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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

(CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.) With 476 participating primary care practices, MDPCP provides prospective, non-visit based payments known as "care management fees" and operational support from a program management office and Care Transformation Organizations (CTO).

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. It’s everything written here about electronic health records.