An analytics approach to designing patient centered medical homes

Saeede Ajorlou (), Issac Shams () and Kai Yang ()
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Saeede Ajorlou: http://hse.eng.wayne.edu
Issac Shams: http://hse.eng.wayne.edu
Kai Yang: http://hse.eng.wayne.edu

Health Care Management Science, 2015, vol. 18, issue 1, 3-18

Abstract: Recently the patient centered medical home (PCMH) model has become a popular team based approach focused on delivering more streamlined care to patients. In current practices of medical homes, a clinical based prediction frame is recommended because it can help match the portfolio capacity of PCMH teams with the actual load generated by a set of patients. Without such balances in clinical supply and demand, issues such as excessive under and over utilization of physicians, long waiting time for receiving the appropriate treatment, and non-continuity of care will eliminate many advantages of the medical home strategy. In this paper, by using the hierarchical generalized linear model with multivariate responses, we develop a clinical workload prediction model for care portfolio demands in a Bayesian framework. The model allows for heterogeneous variances and unstructured covariance matrices for nested random effects that arise through complex hierarchical care systems. We show that using a multivariate approach substantially enhances the precision of workload predictions at both primary and non primary care levels. We also demonstrate that care demands depend not only on patient demographics but also on other utilization factors, such as length of stay. Our analyses of a recent data from Veteran Health Administration further indicate that risk adjustment for patient health conditions can considerably improve the prediction power of the model. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Healthcare analytics; Patient centered medical home; Bayesian; Generalized linear model; Multivariate; Multilevel; Healthcare workforce (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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