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Medical home beats P4P in quality improvement
Small, targeted incentive payments aimed at changing physicians' behavior merely "nibble around the edges" of creating better care, according to a recent Canadian study that showed lackluster results
6 best practices of patient-centered medical homes
"There's no one way to set up a medical home or one way for paying a medical home," said Laura Etchen, partner at healthcare consulting company The Chartis Group in Chicago at the American College of
Specialty medical home expects millions in savings
The medical home model needn't be limited to primary care but can include specialty-focused medicine. For example, the concept already has been applied to oncology and succeeded in cutting costs,
State invests $1M in medical home training
Most people are familiar with the proverb, "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." A new initiative in Ohio seeks to apply that
Medical home employees satisfied but risk burnout
Providers and staff at patient-centered medical homes have high levels of morale and job satisfaction, but they also have a risk of burnout, according to a new study published Thursday in the
Do patients need a medical mom?
The more I try to avoid the physician-parent analogy, the more it seems to stare me in the face. This week, it struck me while writing about a major study out of Brigham and Women's Hospital that
Quicker incentives needed for medical home coordination
Despite hope resting on the concept of the patient-centered medical home, widespread patient access to such care remains a far-off reality, prompting the American Medical Association (AMA) to push
Health IT key to HealthAmerica medical home pilot
Preferred Primary Care Physicians, a 32-doctor group in the Pittsburgh area, is piloting an advanced medical home model with assistance from HealthAmerica, a subsidiary of Coventry Health Care.
Patient-centeredness evalutated for medical home recognition
Up to this point, patient-centered medical homes have been recognized and rewarded mostly by measuring practice capabilities, rather than by assessing whether care is actually patient-centered. In
Smaller practices not implementing all EHR features
In a new review of medical home processes by small to medium-size physician practices, the use of electronic medical record (EMR) systems by those practices appeared to be on the low side when
