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Febbraio 3, 2014 | Medical Xpress

Hypertensive patients' specialty use changed with medical home

Group Health studied how patients with treated hypertension used outpatient specialty care before, during, and after a primary-care redesign (the patient-centered medical home) was spread system-wide. David T. Liss, PhD, now a research...

Febbraio 3, 2014 | MedPage Today

White House to Push ACOs, Other New Models

The Obama administration in 2014 will "double down" on delivery system reform efforts such as the further proliferation of accountable care organizations (ACOs), a White House health policy adviser said Monday. "The system works so long...

Febbraio 1, 2014 | Medical Home News

Collaborative of the Primary Care Training Collaborative

The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model for practice redesign to assure that people are provided safe, comprehensive, coordinated, and personalized health care. However, most primary care residency programs are not fully...

Gennaio 27, 2014 | California Healthline

Central Valley Project To Improve Health Costs, Outcomes Appears To Be Paying Off

A pilot project to improve the management of chronic disease and reduce health care spending has resulted in nearly a million dollars in savings over 12 months for a Central Valley school district. The Fresno Unified Joint Health...

Gennaio 25, 2014 | Modern Healthcare

New Path to Medicare Cost Control: Bipartisan bill touts flexibility, incentives, chronic-care management—and maybe enough to fund doc-pay fix

Move over accountable care. A new contender for controlling Medicare costs has entered the arena. The Better Care, Lower Cost Act of 2014, introduced this month by Democratic and Republican sponsors in the House and Senate, offers an...

Gennaio 24, 2014 | The Commonwealth Fund

Where Are We on the Diffusion Curve? : Trends and Drivers of Primary Care Physicians' Use of Health Information Technology

Synopsis Adoption of health information technology (HIT) by physician practices rose considerably from 2009 to 2012, yet solo physicians lag practices of 20 or more and certain functions—like electronically exchanging information with...

Gennaio 22, 2014 | Medical Xpress

Study demonstrates care managers in PCMHs increase improvements in diabetes patients

Patient centered medical homes (PCMHs) have been found to be an effective way to help care for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes. Dr. Robert Gabbay, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Joslin...

Gennaio 16, 2014 | Brookings

The Future of Patient Centered Medical Homes and Accountable Care

Improving health care in the United States is not an easy venture. With high and rising costs and room for improvement in the quality of care delivered, national, state, and local efforts have engendered a renewed focus on primary care: in...

Gennaio 15, 2014 | Fierce Healthcare

Report: PCMH model leads to reduced cost of care, improved population health

A patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model resulted in reduced costs of care, unnecessary emergency room (ER) and hospital visits, and improved population health, according to a research report by the Patient-Centered Primary Care...

Gennaio 15, 2014 | Health Leaders Media

PCMH Data Certifies Proof of Concept: Data collected from 11 states strongly suggests that the question to ask about the patient-centered medical home model is not whether it reduces healthcare costs and improves outcomes, but how well.

Forgive me for preaching to the choir, but another round-up of studies released this week re-confirms what we already know: Patient-centered medical homes improve health outcomes and reduce costs. In fact, the question is no longer "will...

Gennaio 15, 2014 | Medical Economics

Patient-Centered Medical Homes reduce costs of care and ED visits, report says

As more primary care practices look to adopt the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, a new report shows that it may be effective in reducing the cost of care and the number of visits patients make to the Emergency Department (ED...

Gennaio 14, 2014 | The Boston Globe

Building Medical Homes

The waiting room is full, as it is most mornings at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program’s main facility on Albany Street in the South End. The patient, an older-looking man with a baseball hat tugged down hard on his head, walks up...

Gennaio 13, 2014 | PCPCC Press Release

New Report Finds Medical Homes Are Reducing Health Care Costs, Utilization, and Improving Health: A review of the year’s academic and industry-generated PCMH evaluations finds significant impact across a number of clinical and financial outcomes.

Embargoed Until Monday, January 13th, 4PM PCPCC: Michelle Shaljian, 347-754-1692, michelle@pcpcc.net Milbank: Tara Strome, 212-355-8400, tstrome@milbank.org New Report Finds Medical Homes Are Reducing Health Care Costs, Utilization, and...

Dicembre 26, 2013 | Portland Business Journal

Patient Centered Primary Care Home' Is More Than a Catchphrase

Some medical practices around Portland have earned a special designation. And while patients may not be aware that their doctor’s office is actually a Patient Centered Primary Care Home, they may notice extra efforts being made to reach...

Dicembre 24, 2013 | The Clinical Advisor

Patient satisfaction with medical home quality high

A significant majority of patients report experiencing a high quality of care at federally-supported health centers with patient-centered medical home (PCMH) attributes, study findings indicate. "PCMH attributes related to access to care...

Dicembre 18, 2013 | Statesman Journal

Oregon on front lines of health care innovation

Most Oregonians recently secured access to a new, innovative way of receiving health care, and this little-known success had nothing to do with insurance exchanges or websites. Nearly all Oregon insurers just agreed to begin paying for...

Dicembre 18, 2013 | PR Web

Horizon BCBSNJ Launches Patient-Centered Pediatric Program that Puts Focus on Improving the Health of Children and Families: Horizon BCBSNJ announces first patient-centered program dedicated to pediatric care.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey announced today that it is launching a new, family-focused program to improve the health of children. This is Horizon BCBSNJ’s first patient-centered program dedicated to pediatric care....

Dicembre 16, 2013 | Modern Healthcare

Reform Update: Specialty physicians make inroads into medical homes

The proposals to scrap Medicare's sustainable growth-rate formula for updating physician pay include less-noticed provisions rewarding practices that operate as a patient-centered medical home. There is a twist, however. The medical home...

Dicembre 12, 2013

Implementing Effective Care Management in the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Background: There is growing evidence that practice-based care management can improve clinical quality and reduce costly healthcare utilization. Objectives: To explore how a disparate group of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs)...

Dicembre 10, 2013 | PCPCC Press Release

As Marketplace Shifts Toward Team-Based Primary Care, PCPCC Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Database Highlighting Innovative Workforce Training Programs

(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) launched a free online database that identifies innovative primary care workforce training programs throughout the U.S. It focuses specifically on programs...