Patient-Centered Medical Home Resources
Family Practice Management has published numerous practical articles to help family physicians build a patient-centered medical home (PCMH). A collection of links to the best articles, many of which include hands-on tools, is presented below. The list is organized around the TransforMed patient-centered medical home model. A comprehensive list of resources that includes many of the FPM articles listed below is available through the AAFP Patient-Centered Medical Home web site.
Access to care and information
Answers to Your Questions About Same-Day Scheduling
The concept's founder explains how to do "today's work today" and improve patient access to your practice.
Creating a Successful After-Hours Clinic
If you'd like to tame your call load, increase patient satisfaction and make money while you sleep, consider opening an after-hours clinic.
Group Visits 101
Group visits can improve patient care and relieve you from the treadmill of office practice. Here's how to get started.
Includes a group visit invitation.
Group Visits for Chronic Illness Care: Models, Benefits and Challenges
With proper planning, group visits can expand your options for managing the care of chronically ill patients.
Group Visits Hit the Road
By taking group visits to his elderly patients, this physician found a way to meet their needs and those of his practice -- and have fun at the same time.
Includes a group-visit documentation form and a sample agenda.
A New Approach to Group Visits: Helping High-Need Patients Make Behavioral Change
The most difficult patients have one thing in common: They need to change their health habits. Group visits can help them.
The Outcomes of Open-Access Scheduling: Beyond Patient Satisfaction
Good things happen when patients are seen "today" by their own physicians.
Planning Group Visits for High-Risk Patients
You'll not only have more satisfied patients and better compliance, but you'll also be compensated for your services.
Includes a type-2 diabetes progress note for group visits.
Same-Day Appointments: Exploding the Access Paradigm
To gain control over your schedule, you must do the unthinkable: Offer every patient an appointment for today.
Virtual Office Visits: A Reachable and Reimbursable Innovation
They're convenient, they're efficient, and for a growing number of physicians, they pay.
The concept's founder explains how to do "today's work today" and improve patient access to your practice.
Creating a Successful After-Hours Clinic
If you'd like to tame your call load, increase patient satisfaction and make money while you sleep, consider opening an after-hours clinic.
Group Visits 101
Group visits can improve patient care and relieve you from the treadmill of office practice. Here's how to get started.
Includes a group visit invitation.
Group Visits for Chronic Illness Care: Models, Benefits and Challenges
With proper planning, group visits can expand your options for managing the care of chronically ill patients.
Group Visits Hit the Road
By taking group visits to his elderly patients, this physician found a way to meet their needs and those of his practice -- and have fun at the same time.
Includes a group-visit documentation form and a sample agenda.
A New Approach to Group Visits: Helping High-Need Patients Make Behavioral Change
The most difficult patients have one thing in common: They need to change their health habits. Group visits can help them.
The Outcomes of Open-Access Scheduling: Beyond Patient Satisfaction
Good things happen when patients are seen "today" by their own physicians.
Planning Group Visits for High-Risk Patients
You'll not only have more satisfied patients and better compliance, but you'll also be compensated for your services.
Includes a type-2 diabetes progress note for group visits.
Same-Day Appointments: Exploding the Access Paradigm
To gain control over your schedule, you must do the unthinkable: Offer every patient an appointment for today.
Virtual Office Visits: A Reachable and Reimbursable Innovation
They're convenient, they're efficient, and for a growing number of physicians, they pay.
Care management
Asthma Days: An Approach to Planned Asthma Care
Find out how one practice has improved care and outcomes for its asthma patients and increased practice revenue at the same time.
Includes an asthma visit documentation form.
Beyond EHRs: How Technology Can Help You Treat Chronic Illness
New tools may soon connect you to your patients at home.
Escaping the Tyranny of the Urgent by Delivering Planned Care
These four components can help you provide care that is more proactive, organized and satisfying.
Improving Chronic Illness Care: Lessons Learned in a Private Practice
The chronic care model offers a proactive, organized approach that can improve outcomes and satisfaction, but no paradigm shift comes easy.
Includes a sample patient care report and a physician rankings report.
Using a Simple Patient Registry to Improve Your Chronic Disease Care
Who needs an EHR? Software you already have can help you make sure your patients get the care they need.
Includes a downloadable Excel registry.
Six-article series on diabetes care improvement:
Improving Chronic Disease Care in the Real World: A Step-by-Step Approach
Tag along as we follow a network of physicians on the first leg of a 13-month journey to redesign their diabetes care one step at a time.
Building a Patient Registry From the Ground Up
By identifying your patients by condition, you can be more proactive in getting them the care they need.
Helping Patients Take Charge of Their Chronic Illnesses
The best thing you can do for your patients with chronic diseases is to let them run with the ball.
Includes a patient handout on blood pressure.
Using Flow Sheets to Improve Diabetes Care
Has Mrs. Jones had a recent eye exam? Are her HbA1c levels improving? A diabetes flow sheet will let you know at a glance.
Includes a sample diabetes flow sheet.
Making Diabetes Checkups More Fruitful
"Pre-planning" can turn scattered encounters into efficient, productive visits.
Includes a diabetes visit reminder letter, an annual diabetes questionnaire for patients and a diabetes encounter form.
13 Months of Quality Improvement: Did It Work?
When 45 doctors and their staffs decide to redesign their diabetes care system, success comes one step at a time.
Includes seven QI tips.
Find out how one practice has improved care and outcomes for its asthma patients and increased practice revenue at the same time.
Includes an asthma visit documentation form.
Beyond EHRs: How Technology Can Help You Treat Chronic Illness
New tools may soon connect you to your patients at home.
Escaping the Tyranny of the Urgent by Delivering Planned Care
These four components can help you provide care that is more proactive, organized and satisfying.
Improving Chronic Illness Care: Lessons Learned in a Private Practice
The chronic care model offers a proactive, organized approach that can improve outcomes and satisfaction, but no paradigm shift comes easy.
Includes a sample patient care report and a physician rankings report.
Using a Simple Patient Registry to Improve Your Chronic Disease Care
Who needs an EHR? Software you already have can help you make sure your patients get the care they need.
Includes a downloadable Excel registry.
Six-article series on diabetes care improvement:
Improving Chronic Disease Care in the Real World: A Step-by-Step Approach
Tag along as we follow a network of physicians on the first leg of a 13-month journey to redesign their diabetes care one step at a time.
Building a Patient Registry From the Ground Up
By identifying your patients by condition, you can be more proactive in getting them the care they need.
Helping Patients Take Charge of Their Chronic Illnesses
The best thing you can do for your patients with chronic diseases is to let them run with the ball.
Includes a patient handout on blood pressure.
Using Flow Sheets to Improve Diabetes Care
Has Mrs. Jones had a recent eye exam? Are her HbA1c levels improving? A diabetes flow sheet will let you know at a glance.
Includes a sample diabetes flow sheet.
Making Diabetes Checkups More Fruitful
"Pre-planning" can turn scattered encounters into efficient, productive visits.
Includes a diabetes visit reminder letter, an annual diabetes questionnaire for patients and a diabetes encounter form.
13 Months of Quality Improvement: Did It Work?
When 45 doctors and their staffs decide to redesign their diabetes care system, success comes one step at a time.
Includes seven QI tips.
Continuity of care services
Can Your Patients Afford the Medications Your Prescribe?
Patient adherence may depend on the answer to this question, so it must be asked.
Optimizing Referrals & Consults With a Standardized Process
Successful referrals and consultations depend on open and succinct communication between you, your patients and your consultants.
Reducing Waits and Delays in the Referral Process
By formalizing your referral relationships, you can make life easier for you and your patients.
Patient adherence may depend on the answer to this question, so it must be asked.
Optimizing Referrals & Consults With a Standardized Process
Successful referrals and consultations depend on open and succinct communication between you, your patients and your consultants.
Reducing Waits and Delays in the Referral Process
By formalizing your referral relationships, you can make life easier for you and your patients.
Health information technology
Demystifying Computer Networks for Small Practices
With the right features and proper security, your network can improve your practice's efficiency and make your job easier.
EHRs in the Exam Room: Tips on Patient-Centered Care
With a thoughtful approach, you can maintain your focus on the patient.
EHRs Fix Everything - and Nine Other Myths
Realistic expectations can help your conversion to electronic health records succeed.
E-Prescribing: Why the Fuss?
If its increased safety and other benefits haven't convinced you to get into e-prescribing, maybe Medicare's promised financial incentives will.
How to Find Clinical Information Quickly at the Point of Care
You have one minute to identify the first-line therapy for a pregnant patient with tuberculosis. How will you find the answer?
How to Select an Electronic Health Record System
These 12 steps will help make the selection process easier and lead you to the EHR that's right for your practice.
Includes a request for proposal outline, an EHR rating form, questions to ask EHR references and a vendor rating tool.
How to Successfully Navigate Your EHR Implementation
These clues can help you avoid the pitfalls you'll encounter on your EHR journey.
Improving Care With an Automated Patient History
The best way to fill your EHR with patient data might be to let your patients do it themselves.
Making a Case for Online Physician-Patient Communication
It can improve communications, practice efficiency and maybe even the bottom line. Just don't expect all your patients to join you online … yet.
Purchasing an Affordable Electronic Health Record
An economy model may provide all the functionality your practice needs.
User Satisfaction With EHRs: Report of a Survey of 422 Family Physicians
If you're thinking of moving to electronic records, the results of this survey may help.
Using a Simple Patient Registry to Improve Your Chronic Disease Care
Who needs an EHR? Software you already have can help you make sure your patients get the care they need.
Includes a downloadable Excel registry.
Virtual Office Visits: A Reachable and Reimbursable Innovation
They’re convenient, they’re efficient, and for a growing number of physicians, they pay.
Why I Love My EMR
Two years after he took his practice digital, the author addresses the concerns of others who contemplate leaving paper records behind.
Includes a table to determine how much you can save by switching from paper records to an electronic medical record system.
Why It's Time to Purchase an Electronic Health Record System
The old reasons for holding off may have lost their validity.
Includes an EHR cost/benefit worksheet.
With the right features and proper security, your network can improve your practice's efficiency and make your job easier.
EHRs in the Exam Room: Tips on Patient-Centered Care
With a thoughtful approach, you can maintain your focus on the patient.
EHRs Fix Everything - and Nine Other Myths
Realistic expectations can help your conversion to electronic health records succeed.
E-Prescribing: Why the Fuss?
If its increased safety and other benefits haven't convinced you to get into e-prescribing, maybe Medicare's promised financial incentives will.
How to Find Clinical Information Quickly at the Point of Care
You have one minute to identify the first-line therapy for a pregnant patient with tuberculosis. How will you find the answer?
How to Select an Electronic Health Record System
These 12 steps will help make the selection process easier and lead you to the EHR that's right for your practice.
Includes a request for proposal outline, an EHR rating form, questions to ask EHR references and a vendor rating tool.
How to Successfully Navigate Your EHR Implementation
These clues can help you avoid the pitfalls you'll encounter on your EHR journey.
Improving Care With an Automated Patient History
The best way to fill your EHR with patient data might be to let your patients do it themselves.
Making a Case for Online Physician-Patient Communication
It can improve communications, practice efficiency and maybe even the bottom line. Just don't expect all your patients to join you online … yet.
Purchasing an Affordable Electronic Health Record
An economy model may provide all the functionality your practice needs.
User Satisfaction With EHRs: Report of a Survey of 422 Family Physicians
If you're thinking of moving to electronic records, the results of this survey may help.
Using a Simple Patient Registry to Improve Your Chronic Disease Care
Who needs an EHR? Software you already have can help you make sure your patients get the care they need.
Includes a downloadable Excel registry.
Virtual Office Visits: A Reachable and Reimbursable Innovation
They’re convenient, they’re efficient, and for a growing number of physicians, they pay.
Why I Love My EMR
Two years after he took his practice digital, the author addresses the concerns of others who contemplate leaving paper records behind.
Includes a table to determine how much you can save by switching from paper records to an electronic medical record system.
Why It's Time to Purchase an Electronic Health Record System
The old reasons for holding off may have lost their validity.
Includes an EHR cost/benefit worksheet.
Patient-centered care
Building a Mind-Set of Service Excellence
Here's how to assess and improve the level of service your practice is currently providing.
Includes a “moment-of-truth” worksheet and a model for improvement worksheet.
Helping Patients Take Charge of Their Chronic Illnesses
The best thing you can do for your patients with chronic diseases is to let them run with the ball.
Includes a patient handout on blood pressure.
Improving Service and Increasing Patient Satisfaction
What keeps patients coming back to the same practice? The author's answer may surprise you.
Includes 10 service standards.
Patient-Centered Care for Better Patient Adherence
Help your patients become medical decision makers who take an active role in their own care.
Transforming Your Practice: What Matters Most
When customers drive the system, it changes everything -- for the better.
Here's how to assess and improve the level of service your practice is currently providing.
Includes a “moment-of-truth” worksheet and a model for improvement worksheet.
Helping Patients Take Charge of Their Chronic Illnesses
The best thing you can do for your patients with chronic diseases is to let them run with the ball.
Includes a patient handout on blood pressure.
Improving Service and Increasing Patient Satisfaction
What keeps patients coming back to the same practice? The author's answer may surprise you.
Includes 10 service standards.
Patient-Centered Care for Better Patient Adherence
Help your patients become medical decision makers who take an active role in their own care.
Transforming Your Practice: What Matters Most
When customers drive the system, it changes everything -- for the better.
Practice management
Five Strategies for a More Vital Practice
Frustrated with the status quo? Here's how to take your practice from so-so to stellar.
Includes a quick practice assessment.
Five Ways to Retain Good Staff
The most effective strategies won't cost you a dime.
How to Make Your Meetings More Productive
By gathering the right people, using your time wisely and focusing on action, you'll conduct meetings everyone will want to attend.
How to See Your Practice Through Your Patients' Eyes
It's as simple as entering through the front door and taking a walk around your practice.
Huddles: Improve Office Efficiency in Mere Minutes
Daily gatherings of your care team can help you meet daily challenges.
Includes a suggested huddle agenda.
Implementing Change: From Ideas to Reality
How do you get your group to defy the status quo and act on good ideas? It starts with vision, teamwork and some fire in the belly.
Improving Office Practice: Working Smarter, Not Harder
Seemingly simple strategies can transform your practice.
Includes a pre-appointment questionnaire for patients, a post-appointment order sheet and sample dictation templates.
Innovation in Practice: Six Ways to Harness the Power of Your Ideas
With a clear aim, some basic innovation tools and a willingness to experiment, your team can produce some remarkable ideas.
Includes eight tips for innovation.
Job Satisfaction: Putting Theory Into Practice
Yes, it is possible for you and your employees to be happy on the job. The key is in how you handle two factors: motivation and 'hygiene.'
Includes a tool to assess your practice in key areas that affect job satisfaction.
The Key to Implementing Change in Your Practice
Even the most well-thought-out plans will fail unless you engage the hearts and minds of your staff.
Making Every Minute Count: Tools to Improve Office Efficiency
Using proven techniques borrowed from the business world, you can eliminate bottlenecks and waste in your practice.
Includes 10 rules for an efficient process, a sample flow map, a cycle time measurement sheet and a sample cause-and-effect diagram.
Making Your Balance Sheet Work for You
Once you know how to read it, your balance sheet will tell you volumes about the financial health of your practice.
The Makings of a Good Meeting
Don't waste time on bad meetings. Here's how to make sure your meetings are necessary and productive.
Monitoring Your Practice's Financial Data: 10 Vital Signs
Knowing your collection rate and overhead percentage isn't enough anymore. Here are 10 questions you need to be able to answer.
Panning for Gold: How to Find Money in Your Practice
Here are some tips for cutting your expenses and increasing your revenue -- without losing staff.
Quick Ways to Maximize Your Office Space
Try these strategies today that have worked for TransforMED practices.
Seven Strategies for Creating a More Efficient Practice
Simple, low-cost technologies and strategic outsourcing have helped this solo physician practice efficiently, even without any staff.
Strategies for Better Patient Flow and Cycle Time
These tried-and-true techniques will increase revenue, reduce expenses and improve satisfaction with your practice.
Ten Ways Family Practices Lose Money
Learn how to plug the leaks that deplete your practice's income.
Thirteen Ways to Be More Efficient
The key isn't always to work harder. Sometimes working smarter really can make a difference.
Three Steps to an Effective Practice Budget
By tracking your expenses and comparing them to benchmarks, you can create a practice budget that's useful and easy to maintain.
Includes a chart to track standard expense categories.
Why Did That Idea Flop?
Three common mistakes will ensure your good ideas never fly.
Frustrated with the status quo? Here's how to take your practice from so-so to stellar.
Includes a quick practice assessment.
Five Ways to Retain Good Staff
The most effective strategies won't cost you a dime.
How to Make Your Meetings More Productive
By gathering the right people, using your time wisely and focusing on action, you'll conduct meetings everyone will want to attend.
How to See Your Practice Through Your Patients' Eyes
It's as simple as entering through the front door and taking a walk around your practice.
Huddles: Improve Office Efficiency in Mere Minutes
Daily gatherings of your care team can help you meet daily challenges.
Includes a suggested huddle agenda.
Implementing Change: From Ideas to Reality
How do you get your group to defy the status quo and act on good ideas? It starts with vision, teamwork and some fire in the belly.
Improving Office Practice: Working Smarter, Not Harder
Seemingly simple strategies can transform your practice.
Includes a pre-appointment questionnaire for patients, a post-appointment order sheet and sample dictation templates.
Innovation in Practice: Six Ways to Harness the Power of Your Ideas
With a clear aim, some basic innovation tools and a willingness to experiment, your team can produce some remarkable ideas.
Includes eight tips for innovation.
Job Satisfaction: Putting Theory Into Practice
Yes, it is possible for you and your employees to be happy on the job. The key is in how you handle two factors: motivation and 'hygiene.'
Includes a tool to assess your practice in key areas that affect job satisfaction.
The Key to Implementing Change in Your Practice
Even the most well-thought-out plans will fail unless you engage the hearts and minds of your staff.
Making Every Minute Count: Tools to Improve Office Efficiency
Using proven techniques borrowed from the business world, you can eliminate bottlenecks and waste in your practice.
Includes 10 rules for an efficient process, a sample flow map, a cycle time measurement sheet and a sample cause-and-effect diagram.
Making Your Balance Sheet Work for You
Once you know how to read it, your balance sheet will tell you volumes about the financial health of your practice.
The Makings of a Good Meeting
Don't waste time on bad meetings. Here's how to make sure your meetings are necessary and productive.
Monitoring Your Practice's Financial Data: 10 Vital Signs
Knowing your collection rate and overhead percentage isn't enough anymore. Here are 10 questions you need to be able to answer.
Panning for Gold: How to Find Money in Your Practice
Here are some tips for cutting your expenses and increasing your revenue -- without losing staff.
Quick Ways to Maximize Your Office Space
Try these strategies today that have worked for TransforMED practices.
Seven Strategies for Creating a More Efficient Practice
Simple, low-cost technologies and strategic outsourcing have helped this solo physician practice efficiently, even without any staff.
Strategies for Better Patient Flow and Cycle Time
These tried-and-true techniques will increase revenue, reduce expenses and improve satisfaction with your practice.
Ten Ways Family Practices Lose Money
Learn how to plug the leaks that deplete your practice's income.
Thirteen Ways to Be More Efficient
The key isn't always to work harder. Sometimes working smarter really can make a difference.
Three Steps to an Effective Practice Budget
By tracking your expenses and comparing them to benchmarks, you can create a practice budget that's useful and easy to maintain.
Includes a chart to track standard expense categories.
Why Did That Idea Flop?
Three common mistakes will ensure your good ideas never fly.
Practice-based care team
Closing the Physician-Staff Divide: A Step Toward Creating the Medical Home
If your staff's job is to keep patients moving through the system and yours is to take care of the patients they supply, your practice is flawed.
Creating a High-Performing Clinical Team
Delivering top-notch care requires more than individual skill and motivation.
Ideas for Optimizing Your Nursing Staff
Wise utilization of your nursing staff will improve efficiency, patient care and your bottom line.
A New Approach to Making Your Doctor-Nurse Team More Productive
With proper training and delegation, your team can see more patients, deliver better care and feel more satisfied at work.
Practicing Excellence: Your Role in Practice Transformation
Physician leaders play a vital part in guiding the practice toward exceptional performance.
Seven Characteristics of Successful Work Relationships
Your clinical and financial success may depend on work relationships within your practice.
Includes a work relationship assessment form.
If your staff's job is to keep patients moving through the system and yours is to take care of the patients they supply, your practice is flawed.
Creating a High-Performing Clinical Team
Delivering top-notch care requires more than individual skill and motivation.
Ideas for Optimizing Your Nursing Staff
Wise utilization of your nursing staff will improve efficiency, patient care and your bottom line.
A New Approach to Making Your Doctor-Nurse Team More Productive
With proper training and delegation, your team can see more patients, deliver better care and feel more satisfied at work.
Practicing Excellence: Your Role in Practice Transformation
Physician leaders play a vital part in guiding the practice toward exceptional performance.
Seven Characteristics of Successful Work Relationships
Your clinical and financial success may depend on work relationships within your practice.
Includes a work relationship assessment form.
Quality and safety
Eight Steps to a Chart Audit for Quality
A simple chart review can help your group answer the question on everyone's mind: "How are we doing?"
Four Principles for Better Test-Result Tracking
Lost or misfiled test results can delay needed care. Here's how to prevent this common error in office-based practice.
The FPM Practice Self-Test
Here's an easy way to gauge how well your practice is doing in everything from quality of care to quality of claims.
Includes a link to FPM’s free online practice assessment.
How to Fix a Flawed Process: The Four Rules of Work Design
Developed by Toyota but applicable to medical practice, these rules can transform the way you work.
The KISS Principle in Family Practice: Keep It Simple and Systematic
A clear, deliberate, consistent approach will beat the alternative every time.
The Power of Two: Improving Patient Safety Through Better Physician-Patient Communication
Helping patients become more informed and involved in their care could be your best strategy for reducing medical errors.
Includes a patient handout on preventing medical errors.
Practice Measurement: A New Approach to Demonstrating the Worth of Your Work
To obtain a true view of the quality of your practice, you must measure the patient's experience.
Prescription Writing to Maximize Patient Safety
These tips can help you avoid two important causes of prescription error.
Putting Measurement Into Practice With a Clinical Instrument Panel
A few key measures can help you gauge whether your practice is headed in the right direction.
Reducing Risks for Patients Receiving Warfarin
These practices built safety into their systems for managing oral anticoagulation therapy.
Reliability Science: Reducing the Error Rate in Your Practice
These seven principles can help ensure that your patients receive the right care at the right time every time.
Three-part series on QI:
Quality Improvement: First Steps
QI can bring about substantial, lasting, positive change in your practice. It all begins with identifying the opportunities.
A Team Approach to Quality Improvement
To realize change, rely on the knowledge and experience of a team such as the authors', which improved the care of patients with diabetes.
Holding the Gains in Quality Improvement
In QI, enacting a positive change within your practice isn't the end. You must continue moving forward.
A simple chart review can help your group answer the question on everyone's mind: "How are we doing?"
Four Principles for Better Test-Result Tracking
Lost or misfiled test results can delay needed care. Here's how to prevent this common error in office-based practice.
The FPM Practice Self-Test
Here's an easy way to gauge how well your practice is doing in everything from quality of care to quality of claims.
Includes a link to FPM’s free online practice assessment.
How to Fix a Flawed Process: The Four Rules of Work Design
Developed by Toyota but applicable to medical practice, these rules can transform the way you work.
The KISS Principle in Family Practice: Keep It Simple and Systematic
A clear, deliberate, consistent approach will beat the alternative every time.
The Power of Two: Improving Patient Safety Through Better Physician-Patient Communication
Helping patients become more informed and involved in their care could be your best strategy for reducing medical errors.
Includes a patient handout on preventing medical errors.
Practice Measurement: A New Approach to Demonstrating the Worth of Your Work
To obtain a true view of the quality of your practice, you must measure the patient's experience.
Prescription Writing to Maximize Patient Safety
These tips can help you avoid two important causes of prescription error.
Putting Measurement Into Practice With a Clinical Instrument Panel
A few key measures can help you gauge whether your practice is headed in the right direction.
Reducing Risks for Patients Receiving Warfarin
These practices built safety into their systems for managing oral anticoagulation therapy.
Reliability Science: Reducing the Error Rate in Your Practice
These seven principles can help ensure that your patients receive the right care at the right time every time.
Three-part series on QI:
Quality Improvement: First Steps
QI can bring about substantial, lasting, positive change in your practice. It all begins with identifying the opportunities.
A Team Approach to Quality Improvement
To realize change, rely on the knowledge and experience of a team such as the authors', which improved the care of patients with diabetes.
Holding the Gains in Quality Improvement
In QI, enacting a positive change within your practice isn't the end. You must continue moving forward.
More information about the PCMH initiative
Building the Case for the Patient-Centered Medical Home
A coalition is working to prove the concept and create an imperative for change. Payers and policymakers are getting on board. Are you?
The Medical Home: An Idea Whose Time Has Come ... Again
Physicians, employers, legislators and payers think medical homes may be the key to health system reform.
The New Model of Family Medicine: What's In It for You
Team-based, proactive care supported by effective office systems, technology and a culture of improvement will help your patients and your bottom line.
TransforMED Tries to Rebuild Family Medicine
The national demonstration project nears the halfway mark with many hard lessons already learned.
A coalition is working to prove the concept and create an imperative for change. Payers and policymakers are getting on board. Are you?
The Medical Home: An Idea Whose Time Has Come ... Again
Physicians, employers, legislators and payers think medical homes may be the key to health system reform.
The New Model of Family Medicine: What's In It for You
Team-based, proactive care supported by effective office systems, technology and a culture of improvement will help your patients and your bottom line.
TransforMED Tries to Rebuild Family Medicine
The national demonstration project nears the halfway mark with many hard lessons already learned.
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