Medical Home Bulletin             |           April 7, 2009              |           Volume One Issue One
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Health Care Comes Home
Governing Magazine, March 2009
  
Maine Patient Centered Medical Home Pilot: Update
Maine Hospital Association, March 2009

Medical home pilot project could boost practices' income
Medical Economics Magazine, March 20, 2009

'Cutting-edge' clinic opens at Swedish Ballard
Ballard News-Tribune, March 27, 2009
 
Principles for Patient- and Family-Centered Care
National Partnership for Women & Families, March 30, 2009
 
What Is the Patient-Centered Medical Home?
Medscape Business of Medicine, March 31, 2009

In the April 2009 issue of Medical Home News, you'll find:

• "Five Pain Points for Disease Management and Implications for Medical Homes" by Brenda Motheral, BPharm, MBA, PhD, offering a discussion of five lessons learned from commercial Disease Management that are directly applicable to Patient Centered Medical Homes.
• "Why Should Hospitals Support the Medical Home?" by Marcus Barnes, Director of Richland Care, offering case experience including selected utilization and structural information.
• Editor’s Corner: "In Memoriam, Jay Katz, MD", remembering the "father of informed consent." a principle fundamental to the concept of the Patient Centered Medical Home.
• Thought Leaders Corner with responses from national experts to the question: “Should a large scale Federal investment in EHR/EMR implementation be made now to enable safer and more evidence-based care, or will this simply lock us into products and systems that are not fully interoperable and be a mess to untangle?”
• Industry Briefs covering developments including "Guided Care Model Now in Print"; "Grand Valley Health Plan Earns NCQA Medical Home Certification"; "Iowa-based Mercy Clinics Wins AMGA Acclaim Award for its Medical Home Initiative"; "UnitedHealthcare and IBM Partner with Arizona Physicians on PCMH"; "Primary Care Physicians’ Need to Coordinate with Other Physicians"; "Impact of a Cabinet Level Chief Technology Officer on IT Adoption"; "Revisiting the Medical School Mission"; "Patient Reminders More Important than Physician Reminders?"; and "Medical Students Still Favor Specialties Over Primary Care"
• Catching Up With..Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, FACP– a profile of the Director of the W. A. MacColl Institute for Healthcare
  Innovation, at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
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