Medical Home
Jan 16, 2009
Perspective David Kibbe on Why the EMR has not succeeded to support the medical home.
http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2008/12/confessions-of.html#more
One of our students, Joe Ring, found this and it is an interesting perspective and one with which I agree. It is inline with emerging notions of it is more communication technology than information technology that is needed.
Jan 15, 2009
JAMA article "Improving the Quality of Health Care- Who is responsible for what?" JAMA Jan 14 301(2),2009
Perspective on developing a framework for a patient/physician/delivery system roles for quality.
Interesting paper that provides a framework that tries to tease out the issues. The challenges will be moving from a theoretical framework to collecting data to implementing the data into processes that can demonstrate improvement in quality. I think there will still need to be an overall quality manager within the proposed framework. It makes a good comment that "balancing carefully designed incentives that promote professionalism mibht ultimately lead to the highest quality of care. ". I agree.
Dec 11, 2008
American Medical Association adds support for Medical Home
Medical Home concept gaining additional organized medicine support.
The American Medical Association has added its support for the Medical Home concept. http://http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/20279.html. It joins a growing number of physician organizations advocating for new models of payment to support the tenets of the medical home concept. A good history of the medical home can be found at http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_home.

