Implementing the patient-centered medical home in complex adaptive systems

Implementing effective care management in the patient-centered medical home.

BACKGROUND There is growing evidence that practice-based care management can improve clinical quality and reduce costly healthcare utilization. OBJECTIVES To explore how a disparate group of patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) embedded care management in their team care environment to identify best practices. STUDY DESIGN A positive deviance approach was used to contrast care management ...

Lessons Learned from Implementing the Patient-Centered Medical Home

The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a primary care model that provides coordinated and comprehensive care to patients to improve health outcomes. This paper addresses practical issues that arise when transitioning a traditional primary care practice into a PCMH recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Individual organizations' experiences with this transition w...

Patient-Centered Medical Home

The Patient - Centered Medical Home

1. Classify medication use and safety issues within primary care. 2. Explore how pharmacists engage with patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models. 3. Demonstrate the compatibilities between pharmacist-provided medication management services and PCMH principles. 4. Justify the integration of a pharmacist-led medication therapy management (MTM) program within a PCMH model. 5. Analyze advantage...

Patient-Centered Medical Home and Diabetes

The current model of health care delivery is designed to address acute health problems and is based on episodic face-to-face interactions between health care provider and patient, which often do not address the needs of chronically ill individuals (1). Diabetes is a well-documented example of a high cost prevalent chronic illness where a significant quality chasm exists. It is one of the most e...