TransforMED - Transforming Medical Practices

NEW: Products and Services for Practices

TransforMED is How...
Primary Care Practices become Patient-Centered Medical Homes

TransforMED brings value to Primary Care through a strategic transformation process combined with an integrated suite of practice transformation products and services— all derived from our experiences facilitating the NDP and designed to create a framework, a common language and an opportunity for practices to become Patient-Centered Medical Homes:

• Medical Home Network
• Medical Home Facilitation
• Baseline Practice Assessment
• Practice Retreats ~ A great way to kick off the New Year!

Which approach is right for your practice?

Report from the CEO: What's in a name

"Many practices or centers of care claim to be Patient-Centered Medical Homes. Many physicians claim that they are already part of medical homes. Also several pilots around the country are claiming to be medical home pilots when indeed they are chronic disease or pay for performance projects..."

Read Dr. McGeeney's CEO Report »

AAFP Patient-Centered Medical Home video highlights
TransforMED pilot project physicians and patients

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Be a part of the positive change in primary practice!
The AAFP has produced a powerful video featuring TransforMED's National Demonstration Project participant physicians — and their patients — sharing their views on how the Patient-Centered Medical Home has positively transformed their primary care experiences.

You can transform your practice! Find out how »

FOCUS ON GROUP VISITS
	Group Visits for Diabetes and Other Chronic Diseases By Edward Shahady, MD "Group visits are an innovative way to help patients with chronic disease better control their disease. Diabetes is the poster child for chronic disease because it is the most common chronic disease and excellent evidence indicates that improved management reduces the physical, fiscal and psychological burden of the disease." Click here to read Dr. Shahady's perspective »
	Take a Group Medical Visits Quick Survey Please participate in this 1-2 minute survey to help Mary Talen, Ed Shahady and Julie Schirmer of STFM understand what helps and hinders group medical visits practice. Click here to open the survey link in a new window or tab »
	Group Medical Appointments Improve Access and Patient Satisfaction "Stories of Change" from Carondelet Medical Group in Tucson, Arizona Carondelet Medical Group takes the ideas of "do today’s work today" and "open access" very seriously. In hopes that it might improve access for patients as well as increase revenue, Carondelet leadership decided to give group medical appointments a try... Read about how they planned for and implemented group visits »
	A Q & A Conversation with Lauri Morales, MA Lauri Morales, MA, conducts group visits for Carondelet Medical Group in Tucson, Arizona. She talks candidly about her experience with patients in group settings. Read about Lauri's experiences and insights»

Perspectives

Work/Life Balance
by Ramona G. Seidel, MD
Bay Crossing Family Medicine in Annapolis, Maryland

"The essence of the medical profession is more "WHO I am", than "what I do". Similarly my roles as mother and wife are part of how I define myself as a person. At the core of the balance between work and family life is the knowledge that the monumental tasks required of each, can not be done alone."

Read Dr. Seidel's perspective »

Two New TransforMED Workingpapers [view all]

Mission Possible
Crafting a durable, meaningful mission statement is the first step in your practice's strategic planning process. TransforMED Executive Director Marly McMillen explores what it takes to set the vision for your practice in this TransforMED workingpaper.
Read this PDF workingpaper »

The Key to Implementing Change in Your Practice
Struggling with change is not unique to medical practice; it's a challenge most organizations face when trying to alter entrenched patterns or processes. It's estimated that somewhere between 50 percent to 80 percent of change initiatives in Fortune 1,000 companies fail. Why?
Read this PDF workingpaper »

TransforMED is transforming the practice of Primary Care

AAFP logo TransforMED is focused on practice redesign and affiliated with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). TransforMED is studying and implementing transformed models of high performance practices that meet the needs of both patients and practices. More about TransforMED »

TransforMED facilitators are using lessons learned from pilot projects to offer facilitation services services, collaboration environments and learning opportunities that support and empower primary care practices across the country as they implement the TransforMED Medical Home Model. What's a Transformed Practice?

P4 logo TransforMED also coordinates a residency demonstration initiative known as P⁴ – P to the fourth power – which stands for Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice. P⁴ is leading the transformation of family medicine residency education training to prepare tomorrow's physicians for new models of care and demonstrate the value of science-based, high quality, patient centered primary care. Find out more about P⁴»

Careers at TransforMED
TransforMED has open career positions for experienced, talented and motivated individuals.
Click here to find out more »

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Download Your Blueprint for Practice Transformation:
The Updated TransforMED Medical Home Model 2.3

Spark discussions with your team ~ or educate patients about your practice's transformation efforts. Get the new TransforMED Medical Home Model Version 2.3 in an easy-to-print full-color PDF. (Updated Sept 17, 2008.)

Get your copy of the updated TransforMED Medical Home model »

TransforMED in the News

Home Sweet Medical Home

Trustee magazine 12/1/08 - "...McGeeney says that it typically took physician practices six months to deal with leadership and cultural issues and reorganize care. But they eventually did better financially because, among other things, patients came in on a more timely basis and the practices started receiving payment for electronic visits. 'While large practices already have the resources in place, we found that the smaller the practice, the better position they are in to make changes,' McGeeney says. 'Everyone thought this would squeeze small practices out of the market, but I think the opposite will be true.'..."

TransforMED Collaborates with Cielo MedSolutions for Medical Homes

NewsGuide.us 10/08/08 - " Cielo MedSolutions, a software and web applications provider for the healthcare industry has signed a Preferred Business Affiliate agreement with TransforMED LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), to market each other's products. Cielo MedSolutions customers will have access to TransforMED's practice transformation services, and TransforMED will promote Cielo MedSolutions' Cielo Clinic™ to medical practices implementing a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)..."

Medical home model improves efficiency, docs say

Medical Economics 8/20/08 - "Half of the selected practices were assigned expert facilitators from AAFP to implement the TransforMED changes, while the other half were self-directed – a split that drew contrasting reactions from the physician leaders. 'I don't think you can do it on your own,' admits Stephen Veit, a solo practice FP in Cherokee, Iowa, who had a facilitator. 'You need outside help. It's like trying to get over depression on your own. It might happen, but it's probably not the best way to do it.' ..."

Group Visits for Diabetes and Other Chronic Diseases

Take a Group Medical Visits Quick Survey

Group Medical Appointments Improve Access and Patient Satisfaction

A Q & A Conversation with Lauri Morales, MA

Home Sweet Medical Home

TransforMED Collaborates with Cielo MedSolutions for Medical Homes

Medical home model improves efficiency, docs say