- Center on Health Equity and Access
- Clinical
- Health Care Cost
- Health Care Delivery
- Insurance
- Policy
- Technology
- Value-Based Care
Military Health Leaders Turn to PCMH Amid Crisis
Patient-centered medical home models being tested in the Military Health System could offer lessons in team-based care for civilian providers, who are similarly challenged by an aging population with complex chronic conditions, according to researchers.
Patient-centered medical home models being tested in the Military Health System could offer lessons in team-based care for civilian providers, who are similarly challenged by an aging population with complex chronic conditions, according to researchers.
The MHS’s nascent medical homes were created in 2009 in response to a “crisis in patient perception” among the system’s 9.6 million beneficiaries, 47 percent of whom said they were dissatisfied with MHS care, compared to 32 percent of patients at civilian facilities — at the same that military health costs have been rising even faster than the country’s as a whole, accounting for 6.2 percent of the Defense Department’s budget.
Now researchers are waiting for the results of patient-centered medical home models implemented both in civilian healthcare and in the MHS, and one large factor may end up being scope-of-practice, as Benjamin F. Mundell, a US Air Force captain, and colleagues at the Rand Corporation and the Mayo Clinic, wrote.
Read the full story here: http://bit.ly/19ZpW4h
Source: Government Health IT
Empowering Community Health Through Wellness and Faith
April 23rd 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. In the third episode, Camille Clarke-Smith, EdD, MS, CHES, CPT, discusses approaching community health holistically through spiritual and community engagement.
Listen
Dr Dalia Rotstein: Physicians Must Be Aware MS Affects People of All Backgrounds
April 24th 2024Dalia Rotstein, MD, MPH, emphazises the importance of awareness that multiple sclerosis (MS) impacts patients from various backgrounds as clinicians think through ways to improve access to care and research efforts in MS.
Read More
Overcoming Employment Barriers for Lasting Social Impact: Freedom House 2.0 and Pathways to Work
April 16th 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our second episode, in which we learn all about Freedom House 2.0 and the Pathways to Work program.
Listen
