Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

The need for medical assistants is growing rapidly. 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. Checking patients’ vital signs, such as blood pressure and temperature.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 19, 2025

In medical practice, vital signs have traditionally focused on four primary measurements , namely body temperature, pulse rate, breathing rate and blood pressure. These measure the basic functions of one’s body, helping clinicians assess the general health and recovery progress of patients.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. In these complex and ever-changing environments, staffing challenges can quickly become a critical issue, impacting both patient care quality and operational efficiency.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 24, 2025

Healing doesn’t always follow a straight path—and for patients facing chronic or non-healing wounds, the journey can be long, emotional, and uncertain. At Logansport Memorial Hospital, our Wound Care team is committed to walking alongside patients during every stage of that journey, offering advanced treatment options with a personal touch.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Three of these articles focus on medical applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) and explore FDA’s role in regulating such products. The third article—“Your Medical Devices are Getting Smarter. The first article—“Is the Eye the Window to Alzheimer’s?” demographic bias of data fed to algorithms).

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Immunotherapy after surgery increased bladder cancer patients' chance of staying cancer-free compared to patients who received a placebo, according to clinical trial results shared in a late-breaking oral presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2023 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in February.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) patients are disproportionately affected by deleterious health outcomes for many preventable disease when compared to their non-indigenous counterparts. It is paramount to understand the barriers faced by the AI/AN community to better serve their medical needs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Instrument/Dataset: Ten item subset within the 2023 Council of Academic Family Medicine’s (CAFM) Educational Research Alliance (CERA) survey, administered from Nov.20-Dec.22, members of one of the four CAFM organizations, selecting only active medical clinicians. Study Design and Analysis: Cross-sectional survey.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 22, 2025

As wildfires devastated the Los Angeles region earlier this year, health care services and medical resources were quickly deployed across the area, thanks to the timely efforts of Permanente medical staff and disaster planning by physician leaders.

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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? Is there a role for MAFP in addressing those barriers — and if so, what are the next steps?

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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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Family Physicians of Greeley

JUNE 16, 2023

Navigating the complexities of insurance and healthcare costs can be overwhelming for patients. Understanding your insurance coverage, managing medical bills, and finding affordable healthcare options are essential for maintaining your health without breaking the bank.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Healthcare administrative assistants handle the clerical and office tasks that support patient care. Healthcare administrative assistants manage crucial administrative tasks in medical offices. Their role improves the patient experience and helps doctors, nurses, and other providers work more efficiently.

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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. Outcome Measures: Key themes and adoption groupings.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. The insurer not only stopped paying current claims but also moved to claw back tens of thousands of dollars it had paid to providers in the two years since she turned 65.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

We’re pleased to share that Weill Cornell Medicine, one of the nation’s most respected academic medical institutions, has begun a small-scale pilot of the My Green Doctor program—an important step toward building a more sustainable healthcare future. 8,500 new users joined in 2023. 8,500 new users joined in 2023.

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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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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Anesthesiologists can play a role in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming by decreasing the amount of anesthetic gas provided during procedures without compromising patient care, suggests new research being presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' ADVANCE 2023, the Anesthesiology Business Event.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Expansion of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) within primary care practices is often met with resistance. Intervention: A rural-setting family physician scripted informal videos describing her extensive experience with treating patients with OUD using buprenorphine.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The industry reached a three-decade high in 2023, adding more than 650,000 jobs. With over 30 physician partners and more than 100 healthcare providers, PACT is committed to healthcare excellence, innovation, safety and quality. And a recent report from Mercer found that Connecticut will need 5,700 more providers by 2028.

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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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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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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

Since the mid-1990s, our capacity for innovation has never stopped as hospitalists navigate a complex landscape of acute illnesses, interprofessional collaborations and the imperative to provide efficient, high-quality care. But these early systems often struggled with complex medical terminology and the natural flow of conversation.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Adrienne R. 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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

to complete an analysis of qualitative data collected from primary care clinician and staff perspectives on the use of anti-obesity medications. Setting or Data Set: Baseline and follow-up semi-structured interviews conducted with clinicians and staff between February 2021 and August 2023 (N=220).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

PATHWEIGH is an integrated approach to support primary care practices in delivering evidence-based weight management and includes modifications to the EpicTM medical record for guidance on treatment alternatives, support for provider-patient communication, billing and coding support, and a new visit type called a Weight Prioritized Visit (WPV).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

It’s “going to streamline it in some incremental ways only,” Dr. Adam Gaffney , a critical care doctor and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told NBC News. Starting next year, if a patient switches insurance plans while getting treatment, the new plan must honor the old plan’s prior authorization for at least 90 days.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dermatology, easily documentable through patient-contributed images, presents an ideal case for innovative dataset creation. Objective: To develop a scalable, representative dermatology dataset using crowdsourcing via internet search ads, enhancing medical education and AI application development.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

There are protocols in place that assist highly trained Emergency Medical Service providers in assuring that agitated children are safely transported to their destination. NASEMSO: Clinical care and restraint of agitated or combative patients by emergency medical service practitioners.

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Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

The United States doesn’t have enough doctors and the problem is only growing—according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) , the country is facing an estimated shortage of between 13,500 and 86,000 primary and specialty care physicians by 2036. in April 2025. Where do physicians commonly work?

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Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Great patient care starts with great clinician leadership. The expertise and thoughtfulness that our leaders bring to our patients, teams, and, most importantly, our hospital partners is not something that just happens. It is, by design, built into the ways we educate, train, and support our clinical leadership.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. 11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). 6, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). By Larry K. Zarzamora Press Release.

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My Green Doctor

APRIL 4, 2025

In This Issue : New Research: Teaching Patients about Climate Resilience Make the Pledge Today to Go Green Get Ready for Earth Day 2025 (part 2)! 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. ”

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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., medical assistants) to deliver high quality cervical cancer screening (CCS).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Robin Wolaner, 71, a retired publisher in Sausalito, California, has been known to badger friends who delay getting recommended shots, sending them relevant medical studies. Immunocompromised patients, despite having a somewhat lower level of protection from the vaccine, will also benefit from it, Terebuh said.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

This provision became effective as of March 29, 2023. It will become part of the “refuse to accept” (RTA) checklist on October 1, 2023. Congress has given FDA the authority to require device manufacturers to provide cybersecurity information in their premarket submissions for a “cyber device.”

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Clinicians and patients often face a decision to continue or discontinue statins to maximize benefit and minimize the risk of harm. We searched MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Central Registry of Trials (inception to August 2023). Study Design and Analysis: Systematic review. Quality assessment (RoB 2.0 stroke and MI).

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