Medical Homes news and information

Everyone, it seems, wants in on the medical home business, but the medical home practice implementation consulting service TransforMED got in on the ground floor.
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Diagnostic errors are common in primary care and involve a wide range of diseases, according to newly published research.
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As more payers appear poised to reimburse providers for the care-coordination services provided under the patient-centered medical home model, other players are stepping up their medical home ancillary business services.
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IRVING, Texas—Christus Health, a Catholic not-for-profit health system, announced that it plans to enter into a joint venture with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a Chilean university owned by the Catholic Church. The memorandum of understanding signed by the two provides for...
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Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio, and Catholic Health Partners, Cincinnati, have signed a letter of intent to form a strategic partnership.
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Chief information officers in healthcare are caught between their immediate concerns and the unknown challenges of future healthcare payment reforms, but without all the information they'll need to steer their course.
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North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is facing a widening legal battle over allegations that it failed to notify hundreds of patients—including a doctor working at the system—that an identity-theft ring had stolen their unprotected confidential information.
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Community Care of North Carolina, a not-for-profit agency that runs the state's much heralded Medicaid medical home program, is coming under scrutiny after a state auditor report found that the program was falling...
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Dr. Terry McGeeney, the founding president and CEO of TransforMED, the American Academy of Family Physicians' medical home consulting subsidiary, has stepped down from his post. Dr. Bruce Bagley, AAFP director for quality improvement, has been appointed interim president and CEO.
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A recent analysis of studies conducted on the patient-centered medical home practice model included criticism that most of the research focused on older adults, and few studies looked at pediatric populations.
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