This column presents a comprehensive treatment of the topic, including gaining physician buy-in, preparing for HIT adoption and spread, and understanding HITs role in the patient-centered medical home approach.
Dunn says she envisions the development of a common HIT platform that allows health care providers to do real-time communication with each other using electronic health records, "thereby truly coordinating an individual's health care needs on a local level through a patient-centered medical home model.
It is designed to help foster innovation and widespread adoption of the patient-centered medical home model of health-care delivery--essentially, health care needed by patients, when they need it and in the manner they want it.
UnitedHealthcare's Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program and Diabetes Health Plan were recognized by the NBCH for their ability to help enhance health care safety and quality while reducing costs.
The patient-centered medical home pilot is a joint effort of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and TransforMED, a subsidiary of Leawood-based American Academy of Family Physicians.
