While the patient-centered medical home has been touted as the foundation for a better coordinated and more efficient healthcare system, experts now say medical home practices need to be connected to other parts of the healthcare system. To this end, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative has released a report listing 10 “essential” health information technology tools needed to make these population health connections.
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If Congress manages to get the government restarted and avert the debt ceiling crisis, lawmakers may have just enough time to renew their
10-year tradition of "kicking the can" on finding a replacement for the Medicare sustainable growth-rate payment formula.
During a "Washington Update" session, Jeb Shepard and Jennifer Gasperini of the Medical Group Management Association's government affairs staff told attendees at the association's annual conference in San Diego how legislative and regulatory action and inaction may affect the medical practices they run.
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