The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative has just released a report on the ‘Benefits of Implementing the Patient Centred Medical Home‘. This report documents the outcomes of a number of projects based around the medical home model of care. There are three broad conclusions. As medical home implementation increases, better health, better care and lower […]
Australian Primary Health Care Reform and the Medical HomeSeptember 24, 2012
 This month, The Australian Governments (state and federal) released a report that details components of a National Primary Health Care Strategy. Element 4 of this strategy details how a medical home can contribute to a system that is ‘Well-integrated, coordinated, and providing continuity of care, particularly for those with multiple, ongoing, and complex conditions’ An […] |
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Family Physicians Are ‘Linchpin’ of US Health Care Reform EffortsSeptember 24, 2012
In response to the growing crisis in health care costs, public and private payers have launched scores of innovative health care delivery and payment models designed to reward the value of health care services instead of the volume of services. “It is pretty hard to think about increasing value in the health care system without […]
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Primary Care for the 21st Century: Ensuring a Quality, Physician-led Team for Every PatientSeptember 24, 2012
 The AAFP this week launched its report “Primary Care for the 21st Century: Ensuring a Quality, Physician-led Team for Every Patient ” The United States is adopting a new model of primary care built around patients and delivered by teams. As a key element of this approach, primary care medical practices are being called upon […] |
