The Health Policy Exchange
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
One popular mHealth initiative is the text4baby program, a public-private partnership launched in 2010 that sends free text messages to expectant and new mothers containing appointment reminders, safety alerts, and general prenatal and postpartum health advice. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
The most recent international guidelines for the management of acute uncomplicated pyelonephritis in adults (2010) recommend treatment to be initiated with a single dose of intravenous (IV) ceftriaxone or an aminoglycoside when the prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance is unknown or exceeds 10%.
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The Health Policy Exchange
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003. in 2010, as the national average rose from 15.2%
Common Sense Family Doctor
DECEMBER 14, 2024
Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. and 6.1%, respectively).
The Health Policy Exchange
JANUARY 3, 2013
health care legislation until the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The legislative passage of Medicare was the subject of the first of a series of monthly one-hour health policy seminars for Family Medicine fellows and residents at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Presidents must actively manage the Congressional process.
StorytellERdoc
JULY 17, 2020
As the cardiologist and our ER team continued with resuscitation efforts, I went to the family room to speak to this patient's wife. The case manager. Forty or so minutes had passed since the patient arrived and, as I had explained to the wife in the family room, time was not our friend. The family doctor was called.
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 19, 2025
She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” She works with the patient and a family member who often has power of attorney. “She was accurate,” Watt said.
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