Medical Home Bulletin             |           March 4, 2010             |           Volume Two Issue Three
Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News      www.MedicalHomeNews.com

  
BCBSND MediQHome Quality Program Live on MDdatacor Statewide Health Information Exchange
MDdatacor Inc. Press Release, March 2, 2010  
  
Metropolitan Health Networks First to Achieve NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition
Business Wire, March 1, 2010

Utah Receives Federal Grant to Improve Children's Medical Care
The Salt Lake Tribune, February 25, 2010
 
Humana Testing Patient-Centered Care in Palm Beach County
The Palm Beach Post, February 17, 2010 
 
Improved Treatment Compliance With Medical Home Concept Will Benefit Pharmaceutical Industry
PRNewswire, February 17, 2010 
 
Patients to Stick Closer to "Medical Home"
National Center for Policy Analysis, February 15, 2010

In the March 2010 issue of Medical Home News, you'll find:

• The Nurse-Managed Health Center as a Medical Home By Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, JD, Executive Director, Convenient Care Association, and Ann Ritter, Esq., Director of Health Center Development and Policy, National Nursing Centers Consortium
• It Takes a Village to Build a Medical Home By Christopher Crow, MD, MBA, Founder of Legacy Medical Village and Co-Founder and Family Physician, Village Health Partners
• Editor’s Corner: Advisory Board Member Jeanne McAllister, BSN, MS, MHA Director, Center for Medical Home Improvement and Consultant, Medical Home Initiatives, Crotched Mountain Foundation
• Who Will Provide Primary Care and How Will They Be Trained? Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation report
• Thought Leader’s Corner: ““What do we not know enough about with regard to the medical home model that you would want to have tested in a robust research and evaluation agenda?”
• Industry News regarding Maryland, Ohio, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Medical Home Summit, The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, and the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
• Catching Up With…John Iglehart, Founding Editor, Health Affairs, and National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine
• Medical Home News Subscribers receive this and future twelve page monthly issues with a choice of electronic or print newsletter delivery, or both, and online access to past issues and more.

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