Guest: Kenneth Thorpe, PhD
Host: Bruce Japsen
The medical home is a concept that it moving from the theoretical and becoming a reality. How has this model of team-based care been piloted in the United States, and how might it change patient care, as well as physician payment? Dr. Kenneth Thorpe, the Woodruff Professor and Chair of Health Policy and Management at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health and former healthcare adviser to President Clinton, joins host Bruce Japsen to discuss these issues, and how the medical home concept is being built into the healthcare reform proposals.
