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Can health care organizations and physicians be incented to deliver the highest quality, safest, most reliable, most patient-centric care at the lowest possible cost without Atul Gawande reading the findings of the Dartmouth Atlas into the Congressional Record? I think they can, if they have a strong hospitalist program.

A medical village expands on the concept of a patient's medical home to include providers outside of the "home" practice (hospitals, specialists, etc.). The medical village will rely on several important concepts, including collaborative and coordinated care and shared responsibility: PCP-to-specialist, specialist-to-PCP and specialist-to-specialist.