The American College of Physicians (ACP) is offering a new, web-based tool to help guide practices through the process of becoming a patient-centered medical home (PCMH). The ACP Practice Solutions' Medical Home Builder, which can be used for both a major transformation into a PCMH or to help practices making small-scale quality improvement changes, is available to individuals, group practices, PCMH demonstration projects, academic medical centers and training programs.
"This is exactly the sort of resource that our practices need," said Joseph W. Stubbs, MD, FACP, president of ACP. "While many groups have been talking at the theoretical level about the importance of patient-centered care, this is a how-to guide about how your practice can achieve it."
The new web tool provides affordable, accessible, on-line guidance for practices that is tailored for the user based on responses to the ACP Practice Biopsy - a set of questions organized into seven different modules:
- patient-centered care and communication;
- access and scheduling;
- organization of practice;
- care coordination and transitions in care;
- use of technology;
- population management; and,
- quality and performance improvement.