The CFPC’s Best Advice guide Communities of Practice supports one of the pillars in the Patient’s Medical Home (PMH)—the concept of team-based care. This guide focuses on intraprofessional collaboration between family physicians, and provides actionable advice for establishing and maintaining communities of practice. Family physicians with special interests (FPSIs) include one or more areas of […]
Advancing the Pillars of the Patient’s Medical Home in Ontario’s Evolving Health System On May 27, 2016, the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP), with the support of The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), sponsored a special symposium on the Patient’s Medical Home (PMH). This successful event allowed family physicians to engage in […]
One of the pillars of the Patient’s Medical Home model is team-based care. An inter-professional team of health care providers working together for the benefit of the patient. The collaborative environment fostered by the Patient’s Medical Home brings together health professionals to offer a range of services to patients in response to the needs of […]
The CFPC’s Best Advice guide Chronic Care Management in a Patient’s Medical Home, provides actionable advice to family physicians about chronic care management in family practice settings. While this guide applies to all types of family practices, the strategies described involve many important components of the Patient’s Medical Home model. With proper intervention and ongoing […]
As part of the CFPC’s ongoing advocacy for the Patient’s Medical Home, the Remuneration Best Advice Guide, aims to support family physicians and policy decision makers with information on how a remuneration model can address different community needs, and the outcomes associated with the models in different scenarios. Click here to review the guide and […]
The latest Best Advice Guide on the topic of Health Literacy supports the crucial first pillar in the Patient’s Medical Home (PMH), Patient-Centeredness. This guide explores ways in which family physicians can support their patients understanding of health information by enhancing their own communication skills, increasing use of health literacy assessment tools in the practice, […]
By Dr Sarah Cook and Dr Ewan Affleck Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories, is home to an ethnically diverse population of 22,000 people. Historically, outpatient primary health care services in Yellowknife have been provided by four distinct private clinics. Residents of Yellowknife experienced many of the same primary care constraints seen elsewhere in […]
April Frego, RN, CDE, and Lisa Bonds, CCPA, are passionate health professionals separated only by where they are in their respective career paths. Frego has been a primary care nurse since 1976 and has spent the majority of her working career in the residency training program with the University of Manitoba. Bonds graduated from the […]
The shift from paper-based patient records to electronic medical records (EMRs) is now recognized as integral to the evolution of the delivery of care in family medicine. As EMR tools are further developed, new possibilities for their application come to light: for example, data collected through EMRs can guide system-wide decisions and inform research. The […]
Subscribe to our new PMH mailing list! The PMH Mailing List is specifically geared towards those who would like to hear more about current PMH initiatives and upcoming PMH related events. We encourage you to sign up yourself and spread the word to your colleagues who are just as eager to learn more about the […]