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6 best practices of patient-centered medical homes
"There's no one way to set up a medical home or one way for paying a medical home," said Laura Etchen, partner at healthcare consulting company The Chartis Group in Chicago at the American College of
ACO accreditation by NCQA strongly emphasizes health IT
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), which recently launched an accreditation program for accountable care organizations (ACOs), is emphasizing health IT in its requirements for
Patient-centeredness evalutated for medical home recognition
Up to this point, patient-centered medical homes have been recognized and rewarded mostly by measuring practice capabilities, rather than by assessing whether care is actually patient-centered. In
Bill would help small practices adopt healthcare IT
Everyone knows that small practices are most likely to struggle with health IT implementations. Apparently, at least some legislators are aware of this, with one introducing a bill last week that
Medicare/Medicaid health data sharing network proposed
In a recent letter to Congress, a group of health policy experts urged the creation of a network to share information on Medicare and Medicaid patients to improve treatment received. In particular,
