Physician Issues

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

Expert Insights

• State of the market in medical home contracting 

  February 1, 2012 | Blog Post | Health Care Advisory Board

  Provides an overview of the current market for PCMH contracts, answers to frequently asked contracting questions, and access to the Medical Home Project’s medical home contracting resources guide.

• Training health coaches: Inside Mercy Clinics' program

  August 8, 2011 | Blog Post | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Health coaching is a cornerstone of the medical home model, and building the right competencies is a major challenge: Many organizations are struggling to fill the role with staff who have the skills to deliver real results.

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Research

• Transforming Primary Care

  January 1, 2011 | Study | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Lessons for transforming your institution’s primary care strategy to navigate the transition from fee-for-service to accountable care.

• Incorporating a Non-Clinical Care Team Member to Tackle High-Risk Patient Challenges

  November 21, 2011 | Whitepaper | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Massachusetts General Hospital has added a non-clinical community resource specialist to its primary care team to minimize lost clinician time, curb inappropriate service utilization, and improve clinical outcomes.

• Elevating Staff to “Top of License” at Kaiser Permanente Northwest

  January 19, 2011 | On-Demand Webconference | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Profiles the comprehensive training and communication program that Kaiser Permanente Northwest undertook to elevate staff roles in primary care sites as part of a move toward adoption of the medical home model.

• Building the Medical Home Expert Panel Series—Rolling Out the Health Coach Model

  June 2, 2010 | On-Demand Webconference | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Profiles the robust health coach program at Mercy Clinics, Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa.

• Employers and the Medical Home

  July 14, 2011 | On-Demand Webconference | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Presents an overview and case studies of ways in which employers are becoming involved in the medical home.

• Launching 45 Medical Home Sites in One Year at Baylor Healthcare System

  August 4, 2011 | On-Demand Webconference | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Members of Baylor's medical home team discuss their experience rolling out the medical home model across their organization.

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Tools & Analytics

• Medical Home Health Coach Practice Impact Calculator

  February 17, 2010 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Assess the return on investment from adding a dedicated diabetes health coach to primary care practices transitioning to a medical home model.

• Preventable Admissions Identification Assessment

  August 5, 2010 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Using your institution's historical Medicare hospital-based inpatient data, this pre-populated Excel-based tool identifies Medicare cases with ambulatory care-sensitive conditions based on AHRQ's Preventable Quality Indicator methodology.

• The Medical Home Benchmarking Survey

  November 1, 2010 | Tool | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Complete the Primary Care/Medical Home Benchmarking Survey to compare your site-level benchmarks on staffing models, payer mix, patient access, IT implementation, and other key aspects of primary care transformation to those of other members of the Medical Home Project.

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Multimedia

• Blueprint for the medical home: Analyzing and planning for an emerging model of care

  April 7, 2010 | Video | Health Care Advisory Board
  

  Teresa Breen explains the medical home model's value proposition, its long-term impact on acute care volumes, and how hospitals are financing it.

• Can a medical home health coach program pay for itself?

  March 4, 2011 | Video | Health Care Advisory Board

  Mercy Clinics, Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa, discovered that an RN Health Coach FTE generated significant ROI. Could this hold true for your organization?

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Products & Services

• Medical Home Project

  Works with early medical home pioneers to establish medical home best practices.

• Health Care Advisory Board

  Our flagship program, providing best practice research to health care executives.

• Crimson Continuum of Care 

  Physician alignment-focused technology solutions and best practice research designed to advance quality and enable cost savings.

• Southwind

  Physician practice management and consulting services addressing physician employment, physician practice acquisition, clinical integration, and alternative models of physician alignment.

• Crimson Practice Management 

  Technology solutions and best practice research to help hospitals and medical groups drive physician-centric medical group performance initiatives.

• Crimson Care Registry 

  A real-time patient registry that enables providers to improve outcomes and overall population health.