Improving Healthcare Design with the Patient-Centered Medical Home

This report focuses on the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, examining its potential to improve healthcare program design. The assignment begins by highlighting the importance of effective healthcare service organization and introduces the PCMH model as a means to enhance care coordination, and the role of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The report then defines the PCMH model, emphasizing its goal of establishing a partnership between physicians and patients, facilitated by health information exchange. Several features of the PCMH model are described, including the use of online tools, the creation of joint guidelines, and the development of home diuretic protocol projects. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of designing care coordination interventions that consider the strengths and needs of the community, as well as references to support the findings. The assignment also includes an analysis of how the PCMH model can be applied to improve healthcare program design, considering collaborative practice models and the integration of psychologists into primary care teams for adults with chronic conditions.

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The effective organization of a patient’s health care service is a vital element of efficient
and high-quality care. Two new models have provided a chance to increase the extent and
efficiency of care coordination in the states. The two models comprise of the Patient-Centered
Medical Home(PCMH) and the accountable care organization (ACOs). The models work in hand
with medical institutions in providing direct management of services, infrastructure, and
incentives to facilitate collaboration. PCMH is a care provision model where patient’s handlings
are organized through their key maintenance practitioner to guarantee that they obtain the best
care in a way they all understand (Havens et. Al, 2010). The models aim is to have a unified
setting that can enable a partnership between personal physicians and their patients. Care is
facilitated by health information exchange to assure the patient get the indicated need. PCMH
can be applied in most health care facilities to improve the design because of some particular
features. First, the ACP Practice Advisor, an online tool that helps utilize self-paced module.
With this mode of technology, most healthcare providers including chronic care management,
have created onsite integrated care management program that helps train and certify nurses and
therapist all over the nation. Also, the creation of joint guidelines for Patients-Centered Medical
Home will ensure that there is some standardization among the programs. The universal
principles will help guide medical school curricula in ensuring that they all have the expertise to
practice in a reform health center (Jackson et. Al, 2013). A set of guidelines created help provide
direction to projects to facilitate more understanding of information. Development of home
diuretic protocol projects that demonstrate interventions to avoid hospitalization has been
created. In conclusion, care coordination interventions should be designed to reflect the strengths
and needs of the community.

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References
Havens, D. S., Vasey, J., Gittell, J. H., & LIN, W. T. (2010). Relational coordination among
nurses and other providers: impact on the quality of patient care. Journal of nursing
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Jackson, G. L., Powers, B. J., Chatterjee, R., Bettger, J. P., Kemper, A. R., Hasselblad, V., ... &
Gray, R. (2013). The patient-centered medical home: a systematic review. Annals of
internal medicine, 158(3), 169-178.