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November 20, 2015 | AAFP News
Jeromie Ballreich learned the value of coordinated care all too early, when as a college student, he suffered a severe spinal cord injury while swimming and nearly drowned.  Ballreich spoke about coordinating care for chronic illnesses...
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November 17, 2015 | AAFP News
When a concerned father told Mary Ann Heran that his daughter, once an enthusiastic student, now hated school and did not want to read, he found more than a sympathetic listener. Heran, the peer care coordinator for the Rhode Island...
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September 23, 2015 | Health IT Analytics
Maintaining the staffing and care coordination requirements of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) costs an average of $8600 per month, and even partial implementation of PCMH features can cost approximately $105,000 per full-time...
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September 21, 2015 | California Health Report
Los Angeles County’s Department of Health Services is betting it can save money while radically improving the health of some of its sickest and most challenging patients. Last March, county health officials began targeting individuals in...
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August 5, 2015 | FierceHealthIT
Primary care providers' have mixed views when it comes to changes in healthcare delivery and payment, but many see health information technology as a positive disruption. Health IT received the most positive ratings from providers when it...
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July 30, 2015 | The Baltimore Sun
A program launched in 2011 by the state's largest health insurer to better coordinate patient care has slowed its overall pace of spending, avoiding millions in costs for the health system and the insured, CareFirst Blue Cross BlueShield...
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April 2, 2015 | Health IT Analytics
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model challenges primary care providers to raise the bar on care coordination, population health management, clinical analytics, and access to care, but healthcare organizations that undertake these...
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March 26, 2015 | Health IT Analytics
In order for a primary care provider to attain recognition as a patient-centered medical home (PCMH), it has to undergo a number of significant changes to its workflows and processes, including expanding office hours, leveraging health IT...
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February 10, 2015 | MedPage Today
When Andrew Morris-Singer was in his fourth year of medical school his mother's lungs stopped working. She was put into a medically induced coma because of an atypical pneumonia, a condition that he said would likely have been caught if...
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February 9, 2015 | Health Data Management
A Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative analysis of the effectiveness of primary care patient-centered medical homes reveals the PCMH movement results in lower costs and decreased utilization. The report, "The Patient-Centered...
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February 9, 2015 | AAFP News
Rahul Rajkumar, M.D., J.D., received a call one Friday evening from a family member who said she was taking medication for a urinary tract infection and had a fever of 103 degrees. Rajkumar, a primary care physician and acting deputy...
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February 2, 2015 | Healthcare Dive
Dive Brief: A new report from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative reveals that patient-centered medical homes can reduce healthcare costs as well as curb overuse of the emergency department and overall inpatient...
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February 2, 2015 | HealthIT Analytics
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an effective way to reduce healthcare spending while raising quality indicators, says the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) in a new report.  The organization’s annual review of...
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January 30, 2015 | Kaiser Health News
Medical homes are a simple, compelling idea: Give primary-care doctors resources to reduce preventable medical crises for diabetics, asthmatics and others with chronic illness — reducing hospital visits, improving lives and saving money....
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January 30, 2015 | Fierce Healthcare
The evidence is clear that the use of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) can reduce healthcare costs, overuse of the emergency department and overall inpatient hospitalizations, according to a new, comprehensive report from the Patient...
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December 3, 2014 | The Baltimore Sun
The first thing patients probably notice when walking into the new doctors offices at Greater Baltimore Medical Center is there is no waiting room. Patients go directly to an exam room, where doctors, nurses and other staff are supposed...
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September 17, 2014 | MedTech Boston
Dr. Gina Luciano, the Associate Program Director of Internal Medicine Residency at Baystate Health, won the 2014 Primary Care Challenge on Tuesday night, following several weeks of crowd-sourced voting online. Luciano pitched her...
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September 11, 2014 | MedTech Boston
Are we Clueless, and has Cher Horowitz finally found her Tai Frasier? Are primary care providers the cool kids now? According to Dr. Marci Nielsen, Chief Executive Officer of the Washington, DC-based Patient-Centered Primary Care...
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July 10, 2014 | Reuters
In one of the largest tests of a novel way to deliver and pay for healthcare, insurer CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announced on Thursday that 1.1 million people receiving care through its "patient-centered medical homes" last year were...
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July 10, 2014 | The Commonwealth Fund
Efforts to "bend the curve" in national health spending are likely to be strengthened by the kind of results released by CareFirst's Blue Cross Blue Shield plan last week. The insurer said its patient centered medical home program was...
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