The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Health Policy Fellowship three years ago, though I still enjoy working alongside these talented family physicians in clinic, such as Dr. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.)

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with schizophrenia who are admitted to academic medical centers (AMCs) has not been previously reported. Objective: To examine the epidemiology and mortality among schizophrenia patients discharged from AMCs in the U.S. from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023. Setting: AMCs within the US.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

Demand for new obesity medications like semaglutide (GLP-1 analogs) is high, but availability is low. So, which patients should get them first? Patients ask me these questions fairly often, so I know it’s important for GPs to know the key facts. What are the true benefits and side effects? Does the rebound effect really exist?

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 17, 2021

I originally planned to write weekly, but life remained busy as usual, so I only wrote two posts, one from 10/22/2020 and another from 10/23/2020. 10/22/2020 I’m a little late with my first ERAS post, but things have been super busy this week. There's not much, so I'll just include both posts here. Anyway, back to ERAS.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 28, 2025

Shifting immunosuppressive trends in France revealed strong kidney transplant survival and a steady reliance on calcineurin inhibitors from 2009 to 2020. They used data from the French national healthcare database to identify all adults who underwent kidney transplantation between 2009 and 2020. years [IQR: 1.6–7.0

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 29, 2025

The German initiative „ Leitlinienwatch.de ” evaluates medical treatment guidelines for their independence from the pharmaceutical industry. Even if one disagrees with the content, ESC guidelines are influential… The older 2020 ESC Leitlinie on atrial fibrillation has been cited over 10,000 times and read more than 2 million times.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patients with chronic medical conditions (CCs) and behavioral comorbidities have lower quality of life and increased healthcare expenses. Our work builds a foundation for cost-effective workflows to support patients with multimorbidity. 8% (n= 1,146) were ordered for medical condition management.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field.

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Mere Mortal MD

JUNE 15, 2025

Usually when I set my mind to something—say, like going to medical school at the age of 35—I made it happen. So on the morning of June 15th, 2020, I made a conscious decision to stop putting alcohol in my body. I have compassion for my patients that struggle with alcohol, or other drugs.

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Louisville Lectures

MAY 8, 2020

She covers practical aspects of evaluating patients including appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) usage and finishes this segment with clinical exam/laboratory/imaging findings. Chest 2020; published online. Ann Int Med 2020; 172: 577-582. Lancet Infect Dis 2020; Kim D, Quinn J, Pinsky B. Clin Infect Dis 2020.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

When dealing with chest congestion, it’s important to understand potential warning signs, as well as what type of medical care to seek for them. F or higher, chest pain, or blood in your saliva, you should consider seeking medical attention for chest congestion. Am I at risk for complications due to my medical history?

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. Instead of a human, however, they used a mannequin designed for medical training.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care providers in Canada face significant workload challenges, including managing prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests alongside patient visits. This study aims to analyze electronic medical record (EMR) data to understand these workload dynamics. 0.9SD) encounters per patient since 2007.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples Show Notes by Sudarshan (“Sud”) Krishnamurthy April 4, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the checkered past of medicine and the advancements in the field that have occurred at the expense of the humanity of Indigenous peoples.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting academic medical centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data. compared to 2.1

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

According to a recent study published in the J ournal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology , CDH remains poorly understood, yet has significant implications for AF prevention, and avoidance strategies may be highly effective, especially for patients whose AF is otherwise idiopathic. and “In which patients is it most effective?”

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 25, 2023

The rate of heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular complications increased among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 between March 2020 and December 2021, according to a new study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 20, 2025

Myriad Genetics has been conducting the GeneSight Mental Health Monitor surveys since 2020 to learn about American attitudes towards mental health and related issues. The majority of these patients (54%) agree that genetic testing for mental health medications (known as pharmacogenomic or PGx testing) could reduce these concerns.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But an investigation by The BMJ has found that just 30 of the 200 private hospitals were used to treat patients with COVID-19 in April 2020 when the first pandemic wave hit its peak. Private hospitals were paid around £2bn to help the NHS during the first year of the COVID pandemic.

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Myriad Genetics

MARCH 13, 2024

Knowing your diagnosis and any genetic variation related to your medical condition can help you participate in research, connect with others in similar situations and know what therapies are safe to take. Which one of those 17 doctors ultimately was able to pull together the pieces of Alex’s health picture and suggest a diagnosis?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

The timing of loop ileostomy closure after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis did not affect the risk for endoscopic pouch inflammation in patients with ulcerative colitis, according to a study published in Crohn’s & Colitis 360. of patients, were significantly associated with endoscopic inflammatory pouch disease.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD, an internist and social epidemiologist who specializes in the care of women with chronic medical conditions and racial disparities in maternal health outcomes, and Dr. Caroline Sloan, MD, a general internist whose research focuses on how financial considerations are imbued into medical decision-making.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This episode is a co-production of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center whose mission is to minimize morbidity and mortality of acutely ill and injured children across the emergency continuum. Pediatrics October 2020; 146 (4): e20201174. Pediatrics October 2020; 146 (4): e20201174.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. Nwamaka Eneanya and Jennifer Tsai to discuss the limitations and harms of race-based medicine in clinical practice.

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OCFM

OCTOBER 23, 2020

October 23, 2020 / Jack Forbush, DO / News Jack Forbush, DO Helpful video out together by one. Notice of Privacy Policy

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

She went on to earn her medical degree from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California. She has a passion for advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in graduate medical education and care delivery and was recognized as a recipient of the 2020 Dean’s Excellence Award in Diversity.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 9, 2023

A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University jumped into the fray in the spring of 2020, applying novel computational drug repurposing approaches to confront the COVID-19 challenge.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

But these early systems often struggled with complex medical terminology and the natural flow of conversation. For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. The result?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding the evolution of physician's practice patterns across a career-span is crucial for workforce projections, policy planning, and shaping medical education. Population Studied: 5,006 US family medicine residency graduates from 2017 to 2020 with 58% females, 39% aged 35 or older, and 85% practicing in urban areas.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The film talks about some of the escape fires of healthcare, including non-opioid pain treatments, nutrition programs, strong doctor-patient relationships, among others. The high number of patient visits she had per day left her unable to take care of each patient to the best of her ability. minutes long.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

1:06:20 Takeaways and conclusions 1:08:51 Outtakes Takeaways Medical Mistrust in the Black Community is More than Tuskegee Framing medical mistrust solely around watershed incidents like the U.S. It treats mistrust as an isolated construct, when medical mistrust is intertwined with broader societal injustices. The Lancet.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. 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. Crucial that we fix this. Absolutely.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 9, 2021

Roberts JD For the patient I see tomorrow: Beyond recognizing that race is not a proxy for biology, we can all ask ourselves “What way is structural racism affecting my patient and what can I do about it?” For example, GFR- race correction for Black patients.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A new drug company founded by entrepreneur Mark Cuban could save patients $1.29 billion a year based on 2020 Medicare Part D expenditures on just the nine most popular urological drugs, according to a study published in the Journal of Urology.

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OCFM

DECEMBER 7, 2020

White.well deserved December 07, 2020 / Jack Forbush, DO Cherryville’s White is N.C.’s Notice of Privacy Policy

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  2022;31(2):211-221. doi:10.1016/j.chc.2022.01.002

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