Tag: entire
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Involving the Entire Care Team in the Patient-Centered Medical Home
Your entire care team should be involved in the patient-centered medical home, especially as you begin to move your practice to that model. Kurt Elward, MD, …
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ACOs May Not Be Right for True Population Health, Researchers Say
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College say that in order to ‘formulate effective health care and social service policy’ a clear definition of the term ‘population health’ is needed. Accountable care organizations (ACOs), which they note is a key feature of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), may not clearly have “the incentives or the tools…
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Best Practices For Implementing An EHR
An electronic health record (EHR) implementation affects your entire organization. Change is difficult.
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There’s No Reason for It, It’s Just Our Policy
On June 1, 2009 the town of McAllen, Texas rose to brief prominence on the American political stage. With the highest (bar Miami) per-beneficiary costs in the entire US Medicare program, it was featured in an essay in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande, then seized upon by President Obama: "This is what we have…