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IAFP releases case study on
Illinois Health Connect and Your Healthcare Plus medical home
programs, showing improved outcomes and cost savings.
Click here PRESS
RELEASE Case Statement Makes a Statement for the Medical Home click
here
H1N1
vaccine/supply distribution ends July 31, 2010 - read
more
IAFP offers Print
and Post notice for your
practice. Here is an easy way to direct your patients to the
new U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services web site with
information for patients and consumers. Place them in
your waiting room and exam rooms.
ICAAP offers FREE in-office
trainings on the I-CARE immunization registry. Click here
to
learn more and sign up – free trainings are limited to 25 Illinois
practices
2010 Match Results
CDC
recommends providers suspend usage of GSK Rotarix (Rotavirus)
vaccine. Click
here
Learn
more about the Patient Centered Medical Home in this slide
presentation by Ken Bertka, MD, AAFP board member, from
the IAFP December 2009 annual meeting. Click
here
Visit the new Patient Centered
Medical Home section on our website. Click
here
IAFP
statement on the IL Supreme Court ruling on medical malpractice caps. Click
here
IAFP 2010 Award nominations
are now open – nominations due June 30
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Nominate your choice for
Family Physician of the Year Click
here
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Nominate a faculty member
or volunteer for our Teacher of the Year Award Click
here
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View
a list of past IAFP award winners Click
here
Order
FREE Illinois Tobacco Quitline brochures for your practice! Click
here for an order form.
Recap
of IAFP Annual Meeting
New Video explains Illinois
Health Connect Referral Program As of October 1,
Illinois Health Connect began implementing Phase I of the referral
program in the Northwest counties region. Illinois
Health Connect worked with the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians
to produce a seven minute video for PCPs to provide an overview of
the referral program and the related policies.
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New AAFP LearningLink Activity-
Practical Aspects of Chronic Pain Management: A Case-based
Approach, Approved for 1 Prescribed Credit.AAFP LearningLink
activities are free. Register
now. (For hard-copy communications: the URL is www.aafplearninglink.org). |
AAFP
National Conference of Special Constituencies Recap
by Ravi Shah, MD – IAFP Board of Directors
Memo regarding pediatric
influenza deaths from the Illinois Department of Public Health - click
here
IAFP
2009 Annual Report
IAFP Strategic Plan and the role of committees in that plan
Check out the Member Benefits page loaded with discounts for IAFP
members!!
Resources
Concerned
about possible controlled substance abuse? Illinois has an online prescription monitoring program
allowing licensed prescribers and dispensers of controlled
substances to view a Prescription Information Library (PIL) for
current and prospective patients only. click
here for more information.
IDPH has guidelines for primary care
providers for managing MRSA. http://www.idph.state.il.us/health/infect/MRSA_Provider.htm
CDC Launches
Preteen Vaccine Awareness Campaign. A new Web site, http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/spec-grps/preteens-adol.htm,
will link you to the Campaign Gallery filled with resources for
parents and providers.
AAFP
offers Tobacco Cessation resources for patients online
Go to www.askandact.org
for resources you can use to help your patients kick the habit.
Materials include posters, patient education materials,
provider toolkits and information on reimbursement.
NIH offers free articles with patient
education. Read more
Are you looking
for information about Electronic Health Records? The AAFP
has a dedicated service to help you with answers and resources
about every phase of the EHR process. Visit the AAFP's Center
for Health Information Technology
Disaster
Preparedness - AAFP has a new a new website for disaster
preparedness and humanitarian opportunities.
AAFP
is offering a new listserv for bioterrism and related issues.
To sign up go to www.aafp.org/members/lyris
and click on the bioterrism list.
Familydoctor.org
- find links to patient information on health topics from A
to Z.
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