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Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News September, 2017

“I think telemedicine will be the next-generation feature of the patient-centered medical home. People want the convenience, and it allows faster access to medical care. We’re actually taking that a step further by allowing patients to text with their doctors via a dedicated platform. The average length of an encounter is about 45 minutes, but for me as a doctor, it’s not a dedicated 45 minutes of time....What all may be required is 120 seconds of my time for an encounter, but four patients can actually interact with the same doctor simultaneously. That is the power of scalability.”
- Blake McKinney, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, CirrusMD.

"While patients were always given instruction on the need for three doses [of HPV vaccine] and families of males were offered the vaccine, the RNs concentrated their efforts on two interventions all staff would follow....As a result, HPV immunization rates went from 51 percent to 74 percent at the organization."

Excerpted from: Medical Home News, Volume 9 Number 9, September 2017, "When It Comes To Coordinated Care And Medical Homes, RNs Make A Big Difference," by Rosemarie Battaglia, Mary Morin; Dana Nelson, et. al.

How cutting off subsidy payments to insurance companies would affect Obamacare

PCMH Webinar: Setting the Foundation

This webinar begins with a review of the NCQA PCMH 2017 Guidelines. Topics include the clinician lead; involving staff and patients in quality; team-based care; the patient satisfaction survey; facilitated discussion; and best practices, challenges and novel ideas.

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	Advisory Board: 5 insights for expanding the role of pharmacists in ambulatory care 1. Set patient inclusion criteria based on strategic decisions about how to allocate limited resources 2. Provide additional training to help pharmacists assume the expanded scope of responsibility 3. Continue reading here Notes: from a blog by Rebecca Tyrrell, based on conversations with Carilion Clinic around lessons learned from the IHARP model, which embedded pharmacists in PCMHs. Source: Care Transformation Center Blog/Advisory Board, September 21, 2017

PCPCC Releases New Principles To Guide Primary Care, Medical Homes By Ron Shinkman

When It Comes To Coordinated Care And Medical Homes, RNs Make A Big Difference By Rosemarie Battaglia, Mary Morin; Dana Nelson, et. al.

Editor's Corner: Peter Long on improving peripheral aspects of primary care delivery to improve the care for Medicaid.
Thought Leaders’ Corner: "Can telemedicine play a role in the patient-centered medical home?"

Industry News with briefs regarding Deloitte; SIU School of Medicine; St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; and American Cancer Society

Catching Up With … Christine Bechtel
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