Data from more than 800 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care clinics revealed that national implementation of a patient-centered medical home model was effective at improving several ...

A three-year patient-centered medical home pilot program led to few quality gains and no reductions hospital utilization or total cost of care, a RAND Corporation study found. The Southeastern ...

The president and CEO of a Midwest health foundation relates what she and colleagues have learned thus far from its initiative. Approximately seventy individuals, from hospital and clinic directors to ...

Manhasset, N.Y.-based Beacon Health Partners, an independent physician association made up of 90 independent physician practices throughout New York, began moving toward forming an ACO in 2010, ...

The Patient Centered Medical Home The American College of Physicians represents more than 141,000 internal medicine physicians and subspecialists and has developed, in collaboration with the American ...

The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) has grabbed the limelight as a new model of health care that offers an alternative to fragmented, impersonal and wasteful care that has become the norm ...

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) practice capabilities and costs. Complexity science theory was used to develop a theoretical ...

Last week, Diana Manos, Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News, reported on the importance of patient-centered medical homes. She covered the annual National Health IT and Delivery System Transformation ...

Veterans Affairs (VA) piloted three new patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models adding new team roles and increasing panel sizes. Implementation revealed that basic structure and processes must be ...

Healthcare reform will emphasize the medical home model, but the nation may not have enough primary care doctors to handle the workload, according to a study by the University of Michigan Health ...

NEW YORK — A new report published in the June issue of the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety found that diabetes patients can benefit from multipayer patient-centered medical ...

As part of an initiative to improve patient care, Fan Free Clinic three years ago started a diabetes wellness program that included an hour each week of one-on-one time with patients to go over their ...