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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics. for CA, 0.85

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CDRH Seeks Public Comment on How to Increase Patient Access to At-Home Use Medical Technologies

FDA Law Blog

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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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

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Senator Durbin Has Questions About FDA’s “Operational Capacity” to Oversee DTC Prescription Drug Advertising Amid Workforce Reductions – Don’t We All?

FDA Law Blog

Senator Durbins letter references a January 2023 study from the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that more than two-thirds of drugs advertised on television were considered to have low therapeutic value. Maximizing patient clinical outcomes and quality of life may ultimately minimize healthcare resource utilization.