Inside Duke Medicine
Taking health care back into the home
posted July 9th, 2008A cover story in the Summer 2008 issue of DukeMed Alumni News features Duke’s home health care program that sends physician assistants into patient’s homes.
It’s called the medical home model of care and shifts from the traditional physician practice-centered model to patient-centered, team-based, coordinated care that utilizes existing community health services. The model relies on a central repository (the medical home) for all health and socially relevant patient information to be shared, preferably through linked electronic health care records. A patient’s medical home could be a family physician, a clinic, or a specialist the patient is seeing. A patient’s health care team could be six or seven or more strong.
Read the full article, “Home is Where the Health is.”