The Patient-Centered Medical Home and Patient Experience
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Greater use of patient-centered medical home processes were not associated with patients’ perception of care according to this study.
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Tool Used to Assess How Well Community Health Centers Function as Medical Homes May Be Flawed
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The patient-centered medical home model holds the potential for reducing disease complications and improving health, and the federal government is now promoting the adoption of the model within federally qualified community health centers.
Physician Practices and Readiness for Medical Home Reforms
October 18, 2011 | Journal Article
Nearly half of all physician practices are not prepared to adopt the medical home model of care.
Small and Medium-Size Physician Practices Use Few Patient-Centered Medical Home Processes
August 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article provides the first national data on the use of medical home processes such as chronic disease registries, nurse care managers, and systems to incorporate patient feedback.
Transforming Primary Care
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Care Plus is an alternative structure of the medical home model that would improve health and lower costs, particularly for the frail elderly population.
Primary Care Physicians' Links to Other Physicians Through Medicare Patients
February 17, 2009 | Journal Article
Policy-makers and insurers are searching for strategies to improve care coordination and reinvigorate primary care as a critical component of reforming the U.S. health care system.
Safety-Net Providers In Some US Communities Have Increasingly Embraced Coordinated Care Models
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Safety-net organizations, which provide health services to uninsured and low-income people, increasingly are looking for ways to coordinate services among providers to improve access to quality of care and to reduce costs. In this analysis, a part o ...
Examining Critical Health Policy Issues Within and Beyond the Clinical Encounter
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay examines the role of the patient in the U.S. health care system. The authors discuss the transformation of the patient from a passive follower of medical authority into an active consumer in today's health care system.
Foundation Work in Long-Term Care
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Health foundations have invested in services, research, and advocacy to improve the financing and delivery of long-term services and supports. This article describes some of the broad array of approaches they have taken.
Seizing Opportunities Under the Affordable Care Act for Transforming the Mental and Behavioral Health System
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Provisions of the Affordable Care Act offer extraordinary opportunities to insure many more people, reimburse previously unreimbursed services, integrate care using new information technology tools and treatment teams, confront complex chronic comorbidities, and adopt underused evidence-based interventions.