American Academy of Family Physicians

Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

Building Your PCMH?

Find step-by-step project plans and tools to:

 

Is your practice already a patient-centered medical home?

Download the PCMH Checklist (PDF) and find out.

Practice Organization

An organized practice is one that exercises disciplined financial management, creates strong and rewarding relationships between practice staff and relies on clinical systems that support the delivery of  high-quality care essential to the PCMH.

Learn more about organizing the people and the money in your practice.

 

 

Is your practice already a patient-centered medical home?

Download the PCMH Checklist (PDF) and find out.

Health IT

 Health IT isn't just an electronic health record (EHR). A patient-centered medical home automates business and clinical processes, depends on clinical decision support tools, and is connected to patients and other members of the health care team.

Learn how to do email with patients and start e-prescribing.

 

 

Is your practice already a patient-centered medical home?

Download the PCMH Checklist (PDF) and find out.

Quality Measures

Quality Measures -- Does your practice have a structured way to gather clinical data and analyze it to identify potential improvements?

Learn how to implement such a system and use it.

 

 

Is your practice already a patient-centered medical home?

Download the PCMH Checklist (PDF) and find out.

Patient Experience

A truly patient-centered medical home is designed to enhance the patient experience -- a fundamental, transformational shift from the practice designed to enhance physician workflow.

A good first step is offering same-day appointments.

 

 

Is your practice already a patient-centered medical home?

Download the PCMH Checklist (PDF) and find out.


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This Patient-Centered Medical Home section of the AAFP web site was supported in part by a grant from Merck & Co.
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