Meaningful Use And Medical Home Functionality In Primary Care Practice

ABSTRACT

To improve health care quality and decrease costs, both the public and private sectors continue to make substantial investments in the transformation of primary care. Central to these efforts is the patient-centered medical home model (PCMH) and the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology (IT). We used 2018 national family medicine data to provide a perspective on the implementation of PCMH and health IT elements in a variety of US physician practices. We found that 95 percent of family medicine–affiliated practices used electronic health records (EHRs) in 2018, but there was wide variation in...

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