Health Information Exchange/HIT

One of the key elements of the patient centered medical home (PCMH) is that information technology (IT) is utilized appropriately and in a meaningful way to support optimal patient care, performance measurement, patient education, and enhanced communication. Health IT can play a significant role in providing a foundation for many key elements of the PCMH. Specifically, health IT can provide critical information about the patient to the entire care coordination team across all stages of care, support physician-patient communication, enable more timely and accurate performance measurement and improvement, and improve accessibility of the physician practice to the patient.

The attached resources expand on the role of health IT across many aspects of the PCMH. These are free to be downloaded to learn more about this topic.  Please use appropriate acknowledgment and citation when sharing this content.

Meaningful Connections Guide