Medical Homes on the Prairie: A New Structure for Care Delivery

According to the NCQA, the national certifying body for what they term Patient-Centered Medical Homes, a Medical Home is a primary care setting that “facilities partnerships” between patients and providers and one in which “care is facilitated by registries, information technology, health information exchange and other means to assure that patients get the indicated care when and where they need and want it in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.”