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IBM and the Medical Home
Advancing Medical Home Initiatives
A Leader in Promoting Transformation
sustainable model of care. Along with
Today Toda y the Patient Centered Primary
through the Patient Centered Medical
healthcare industry and government
Care Collaborative Collaborative (PCPCC)— a
Home
policy leaders, IBM believes that the
coalition of more than 300 major
As the founding member of the PCPCC,
patient centered medical home model
employers, consumer groups, patient
IBM has been working with healthcare
can enable the transformation required.
quality organizations, health plans, labor unions, hospitals, physician
organizations around the world to help improve quality and lower costs in
The patient centered medical home
organizations and many others—has
healthcare. IBM has consulted with
model is defined by several core
joined together to develop and
healthcare systems in hundreds of
concepts:
advance the concept of the patient
countries and understands the impact
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centered medical home. The PCPCC
of these systems on the health, well-
care team, where each patient
along with most healthcare
ness and productivity of employees
has a personal relationship with wi th a
organizations, and federal and state
in those countries. Based upon its
primaryy care physician who provides primar
government agencies, realizes
experience as both a healthcare
continuouss and comprehensive care. continuou
healthcare has to change. It has
solutions provider and as a major
The physician physicia n guides care, with a
become a national imperative to reduce
employer challenged to provide
whole person orientation, throughout
the costs of healthcare, to increase
healthcare programs for hundreds of
the full spectrum of care need
access to care for all citizens, and to
thousands of employees and their
improve the quality of care. The PCPCC
dependents, it has become clear that
believes the patient centered medical
change is necessary; change in the
home model of care delivery will
core elements of care delivery, delivery, change
management, prevention and wellness
improve individual health, control costs
in incentives to support doctors provid-
rather a reactive, episodic focus
and sustain the viability of the U.S.
ing a comprehensive approach to care,
on healthcare
healthcare delivery system.
and change in the systems supporting care delivery professionals.
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A primary care physician-led physician-l ed
Quality, Safety and enhanced access are hallmarks
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A proactive focus on chronic disease
A technology and information informati on infrastructure that supports collaboration and sharing of
IBM is actively engaged in collabora-
information informati on among care team members
tive efforts with other employers to
and with the individual
promote the medical home delivery model in various regional and state initiatives, and is actively working with initiatives, policy and legislative bodies to create the changes needed to generate a
Such a patient-centered system is one
IBM offers deep experience integrating
that is instrumented so that outcomes and
solutions that create a patient centered
results can be measured, sensed and
medical home environment in a
seen… interconnected with all informa-
practice, a clinic, a hospital, and at the
tion linked so that clinical care teams can
national and country level. Our highly
access the same integrated information
skilled consultants can provide
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to deliver, safer, safer, more ef effective, fective, more
guidance to identify the optimal starting
Geisinger Health System, which services a major portion of the rural Pennsylvania
efficient care at a lower cost…and intelligent in helping to deliver insights that
point to meet the transformational priorities of your enterprise and keep
population, was one of the first health-
create new value for patients and citizens
phased implementations on track to
care organization s in the US to implement
at large to make better, more informed
meet expectations. IBM’s deep
an electronic health recor d (EHR), which
lifestyle choices.
experience and understanding of both healthcare and government industries
is a first step to wards a Medical Home model. In continuing with their leading