NCQA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) 2011
NCQA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) 2011 is an innovative program for improving primary care. In a set of standards that describe clear and specific criteria, the program gives practices information about organizing care around patients, working in teams and coordinating and tracking care over time. The new PCMH 2011 standards build on the success of earlier standards and make the program even more responsive to patients’ needs. Although the standards have always pointed practices toward using systems—including electronic health records—to support tracking care, the new program aligns closely with many specific elements of the federal program that rewards clinicians for using health information technology to improve quality (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS] Meaningful Use [MU] Requirements).
http://www.imiaweb.org/uploads/docs/PCMH_2011_Overview_White_Paper.pdf