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Most Recently Shared on November 8, 2011 at 8:23 pm By:
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Webinar Primes Physicians for PCMH Makeover -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
aafp.org — “An upcoming webinar offered by TransforMED via its Delta-Exchange network could be the jump-start some family physicians need to move forward with a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) makeover. The free hour-long webinar, which is titled Teamwork, Leadership and Communication -- The Pillars of a Successful Medical Home, will air March 21 at 1 p.m. CDT. Registration requires membership in Delta-Exchange, which is free to AAFP members.” View full resource at aafp.org
Most Recently Shared on March 13, 2012 at 9:37 pm By:
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Patient Access to Core Attributes of Primary Care Linked to Lower Mortality -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
aafp.org — “New research published in the January/February issue of Annals of Family Medicine suggests that patient access to certain attributes of primary care associated with the patient-centered medical home model of care are associated with lower individual mortality risk. Specifically, authors of "Primary Care Attributes and Mortality: A National Person-Level Study" found that patients who reported three attributes in their usual source of care -- comprehensiveness, patient-centeredness and e” View full resource at aafp.org
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New Regulatory, Incentive Programs Provide Practice Challenges for Family Physicians in 2011 -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
aafp.org — “The year 2011 marked a time of great change for family physicians and the way they run their practices. The Academy -- and its wholly-owned subsidiary TransforMED -- stood ready to assist family physicians as they worked to transform their practices into patient-centered medical homes; implement electronic health records, or EHRs; and adjust to all the payment, coding and regulatory changes that are part and parcel of a new way of doing business.” View full resource at aafp.org
Most Recently Shared on January 4, 2012 at 10:33 pm By:
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Proposed Rule on CO-OP Program Needs Changes -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
aafp.org — “The AAFP once again is calling on CMS to fully incorporate the patient-centered medical home, or PCMH, into an initiative designed to foster the creation of qualified nonprofit health insurance plans in every state and the District of Columbia. The Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan, or CO-OP, program resulted from passage of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The program provides loans to foster the creation of consumer-governed, private, nonprofit health insurance plans as a way of o” View full resource at aafp.org
Most Recently Shared on October 11, 2011 at 8:37 pm By:
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American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) - Organization, Publisher - Leawood, KS | Facebook
facebook.com — “American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) - We welcome your comments and encourage thoughtful discussion and differing viewpoints on this page. Feel free to challenge the ideas of those with whom you disagree (including the AAFP), but please be respectful. - Mission: The mission of the AAFP is to improve the health of patients, families, and communities by serving the needs of members with professionalism and creativity. - Description: Nearly one in four of all office visits are made to... | ” View full resource at facebook.com
Most Recently Shared on September 22, 2011 at 5:15 pm By:
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North Carolina Primary Care Program Continues To Save Millions -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
aafp.org — “North Carolina’s Medicaid program continues to demonstrate how physician-led primary care networks and patient-centered medical homes can improve health care quality and save costs. Community Care of North Carolina, or CCNC, provides care to more than 750,000 Medicaid recipients in North Carolina, relying heavily on patient-centered medical homes, population health management, case management services and community-based networks to deliver care.” View full resource at aafp.org
Most Recently Shared on July 27, 2011 at 1:41 am By:
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Home Page of the Veterans Caucus
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Most Recently Shared on May 30, 2011 at 12:59 pm By:
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New online home site of the AAPA Veterans Caucus, a constituent caucus of the American Academy of Physician Assistants: http://bit.ly/lYlACf
Magnolia State Grows Its Own Rural Primary Care Physicians -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
aafp.org — “Patrick "Brent" Smith, M.D., is a third-year family medicine resident at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, or UMMC, in Jackson. He was also one of the first scholars in the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program. As such, he’ll soon return to his Mississippi Delta hometown of Cleveland (population 12,300) to be a rural family physician. "I’m going home -- as Bear Bryant said when people asked why he left the football team at Texas A&M to return to” View full resource at aafp.org
Most Recently Shared on May 25, 2011 at 9:22 pm By:
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The Role of Independent Physicians in Accountable Care Organizations by Dr. David Nace
transformed.com — “TransforMED provides ongoing consultation and support to physicians looking to transform their practices to a model of care that is based on the concept of a relationship-centered personal medical home. This model was first outlined in the Future of Family Medicine report published in March 2004. TransforMed is an initiative of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).” View full resource at transformed.com
Most Recently Shared on May 6, 2011 at 6:05 pm By:
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The Role of Independent Physicians in Accountable Care Organizations by Dr. David Nace http://ow.ly/4OXh9 #aco #pcmh #relayhealth
Pediatricians call for EHRs to support medical home model - FierceEMR
fierceemr.com — “The establishment of family-centered medical homes for children will need to be backed up by timely, secure, and comprehensive electronic health records (EHRs), the American Academy of Pediatrics' Read more...” View full resource at fierceemr.com
Most Recently Shared on May 5, 2011 at 5:15 pm By:
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#Pediatricians want #EHRs to support ‘medical home’ model. (@FierceEMR) http://bit.ly/lr7zRf
TransforMED Offers Free Medical Home Assessment Tool -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
aafp.org — “Medical practices working on becoming medical homes now can measure their progress, thanks to a free and comprehensive assessment tool recently made available by TransforMED, a practice redesign initiative affiliated with the AAFP.” View full resource at aafp.org
Most Recently Shared on April 27, 2011 at 7:11 pm By:
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Participants in the pilot had to complete free "TransforMed Medical Home IQ" eval http://bit.ly/juUVQF #planetree
Collaborative Care Research Network -- National Research Network -- American Academy of Family Physicians
aafp.org — “Home page for the Collaborative Care Research Network, a mental and behavioral health sub-network of the AAFP National Research Network.” View full resource at aafp.org
Most Recently Shared on March 11, 2011 at 8:04 pm By:
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@kevinmd Precisely why we created a network to add to evidentiary support for collaborative team based #primarycare http://bit.ly/ezZI32
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
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Most Recently Shared on February 22, 2011 at 1:34 pm By:
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#HIMSS11 RT @miller7: @MatthewBrowning Important to understand the joint principles behind the medical home too http://bit.ly/frAECs (PDF)
AAFP, Other Groups Adopt Joint Principles for Medical Education -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
aafp.org — “The Academy and three other primary care professional associations have promulgated a new policy to guide the education of physicians who will be graduating from U.S. medical schools in an era of health care reform that promotes preventive health services and a greater reliance on primary care. The policy, known as the Joint Principles for the Medical Education of Physicians as Preparation for Practice in the Patient-Centered Medical Home, builds on the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered M” View full resource at aafp.org
Most Recently Shared on December 17, 2010 at 8:32 pm By:
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HRSA Administrator Describes Role of Family Physicians, PCMH in Health Care System -- AAFP News Now -- American Academy of Family Physicians
aafp.org — “The Health Resources and Services Administration, or HRSA, serves as the home for primary care services in the United States. The agency administers such programs as community health centers and the National Health Service Corps. In February 2009, President Obama named Mary Wakefield, R.N., Ph.D., to the post of HRSA administrator. AAFP News Now recently interviewed Wakefield about the role of family physicians in the evolving health care system; the future of the patient-centered medical home, ” View full resource at aafp.org
Most Recently Shared on October 22, 2010 at 8:45 pm By:
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Q&A with HRSA's Mary Wakefield: Role of family docs and nurses, IOM's #FutureRN report, more, http://ow.ly/2XZ82
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