“For primary care practices, participating in a medical home demonstration requires substantial investments,” said Grand Martsolf, RAND policy researcher and the study’s lead author. “These costs of transformation include both one-time startup costs and ongoing, every-year costs. High-functioning IT systems are crucial to converting a physician practice to a patient-centered medical home model, but only

Despite a federal mandate to adopt electronic health records systems, many physicians remain woefully behind in how they receive patient data, researchers find in a February study titled The Role of Health Information Technology in Care Coordination in the U.S. Over half of physicians regularly get patient information -necessary to coordinate patient care- from sources other