Medical Home Archives:
Reflections on two days with the Leanerati
I had the opportunity this week to travel with an impressive group of colleagues to Orlando, Florida, for the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) Healthcare Transformation Summit. Group Health had the opportunity to present our experience in piloting, spreading, and stabilizing the Medical Home, as well as to demonstrate how we use lean to maintain and [...]
Much to celebrate: year one data published
American Journal of Managed Care published the one-year results of our medical home pilot September 1 . Some of you may have heard, we’ve gotten great local and national press, including this stellar story on KING5 News yesterday: Play and Download Video. A large part of the success was in the partnership between the Group Health care-delivery system [...]
Medical home as evolution
It is not uncommon for me to hear, especially from my “older” peers, that the Medical Home is bringing us back to the Family Practice we all had years ago. I feel a strong emotional bond to the sentiment. As I participate in rolling out the Medical Home however, I find myself thinking this is [...]
Stories from 10,000 feet
Blogging live form the Primary Care Forum Michael Erikson shared some really inspirational stories giving us a 10,000-foot view of what people are saying nationally and how their jaws drop as they learn about what Group Health is doing. Recently he was at a national conference of large group practices where he and the other [...]
Reminder tools in EPIC
Like most of you out there, I have been struggling to determine what “Medical Home” was and how was it different from what I was doing now? I was recently asked to participate in the RPIW for Virtual Medicine, which was in and of itself a unique learning experience. It was a unique way to [...]
Is This the Right Work?
Michael Erikson and I are currently working with others to evaluate where we are on the roll-out of the “Chronic Disease” component of the Medical Home. This is focused on how a physician and RN work together to co-manage a patient with a chronic disease when they go through an unstable period. An example would [...]
medical home, group health, and the blogosphere
I am a true blog rookie. Here goes: It is incredibly gratifying to be moving from our extremely successful Factoria pilot into full bore spread of our medical home model to all of our primary care sites. It is clear that primary care in America is truly struggling, that real medical homes have the capacity [...]
Primary Care Done Right
Greetings. This is my first post here, so I’ll introduce myself. I’m Wellesley Chapman, family doctor at Burien Medical Center. I’m new-ish, too, having started last August, hired out of residency. I’m looking forward to sharing my experiences with our efforts to reinvent primary care. I’ll try to be brief and practical. It seems like [...]
"Framing" the Medical Home
I like the term Medical Home quite a lot. I know that folks worry that it is an imprecise label and may confuse patients at first pass, but I think that we will all get past that. Our obsession with precision in these things sometimes leaves out the essence. For example; I know that the [...]
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