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IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences  To support your business busi ness objectives 

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

Reference  

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

What is IBM’s Solution?

fosters better collaboration to support

use of technology in healthcare,

IBM has developed a process

the transformation of healthcare on

Geisinger has created the Clinical

approach that supports the implemen-

every level.

Decision Intelligence System (CDIS).

tation of the medical home model.

CDIS is built on an IBM B alanced

The Patient Centered Collaborative

For more information

Configuration Unit (BCU) environment

Care (Pc3) solution components are

To learn more about IBM solutions visit:

and provides for the consolidation of data

designed to support: the implementa-

and its analysis. This system is becoming

tion and monitoring of collaborative

increasingly important in meeting the

care programs; integration of patient

needs of quality of care reporting,

information to provide a longitudinal

research, clinical decision-making and

health record; collaboration among the

most of all, in improving the outcomes for

care team members as well as with the

their patients wit h diseases such as

individual; and the metrics, reports,

diabetes. Geisinger is integrating

clinical guidelines and health analytics

real-time clinical, financial, operational,

designed to support the delivery of

claims, genomic and other medical

care. This new process approach,

information in a massive storehouse of

supported by the underlying technology,

intelligence, which are steps toward s a

can improve an individual’s access to

medical home model of care. This system

their care team and empower them to

will assist their physicians in improving

engage in managing their own health

patient outcomes, delivering more

needs. IBM brings together electronic

personalized care and making smarter

health records and personal health

decisions because they can easily access

records with a solution that provides

and share critical patient information.

insights of successful practices, access

ibm.com /healthcare

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