title: Physician organization-practice team integration for the advancement of patient-centered care.
abstract: The patient-centered medical home is being promoted as a cornerstone for transforming primary care. Physician organizations (POs) are playing a more prominent role by facilitating practices' transformation to the patient-centered medical home. Using a framework of organizational integration, we investigated the changing relationship between POs and practices through qualitative interviews. Through increased integration, POs can support both the big picture and day-to-day activities of practice transformation. Most PO-practice unit connections we identified reflected new areas of engagement-competencies that POs were not developing in the past-that are proving integral to the broad-scale practice change of patient-centered medical home implementation.
authors.affiliation: Quality Improvement, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, USA. cdubbz1108@gmail.com
authors.forename: Christopher G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Wise
authors.forename: Jeffrey A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Alexander
authors.forename: Lee A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Genna R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States