Five possible titles of today’s talk: ( pick one or more)

1. What’s a nurse who is interested in holistic practice doinggiving a talk on a Primary Care Medical Delivery Model?

2 .The Medical Home.

3. Jumping on the Reform Bandwagon

4. Healthcare is HOT! – The future Medical Home in the Clouds!

5. Imagine - Enjoying our old “er” years

By: Susan Rose RN MSN

The Patient CenteredMedical Home.

Patient Ed: www.emmisolutions.com/medicalhome/transformed/

How Close Are we in ourPrimary Care Clinic?

Reforming Healthcare:All Americans must have quality and affordable health care.

Medical Home to theRecscue!

Local DFA contact:http://cmhughesmd.com/

Healthcare is HOT! –

Medical HomeClinics want theelectronic medicalRecord.

2005 data for pie chart:

Wallmart getting into the act! Has the tipping point occurred?

Advantages:

Reduce healthcare costs

Improve quality of care

Promote evidence-based Medicine

Examples of Open SourceHealth RecordPrograms-

Free to download butStill need technical support.

WorldVistA Receives

2007 Linux Medical News Freedom Award The award was presented to WorldVistA at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Fall conference: "WorldVistA's achievement was a true team effort and is a benchmark for what the Free and Open Source in medicine community can achieve.

We are indebted to WorldVistA for keeping FOSS in medicine alive and competitive." said Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS Founder and editor of Linux Medical News.

What does VISTA look like?

Open Source

Solutions for

Clinics who

need the

electronic

medical

Record.

The future Medical Home in the Clouds!

Secure email and availability of electronic medical records encourage patients to communicate electronically with their healthcare providers rather than by phone or direct visits. A recent study conducted by Kaiser-Permanente demonstrated that online communication brought down the likelihood of a primary care visit by 7-10% and phone communication by 14%.

July 19, 2007http://www.healthnewsdirect.com/?p=61

Imagine, Enjoying Receiving as well as ProvidingHealthcare!

Home Centered:www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIUUixugu90&feature=related

Veterans:Youtube.com/watch?v=JJvmsMZoBzw

IT Connected Elders:easylink.playstream.com/aahsa/cast/cast_a_large.wvx

Summary:A holistic caregivers,

in a Medical Home with imagination for

transforming the future… What a combination!