Posts Tagged “Medical Homes”
ShowHide 3rd Party PapersAnnals of Family Medicine: Progress of Ontario’s Family Health Team Model: A Patient-Centered Medical Home
Patient-Centered Primary Care: “Aligning Incentives and Systems” presents the mechanics of both strategies and reviews the evidence for their clinical and economic value.
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Review of Medical Home Evidence
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, December 27, 2012
Patient-centered medical homes, accountable care organizations, who can keep all the delivery innovations straight! Research summarized in an Annals of Internal Medicine article reviews the state of the evidence on the use of medical homes. So far, not great, small gains in quality and no showing of overall cost savings.
Tags: Care Management, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Medical Homes, Physicians
2012 Potpourri XXXIX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, December 21, 2012
Our penultimate Potpourri for 2012 is a festive blend of health data, including avoidance of health care due to costs, rates of expected spending increases in 2013, costs for younger versus older physicians, internet versus print health interventions, medical home results and poor health behaviors and health spending.
Tags: Consumers, Health Care Costs, Health Insurance, HIT, Medical Homes, Physicians, Wellness and Prevention
Medical Home Research
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, March 22, 2012
A review article in the American Journal of Managed Care summarizes the evidence to date on medical homes. The results look modestly promising, with evidence of improving quality of care, some signs of cost control, but other evidence that suggests net cost increases.
Tags: Care Management, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Medical Homes
A Medical Home Pilot Evaluation
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, September 3, 2009
Group Health in Washington State has released a study evaluating its medical home pilot.
Tags: Medical Homes, Providers
Another Medical Practice Adopts New Model
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, July 9, 2009
A Seattle-based medical practice has opted out of the insurance payment model for health care.
Tags: Medical Care, Medical Homes, Physician Practice Models
Medical Homes No Short Term Panacea
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The American Academy of Family Physicians has been at the forefront of efforts to re-emphasize the role of primary care physicians in the health system; and has participated in development of the patient-centered medical home as a method for revitalizing primary care.
Tags: Medical Care, Medical Homes
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