PCMH Resources for Policymakers

Improving Evaluations of the Medical Home
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A concise description for decisionmakers of why and how to commission effective evaluations of medical home demonstrations. Learn what outcomes to assess, why to include control practices, and why not accounting for clustering can doom an evaluation.

The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Strategies to Put Patients at the Center of Primary Care
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The PCMH must fully engage patients to achieve its objectives, and this brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the needs, preferences, and goals of patients and families.

Strategies to Ensure HITECH Supports the Patient Centered Medical Home HITECH programs and other current Federal legislation are necessary but not sufficient for driving widespread adoption of the medical home model.
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HITECH programs and other current Federal legislation are necessary but not sufficient for driving widespread adoption of the medical home model. This brief discusses the ways in which HITECH and broader health reform legislation could ensure EHRs are implemented in a way that supports primary care transformation.

Ensuring that Patient Centered Medial Homes Effectively Serve Patients with Complex Needs
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The PCMH model currently offers or coordinates many of the services required for patients with complex needs. This decisionmaker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especially smaller ones, better deliver services to all patients, including those with the most complex health needs.

The Roles of Patient-Centered Medical Homes and Accountable Care Organizations in Coordinating Patient Care
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PCMH and ACO models of care delivery can work in tandem to increase the effectiveness of care coordination. Medical homes can directly coordinate services, while ACOs can facilitate and incentivize collaboration across various providers and organizations.

Practice-Based Population Health: Information Technology to Support Transformation to Proactive Primary Care
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Practice-Based Population Health is an approach to care that uses information on a group of patients within a primary care practice(s) to improve the care and clinical outcomes of patients within that practice. This report describes this approach and discusses the information management functionalities that may help primary care practices to move forward with this type of proactive management.

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