Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to identify key universal medical group operational MHI measures that would promote sustained delivery of team based coordinated quality care required to prepare practices to meet the standards for integrated health homes and ACOs; explain how Intermountain’s full clinical integration model can be adapted to help local primary care redesign advance beyond speciality collocation challenges in managing the social process and cost of multiple complex chronic diseases (depression, diabetes, asthma, substance abuse, bipolar, heart disease, ADHD, CHF, obesity, chronic pain); identify key social factors among primary care providers and staff and patients that account for improved quality outcomes; describe key social factors that impede patients and their families from experiencing positive outcomes in managing their health conditions beyond the medical encounter; and define institutional norms and rules of exchange required to sustain improved quality at lower cost to our communities.

Dr. Cannon is the Medical Director of the Primary Care Clinical Program for the last ten years. He provides leadership to support the ongoing development of evidence based care process models to improve the quality of care in primary care practices throughout the Intermountain Medical Group. A top priority is improving care for patients with complex chronic disease with mental health conditions through MHI. He has first hand experience with MHI as Dr. Cannon is a practicing pediatrician at an MHI site.