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

  
Blue Cross of Illinois Pushing Medical Homes
Chicago Tribune, October 1, 2009
  
Regents Hear Two Sides of Applying Medical Home Concept
ACP Internist, October, 2009

What Is a Patient Centered Medical Home?
About.com, September 22, 2009

Medical Home Provisions In Health Care Reform Legislation 
Center for Medical Home Improvement, September 17, 2009
 
Living In A 'Medical Home'
Kaiser Health News, September 11, 2009
 
Building the Medical Home
Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine, September, 2009

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

• America Awakens to the Patient Centered Medical Home, by Paul Grundy, MD, PCPCC President and IBM’s Director of Healthcare, Technology and Strategic Initiatives for IBM Global Wellbeing Services and Health Benefits and Edwina Rogers, JD, Executive Director, PCPCC
• The California Primary Care, Mental Health, and Substance Use Integration Policy Initiative, by Sandra Naylor Goodwin, PhD, MSW, President/CEO, California Institute for Mental Health
• Editor’s Corner: Advisory Board Member Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH
• Denmark: A World Leader in the Application of Information Technology in Primary Care Improvement, by Denis Protti, Professor, Health Informatics, University of Victoria, British Columbia
• Thought Leader’s Corner:  "Will the boundaries between what is ‘primary’ and what is ‘specialty’ care blur as we get better at patient-centeredness, with a PCP doing things that used to be referred out to specialists and a chronic care specialist being a ‘primary’ care coordinator?"
• Industry News briefs regarding: CIGNA, Demark, AHRQ, The Physicians Foundation, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and ITIF 
• Catching Up With… Jeanne McAllister, BSN, MS, MHA, Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Medical Home Improvement (CMHI) of the Crotched Mountain Foundation
• 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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