Medical Home
Gregory Kiray, Cerner
“A Patient-Centered Medical Home is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care. It facilitates partnerships between individuals as patients and their personal providers while providing better access to health care and increasing satisfaction. A medical home is a sophisticated primary care practice where technology is utilized with services to enhance the doctor-patient relationship and bring additional teammates into the care of patients.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Medical Home, Physician-Patient Relationship, Primary Care
Brita Van Fossen, Health IT Pulse
“The medical home model for health care provides multiple benefits for patients; namely, more cost effective and intimate care, available from the comfort of their own home. This cost reduction and improvement in care quality is intended to benefit the health care industry as a whole.
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10 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Technology, Medical Home, Patient
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“MHMD, the physician network of Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, is implementing a new patient-centered medical program that will rely on IT, including its HIE, to keep providers up-to-date on patients’ conditions.
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29 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Data Sharing, Health Information Exchange, Medical Home, Primary Care
Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch
“There’s been no shortage of reports on the fact that smaller providers are making the HIT leap much more slowly than larger ones.
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20 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Implementation, Medical Home
Janice Simmons, FierceEMR
“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 compared with larger practices or those owned by hospitals or health plans, according to a new study in the current Health Affairs. The study surveyed 1,344 small and medium-sized physician practices with one to 19 physicians.
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14 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Medical Home, Physicians
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“A national study of small and midsize physician practices finds that, although a quarter of them use electronic health records for progress notes, much smaller percentages are using those EHRs for the functions that specialty societies have defined as essential components of the patient-centered medical home. These elements include electronic disease registries, electronic prescribing, online messaging with patients, improvement of care processes, and care coordination across healthcare settings.
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10 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Medical Home, Physicians
Rittenhouse DR et al, Health Affairs, 30(8)
The patient-centered medical home has become a prominent model for reforming the way health care is delivered to patients. The model offers a robust system of primary care combined with practice innovations and new payment methods. But scant information exists about the extent to which typical US physician practices have implemented this model and its processes of care, or about the factors associated with implementation.
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10 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Technology, Medical Home
Mark Hagland, Healthcare Informatics
“The Washington, D.C.-based eHealth Initiative recently completed a projected in collaboration with a pharmaceutical company and a small consulting firm that demonstrated the value of intelligent EHR deployment to the patient-centered medical home.
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6 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Medical Home
Dave Chase, TechCrunch
“The problem for a company like Google or Microsoft is their success is measured in the tens of millions. Those kinds of numbers are only present in the legacy reimbursement model. Frankly, Google could have done all the right things, but if the reimbursement model doesn’t change Personal Health Records will remain irrelevant for most healthcare providers.
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27 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): ACO, Google-Health, Medical Home, phr, Portal
Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“An electronic health record (EHR) system can help improve the care of patients with multiple chronic diseases by enabling better coordination of care between healthcare providers, insurers, and patients themselves, a new study shows.
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24 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Diabetes, Medical Home
Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal
“Checking the condition of a patient in labor is just an app click away for obstetricians serving Forsyth Medical Center.
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30 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Data Mining, Hospitals, Medical Home, mHealth, Monitoring
Healthcare IT News
“The American Academy of Pediatrics, with 60,000 members, has made formal its support of electronic health records and called for federal help to convert from paper to digital records.
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7 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Children, Medical Home
Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is calling electronic health records (EHRs) and other information technology “essential” to success of the medical home model of providing quality healthcare management for children. Likewise, IT systems must be able to support the goals of the medical home, according to the professional society.
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5 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Children, Medical Home
Mike Miliard, Healthcare IT News
“The emerging patient-centered medical home (PCMH) approach to primary care is talked about a lot these days – but that doesn’t mean everyone is necessarily eager to jump in head first. At the American Telemedicine Association’s annual meeting, one project manager shared his tips for spurring adoption.
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3 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Efficiency, Medical Home, Primary Care
Kim GR et al, Pediatrics, 127(5)
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports development and universal implementation of a comprehensive electronic infrastructure to support pediatric information functions of the medical home. These functions include (1) timely and continuous management and tracking of health data and services over a patient’s lifetime for all providers, patients, families, and guardians, (2) comprehensive organization and secure transfer of health data during patient-care transitions between providers, institutions, and practices, (3) establishment and maintenance of central coordination of a patient’s health information among multiple repositories (including personal health records and information exchanges), (4) translation of evidence into actionable clinical decision support, and (5) reuse of archived clinical data for continuous quality improvement.
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2 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Children, Data, emr, Health Information Technology, Medical Home
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“A survey of about 1,200 consumers in February 2011 found that 7 percent have used a personal health record, with 51 percent saying they have not been exposed to the idea of using PHRs. Those numbers are almost identical to a survey conducted in 2006 by the same research firm, IDC Health Insights.
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7 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): ACO, Adoption, Google-Health, HealthVault, Medical Home, phr
John Degaspari, Healthcare Informatics
“A dozen years before the term meaningful use entered the healthcare lexicon in relation to electronic health records, Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA), a Beaumont-based 22-physician multi-specialty medical group, acquired its electronic health record (EHR) system. It was the organization’s first baby step in an ongoing journey that has led its physicians to embrace the intensive use of outcome measures as an integral part of providing care to their patients.
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10 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Medical Home
Doug Trapp, amednews
“New medical home standards released by the National Committee for Quality Assurance on Jan. 31 place greater emphasis on patient feedback, access to physicians and care coordination.
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7 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Medical Home, Patient Centric, Standards
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Patient-centered medical homes have become all the rage in the healthcare industry these days. The big push is coming from payers who want to cut costs and provider organizations who want primary care physicians to have a bigger say in the care of their patients. No matter who is driving the financial and clinical model, the train isn’t leaving the station, so to speak, without health IT to power it.
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3 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Empowerment, emr, Medical Home, Patient Centric
Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat
“The patient-centered medical home concept has been around since 1967, when it was first introduced by the American Academy of Pediatrics. More than 40 years later, widespread implementation has yet to occur, but the health reform law and the “meaningful use” incentives have given the concept new legs.
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30 October 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Technology, Medical Home, Patient Centric
