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COVID-19 Lessons Chart a Path to a Better Healthcare System

Accountable Care Doctors

Those medical groups and health systems that have strong foundations to provide integrated care are demonstrating the ability to: Rapidly adapt to pandemic conditions by implementing new ways to safely deliver care through telehealth, drive-through testing sites, and alternative venues such as hospital-at-home.

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Back to the Future: Welcome to the Patient Centered Medical Home (Guest Post)

Health Dialog

If you have questions afterwards, you may feel left on your own to manage your care. As a primary care doctor, the challenges my patients faced were frustrating me, too. I wanted my practice to provide easy access to comprehensive medical care. It’s a new way to organize how a primary care office works.

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COVID-19 Lessons: A Path to a Better Health Care System

Accountable Care Doctors

Such programs include: Nascent hospital-at-home programs, in which a patient’s care is managed at home instead of in the hospital. Home monitoring systems, often developed as part of population health efforts to manage patients who are at risk or who have chronic illnesses. Today, health care is a team sport.