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September 23, 2014 | HealthDay

Report Identifies Game Changers for U.S. Health Care: Recent innovations, developments may transform direction of patient care in next decade, researchers say

Imagine if doctors and hospitals got paid for providing better care, not more care, and consumers had better data for making informed health choices. A new report suggests that's the direction the U.S. health system is headed. The report...

September 22, 2014 | Modern Healthcare

Medicare gives first glimpse of ACO quality performance

The CMS for the first time publicly released individual performance data for Medicare accountable care organizations on 33 measures of healthcare quality. The results for 220 of the participants (PDF) in the Medicare Shared Savings...

September 22, 2014 | The Boston Globe

Suicide prevention in primary care

Several years ago, a college student asked me for feedback about an essay she’d written. I usually enjoy helping young writers, but this request made me very uncomfortable. In the essay, the student detailed her long struggle with...

September 20, 2014 | Modern Healthcare

ACOs, other delivery reforms shift job roles at hospitals

Phoenix obstetrician Megan Cheney no longer makes hours of telephone calls on Thursday nights to report routine results of laboratory tests to waiting patients. The calls, however, still get made every week. A medical assistant with...

September 19, 2014 | MD News

From ‘My’ Patient to ‘Our’ Patient: How New Models Are Transforming Care in Central Pennsylvania: Proactively addressing the challenge of improving the health of individuals and communities across Central Pennsylvania, WellSpan Health is establishing patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) in its primary care practices.

The PCMH model engages providers to partner with patients to help them achieve their health goals — rather than merely treating patients when they have illnesses or injuries. “This is a paradigm shift in health care,” notes Karen Jones,...

September 19, 2014 | Concord Monitor

Patient-centered care can improve costs and quality, industry panelists say at health summit

It requires an investment in time, money and a lot of work behind the scenes, but industry officials said they’re optimistic that a more coordinated approach to primary care can both cut costs in the long run and lead to healthier outcomes...

September 18, 2014 | MD News

Patient-centered Medical Home: A Model of Care at Summit Health: Summit Health has adopted the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model to provide patients with a comprehensive, coordinated and accessible approach to primary care.

Rather than a place, the PCMH is an approach to providing primary care that is patient-centered, team-based, and focused on quality and safety. It establishes the patient’s primary care physician as the fundamental coordinator of the...

September 18, 2014 | The Atlantic

Why I'm Becoming a Primary-Care Doctor: The U.S. has a shortage of family physicians, but many med students avoid the specialty, stigmatizing it as uninteresting.

A few weeks ago, I met up with two of my medical school classmates for a drink. I’ve known them for the past three years, but I never had a heart-to-heart with them before the other night. But it’s the time of year when fourth-year...

September 17, 2014 | Managed Care

Population Care Coordinators: A Key to Improved Care at Lower Cost?: In New Jersey, Horizon’s patient-centered medical home program puts data-savvy nurses in primary care practices to reach out to high-risk patients and forestall costly crises

Trying to save money in health care isn’t new to Sandra Siegel, RN. A nurse with 30 years’ experience, she remembers working for a managed care company in the ’90s doing precertifications and checking hospital stays. “I worked with...

September 17, 2014 | MedTech Boston

2014 Primary Care Challenge Culminates in Hopeful Pitch-off and Discussion

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...

September 16, 2014 | Health Data Management

Primary Care Providers Crucial to Patient Portal Adoption

Integrating promotion of online patient portals into primary care visits appears to be the most effective way to increase portal usage, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University-led study published in the Annals of Family Medicine....

September 16, 2014 | US Department of Health and Human Services

New Affordable Care Act tools and payment models deliver $372 million in savings, improve care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued quality and financial performance results showing that Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have improved patient care and produced hundreds of millions of...

September 16, 2014 | Medscape

Neonatal Medical Home 'Perfect Fit' After Intensive Care

The patient-centered medical home is ideal for babies discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), say those in charge of neonatal care at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City. "It fits this population very well,...

September 16, 2014 | FierceHealthPayer

Big companies, insurers urge uptake in wellness programs: Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association join forces with Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon and more

Aetna and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association are joining forces with some of the biggest companies to urge the entire business community to embrace wellness programs as a way to lower healthcare costs and boost employee health. In...

September 15, 2014 | Greenville Online

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Report Identifies Game Changers for U.S. Health Care: Recent innovations, developments may transform direction of patient care in next decade, researchers say

Medicare gives first glimpse of ACO quality performance

Suicide prevention in primary care

ACOs, other delivery reforms shift job roles at hospitals

Patient-centered care can improve costs and quality, industry panelists say at health summit

Patient-centered Medical Home: A Model of Care at Summit Health: Summit Health has adopted the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model to provide patients with a comprehensive, coordinated and accessible approach to primary care.

Why I'm Becoming a Primary-Care Doctor: The U.S. has a shortage of family physicians, but many med students avoid the specialty, stigmatizing it as uninteresting.

Population Care Coordinators: A Key to Improved Care at Lower Cost?: In New Jersey, Horizon’s patient-centered medical home program puts data-savvy nurses in primary care practices to reach out to high-risk patients and forestall costly crises

2014 Primary Care Challenge Culminates in Hopeful Pitch-off and Discussion

Primary Care Providers Crucial to Patient Portal Adoption

New Affordable Care Act tools and payment models deliver $372 million in savings, improve care

Neonatal Medical Home 'Perfect Fit' After Intensive Care

Big companies, insurers urge uptake in wellness programs: Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association join forces with Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon and more

Partnership promotes new model of health care

HHS awards more than $295 million in Affordable Care Act funds to increase access to primary care at health centers

Aetna expands ACO agreements in New York

Are Primary Care Providers the Cool Kids Now? Dr. Marci Nielsen Thinks So

"Care Coordination Fundamentals" for Healthcare Workers Released by 1199SEIU Training and Employment Funds, PCDC

Medicare Spending Is Slowing: $9 Billion Windfall for Taxpayers

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