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Microlife Medical Home Solutions, Inc. Launches the “Fast Track to the Patient-Centered Medical Home” Program Assisting Physicians with the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act
Golden, CO---May 17, 2010 — Microlife Medical Home Solutions, Inc. (MiMHS) released the first edition of “Fast Track to the Patient-Centered Medical Home” at the American College of Physicians Scientific Meeting in Toronto, Canada. This new program is a turn-key approach for all physicians and providers seeking to become a National Commission for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Physician Practice Connections® --- Patient-Centered Medical Home (PPC-PCMH™) in 6 months or less. R. Scott Hammond, M.D., FAAFP, is the Author & Editor of this “Fast Track” program. Dr. Hammond states, “this program is the beginning of a journey that will provide better health outcomes for our patients and bring more practice satisfaction to primary care physicians. Together, by joining the many PCMH pioneers, we can achieve meaningful health care reform.”
The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (H.R.3590) has appropriated funding for “medical home” pilots (Section 3021). The purpose of the bill is to evaluate a payment incentive and service delivery model that utilizes physician-directed primary care teams designed to reduce expenditures and improve health outcomes. Early data from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) indicates medical homes can reduce health care expenditures by 15 to 20%, improve patient experiences surrounding care coordination and activation, increase staff morale, and improve primary care physician retention. A blended model of payment paid directly to each patient’s designated medical home would enable primary care physicians to redesign their offices to deliver high-quality preventive and chronic medical care with improved outcomes for all patients.
Dr. Hammond and his Westminster Medical Clinic in Westminster, Colorado achieved the highest NCQA PPC-PCMH Level 3 recognition as one of 16 pilots participating in the Colorado Multi-Stakeholder, Multi-State PCMH Pilot convened by the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative. Dr. Hammond added, “The changes we have made have benefitted everyone involved—the doctors, staff members from physician assistants to receptionists, specialists and most importantly, our patients. I feel the PCMH is the key to survival of Family Physicians.”
The “Fast Track to the Patient-Centered Medical Home“ program is currently available to all physicians and providers seeking NCQA PPC-PCMH recognition. The package includes a comprehensive binder & CD with all the reproducible templates needed to submit for NCQA PPC-PCMH Level 1 recognition. Since two important medical conditions must be identified as MUST PASS criteria by the medical practice to achieve PCMH recognition, the package also includes two evidence-based, practice-tested programs for hypertension and obesity/metabolic syndrome.
These programs are:
- WatchWT™ Practice Solutions – a turn-key program for the initiation, assessment and implementation of a treatment program for overweight and obese patients in a primary care practice. Using the MedGem®, an indirect calorimeter that determines a patient’s resting metabolic rate (RMR), the WatchWT solution-based program provides physician-guided, individualized nutrition and physical activity strategies to promote patient self-management.
- WatchBP® Practice Solutions – a solution-based program for comprehensive in-office and out-of-office blood pressure measurement to advance hypertension diagnosis and treatment to improve patient self-management. The turn-key program includes the WatchBP Office device, a dual cuff clinical blood pressure device for in-office measurement; the WatchBP O3, a 24 hour, ambulatory device; and the WatchBP Home, a home blood pressure device embedded with the 7-day American Heart Association guidelines for proper home blood pressure monitoring.
The entire “Fast Track to the Patient-Centered Medical Home” program helps support medical practices during the NCQA PPC-PCMH recognition process by increasing practice revenue.
About Microlife Medical Home Solutions, Inc.
Microlife Medical Home Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Microlife Corporation, is dedicated to meeting the needs of healthcare providers and their busy medical practices. Our systematic solutions and proprietary medical devices offer healthcare providers evidence-based and practice-tested methods for accurate assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Microlife is committed to working with healthcare providers to help reduce hypertension and obesity rates and its associated healthcare expenditures by providing efficient and cost-effective solutions. Visit our web site at www.MiMHS.com.
