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The Medical Home: Pathway to Patient-Centric Primary Care
The Medical Home Pathway to Patient-Centric Primary Care Author:Anne Hernandez, Elizabeth Reardon, George Rust, M.D. "The Medical Home: Pathway to Patient-Centric Primary Care," addresses the value and challenges of medical homes from the viewpoints of organizations already trying to establish medical homes for their populations. Covered in this 40-page special report are funding and implementation hurdles, successful methods for identifying members and redesi... more »gning office practices to move toward an advanced medical home model. This report also summarizes the results of a 2006 HIN e-survey that identified opportunities for educating the healthcare industry on medical homes. More than half of survey respondents were either unfamiliar with medical home terminology or confused it with a physical structure. In "The Medical Home: Pathway to Patient-Centric Primary Care," HIN's accomplished panel of contributing authors furnish details on the following: Enhancing chronic care programs through medical homes and modifying this approach for other populations; Building partnerships that foster a community care model; Commentary and suggestions from early adopters of medical home models who responded to the 2006 e-survey; The role of health coaches, case workers and the patient in the establishment of a medical home; How to triangulate interventions to achieve best-practice outcomes; Funding, identification and program launching strategies; and Reallocating resources to optimize program success.« less