270797 IOM Report on Access to Care: Implementation Strategies

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 12:30 PM - 12:40 PM

Paul Glassman, DDS, MA, MBA , Pacific Center for Special Care, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA
Maureen Harrington, MPH , Pacific Center for Special Care, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA
Maysa Namakian, MPH , Pacific Center for Special Care, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA
The 2011 Institute of Medicine IOM report, Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations, calls for research and demonstrations of new systems to improve oral health for vulnerable and underserved populations that emphasize prevention and early intervention and use new methods and technologies such as: bringing care to where people are by delivering oral health services in nontraditional settings; engaging non-dental professionals; developing expanded duties for existing oral health professionals or creating new types of dental professionals; and using technologies such as telehealth. The IOM report also calls for research and demonstrations of delivery systems that are based on measures of access, quality and outcomes and for incorporating these measures in payment and regulatory systems

The principles described by the IOM report support the call by Donald Berwick, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for movement toward the “Triple Aim.” of improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health care.

The Pacific Center for Special Care at the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry (Pacific) has created and is demonstrating a new oral health delivery system, the Virtual Dental Home, which incorporates the principles in the IOM report and is designed to move oral health services for underserved and vulnerable populations toward the Triple Aim.

This presentation will describe the principles in the IOM report and the Triple Aim and the supporting work in California.

Learning Areas:
Communication and informatics
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related education
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1) Describe the recommendations of the IOM report on Access to Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations related to workforce and delivery system reform 2) List principles of delivery system reform and example of implementation strategies

Keywords: Access, Underserved Populations

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: multiple years of experience inthis area, memebr of IOM committee
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.