Executive Commitee

Russell Roberts, MD
President

James Campbell, MD
President-Elect

Mark Dawson, MD
Vice President

John Fleming, MD
Secretary

Herbert Muncie, MD
Treasurer

Bryan Picou, MD
Immediate Past President

A new Web-based self-assessment tool for primary care practices seeking to become Medical Homes is now available at the following link: http://www.transforMED.com/MHIQ.

TransforMED CEO Terry McGeeney, MD, MBA, appreciates the difficulty of practicing quality medicine while simultaneously transforming care and care processes. "Understanding and implementing the Patient Centered Medical Home concepts is neither intuitive nor easy for practices," he said. "The MHIQ tool is a valuable resource that walks practices through a process that helps them identify what specific areas of the Medical Home model need to be worked on to improve the performance of their practice."

The TransforMED MHIQ  -  which stands for Medical Home Implementation Quotient  -  is a free tool that helps primary care and family medicine practices find out where they stand on the journey to becoming a Medical Home by measuring the practice against the eight components of the TransforMED Medical Home Model: Practice Management, Information Systems, Quality and Safety, Access to Care & Information, Team-Based Care, Continuity of Care Services and Point of Care Services. Find out more about the TMED Model.

"The MHIQ tool is built around concepts and processes necessary to develop a more patient-centered approach to care. Improving access and timeliness of care, providing care based on evidence-based standards, and monitoring outcomes so that care processes and practice management can be continually improved are at the crux of this tool," said TransforMED Metrics Manager Elaine M. Skoch, RN, MN, CNAA, EMBA, who led the development of the project. "Every member of the health care team within a medical practice must understand how they fit into the process and this tool can help them with that understanding."

Providers and practice change leaders are invited to visit the TransforMED Web site to put the TransforMED MHIQ to work for their practice: http://www.transforMED.com/MHIQ