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Recent Posts
Amanda Berra on April 4, 2011 |
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Topics: Medical Home, Physician Issues, Benchmarking, Management Tools, Performance Improvement, Practice Transformation, Cross-Continuum Impact
Why Risk-Stratifying is Important
Ability to risk-stratify patients is one of the major differences between beginning and advanced PCMHs. While beginning PCMHs have their hands full just establishing a patient/disease registry, identifying patients with target conditions, and flagging gaps in care, the more advanced PCMHs are able to sort patients into high, moderate, and low-risk categories. (Note -- for all practical purposes, "risk" here means "risk of hospital admission").
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Risk-Stratifying Patients - Two Example Approaches
Amanda Berra on March 7, 2011 |
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Topics: Medical Home, Physician Issues, Benchmarking, Management Tools, Performance Improvement, Organizational Models, Workforce, Care Team Building
Early findings from our primary care/medical home benchmarking initiative provide a quantitative snapshot of medical homes investing in more clinical support staff per physician and taking on new site-level functions.
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PCMH Staff Data: Benchmarks Suggest Transformation in Staff Model, Site Functions
on September 15, 2010 |
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Topics: Medical Home, Physician Issues, Process Improvement, Efficiency, Performance Improvement, Cross-Continuum Impact, Medical Home Finance
Health Affairs' new policy brief on medical homes contains good summary data from across seven medical home pilot projects about the impact each one had on hospitalizations, ED visits, and/or total savings per patient.
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PCMH impact data: Admissions, ED Visits, and Total Savings
