Air Force Medical Home integrates the patient into the health care team, offering aggressive prevention and personalized intervention. Physicians will not just evaluate their patients for disease to provide treatment, but also to identify risk of disease, including genetic, behavioral, environmental and occupational risks. The health care team will encourage healthy lifestyle behavior, and success will be measured by how healthy they keep their patients, rather than by how many treatments they provide. Our goal is that people will live longer lives with less morbidity.
Evidence from medical home (PCMH) pilots suggests that reductions are on the way for specialty and hospital services, and that integrated health systems should look to other avenues to make PCMHs financially sustainable.
