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Presentation Title: Implementing Preventive Medicine and Guidelines for North American Chinese Patients
Dr. Chow will provide a 40 year perspective on the importance of preventive medicine for the Chinese patients and how available guidelines could be implemented in the North American Chinese community.
Time: Saturday Morning
Purpose:
To provide an overview of how concepts of healthcare reform (guidelines, value, quality, and electronic health records) influence delivery of preventive health care by physicians
To improve physician's competence and performance in the organization of practices and in the ability to communicate and work with patients toachieve preventive medicine goals
To enable physicians to implement preventive health care guidelines for North American Chinese patients
To increase physician's performance in expanding the evidence base for preventive medicine through research participation and utilization of electronic health records.
Objectives:
- Identify ways to eliminate the barriers to implementing EHR and Quality reporting encountered by small practices
- Identify ways to overcome communication and cultural barriers when providing preventive care for North American Chinese patients
- Utilize Electronic Health Records to help keep track of preventive checks and identify patients risk factors for various diseases, automatically generate quality reports, and create value for a patient encounter
- Participate in CMS quality measurement programs
- Apply the evidence base for preventive health guidelines in North American Chinese patients
- Integrate and implement preventive health care guidelines for North American Chinese patients
Current Positions:
President of San Francisco Health Commission, Past Executive Director of the Chinese Community Health Care Association; Siliver SPUR Award Recipient 2012
Bio:
Edward A. Chow, M.D., is a native San Franciscan who as an internist for over four decades has been addressing health needs, access and disparities, including working with the Chinese Hospital and its physicians to create the Chinese Community Health Plan, the nation’s first culturally competent health plan dedicated to the needs of an Asian community. He has served under five mayors on the San Francisco Health Commission, where he advocated for the rebuilding of its two public hospitals and established neighborhood primary care clinics. He is a founder and leader of numerous organizations, including the Federation of Chinese American and Chinese Canadian Medical Societies (FCMS), Asian American Health Forum and most recently the National Council of Asian and Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP).
He attended the University of San Francisco, and St. Louis University School of Medicine and completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine at the Southern Pacific Memorial Hospital, San Francisco.
He recently retired as Executive Director of the Chinese Community Health Care Association (CCHCA), a non-profit physician organization serving nearly 40,000 enrollees through seven health plans and Healthy San Francisco in San Francisco and northern San Mateo and continues as board advisor. He was also previously Chief Medical Officer of the Chinese Community Health Plan and currently its Senior Advisor. He has also served as President of the San Francisco Medical Society and the California Society of Internal Medicine and a member of the Board of Directors of the California Medical Association. He is a principal investigator for an NCI grant, the Asian American Pacific Islander Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART), Chair of the Asian Pacific Islander American Diabetes Association Council (APADAC) of the American Diabetes Association and Co-Chair of the Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Diabetes Coalition (AANHPIDC).
Dr. Chow is the current President of the San Francisco Health Commission. He has served on the Commission for over twenty-five years, overseeing over $1 billion of county public health and health delivery services including two hospitals, San Francisco General Hospital and Laguna Honda Hospital. He is also the current Chair of the Joint Conference Committee of San Francisco General Hospital.
He has received numerous awards for his work in health disparities and cultural competency, including the 2008 Alumni Merit Award from St. Louis University School of Medicine, Laureate Award from the American College of Physicians Northern California Chapter (2008), San Francisco Asian Pacific American Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award (2010) and the Silver SPUR award (2012) for enhancing the quality of life and vitality of the San Francisco Bay Area.