<h1>Patient-Centered Medical Home</h1>
<p class="intro">Through the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) patient-centered medical home (PCMH) quality reporting incentive model, healthcare communities strive to increase patient quality of care by fostering a strong relationship built on coordinated care and quality outcomes rather than episodic needs and procedures.</p>
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<h2>Innovations to improve outcomes</h2>
<p>The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an inventive program that focuses on improving primary care. The program is outlined by a set of clear standards, empowering practices with information needed to personalize care to their patients and enable providers to more-effectively work in teams to better coordinate care, decrease costs and improve outcomes.</p>
<p>The National Committee for Quality Assurance (<a href="http://www.ncqa.org/" target="_blank">NCQA</a>) — a private, non-profit healthcare quality organization — offers a recognition program for clinicians and sites to receive status as a PCMH level I, II or III.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-333" alt="PCMH Prevalidation NCQA" src="/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pcmh_preval_300dpi.color_crop-260×197.jpg" width="208" height="158" />Through this program, in early February 2013 PrimeSUITE and its integrated data exchange engine and patient portal received approval as an <b><a href="/press-releases/2013/02/receives-ncqa-prevalidation-industry-leading-20-5-auto-credit-points-pcmh-2011-scoring/">NCQA PCMH Prevalidated ambulatory EHR solution</a></b>. With one of the highest numbers of auto credit points (20.5), these scores can be transferred to our customers on the road to attaining PCMH recognition.</p>
<p>In addition to the PrimeSUITE prevalidation credits, Greenway’s PCMH solution helps organization achieve NCQA recognition through a <a href="/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/pcmh-reporting-greenway-fact-sheet.pdf" target="_blank">package of reporting tools</a> that simplify an otherwise time-consuming manual process. By utilizing our solutions to the fullest, Greenway customers can receive up to 57.25 points, only 27.75 points from Level III recognition.</p>
<p>Greenway is pleased to help our customers speed and simplify the rigorous process of achieving the standards of this national quality program, designed to improve population health.</p>
<h2>Benefits of the PCMH model</h2>
<p>A comparison of seven large, mature PCMH programs across the U.S. found annual savings between $71 and $503 per patient.</p>
<p>Extrapolated to all the states’ coverage groups, potential savings could reach $300 million per year or more. The study also found that Emergency Department visits were reduced by as much as 20 percent and hospitalizations by 5 to 40 percent due to a focus on prevention, and care delivered in more-convenient and less-acute settings whenever appropriate.</p>
<p>For more details about Greenway's PCMH services and committment, view playbacks of our webinars below, or read the PCMH <a href="/difference/pcmh-overview/" target="_self">overview »</a></p>
<h2>Past webinars</h2>
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<li>Part I of a Three-Part Series – <br />Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Are They for You?<br />January 2013<br /><a href="https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/339079776" target="_blank">Recorded webinar</a> | <a title="Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Are they for you?" href="/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Patient_Centered_Medical_Homes-Are_They_For_You_Jan2013.pdf" target=" _blank">Presentation slides</a> (1.5 MB)</li>
<li>PCMH Series Part II: Supporting Care Coordination<br />February 2013<br /><a href="https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/119517176" target="_blank">Recorded webinar</a> | <a title="Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Supporting Care Coordination" href="/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/patient_centered_medical_homes_supporting_care_coordination.pdf" target=" blank">Presentation slides</a> (1.2 MB)</li>
<li>PCMH Series Part III: What Can Greenway Do for You?<br />February 2013<br /><a href="https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/423250344" target="_blank">Recorded webinar</a> | <a title="Patient-Centered Medical Homes: What Can Greenway Do For You?" href="/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Patient_Centered_Medical_Homes_What_Can_Greenway_Do_for_You_2.21.2013.pdf" target="_blank">Presentation slides</a> (2 MB)</li>
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<h2>Contact us</h2>
<p>Do you have patient-centered medical home questions? <br />Contact our PCMH specialist <a href="mailto:info@greenwaymedical.com?subject=PCMH%20webpage%20inquiry%20from%20Greenwaymedical.com">here</a>.</p>