A "how to" guide to creating a patient-centered medical home.

Using Implementation Research to Guide Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination of Patient-Centered Medical Home Models

Health information technology in support of patient-centered medical homes is low among non-metropolitan family medicine practices.

The term “medical home” has been in use since at least 1967, when the American Academy of Pediatrics published Standards of Child Health Care. It defined medical home care as “accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, and compassionate.” The Future of Family Medicine report, published in 2004, is generally credited with initiating the current national conversations ar...

Patient Navigators: Agents of Creating Community-Nested Patient-Centered Medical Homes for Cancer Care

Patient navigation is an internationally utilized, culturally grounded, and multifaceted strategy to optimize patients' interface with the health-care team and system. The DuPage County Patient Navigation Collaborative (DPNC) is a campus-community partnership designed to improve access to care among uninsured breast and cervical cancer patients in DuPage County, IL. Importantly, the DPNC connec...

A guide to the medical home as a practice-level intervention.

The medical home (also known as patient-centered medical home or advanced medical home) is a composite policy construct representing a set of interventions intended to revitalize primary care practices and improve patient care. As an idealized vision, the medical home has gained the support of stakeholders including employers, health professional societies, health plans, not-for-profit entities...

The patient-centered medical home: how to advance patient care through technology.

The process of applying for National Committee for Quality Assurance recognition as a Physician Practice Connections--Patient-Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH) can enrich even those practices already solidly committed to providing patient-centric care based on evidence-based medical guidelines. The goal is to leverage information technology to transform both operational and patient care procedur...