TRANSFORMED’S NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT CONCLUDES

Sheri Porter

doi:10.1370/afm.874

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TransforMED Offers Free Medical Home Assessment Tool

Medical practices working on becoming medical homes now can measure their progress with a free assessment tool from TransforMED.

The Medical Home Implementation Quotient (MHIQ) online program guides users through 8 modules, each asking between 13 and 30 questions about a practice’s progress. Physicians are quizzed about practice procedures, protocols and enhancements in the areas of:

health information technology,
practice management,
quality and safety,
team-based care,
point-of-care services,
continuity of care,
access to care, and
patient-centered care.

Users need to dedicate a minimum of 15 minutes to complete each of the 8 units in the MHIQ, but they can work on the modules in random order and can stop and start the process without losing information. A database embedded in the program will retain user results and tabulate progress as the user returns to input new data.

The tool generates a report based on a user’s responses to questions in each module and then assesses the practice’s progress toward becoming a patient-centered medical home.