Wethersfield’s Qualidigm said the Office of the Healthcare Advocate has awarded it a contract to implement a medical-home program.
Qualidigm will help up to 50 primary care practices in the Advanced Medical Home Vanguard Program (AMHVP) to achieve patient-centered medical home certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). More than 400 clinicians will be involved.
The contract is valued at $585,622, according to OHA.
“Medical home” is a term used to describe a coordinated system of primary care across a variety of providers, aimed at increasing quality while lowering costs, according to the NCQA.
Qualidigm will also work with Planetree — a patient-centered care organization that’s part of the corporation that owns Derby’s Griffin Hospital — to test care methods aimed at improving patients’ experience and better engaging them in their own care, according to Qualidigm.
The AMHVP is a part of the state’s State Innovation Model program, which was developed with the help of federal money and aims to accelerate development and testing of new payment and care delivery models.
Qualidigm CEO Tim Elwell said in a statement that the pilot will help physician offices overcome the administrative burden of changing the way they deliver care. The program will also focus on ensuring equitable care for medically vulnerable populations, he said.
