Improving Performance In Practice (IPIP) Overview

The healthcare system has become increasingly complex, with multiple competing demands and several impending changes. Although many primary care practices understand the need for change, most do not have the resources or infrastructure to implement major modifications. Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) is aimed at transforming the way we deliver healthcare by giving doctors the tools, systems and support they need to provide consistently high quality care to all patients, all the time. IPIP will provide in-office assistance to practices, improving quality of care, efficiency and satisfaction for both patients and the healthcare team. Practices will initially use diabetes, smoking cessation, and asthma as the content around which to develop efficient patient-centered systems that can be applied to other conditions moving forward.

Initiative Goals

IPIP aims to dramatically improve patient outcomes by:

IPIP Implementation and Expectations

IPIP Implementation Includes:

Quality Improvement (QI) Coach
Disease registry (required)
Practice Redesign Team
Consultation on work flow analysis, Chronic Care Model, Open Access Scheduling, Practice Culture Change, EMR conversion
Focus on system redesign
1 or 2 Learning Sessions per year
Led by CCGC

Practices will participate in learning activities and work in collaborative networks to share data and experiences with other participating practices.

IPIP Coached Practice Redesign Program Participants Will Be Expected To:

Identify a Practice Redesign Team to develop a plan and implement improvement activities.
Implement a registry to track patients and their care, starting with diabetes and asthma (this will be provided at no cost if practices do not have an existing registry in place).
Collect and report on progress toward IPIP diabetes and/or asthma measures.
Test and implement improvement strategies in the practice and report those monthly.
Participate in monthly collaborative activities, most of which will be via teleconference, with the exception of some face-to-face workshops and one or two learning sessions per year.
Participate in the program evaluation described below.

What Can IPIP Do For Me?

IPIP has many personal, professional, and practice benefits including - but not limited to - the items below.

Personal Benefits:

Satisfaction of providing consistently high quality care
Ability to demonstrate high quality care to others
Opportunity to regain the joy of practicing medicine

Professional Benefits:

CME credit
COPIC ERS Points
Credit toward maintenance of board certification
Preparation for Pay for Performance

Practice Benefits:

Consultation with experts to improve infrastructure and systems
Free registry for disease management

Program Evaluation

(coming soon)

Key Collaborators

Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative - Lead Agency
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Colorado Foundation for Medical Care
Colorado Academy of Family Physicians
Colorado Chapter of the American College of Physicians
Colorado Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Colorado Medical Society
Colorado Business Group on Health
Colorado Health Information Exchange
Colorado Regional Health Information Organization
Area Health Education Centers
COPIC Insurance Company
American Board of Medical Specialties

Additional Information

For questions and additional information, please contact Allyson Gottsman at (720) 297-1681 or by email.