Patient Centered Medical Home

 

CAFP PMCH Newsletter
Background and definitions:
  Definitions:
    What is a Personal Medical Home?
    History/7 core features
    Video: Learn About the Patient Centered Medical Home
    What is the real difference- I thought this is what I have been doing for years?
  Principles :
    Joint principles
     
Demonstration Programs:
  National:
    CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid)
    AAFP
  Colorado:
    Multi-payer
    SB 130
     
Assistance and resources:
  AAFP Road to Recognition
  AAFP Steps for the Medical Home
  CCGC - Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative
  CCGC “Coach in a Boxâ€
  Colorado Medical Home site
  How to talk with your patients
  IPIP - Improving Performance in Practice
  Model EMR Contract
  NCQA Documentation Tool - Std 1B - (Items 1, 2, 3, 4)
  On-Line Tool: INTRODUCTION TO THE PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOME
  The Outcomes of Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Home Interventions:
A Review of the Evidence on Quality, Access and Costs from Recent Prospective Evaluation Studies August, 2009
  Online Course "Practice Leaders in Medical Homes"
  PCMH Master Manual (pdf)
  PCMH TOOLS FOR CAFP MEMBERS ONLY
  Recorded MHB Demonstration
  Sample Patient Letter for Medical Home (Microsoft Word)
  TransforMed
     
How to become a recognized PCMH
  NCQA overview
    Scoring
    Standards and must pass elements
     
Conferences and Events
    Transformed
     
PCMH Best Practice of the Year Award