TRANSFORMED'S NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT CONCLUDES

摘要

After nearly 2 years, TransforMED, a limited liability company wholly owned by the AAFP, marked the end of its national demonstration project (NDP) at an April meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. More than 70 family physicians and other health care professionals involved in the project attended.Edward Schwager, MD, of Tucson, Arizona, summed up what the practices involved in the NDP discovered about implementing changes in a busy family medicine practice: "It's very difficult to workon the practice while being so busy working in the practice," he said.TransforMED launched the NDP in June 2006 as a way of testing how practices would have to change to achieve a new model of care that could deliver high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective health care in a patient-centered medical home. In all, 56 practices enrolled in the NDP; 32 completed the project. A final report is due in 2009.