Medical Home Bulletin             |           November 10, 2009              |           Volume One Issue Eight
Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News      www.MedicalHomeNews.com

  
Area Clinics Working To Reinvent Primary Health Care
Channel 3000, October 23, 2009 
  
Could 'Medical Homes' Bring Order to Health Care?
The Associated Press, October 28, 2009

CMS to Shelve Medicare Medical Home Demonstration
Medicare Update, October 27, 2009

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois Launches Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot Programs
BCBS of Illinois Press Release, October 5, 2009 
 
Group Health Rolls Out Major Medical Home Initiative
FierceHealthcare, October 21, 2009 
 
Study Touts Medical Home Benefits
Healthcare Finance News, October 2, 2009 

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

• Prescription for Pennsylvania -- A Multi-Stakeholder Chronic Care Initiative, by Ann Torregrossa, Esq. Director, Governor's Office of Health Care Reform, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• Family Medicine Residents and the Medical Home: A Colorado Initiative to Prepare the Physician Leaders of Tomorrow, by Deb Barnett, RN, MS, FNP, CCGC Coordinator, Grants Management & Program Development; Julie Schilz, RN, BSN, MBA, CCGC IPIP and PCMH Manager; and Bonnie Jortberg, RD, MS, CDE, Senior Instructor, University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine
• Editor’s Corner: Advisory Board Member Jaan E. Sidorov, MD, FACP
• The Last Resort? The Case for Direct Practice Models in Primary Care, by Garrison Bliss, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Qliance Medical Management Inc. and President, Qliance Medical Group of Washington PC
• Thought Leader’s Corner:  "Is the direct practice or concierge medicine model (as evidenced by Qliance and other direct fee models) a viable model on a large scale for primary care, and how will it play with employers, health plans, integrated health systems, retail clinics, and community health centers?"
• Industry News briefs regarding: IBM, Health Affairs Blog, New England Journal of Medicine, Commonwealth Fund, and The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative 
• Catching Up With… Kevin Grumbach, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and Chief of Family and Community Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital
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