Improving Patient Care, Part 2: The Next 5 Steps

Providers who have established health IT tools and changed clinical and business operations to accommodate electronic systems are prepared to take the next step toward transformation, often becoming patient-centered medical homes. The medical home is team-based patient care, not just with physicians who are specialists in other practices but also within a primary care provider’s practice, according to Dr. John Blair, president of Taconic IPA, a large physician group in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Blair spoke with Government Health IT recently about the stages of transformation and approaches that work...

Blair, part of the leadership team of the Hudson Valley Initiative, which deploys electronic health records (EHRs), health information exchange and patient centered medical home among a number of providers in New York. Blair is also CEO of MedAllies, a health information service provider (HISP)...