Medical Home Bulletin

Medical Home Bulletin             |           March 3, 2011             |           Volume Three Issue Three
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"We want people to develop a years-long, longitudinal relationship with a single primary care provider and their team," Dr. Mark Kleinman, Vice President and Associate Medical Director for Primary Care, Kaiser Permanente

What's News

  
Moving into Your New Medical Home
Ahwatukee Foothills News, February 25, 2011   
  
Patient-Centered Medical Home Models Seek to Improve Care
Memphis Business Journal, February 25, 2011

'Medical Home' Strategy Aims to Boost Quality, Cut Costs with Better Primary Health Care
Oregon Live, February 9, 2011

In Search of Medical Homes
Modern Healthcare, February 7, 2011 
 
Despite Medical Home Efforts, a Lot of 'Medical Homelessness'
FierceHealthcare, February 4, 2011

EHR Use Included in New NCQA Medical Home Standards
FierceEMR, February 3, 2011

Examining the Patient Centered Medical Home
East Meadow Patch, February 1, 2011

This Month
 
Medical Home News
  In the March 2011 issue of Medical Home News, you'll find:
  • Behavioral Health in the Medical Home: Benefit to the Patient, Team, and Bottom Line by Nicole Brady MD and Barb Viste-Johnson LCSW
  • Applying Lean Healthcare Methodology to Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation by Kristina Hahn
  • Editor’s Corner: Transformation Lessons from the Field by George Valko, MD
  • Medical Trends to Keep an Eye Out for in 2011 by Kevin Hauser
  • Thought Leaders Corner: “How will a PCMH reconcile or integrate competing pressures to: (1) achieve short-term savings, presumably by focusing on a subset of today's high-cost/high-risk patients and (2) achieve long-term population health by focusing on physicians' broader panels of patients?”
  • Industry News with briefs regarding: American Academy of Family Physicians; American Academy of Physician Assistants; California HealthCare Foundation; Primary Care Development Corporation; NCQA; Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine; Consumer Reports; Mathematica Policy Research; Health Policy Research Center at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York at Albany
  • Catching up with Beverley Johnson

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