IBM collaborates on “medical home”

IBM, the ACP, and the AAFP are joining forces on a project that will test how an IBM-designed system can help physicians create a fully functioning “medical home” for patients. Medical society officials say that the pilot, expected to begin in Austin, TX, later this year, will look at new reimbursement models such as care coordination payments to primary care doctors. IBM will offer incentives, and Aetna will also be involved in the test, according to FP Terry McGeeney, president and CEO of TransforMED, the AAFP’s practice redesign project.

TransforMED and the ACP’s Center for Practice Innovation are already looking at whether doctors in small and medium-sized practices can adopt the medical home approach, which seeks to improve preventive and chronic care through practice re-engineering and the use of health IT.

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