Medical Home Bulletin             |           August 6, 2009              |           Volume One Issue Five
Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News      www.MedicalHomeNews.com

  
'Medical home' gaining traction, but at what cost?
Urology Times, August 1, 2009
  
The Place of Patient-Centered Medical Home in the Future of healthcare Delivery
The Examiner, July 23, 2009

Medical home model gains traction across Michigan
Oakland Business Review, July 16, 2009

What you should know about the patient-centered medical home
The Hematologist, July/August 2009
 
Transformation to the Patient-Centered. Medical Home
Annals of Family Medicine 2009;7:370-373. doi:10.1370/afm.991.
 
Elements of the Patient-Centered Medical Home in Family Practices in Virginia
Annals of Family Medicine 7:301-308 (2009)

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

• Tailored PCMH Strategies for Engaging Specialists by Christine Burke, RN, JD; Julie Greene, MA; Mary E. Jude FNP-C, PA, MSN, MPH; Becca Matusovich, MPPM; Wendy Osgood, PT, MSB;
  and Thomas Polko, MBA
• Retail Clinics Challenge the Concept and Delivery of a Medical Home, by MaryKate Scott, CEO, Scott & Company
• Editor’s Corner: Advisory Board Member Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA
• A Regional Medical Home Co-Op (and ACO?), an Innovative Support Infrastructure for Healthcare Reform, by Jack Jakobik, Principal, Access Technologies, U.S.
• Thought Leader’s Corner: “Where do retail clinics fit in the medical home movement?"
• Industry News briefs regarding: Affinty Health System; MedHomeInfo.org; HealthDataManagement; H2RMinutes; IBM, PCPCC; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Maine Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot; Institute of Medicine; and the Second National Medical Home Summit
• Medical Home Book of the Month
• Catching Up With… a profile of Robert A. Berenson, MD, FACP, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, Washington, DC.
• 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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