Several early medical-home pilot projects have shown signs of improved quality and patient satisfaction, researchers said.
WellPoint said its savings projections are based largely on its own data from medical-home pilot projects.
The number of medical-home practices is growing, according to the nonprofit National Committee for Quality Assurance, the biggest certifier of medical homes.
Whether it is through an accountable care organization (ACO) or bundled payment to a patient-centered medical home, insurance companies and government health programs like Medicare are moving toward so-called value-based payment systems and away from fee-for-service medicine.
People who benefit from the more-intensive primary care provided by medical home practices spend 25%-60% less on hospitals, emergency care, advanced imaging, etc.
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So even if they are in the ER for a real emergency, they will be referred to an appropriate primary care facility or patient-centered medical home before they leave.
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Under the leadership of Dr. Nirav Shah, New York State Commission of Health, New York has been a vanguard state in fostering an environment of innovation in health information exchange, the use of health information technology to support delivery system transformation such as State-wide medical home initiatives, and initiating SHINY as part of the New York e Health Collaborative.
"Kids need what's called a 'medical home' -- a place where you've established a relationship with one pediatrician, or even a nurse-practitioner, " says William Stratbucker, M.
Mr. Goddard, who works for a Minneapolis medical-equipment company, was heading home to Houston.
Mrs May had said she was "personally concerned" he had not been examined by a Home Office-appointed medical assessor.
Ms Sharp said the Home Office-appointed medical assessor had no experience with Asperger's.
Canada, home of state-funded medical care for all, nonetheless lets entrepreneurs register a business quickly and online.
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These home-based employees include medical transcriptionists and nurses who operate the hospital's Advice Line, a hotline where Laurie Peterson, one of the Advice Line nurses, has been working for CHOA from home for 11 years.
The concept of medical devices that patients can use themselves isn't new, given products like home-pregnancy tests that have long aided in reducing the need for professional medical support.
It's a shame that a society that can produce franchises like Jiffy Lube and Krispy Kreme, or big-box retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot, continues to have doctors' offices which still use paper-based medical records.
Lenddo, a Hong Kong company now targeting borrowers in Colombia and the Philippines, makes small loans for "life-improving" purposes such as education, medical emergencies and home improvement.
He had a young bride-to-be and was waiting at a Navy medical center to transition home.
"Many of you are our first responders here at home -- firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians, " Kerry told the group.
So here, along the banks of the Rio Grande, in the Square Dance Capital of the World, a medical community came to treat patients the way subprime-mortgage lenders treated home buyers: as profit centers.
Nine out of ten babies are delivered at home without medical attention, leading to the world's second-highest maternal mortality rate (after Sierra Leone).
President Kumaratunga was speaking on national television - the first time she has done so since returning home from medical treatment in London.
It is a fundamental precept of medicine -- one I hammer home with undergraduates (future patients) and medical students (future doctors): Patients with severe abnormalities stand to gain more from intervention than patients with mild ones.
According to Alexander, the state was able to put 100 percent of its Medicaid population in a medical home, reduce emergency room visits by 30 percent, increase community-based options, and significantly improve preventive care, among other things precisely what the Obama people claim they wanted from health care reform.
Watson died at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, where he was admitted recently after falling at his home.
Caught in the middle is GE's medical division, the old home of current chief Jeffrey Immelt and the biggest seller of X-ray, MRI, ultrasound and CT-scanning equipment in the world.
Another Channel 4 success is Mark Thomas, whose "investigative comedy" involves a blend of journalism, stunts and ambushes, such as confronting Home Secretary Jack Straw with a group of campaigners for the medical use of cannabis - and using the occasion to interrogate Straw about the integrity of his position.
The hostage-taking incident occurred after firefighters entered the home of a man in response to a medical call.
The site, known as MyHealtheVet, gives veterans the power to schedule appointments at home, view their medical records, consult a doctor or nurse, and even self-treat certain conditions, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Not having the proper resources to cover long-term care costs can result in a nest egg being used to pay for medical expenses, post-acute institutional care such as that which is provided at a skilled nursing facility, home-health care and other health-related expenses not covered under insurance.
So, to make life easier for the sick, the school's medical center has distributed what it calls a "flu kit, " which includes a mask and a home-care instruction sheet, Denning said.
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