The patient-centered medical home is a health care delivery model based on the relationship between a patient and their personal primary care physician. With its growing popularity in the health care reform discussion, TAFP provides you with tools to educate yourself, your colleagues and your patients on the medical home.
TransforMED launches informative online video on the medical home
AAFP subsidiary TransforMED, with Emmi Solutions and the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, has launched a nationwide initiative to educate patients about what it means to be part of a patient-centered medical home. Through a Web-based educational video, free for all primary care practices to view and download, patients will more wholly understand the value of the patient-centered medical home and be encouraged to become more engaged in their health care partnership with their primary care physician.
By visiting the TransforMED Web site, patients can view the informative video on all the parts and benefits of the patient-centered medical home. At the end of the video, viewers have the option to read more about the medical home on the PCPCC website, take a survey testing their knowledge on the medical home or share the video via e-mail or instant message with a friend.
View the video and download it to make it a part of your website. Go to www.transformed.com.
View an instructional AAFP PowerPoint presentation on the medical home
AAFP has created an informative PowerPoint presentation physicians can use to educate stakeholders on the patient-centered medical home. It even includes notes on many slides containing talking points and helpful hints. Access the presentation here.
Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative reports on medical home pilot studies
The Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative recently released a report detailing work around the country to study the effectiveness of patient-centered medical homes. "Proof in Practice: A compilation of patient centered medical home pilot and demonstration projects" reports the progress of pilots and initiatives in 18 states, providing descriptions and details of how they are structured and what they are achieving.
PCPCC is a coalition of major employers, consumer groups, patient quality organizations, health plans, labor unions, hospitals, clinicians and others dedicated to advancing the patient-centered medical home as a way to improve access to care for the nation’s patients. To read the report, go the the PCPCC website and download a PDF. Texas projects are listed on pages 67-68.
Evaluate your practice with AAFP’s Patient-Centered Medical Home Checklist
Are you building a patient-centered medical home? Use AAFP’s two-page PCMH Checklist to see how your practice stacks up in four categories: quality measures, patient experience, health information technology and practice organization. Go to the medical home section of www.aafp.org to download the PDF.
Relevant articles
10 Steps to a Patient-Centered Medical Home, By Anton J. Kuzel, M.D., M.H.P.E.
posted in Family Practice Management Online November/December 2009
How to switch your practice to open-access scheduling, By Gail Jones, AAFP
posted in Texas Family Physician Online Vol. 60 No. 2 | Spring 2009
Home sweet medical home, By Jonathan Nelson
posted in Texas Family Physician Online Vol. 59 No. 1 | Winter 2008 TEXAS FAMILY PHYSICIAN