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We are people working
in or receiving care at the front lines of
health care who have come together to seek
ways to transform medical practices. We are
in pursuit of vital and sustainable
practices that provide superb patient care.
Initially begun as a national collaborative
by The Institute for Healthcare Improvement
faculty John H Wasson and L Gordon Moore,
the work of Ideal Medical Practices has been
documented in Family Practice Management1
and The Joint Commission Journal on Quality
and Patient Safety.2
We are a nonprofit corporation formed to
educate and to further best medical practices.
Effective primary care is the basis of a
high functioning health care system.
Patients in high performing health systems
are more likely to say:
"I can get care
when I need it"
"I have a doctor or nurse who knows me"
"My doctor or nurse serves the bulk of
my needs"
"My doctor or nurse coordinates my care
throughout the health system"
The curriculum that was
trialed in the IMP project is available to
anyone now who would like to pursue practice
transformation. We have helped practices in
many fields and many sizes to improve their
access, efficiency, measurement, and other
processes.
Our nonprofit can provide expert faculty
and an effective teaching process to help
practices learn how to deliver effective
primary care. A self study program is
accessible to the smallest of practices.
Additional resources are also available
based on hundreds of practices'
experiences.
Click here to learn more.
Clicking on the
knowledge base on the home page will
take you to our collection of information
on setting up all kinds of practices so
that reinventing the wheel is not needed,
and it will also take you to a listserve
called
Practiceimprovement1, a community of
hundreds of IMP clinicians.
You can sample our
curriculum at
www.idealmedicalpractices.org
We hold an annual
conference called IMP Camp that includes
physicians and other health care providers
at all levels of the work.
Contact us
if you would like to know more.
1 Moore LG,
Wasson JH. The Ideal Medical Practice
Model: Maximizing Efficiency, Quality, and
the Doctor-Patient Relationship. Family
Practice Management September 2007 pp. 20-24
2 Wasson JH, Anders SG, Moore LG,
Ho L, et al. Clinical Microsystems, Part
2: Learning from Micro Practices About
Providing Patients the Care they Want and
Need. Joint Commission Journal on Quality
and Patient Safety, August 2008, 34(8) pp.
445-452.
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