WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Produced in collaboration with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Date: May 22, 2014 Featuring: Mark Friedberg, MD, MPP, Natural Scientist, Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School Christine A. Sinsky, MD, Medical Associates Clinic and Health Plans (Dubuque, Iowa); Director, American Board of Internal Medicine Don Goldmann, MD, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Richard Baron, MD, President and CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine, ABIM Foundation The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is getting a hard look this year. In a study published in JAMA in February 2014, the largest of its kind, researchers followed 32 primary care practices certified as PCMHs over a three-year period, and were unable to find any impact on overall health care costs or patients’ utilization of health care services, including emergency departments. To put it mildly, this was not welcomed news by the health care improvement community — especially those w