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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Therefore, identifying appointments at risk of being missed is a crucial prevention strategy to optimize care quality, ensure continuity, and reduce costs. for CA, 0.85

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The Positive Impact of Direct Primary Care on Employer Healthcare Spending

Plum Health

These models simplify the healthcare business by removing insurance companies from basic primary care. This is because appointments can generally be scheduled at almost any time and wait times at the office are usually shorter. Furthermore, the study provides a snapshot of the sources of health insurance coverage in the United States.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

But back in 2019, there was a lot of disagreement in our group about whether for a patient with cancer and cancer related pain and a substance use disorder, whether palliative care was the appropriate specialty to care for those patients.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

Alex: In 2019 … You wrote two viewpoints about AI recently in JAMA, relatively recently. I guess, 2019, and then, one again about last month or so. maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. I think, the long haul, it’s really hard to know where this goes.

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