Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Tele-legal services were provided by one full time poverty lawyer and paralegal January 2021-June 2023. Participating clinic sites offered convenience sample frame, patients with legal needs were identified through universal and secondary screening approach.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting Show Notes by Alec J. Identify strategies to mitigate bias and stigma in the electronic health record as a trainee and medical practitioner.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project. Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

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. Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? What are the true benefits and side effects?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Evaluate implementation of an electronic scoring system (Elders Risk Assessment—ERA) to detect and an adapted risk-factor checklist (Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute IllNess in Family Medicine – CERTAIN-FM) to assess older patients at high risk of critical illness in a primary care setting.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

MBC entails equal emphasis on the phases of Collect, Share, and Act , which include repeated data gathering, communication/review of the data with the patient and team, and adjusting treatment based on this information. (2) MBC enhances therapeutic alliance and improves culturally informed care to diverse patient groups. (10,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective(s): This research explores patient navigation between primary care and specialty care to facilitate treatment completion in a health care system. Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services. Among new patients, 58.9%

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

In this blog, we’re going to outline four key ways temporary medical staff such as locum tenens providers can help healthcare facilities maintain continuity of high-quality patient care in the face of growing shortages. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data from March 1, 2020, to Aug. A total of 7,944 patients were included in the sample. Vinod Rao, M.D., from Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a statement.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Electronic health record data from 541 community-based clinics across 17 states in the OCHIN network from 01/01/2019-5/31/2023. Population Studied: 1,792,934 adult patients with at least 1 telehealth (phone, video) or in-person primary care visit. Design and Analysis: Retrospective observational study.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Healthcare administrative assistants handle the clerical and office tasks that support patient care. Their role improves the patient experience and helps doctors, nurses, and other providers work more efficiently. Typical responsibilities include: Managing front desk operations, including greeting patients and answering phones.

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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. PATHWEIGH is an integrated approach to support primary care practices in delivering evidence-based weight loss care to patients as part of regular health care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective chart search of the electronic medical records of a specific sub-group of patients at UNMC. Setting: Criteria Time Frame: 2013-01-01 to 2023-12-31. Number of patients who meet inclusion criteria at Family Medicine Clinics: 6,551 Patients. are White or Caucasian.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — On September 6, 2023, FDA announced its latest efforts to modernize the 510(k) process, outlining FDA’s latest improvements to strengthen the 510(k) Program and announcing release of three draft guidance documents. In a statement released at the time, CDRH Director Jeffrey Shuren, M.D.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

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. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 31, 2023

CARA amended the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to enable physicians or patients to request pharmacists to partially fill prescriptions for schedule II substances including opioids and to allow remaining quantities to be filled up to 30 days after issuance of the prescription (up to 72 hours for emergency oral prescriptions). 21 U.S.C. §

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This analysis was part of a larger implementation study called PATHWEIGH, which provides a toolset embedded in the EpicTM electronic health record and other supportive services to help practices provide weight management to their patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Providers across six Northern California clinic sites surveyed over an 8-week period (March 21-May 16, 2023). Instrument: Providers randomly received an electronic medical record (EMR)-embedded survey in approximately 10% of telemedicine visits.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to… Understand how they can better center patient experiences by engaging with, and conducting their own, qualitative research. She has advanced training in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Science. Toth-Manikowski, S. M., & Smith, G.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

Houck — If a patient presents a paper prescription for a controlled substance to a pharmacy and the pharmacy cannot fill it, the patient can take that prescription to another pharmacy. Instead, the patient must request that the prescriber send a new prescription to a different pharmacy. 48365, 48369 (July 27, 2023).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

.” Because the FDA first approved an RSV vaccine in 2023, the 2023-24 season provided “the first opportunity to see it in a real-world context,” said Pauline Terebuh, an epidemiologist at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and an author of a recent study in the journal JAMA Network Open.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). 6, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). Lack of Individual Drug Therapy Pattern prescribing can occur when physicians prescribe the same drugs, in the same quantities, in the same strengths to their patients, or a patient receives the same controlled substances repeatedly with no adjustment or change in therapy.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — On March 17, 2023, enhancements to FDA’s electronic Medical Device Reporting (eMDR) system will go live. Manufacturers who submit reports via the FDA Electronic Submissions Gateway are being advised to update their systems by this time.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

FDA recognizes the potential of RWE to support regulatory submissions of medical devices and to inform benefit-risk analysis of such products, while assuring patients have timely access to devices. Patients that use ESD undergo continuous 24/7 monitoring. Patients are continually monitored for safety.

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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.” and remote or wearable patient monitoring devices (e.g.,

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 27, 2023

As industry is well aware, by the terms of the statute, the DSCSA’s interoperability provisions become effective ten years after its 2013 enactment, or on November 27, 2023. Drug manufacturers have had electronic systems in place since 2017. By Karla L.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

While ICH E6(R3) was still in the development phase, the FDA released a draft guidance in May 2023 in the form of the draft ICH E6(R3). E6(R3) specifically acknowledges the rise of innovative trial designs such as adaptive and decentralized methods, while also encouraging the use of electronic informed consent and remote monitoring.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

They are often the first interface for patients experiencing mental health crises, not academic medical centers. Large language models and artificial intelligence technologies are likely biased by the documentation we place in the electronic health record, which may reinforce youth health disparities. 2023 Apr;21(2):166-7.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These data are routinely collected from a variety of sources, such as electronic health records, providing information on health and healthcare in actual patients, rather than in the controlled environment of a clinical trial. This value is potentially even greater for rare diseases, where there are limited sources of data.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

FDA is making these updates in part due to recognition that some of the records and reporting requirements are unnecessary to comply with the Electronic Product Radiation Control (EPRC) program (sections 532, 534(a)(1), and 537(b) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. The final rule will be effective February 21, 2023.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

To date, regulatory enforcement litigation focused on actual or imminent patient harm has taken a backseat to cybersecurity as FDA continues to update and implement its oversight framework. More updates will follow here as trends develop in 2023. Combination products might be part drug, part device, or part software or hardware.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 4, 2023

Section 3606(a) of the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act (FDORA) directed FDA to “issue or revise draft guidance that includes recommendations to clarify and advance the use of decentralized clinical studies to support the development of drugs and devices,” not later than December 29, 2023. DHTs include monitoring instruments (e.g.,

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

FDA announced on October 3, 2022 that the voluntary electronic Submission Template And Resource (eSTAR) templates would be required beginning October 1, 2023, as we blogged about here. Several sections of the eSTAR templates have questions that walk through related guidance documents.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: 1) Demonstrate the feasibility of collecting data from prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) for population health reporting, 2) analyze trends in PDMP and electronic health record patient data relative to CDC guidelines and 3) identify use of patient-centered measures for pain management in primary care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In January 2021, Oregon and California expanded Medicaid eligibility to adults 50 years and older regardless of immigration status, which could significantly improve access to care for socioeconomically disadvantaged Latino patients. Conclusion: Study findings suggest a modest uptake of Medicaid-paid visits among Latina patients.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

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