Connecting the Dots: State of the System Fall Forum

As most of you know, I hold forums twice a year throughout St. Luke’s Health System. Spring forums look forward, and last spring, I reviewed our strategy around accountable care, myStLuke’s, Healthy U, and the Medicare Shared Savings Program. If you’d like to view a video of that forum, you can watch it at http://drpate.stlukesblogs.org/2012/04/19/my-spring-report-to-st-lukes-health-system/. [...]

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Medical Homes: A Piece of the Puzzle

I’ve written previously about why we must change the care model. Today, I want to look at medical homes and their potential as part of that transformation.  They go by many different names, including patient-centered medical homes and primary care medical homes. For simplicity’s sake, I will refer to them as medical homes. What is [...]

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