U.S. Health Care: The Good News is a new film that examines innovative solutions for providing quality healthcare at significantly lower costs. One of the approaches featured in the film is the Patient-Centered Medical Home.
As a medical home program, Illinois Health Connect is excited that the medical home model is featured as a critical component of eliminating fragmentation and waste in American healthcare. IHC’s core concepts of getting to know your primary care provider well, continuity and coordination of care, preventive services, and long-term disease management are highlighted in the medical home segment (25:18-29:12). The entire film can be viewed on the PBS website.
“What we’ve seen here is a doctor who really knows her patient. The physician
isn’t just treating a sore knee or a runny nose, she treats a person. And she
keeps track of all the care that the other specialists there provide for that
person.”
– Correspondent T.R. Reid explains the Patient-Centered Medical Home in U.S. Health Care: The Good News.
