Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context 2-1-1 is a designated phone help line in Canada and the US that provides referrals for individuals to local government and community-based services for a wide variety of needs, including social, health care, and mental health services. 2-1-1 Nova Scotia has operated since 2013 as a nonprofit that offers 24/7 assistance.

Referral 130

Referral Mental Health Finance Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Social Prescribing (SP) is an approach to help individuals address their health and social needs wherein a healthcare practitioner refers patients to non-clinal services in the community. Models of SP vary, and the experience of patients across these models is less known.

Patients 130

Patients Community Patient-Centered Referral 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.”

Screening 52

Screening Insurance Primary Care Referral 52

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Federal courts, too, have broadly interpreted the AKS to cover any arrangement where “one purpose” of the remuneration is to induce referrals, purchases, or orders of federally reimbursable items or services, even if the arrangement has other, legitimate purposes (see, e.g., United States v. Borrasi, 639 F.3d 3d 774 (7th Cir.

Manufacturing 83

Manufacturing Patient-Centered Healthcare Utilities 83

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A 2020 RCT of coaching for primary care physicians shows that coaching improves burnout well-being during the intervention and has a sustained duration at 6 months of follow up. Beth: Right now, I’m actually just doing individual coaching, but we are writing a grant to start group coaching next year. From Beth Israel and UNC.

Board-Certified 111

Board-Certified IT Primary Care Referral 111

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We would make referrals to psycho oncology. I would make referrals to Joe as well as part of the team. But that did not limit those clinicians from making referrals, as Vicky was just saying. But we do have the information about referrals to other ancillary providers as part of that multidisciplinary team. So it matters.

Telehealth 106

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

A workgroup convened in 2020 found that the existing practice categories candidates could choose were inadequate to the real scope of community practice and proposed updates drawn from the American Medical Association and the Diplomate Professional Profile. There was agreement on a broad need for safe, structured, team-based care.

Board-Certified 40

Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40