflict with each other. She has not only her doctors, but also a pharmacist on her medical team who will review her medications. “I like to have a holistic approach to my health care,” she said. “I like being a part of a medical team.”

See Future on page 8

Medicine Dean Honored

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Day in Life of a Patient

Dr. Etta D. Pisano was among five recipients of the Living Legend Awards.

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Meet Laurrie

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Classifieds

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