During this segment, Michael Kolodziej, MD, and Ted Okon, MBA, discuss how programs such as CMS’ Next Generation ACO model and the Community Oncology Alliance’s (COA’s) Oncology Medical Home model are ...

Practitioners, payers, and patients alike increasingly recognize the need for the PCMH in the United States, especially as reform efforts seek to control costs and improve quality of care delivery.

Health systems as well as independent providers have an opportunity to drive best practices in specialty care and secure sustainable revenue with a new business and care model. Blue Cross and Blue ...

This year's hot economist is Dr. Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School, and just in time for our health reform debate he has a book out on the health care market. (Amazon has it for 33% off.) ...

Web tools that were developed as a result of the National Demonstration Project on the patient-centered medical home, an initiative by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and its ...

says the network of physicians certified under the patient-centered medical home model has swelled to 1,200 as the nation's largest medical home experiment continues to gain traction across the state.

In a patient-level analysis of care at 56 sites in one region of the Veterans Health Administration, researchers reported no association between the widespread implementation of the patient-centered ...

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 ...

A study on the primary care medical home model found the nation may not have enough primary care physicians to handle chronic disease care workloads, complicating the role of specialist physicians in ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma (BCBSOK) is launching its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) in early 2010. With Oklahoma's growing primary care physician shortage and its bottom five national ...

Older adults who suffer serious injuries from a fall or a motor vehicle accident often have impaired long-term functioning and diminished quality of life. A new study has found the new Trauma Medical ...