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April 24, 2013 | AAFP News
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A new study says small and solo primary care practices are more likely to achieve improvements in efficiency and quality of care, as well as cost savings, while transitioning to the patient-centered medical home if they...
April 16, 2013 | Becker's Hospital Review
Coordinated care delivery models have taken the healthcare industry by storm, with patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations becoming more popular with hospitals, health systems and large physician groups trying to...
April 12, 2013 | New York Times
Gov. John Kitzhaber, a former emergency room doctor, said, “We’re building something that’s never been built before.”
Some say America has been homogenized, a chain-store nation bereft of regional distinction in dialect or dinner. But now...
April 11, 2013 | Triangle Business Journal
Duke University Health System and Coventry Health Care of the Carolinas announced a health benefit plan for employers that will be powered primarily by Duke’s network of primary and specialty-care physicians.
The “Carelink-Duke Medical...
April 9, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michelle Shaljian, michelle@pcpcc.net, 202-417-3911
WASHINGTON, DC (April 9, 2013) — The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative’s (PCPCC) Chief Operating Officer Amy Gibson, RN, MS, was...
April 1, 2013 | American Medical News
Washington If you're a resident of Howard County, Md., chances are fairly high that you have insurance, enjoy good health and have relatively easy access to a primary care physician. Take a short car ride to Baltimore, however, and the...
March 28, 2013 | Journal of General Internal Medicine
Abstract
There is growing evidence that even small and solo primary care practices can successfully transition to full Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) status when provided with support, including practice redesign, care managers, and...
March 27, 2013 | HealthDay
Adult diabetes patients who don't understand basic health information are less likely to continue taking newly prescribed antidepressants, a new study finds.
This is an important issue because depression in adults with diabetes is often...
March 20, 2013 | AAFP News
Last week, the Fifth Annual Medical Home Summit was held in Philadelphia, attracting more than 300 physicians, practice managers and other industry members to discuss the current state of practices moving to the patient-centered medical...
March 17, 2013 | The Post and Courier
Beginning with the death of his father from an avoidable hospital-acquired infection, David Goldhill launches an indictment of the U.S. health care system which, he shows in his book “Catastrophic Care,” is fraught with ineffective care,...
March 4, 2013 | HealthHub from Cleveland Clinic
What if you could see a thought bubble above every person’s head, telling you what they were thinking and feeling as you walked by?
In this thought-provoking video, The Cleveland Clinic created such a world. They wanted to explore what...
March 3, 2013 | Medical Home News
Amy Gibson is Chief Operating Officer for the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) and has been working for over a decade to promote and improve access to medical homes. Prior to PCPCC, she worked for the Boys Town...
February 11, 2013
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Throughout the month of February the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC; www.pcpcc.org) will hold virtual public forums to launch the work of its Stakeholder Centers, each led by thought leaders and...
February 7, 2013 | Virtual Strategy Magazine
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey today announced the expansion of its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) program. Under the expansion, an additional 45,000 Horizon BCBSNJ members, for a total of 200,000 members, will be...
February 4, 2013 | NPR
A visit to your primary care physician often means long waits in exchange for fleeting face-time with a doctor. But a growing trend in the medical field aims to change that and a lot more. At Advanced Primary Care in Jamaica Plain, a...
January 29, 2013 | PR Web
Health care organizations in seven U.S. communities this month begin their transformation to a Patient-Centered Medical Neighborhood (PCMN) concept of care at kickoff learning collaboratives led by TransforMED, a nonprofit subsidiary of...
January 23, 2013 | Becker's Hospital Review
Pittsburgh-based health insurer Highmark is expanding its patient-centered medical home initiative from 160 primary care physicians to roughly 1,050. Highmark launched a pilot PCMH in 2011 that included 12 physician practices and covered...
January 23, 2013 | Highmark
Based on the success of its one-year pilot program, Highmark Inc. announced today that it is expanding its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiative to include nearly 1,050 primary care doctors in more than 100 physician practices...
January 15, 2013 | Bloomberg
UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH), the largest U.S. provider of medical coverage, will join the Mayo Clinic in a research alliance designed to merge insurance records and medical data to find more efficient ways to deliver care. The venture...
January 11, 2013 | Modern Healthcare
The state of Arkansas' health system transformation is getting a financial boost from Wal-Mart Stores, which committed to providing $670,000 to help underwrite the work of the Arkansas Health Care Payment Improvement Initiative. The...
