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Health Care Innovations Exchange: Medical Home Models for Specialty Care

Health Care Innovations Exchange: Medical Home Models for Specialty Care

AHRQ Health Care Innovations

New Issue Focuses on

Medical Home Models for Specialty Care

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the January 30 issue of the Health Care Innovations Exchange (http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov).
  • The featured Innovations examine how three different providers adapted the primary care medical home model to specialty care, including a community-based oncology practice that redesigned its care delivery processes, a pediatric center serving children with special health care needs, and a statewide medical home program that improved access to comprehensive pregnancy care for Medicaid beneficiaries.
  • The featured QualityTools provide resources to support the integration of the patient-centered medical home model into specialty care.
  • Read more innovation profiles and tools related to medical homes http://go.usa.gov/4BtA on the Innovations Exchange Web site, which contains more than 750 searchable innovations and 1,500 QualityTools.
Spotlight:
  • Innovations Exchange Receives eHealthcare Leadership AwardThe AHRQ Innovations Exchange won a 2012 Silver Award for Best Health/Healthcare Content in the Other Healthcare Sites category from Strategic Health Care Communications (http://www.strategichealthcare.com/awards/winners.php).
Events and Podcasts:
  • Thank you for joining the Innovations Exchange for the January 29 Web event, Innovative Health Care Policies: Using ACO Principles and Financial Incentives to Improve Health Outcomes. Event materials including the slides, audio file, and transcript will be available soon.
  • Join us on Twitter Wednesday, February 27, at 3:00 pm EST for a live TweetChat with Lara Brooks, Director of the Broadway Youth Center in Chicago. We will discuss how to enhance access to medical and social services for LGBT homeless youth (http://go.usa.gov/4BuH). Use the #AHRQIX hashtag to participate in the conversation.

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New issues of the Innovations Exchange are published biweekly on Wednesdays. Please contact us at info@innovations.ahrq.gov with any questions or comments.
Follow the Innovations Exchange (AHRQIX) on Twitter with this hyperlink: http://www.twitter.com/ahrqix.

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