Sept. 11 -- WEDNESDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Many large physician groups in the United States lack the essential elements needed to create patient-centered "medical homes" designed to put ...

A three-year patient-centered medical home pilot program led to few quality gains and no reductions hospital utilization or total cost of care, a RAND Corporation study found. The Southeastern ...

This is a roundup of recent stories covering various aspects of the patient-centered medical home model of care, beginning with the most recent. 1. NCQA patient-centered medical homes achieve better ...

MetroHealth System in Cleveland enrolled the first four patients in its emerging medical home program on Wednesday, the system’s interim chief executive, Mark Moran, told trustees during their ...

During this segment, Michael Kolodziej, MD, and Ted Okon, MBA, discuss how programs such as CMS’ Next Generation ACO model and the Community Oncology Alliance’s (COA’s) Oncology Medical Home model are ...

Healthcare reform will emphasize the medical home model, but the nation may not have enough primary care doctors to handle the workload, according to a study by the University of Michigan Health ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CLEVELAND —In this video from the Medical Dermatology Therapy Update II meeting, Florian Rieder, MD, discusses ...

The train has left the station. Everyone is on board: health policy leaders both public, like the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), and private, like ...

Stamford Mayor Caroline Simmons cuts the ribbon at the new Abilis medical model home. Photo courtesy of Cheryl Moss STAMFORD ...

A medical home that provides conventional primary care with a focus on mental health appears to be an effective model for managing patients with serious psychiatric illnesses, new research has found.

The “medical home” concept has become counterproductive. It is muddling the debate about how to improve medical care without raising costs, and it is punishing primary care clinics. A recent paper by ...

Older adults who suffer serious injuries from a fall or a motor vehicle accident often have impaired long-term functioning and diminished quality of life. A new study has found the new Trauma Medical ...