Meaningful Connections

As health care leaders explore how best to draw upon billions in new federal dollars for health information technology, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) has released a white paper identifying the capabilities and functionalities of eHealth applications that experts consider crucial to support the patient-centered medical home (PCMH).
 
Meaningful Connections: A resource guide for using health IT to support the patient-centered medical home was released at the PCPCC's April 28, 2009 Stakeholder's Working Meeting in Washington, DC.

Meaningful Connections is a guidance document to steer the development and implementation of health IT in a direction that supports the overarching principles of the PCMH.  It does not point to specific products, applications or vendors; rather, it speaks in global terms about the capabilities and functionalities needed to build an information platform that will support the key elements of the PCMH and to enable the improvements in quality, safety, effectiveness and access that PCMH is designed to deliver.

If you wish to download the full guide or the supplemental FAQ, please download the attachment below.