Health Reform and the Medical Home

I wanted to share a great piece from the blog Practice Improvement: Tony Lembke's site for Improvement, Medicine, Technology, Productivity.

A medical home is a concept that is talked about a lot in the scope of strategies towards the elimination of health disparities. Continuity of care makes a difference in terms of outcomes, prevention, and disease management. Trust is there, consistent dialogue and the ability for a clinician to understand the whole person is there, adherence to treatment is more probable so disease management is more effective. A medical home makes good sense and Mr. Lembke's piece below although focused on Australia is apropos for the US just as well. Patient-centeredness to me is implicitly (at the least) about health equity.

Health Reform and the Medical Home from :PracticeImprovement