Fact Based List:

Elaine M. Skoch: Lessons Learned in Re-engineering Practice Processes

  1. Practice leadership drives the culture and change processes in practice.
  2. Resistance to change is normal and to be expected.
  3. Recognize that resistance to change is often related to fear and insecurity.
  4. Roles, responsibilities and functions will change for everyone…including the patient!
  5. Health care is a “team sport.”

Source: Practice Management News/California Academy of Family Physicians, June 2015
Source URL: http://www.familydocs.org/practice-management-news
Notes: Lessons from AAFP’s National Demonstration Project, which focused on transforming practices to the Patient Centered Medical Home model.