Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It is paramount to understand the barriers faced by the AI/AN community to better serve their medical needs. The impact of long-standing inadequate access to basic healthcare coupled with generational trauma has contributed to community distrust of western medicine. Population Studied: AI/AN patients residing in the USA.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Substance use disorders (SUD) significantly impact the physical, social, and mental health of individuals, their families, and the wider community. The existing literature does not adequately address substance use within the context of family and community resilience.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In response to the growing overdose epidemic, communities in US and Canada have started using vending machines (VMs) as a low-barrier method to provide harm reduction (HR) items to the community. Compared to in-person outreach, some VMs were able to provide more syringes and HIV self-tests.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument: A midwestern primary care practice implemented a social needs screening and referral program centered on a Health Equity Coordinator (HEC), a new role created to manage the pathway from screening to connection to community resources.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 22, 2025

Many Permanente physicians and physician leaders, including Ramin Davidoff, MD, co-CEO of The Permanente Federation, could be found at shelters coordinating the response and providing care or support for people of the affected communities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Virginia Mental Health Access Program (VMAP) is a statewide initiative that helps health care providers take better care of children and adolescents with mental health conditions through provider education and increasing access to child psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and care navigators. Results: 20.2%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding where Ontario’s family physicians practice and how many can provide language-concordant care to official language minority communities can inform future research and policy development. Outcomes Measured: Prevalence and distribution of community-based family physicians in Ontario (all, and French-speaking).

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 6, 2025

It will connect with other interested parties, including representatives from the interpreter and patient communities, to work on answering the following questions: What are the biggest barriers for patients in accessing interpreters? Resolution 2023-04 : Coverage for live, in-person interpreter services under Minnesota Medical Assistance.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

8,500 new users joined in 2023. 19 countries have national medical associations that provide MGD resources. By joining this global community of forward-thinking clinics, Weill Cornell is signaling its awareness that climate change is no longer a distant concern.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As part of the BRIDGE program, the AAFP hosted Project ECHO® (ECHO: Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) sessions, focusing on resident wellbeing and burnout prevention. Intervention: 4 series: Fall 2022; Spring 2023; Fall 2023; Spring 2024.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

The authors urged readers to make the elimination of nuclear weapons an urgent public health priority, reiterating a 2023 editorial on similar themes : Any use of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic for humanity.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Cervical cancer burden is high in the Chinese and Latinx communities. Partnerships between Comprehensive Cancer Centers and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in these communities is critical to build capacity among primary care providers (PCPs) and staff (e.g.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: We explored how to design a system to provide near real-time feedback on context and impacts to inform health system innovations; and how to operationalize data collection across diverse patient populations and providers. Setting: Alberta, Canada from May 2022 to October 2023.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Weight loss is desired by many patients, but many primary care practices struggle to provide this care. Implementation strategies to facilitate use include econsults, elearning with CME, a learning community, and more. Objective: To describe the uptake of the PATHWEIGH tools by participant reflections.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 19, 2025

FaceHeart also received FDA approval for the heart rate component in 2023. As these recent examples indicate, AI-based facial analysis can provide a wealth of vital patient information that can aid in clinical decision-making. It is shaping up to become another contactless vital signs monitor leveraging the face as a source.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: School-based outbreaks often precede increased incidence of acute respiratory infections in the greater community. Setting: Oregon School District, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA, between January 2015 and June 2023, and before and after emergence of SARS-CoV-2. Outcome Measures: Pathogen identification.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, patients who move increasingly keep their family physician (FP) because no one in their new community is accepting new patients, creating long distances to seek primary care. Study Design: A cross-sectional analysis of patients and FPs in Ontario from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2023.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: We employed Google Search ads to gather dermatology images from the public, with informed consent, between March and November 2023. Images were curated, de-identified, and labeled by dermatologists, providing a dataset of 10,408 images from 5,033 contributors across the United States.

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Barton Associates

MAY 1, 2025

adults had a mental illness in 2023, and about half (46%) of them did not get any treatment. A psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (NP), also known as a psych NP or a PMHNP, helps bridge this gap by providing essential mental health services to underserved populations. Why is there a behavioral health provider shortage?

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the field will grow by 15 percent from 2023 to 2033 , which is higher than the average for roles that provide support to healthcare professionals. What Medical Assistants Do Medical assistants play a crucial role in healthcare by supporting physicians and other providers.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This year’s episode, our fourth conducted at SGIM, is focused on the importance of qualitative research and the role it plays in antiracism research, community-based work, and scholarship. During this episode, we hear from Dr. S. References Ogunwole, S. Zakaria, S., Vaught, A. Toth-Manikowski, S. M., & Smith, G. link] Ogunwole, S.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Their role improves the patient experience and helps doctors, nurses, and other providers work more efficiently. Scheduling patient appointments and ensuring providers’ schedules are well-organized. Scheduling patient appointments and ensuring providers’ schedules are well-organized.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The CFPC Board endorsed the guidance report in December 2023. The report provides guidance for the CFPC’s future work to support research and will inform its strategic planning processes. Ongoing engagement and collaboration with the FM research community will be crucial.

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My Green Doctor

APRIL 4, 2025

Todd Sack concludes that, “ the medical office waiting room appears to be an accepted, time-efficient, and effective site to communicate knowledge on climate change and health. ” According to the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown, mortality caused by extreme heat events increased by 53.7%

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

They explore the impact of racism, trauma, and inequities in care, while emphasizing the need for culturally grounded, community-based prevention. Community-Based Prevention: The conversation then moves toward community-based prevention, with Dr. Simon advocating for trusted community networks to support youth mental health.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She was awarded the Society of Biological Psychiatry Humanitarian Award and the Community Outreach Award by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Episode Takeaways Community health centers play an important role in access to evidence-based psychiatric care rooted in community values. 2023 Apr;21(2):166-7.

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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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FDA Law Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Importantly, the Hub is intended to establish a new model within FDA, which leverages cross-Agency expertise in providing guidance and conducting reviews for products for rare disease populations. those reviewed by the CDER Division of Rare Diseases and Medical Genetics).

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 7, 2024

It’s important to be able to trust your caregivers, and here at Logansport Memorial, we go above and beyond to develop relationships with our patients and provide personalized, high-quality care for our community. But 2023 was a really bad year for me between the infection and everything.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That emergency declaration is set to expire on May 11, 2023. The rule would permit a practitioner using a telemedicine encounter to prescribe controlled substances without an in-person visit under various situations involving both an audio-visual telehealth evaluation, or an in-person evaluation performed by a “referring” provider.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

In this episode we dive into the resurgence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae an atypical bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia thats making waves in pediatric emergency medicine. Mycoplasma pneumoniae as a Cause of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children. Plus, well discuss whether M. 2024 Dec;56(1):2386636. Epub 2024 Aug 3.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

A human-sized, smiling robot combines the very best in cutting-edge technology and human touch to provide frequent check-ins and non-medical care for residents in long-term care settings. But even in 2024, millions live outside the reach of conventional emergency services be it in Vanuatu or the Inuit communities up North in Canada.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

According to the announcement, enabling patients to access medical devices beyond traditional clinical settings can help close the healthcare gap by delivering care “directly to patients, wherever they are – at home, at work, in cities, in rural communities.” telemedicine and telehealth solutions (e.g.,

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The draft guidance provides information regarding various aspects of the OMUFA program under sections 744L and 744M of the FDC Act, as added by the CARES Act. FDA stresses that the law does not provide exemptions or waivers. To be considered by FDA, comments must be submitted by January 3, 2023. Livornese — Early Nov.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This guidance finalizes a draft guidance issued in February 2023. Additionally, the Guidance states that sponsors should provide study plans for FDA review. Beyond that, the Guidance again describes general considerations, patient/population-specific considerations, and product-specific considerations.

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