Medical Home Bulletin
  Complimentary from the publishers of Medical Home News                  November, 2013  
 
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  “We anticipate gradual enrollment in the health insurance exchanges, and therefore the delivery system will adapt to provide access for comprehensive primary and specialty care. To serve the increased demand, AMGA member groups are creating team-based approaches that support collaboration and communication among patients, physicians, and licensed or certified medical professionals who are working at the top of their field across medical specialties and healthcare settings to improve the patient’s well-being..” Donald W. Fisher, PhD, CAE, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Medical Group Association (AMGA).
 
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  "Since the December 2012 inception of this innovative and aspirational program to increase follow up, MHN [Medical Home Network] has seen timely follow-up rates increase at clinics across the network. One clinic has attained follow up rates as high as 51.9 percent, a significant improvement from its 32 percent baseline."
 
 
  Excerpted from: Medical Home News, November 2013, Volume 5, Number 11, Medical Home Network (MHN) -- Advanced Care Coordination in Chicago’s Safety Net  
What's News
  Hospitals aim to take patients from ER to medical home
The State (South Carolina), October 27, 2013
 
       
  Straight Talk: All Hands on Deck in the Patient-Centered Medical Home
Cardiosource, October 23, 2013
 
  Medical Homes: Different Models Need Different Yardsticks
MedPage Today, October 17, 2013
 
     
More Practices Consider the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model  
  Physicians Practice, October 8, 2013  
     
  Results From A Patient-Centered Medical Home Pilot At UPMC Health Plan
Health Affairs, October 2013
 
       
This Month in Medical Home News
 
  • Medical Home Network (MHN) -- Advanced Care Coordination in Chicago’s Safety Net by Patrick Maguire
  • Connecting Patients and Clinicians to Their Communities by Clarissa Hsu, PhD, and Janice Tufte
  • Editor’s Corner: Introducing Marci Nielsen, PhD, MPH; Steven Wilkins, MPH on the Adopt One! Challenge TM
  • The URAC PCMH Practice Achievement Program by Kylanne Green
  • Thought Leader’s Corner: “Will the newly insured enrollees coming through the health insurance exchanges overwhelm medical homes and other primary care providers, enter sporadically so demand will be manageable, or have little impact?”
  • Industry News with briefs regarding  Association of American Medical Colleges; American Academy of Physician Assistants; JAMA; University of Michigan Medical School; Highmark; U.S. Army; C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital; and the American Journal of Managed Care
  • Catching up with … Mary Takach, BSN, MPH
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