President Obama announces that the Recovery Act will provide new funding for Community Health Centers to finance new construction, modernize information technology, and build a medical home model.

A Tale of Two ePatients – Based Upon True Stories – By Val Jones, MD. Presented on October 27, 2009 at the e-Patient Connections 2009 Conference in Philadelphia. http://www.epatient2009.com

The ultimate Patient Centered Medical Home?

The Minnesota Department of health is putting on a “Health Care Homes” medical home event.
October 26-29, 2009
Hospitals and Communities Moving Forward with Patient- and Family-Centered Care – An Intensive Training from the Institute for Family-Centered Care
The nationally recognized Institute for Family-Centered Care is bringing its Intensive Training Seminar to Minneapolis [...]

IBM is putting on a free web seminar on September 16.  This seminar will dive into some of the new IBM tools focused directly at the health care space.  IBM has made huge inroads with the creation of a new “Life Sciences” division, and a concerted effort of supplies hardware products dedicated to the Patient [...]

UnitedHealth Group recently partnered with Cisco to form Connected Care (aka Patient Centered Medical Home), a national telehealth network designed to expand physicians’ reach into underserved communities. BizTimes Milwaukee reporter Alysha Schertz recently visited UnitedHealth’s Connected Care mobile clinic to get a glimpse of the technology on board.

The folks at Intel are also looking at the PCMH model of medicine.  The more I see from the large IT companies, the more apparent it is that PCMH is a movement that will not be able to be stopped.  I am not certain the HIT leaders realize they are moving this way, but I [...]

Very quick, short video for helping layman to understand the needs and new oppurtunities of Health IT in the family and primary medicine environments: