Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. MBC can and should be applied to all models of integrated healthcare, current or emerging. 3, 4) Why is MBC important?

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Between 2016 and 2018, more than 22 percent of Massachusetts residents reported any prior cannabis use for medical or recreational reasons. As legislation in multiple states eases former restrictions around medical and recreational cannabis in the United States, an increasing proportion of the population reports use of the drug.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Mean ED visit cost for PT and EP management was $278.55 (2018 $CAD, Min-Max: 97.64-1,389.94), Implementing management by a PT and an EP would cost the healthcare system an average of $107,335.31 These innovative care models may have the potential to help reduce healthcare costs in the ED. 1,389.94), compared with $267.86

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My Green Doctor

APRIL 4, 2025

from 2000 to 2018 among people over 65 years old. It tells your office colleagues and patients that your healthcare practice or clinic is committed to forging a healthier work space and community. The healthcare sector contributes 8.5% The healthcare sector contributes 8.5% Contact us today! of total U.S. of total U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers, Systems, and Patient‑Experience scores —and word of mouth—suffer when bias is perceived, jeopardizing both reimbursement and community trust. Assuming that chest discomfort is “just anxiety” in a patient with a panic disorder can delay acute coronary syndrome work‑ups.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare providers often struggle to treat patients with chronic pain. The number of participants peaked in 2018 and remained stable thereafter. One potential solution is to facilitate patient access to programs that develop skills and confidence in managing their own care.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

lack dental insurance, and in 2018, nearly half of older adults received no dental care. Half of all older adults in the U.S.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We looked at every outcome we could think of, combined gastroenteritis severity score, duration and severity of diarrhea and vomiting, duration of fever, unplanned healthcare visits, household transmission rates, daycare and work absenteeism. 2018 Nov 22;379(21):2002-2014. N Engl J Med 2018; 379:2015-2026. N Engl J Med.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, compared national data on primary care visits from 2006 and 2007 to data from 2016 and 2018, finding that the proportion of visits addressing mental health concerns rose by almost 50 percent.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

In May 2016, FDA released a draft guidance document titled “Technical Considerations for Additive Manufactured Devices” (see our blog post on the draft guidance here ), which was finalized in 2018 (see our blog post on the final guidance here ). The first scenario is a healthcare facility using a medical device 3D-printing production system.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

In May 2016, FDA released a draft guidance document titled “Technical Considerations for Additive Manufactured Devices” (see our blog post on the draft guidance here ), which was finalized in 2018 (see our blog post on the final guidance here ). The first scenario is a healthcare facility using a medical device 3D-printing production system.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their research showed promising results for lab rats, and they plan to carry out the first human trials in the second half of 2017 and gather preliminary results during 2018. The Stanford Artificial Retina Project shows great promises.

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33 Charts

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It comes from Automattic engineer Mike Shelton in 2018. Industrialized healthcare positions patients as units in clinical workflows. I love this concept of the people margin. Data can be precise, specific, absolute and is meant to represent the actions and behaviors of people and things.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Kirschenbaum — In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule to significantly decrease the rate the government will reimburse 340B hospitals in 2018 for outpatient prescription drugs from average sales price (“ASP”) plus 6% to ASP minus 22.5%. 52494 (Nov. See 85 Fed. 85866, 86042-86052 (Dec.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Any healthcare professional would benefit from some Medelita gear, so head over to their website and treat the physician in your life. ProCompression Socks Throwback pic from one of my 2018-2019 24hr call shifts I swear by Pro Compression socks! Plus they smell amazing!

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JANUARY 18, 2021

Though the field of medicine often fails to think systematically, it is imperative that all healthcare workers learn to recognize racism, actively practice anti-racism, and acknowledge the many systems that impact people and community’s health. Seeing the Water: Seven Values Targets for Anti-Racism Action. Producers), & Burnett, C.,

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Most of these cases have settled out of court (see, for example, Actelion Pharmaceuticals , 2018; Astellas Pharma and Amgen , 2019; Gilead Sciences , 2020).

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Race, racism, and racial inequality have tangible impacts on people’s livelihoods, much less their experiences in the healthcare system. September 12, 2018. Race in eGFR Calculations — Why So Contentious? eGFR equation-building is a complex science. Links References discussed throughout episode Tsai J. link] Tsai J. Race Matters?

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

2018 Jul;48(3):247-250. Epub 2018 Apr 6. This year, in addition to the 10 finalists Maneesha Agarwal will be presenting at the National Conference and Exhibition we will be sharing four cases online in advance of the conference. This is the second of the four cases. Singh J, Dalal P, Rattan KN. doi: 10.1177/0049475518765305.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 15, 2021

FDA’s 2018 CFL Guidance seemed to signal to industry that FDA would be more flexible on Rx drug benefit claims. Healthcare providers could conclude that a biosimilar pegfilgrastim product delivered via PFS is not as effective as Amgen’s OBI product (i.e., The use of the proper name (i.e., Neulasta Onpro).

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 7, 2022

A wide variety of novel ideas were floated and showcased – such as kiosks and websites to question consumers and expanding the role of pharmacists to be a sort of gatekeeper to these OTC drugs for customers.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Hardeman on police brutality and a public health agenda 24:00 Understanding this moment (COVID-19 and George Floyd) 29:00 The #SayHerName campaign and police brutality’s effects on women 33:00 Emmett and Mamie Till 44:00 Policing in healthcare settings 54:00 What can we start doing tomorrow? N Engl J Med 2020; 383:197-199.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This Guidance embodies the Agency’s belief that: “Successful adoption of legally marketed medical devices increasingly depends on patient acceptance of that technology and patients being more engaged in the healthcare process, along with demonstrated public health benefits.”.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. 18 U.S.C. § 24(b) (emphasis added). EKRA Issue.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 25, 2022

The communication, however, warns patients and healthcare providers of the potential of NIPT to produce erroneous results, particularly false positive results (“these tests can give false results, such as reporting a genetic abnormality when the fetus does not actually have one”).

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, reprocessing (cleaning and disinfection and/or sterilization) is typically performed by the end user in a healthcare facility rather than part of the manufacturing process. of ISO 10993-1:2018, but is extremely burdensome and not referenced in the related ISO 10993-18.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

The Board is not required to identify all drugs that meet the above criteria and may, in consultation with the advisory council and the commissioner of health, identify drug products that fall outside these criteria but otherwise could create “significant affordability challenges” for Minnesota’s healthcare system or Minnesota patients.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. 18 U.S.C. § 24(b) (emphasis added). EKRA Issue.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

I think part of it’s the math, but I think what really happened is, I think the story here is that in 2018, MD Anderson published this really landmark study by Dr. Reddy and her colleagues about going from IV Dilaudid to other to oral Dilaudid, oral hydromorphone, I should say, oral morphine and oral oxycodone.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It underscores the need to address healthcare disparities to improve access to care in economically distressed neighborhoods. Conclusion: Neighborhood poverty significantly hinders access to TKAs in Maryland, with residents of the poorest neighborhoods less likely to undergo these surgeries.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. The post Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Goldilocks zone).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Pediatric clinicians and healthcare systems have an urgent responsibility to advocate for evidence-based solutions to address the climate crisis,” Shalini H. In that study , researchers analyzed data from over one million participants from 0 to 19 years of age after torrential rains, floods, and landslides occurred in 2018.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Two out of three drug overdose deaths in 2018 involved an opioid – be it prescription opioids, heroin, or synthetic opioids. 6 As a result of these and many other actions, the death toll from opioid overdose fell by more than 4% between 2017 and 2018. 2 Opioids contribute a large share of this overdose crisis.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The systematic review of peer-reviewed intervention was published from 2018 to 2023. The researchers recommended including community members in intervention design, healthcare systems, and policies. Patients are in a very vulnerable state when they enter the healthcare setting.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications. Eric: And that’s what you found, that the healthcare system is perfectly designed to just deprescribe automatically after short periods of use?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. Eloise is a palliative care NP at Stanford and co-founder of The Radicle Health Clinician Network.

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