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National authority on patient-centered medical home to speak

Paul Grundy, a national renowned authority on the patient-centered medical home and the Accountable Care Organization, will speak on how these emerging delivery systems are transforming health care nationally, on Tuesday, May 3, on the campus of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

In the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), primary care physicians provide quality, comprehensive, integrated care that is coordinated, team-based and supported by robust health information technologies. Numerous demonstration projects of this model across the nation indicate that implementation of PCMH with the appropriate payment incentives can improve the quality and efficiency of health care while lowering costs, particularly for the growing number of patients with multiple chronic illnesses. The PCMH has gained momentum nationally because it not only improves health outcomes but also improves patient and physician satisfaction.

Grundy has been a driving force in shifting health care delivery toward consumer-focused, primary care-based systems to promote health care transformation, while serving as IBM Corporation’s Global Director for IBM Healthcare Transformation. Grundy is the founding president of the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, a coalition of more than700 stakeholders across the health care spectrum, consisting of businesses, including Fortune 500, national health plans, hospitals, and medical specialties, that work collaboratively to improve the medical care of America. The group has endorsed the PCMH as a superior form of healthcare delivery.

Grundy, serves as White House consultant and a member of many prominent advisory committees. His work has been reported widely in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Economist, New England Journal of Medicine, and newspaper, radio and television around the country.

His first talk, “Patient-Centered Medical Home: The Model, the Challenges and the Opportunities,” will be held from noon until 1 p.m. in the Junker Auditorium and lunch will be served.

His second talk, “Health Care Transformation: Meeting Health Care Needs with Patient-Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organization,” will be held in the University Conference Center. Dinner will be served from 5 to 6 p.m. followed by presentations and panel discussion from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Also speaking that evening will be Robert Gabbay, professor of medicine and faculty chair of the Pennsylvania Chronic Care Initiative as well as James Herman, chair of the Department of the Family and Community Medicine, who will provide an update on the PCMH transformation process at Penn State.

Free CME credits will be offered. Space is limited. Email PCMHEvent@hmc.psu.edu to register or call Wendy at 717-531-4660 for information.

Last Updated March 30, 2011

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