Medical Home Bulletin             |           May 5, 2009              |           Volume One Issue Two
Free from the publishers of Medical Home News      www.MedicalHomeNews.com

  
Groups release guidelines on medical home demos
Modern Healthcare, April 28, 2009
  
"Mental health home" proposed to boost care for psychiatric illnesses
AMNews, April 27, 2009

Fact Sheet: Patient-Centered Medical Home Program
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan News, April 21, 2009

Diabetics focus of medical-home pilot
The Post and Courier, April 11, 2009
 
Quantum and IBM Align to Drive Medical Home Solution
PRNewswire, April 8, 2009
 
Patients find medical home in Pennsylvania
ACP Internist, April 2009

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

• "A Research Agenda for the Connected Medical Home" by David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA and Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, proposing that Participatory Medicine and the Connected Medical Home should be considered a new domain frontier, worthy of both conceptualization and research.
• "The Medical-Dental Home" by Valerie J H Powell, PhD and Franklin Din, DMD, MA, addressing how to achieve comprehensive care for chronic illness through integrating medical-dental care and data.
• "Residency Training for the Rural Medical Home"  reports on the Smoky Hill Family Medicine residency program.
• Editor’s Corner: introduces the members of the Medical Home News Advisory Board and discusses the content of the National Medical Home Summit, held March 2-3, 2009.
• Thought Leaders Corner with responses from national experts to the question: “How important will it be for future medical home development to be able to show that the medical home model generates real, well documented cost savings?”
• Industry Briefs covering developments including "Patient Empowerment/Consumerism Important?"; "IBM, OU Medical School Launch EHR Pilot"; "Swedish Medical Center Opens Medical Home"; "Consumer-Based Principles for the Medical Home"; "New York Announces $60M for Medical Home IT"; "MedPac Discusses Shared Decision-Making"; "BCBS Michigan Adds 10% PCMH Bonus"; "New Universal Patient Compact Unveiled"; "Wisconsin Family Physicians Promote the PCMH"; "Medical Home for Medicare Advantage Members"; "PCP Views on Access to Mental Health Care"; and "Inadequate Preventive Care for Adolescent Care"
• Catching Up With..Linda M. Magno, MPA – a profile of the Director of the Medicare Demonstrations Group at CMS in Baltimore, MD.
• Medical Home News Subscribers receive this May issue 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.

Medical Home News is the 12 page monthly newsletter for health care professionals interested in Patient Centered Medical Homes. If you're not already a subscriber, you can get a subscription to Medical Home News for $39 per month or $468 annually. You may cancel at any time, and receive a refund for remaining issues with annual subscriptions. You can get detailed information, and subscribe at www.MedicalHomeNews.com or call 209.577.4888.