About the Medical Home Project

Topics: Medical Home, Physician Issues

The Medical Home Project is the Advisory Board’s research collaborative focused on the medical home (PCMH) model. More than 450 organizations currently participate, including PCMH pioneers, systems in the midst of multi-site rollouts, and organizations just beginning to learn about the model.

Participants receive:

• A deep library of PCMH research, case examples, and tools
• Live support from our expert research team
• Special initiatives, benchmarks, and facilitated peer-to-peer networking opportunities
• Ongoing research into PCMH problems and solutions

How to Participate

Participation in the project is open to all members of the Health Care Advisory Board at no additional cost. To participate in the project and receive notice of new resources and initiatives, you must sign up for the Project's blog.

In addition, you can:

• Search for resources organized by topic
• Access a selection of the Project’s featured resources
• Match targeted resources for key stakeholder groups organized by function
• Request an expert consultation with project leaders

Medical Home Project Resources

Visit the medical home topic page, featuring our latest medical home research, or browse resources by topic:

• Launch Planning
• Practice Transformation
• Care Team Building
• Patient Self-Management
• Medical Home Finance
• Medical Home IT
• Cross-Continuum Impact

Featured Resources

• Transforming Primary Care

  Study

  Our most comprehensive resource on developing and rolling out a PCMH. The most PCMH-specific sections are “Creating the Primary Care Team”, “Transforming Practice Operations” and “Creating a Sustainable Financial Model.”

• Elevating Staff to Top of License at Kaiser Permanente NW

  On-Demand Webconference

  Details how the organization systematically reworked the roles of MA, LPN, and RN in its medical home sites to make each job more robust and improve the function of the team as a whole.

• Health Coach Impact Calculator

  Decision Guide

  Use your own data to assess the return on investment from adding a dedicated diabetes health coach to a primary care practice.

• Medical Home/Primary Care Benchmarking Initiative

  Benchmarking Survey

  Complete this survey to receive a customized comparison of your site's operational parameters—such as staff model, panel size, and patient access—to those of other medical homes.

Resources for Key Teams

The medical home model involves many different teams across a health care organization. Any Medical Home Project member may access all of the Project's resources, but we suggest members of key PCMH teams utilize the resources in ways outlined below.

Executive team

• Request an onsite presentation or private-label webconference on emerging trends in PCMH, including models and options, recent developments, and examples of rollout plans
• Request a "town hall" style onsite presentation or webconference to share national PCMH trends with your physician leaders

PCMH rollout team/clinic teams

• Sign up for the Project's blog, The Blueprint
• Request an expert consultation on the models of PCMH rollouts
• Download or order unlimited copies of the Transforming Primary Carestudy
• Participate in the Medical Home Project benchmarking initiative
• Listen to on-demand webconferences on practice transformation:
  "Launching 45+ Medical Homes Sites in One Year at Baylor Health System"
  "Elevating Staff to Top of License at Kaiser Permanente NW"
  "Rolling out the Health Coach Model at Mercy Clinics, Inc."

Finance and contracting team

• Use the Health Coach Impact Calculator when developing a financial model or budgeting for potential staff augmentation
• Read the blog entry, "Volume impact: How will PCMH affect downstream utilization and referrals?"
• Listen to on-demand webconferences on medical home finance:
  "Emerging Trends in Medical Home Contracting"
  "Employers and the Medical Home"

HR team

• Request an expert consultation on "Medical Homes 101," emphasizing information specific to hospitals with self-insured employee populations
• Listen to an on-demand webconference presenting options for putting your organization’s self-insured employees into PCMH sites:
  “Employers and the Medical Home”

For More Information

To reach the Medical Home Project team, please work with your relationship manager to set a time for a phone conference, or contact Project Director Amanda Berra at BerraA@advisory.com.