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Patient-Centered Medical Home

Your Patient-Centered Medical Home

In a PCMH, care is coordinated across all elements of the patient’s community, including the health care system, and is facilitated by health information technology, to ensure patients get care when and where they need and want it.

Practice Organization -- Do your systems assure disciplined management?

Health IT -- Has your practice automated business and clinical processes?

Quality Measures -- Does your practice foster a culture of improvement?

Patient Experience -- Is care coordinated and convenient for your patients?

Are you building a patient-centered medical home?

Download the PCMH Checklist (PDF) and find out.


Practice Organization

An organized practice is one that exercises disciplined financial management, creates strong and rewarding relationships between practice staff and relies on clinical systems that support the delivery of  high-quality care essential to the patient-centered medical home.

Learn more about Organizing Your Practice.

Are you building a patient-centered medical home?

Download the PCMH Checklist (PDF) and find out.

Health IT

Health IT isn't just an electronic medical record (EMR). A patient-centered medical home automates business and clinical processes, depends on clinical decision support tools, and is connected to patients and other members of the health care team.

Learn about Making Health IT Work For You.

Are you building a patient-centered medical home?

Download the PCMH Checklist (PDF) and find out.

Quality Measures

Learn about Improving Quality in Your Practice.

Quality Measures -- Does your practice use a registry? Have you taken a critical look at clinical processes to identify potential improvements?

Are you building a patient-centered medical home?

Download the PCMH Checklist (PDF) and find out.

Patient Experience

A truly patient-centered medical home is designed to enhance the patient experience -- a fundamental, transformational shift from the practice designed to enhance physician workflow.

Learn about Creating a Great Patient Experience.

Are you building a patient-centered medical home?

Download the PCMH Checklist (PDF) and find out.

TransforMED

Transforming Medical Practices


This Patient-Centered Medical Home section of the AAFP web site was supported in part by a grant from Merck & Co.