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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">You are invited to participate in an <b>online focus group</b> about your current perspectives, attitudes and knowledge regarding self-management education programs and the role of self-management delivery programs in engaging community
members in self-management education and patient care.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u>Online Focus Groups will be held on June 7 & 8.<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">If you are a <b><u>program coordinator or program manager for an Oregon-based self-management education program</u></b>, you are invited to participate in an online discussion with other program coordinators from across the state.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center">If you are interested in participating in a focus group on June 7 and 8,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>please register here:
</b><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MD98HLJ">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MD98HLJ</a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">After you register, we will contact you to confirm your participation and provide additional information regarding the online discussion boards. We ask participants to sign into the discussion boards once each day for 10-15 minutes during
the two-day focus group. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>About this initiative<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The focus groups are part of a two-year Special Innovation Project grant awarded to HealthInsight by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The purpose of the project is to<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Capture promising practices and emerging models from communities that are working on integrating evidence-based self-management programs (ESMPs) into patient care through designing innovative closed-loop referral and funding models<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Better understand how integrating ESMPs impacts the activated patient following completion of an ESMP<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Help accelerate shared learning across communities working to achieve integrated sustainable systems for ESMPs<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">The products and tools developed from this grant will help to inform future CMS funding and support for improving systems that integrate the use of ESMPs. Your participation in these focus groups will help inform final recommendations
for CMS. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>About HealthInsight</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing">HealthInsight is the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) serving a four-state region encompassing Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah. As part of your QIN-QIO, HealthInsight Oregon works with Oregon
providers and communities to promote patient-centered care, make care safer and more affordable and improve population health. We engage medical practices, hospitals, surgery centers, home health agencies, Medicare consumers and families, public agencies and
other key stakeholders to develop and apply proven strategies related to prevention and health promotion.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">If you have any questions or concerns related to this project or focus groups, you may contact the Project Coordinator, Katrina Seipp, at 503-382-3923 or
<a href="mailto:kseipp@healthinsight.org">kseipp@healthinsight.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">Thank you for your time and consideration! <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Katrina Seipp, MPH<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Project Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Office: 503-382-3923<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:kseipp@healthinsight.org">kseipp@healthinsight.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.healthinsight.org/">www.healthinsight.org</a>
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