Medical Home Bulletin             |           June 10, 2009              |           Volume One Issue Three
Free from the publishers of Medical Home News      www.MedicalHomeNews.com

  
MDdatacor launches new patient-centered medical home
Healthcare IT News, June 3, 2009
  
The health-care industry's new hope: Patient-centered care
Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 02, 2009

IBM Outlines New Model for Healthcare
IBM Press Release, May 28, 2009

Any practice can become a medical home, but transition not easy
American Medical News, May 25, 2009
 
Coordinating the Medical Home Clinical Team: Expert Interviews
Medscape Internal Medicine, May 22, 2009
 
McClellan Campus using 'medical home' concept
Schenectady Daily Gazette, May 17, 2009

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

• "An Imperative to Lower Costs: The Greatest Chance for Long-Term Success for the PCMH Movement" by Jeffrey Brenner, MD, Jeffrey Brenner, MD, Medical Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers and faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, NJ
• "Beyond Electronic Health Records: Innovation in structure, philosophy, and technology are key to cutting costs" by Bill Crounse, MD, Senior Director, Worldwide Health, Microsoft Corporation.
• "Listening to Medical Home Issues from the Front Lines" by Jaan E. Sidorov, MD, FACP, author of the Disease Management Care Blog and an independent health care consultant
• Editor’s Corner:  with a brief profile of Advisory Board member Marc Barnes, Director, Richland Care
  Palmetto Health, Columbia, SC
• A Selective List of National Medical Home Web Sites and Resources
• Thought Leader’s Corner: providing responses to this month's question: "There is a lot of debate about how to define ‘meaningful use’ of HIT. What definition would best support the medical home agenda?"
• Industry News: offering news briefs from the Annals of Family Medicine, The Commonwealth Fund, CalPers, Kaiser Family Foundation, American College of Physicians, eHealth Ontario, and the State of Pennsylvania
• Catching Up With… Karen Davis, Ph.D, offering a profile of thte President of The Commonwealth Fund
• 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.

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