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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

One popular mHealth initiative is the text4baby program, a public-private partnership launched in 2010 that sends free text messages to expectant and new mothers containing appointment reminders, safety alerts, and general prenatal and postpartum health advice. How can we avoid creating "digital divides" that could worsen health disparities?

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From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Concierge Choice Physicians

Many seemed to blame physicians as much as insurers and the government for everything they experience as wrong in healthcare, from long waits to Covid-19. Time constraints and pressure on physicians, leading to a decay in the doctor-patient relationship, have eroded trust. The comments from readers were even more bleak.

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Rheumatology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Johnson, MD, FACP, FIDSA , Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, added that ABIM provides program directors with aggregate performance data in their programs and, with permission, individual graduate data so that program directors can make adjustments to the programs as needed.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

I was at an ophthalmology appointment a while back and I was checking in and there was a receptionist, her name was Rosie. I know for a fact that the government or legislators looked to us in Permanente. And it’s this idea of your doctor, your health care organization is thinking about you all the time, 7 by 24.

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Price Limits, Affordability Boards, Penalties, Oh My: Minnesota Enacts Sweeping Drug Pricing Reforms

FDA Law Blog

The statute confuses the issue by providing that “every individual transaction in violation of [the excessive price increase prohibition] is considered a separate violation,” making it unclear whether this is a per-day or per-transaction penalty, and, if the latter, what the transaction is.

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Infectious Disease Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. She also sought input on overlapping aspects of community practice across the disciplines of internal medicine to inform ABIM’s recruitment efforts for broad physician representation in governance roles. Society guests departed at this point in the meeting.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de. Naheed 20:04 And you know, the key to this conversation is not to put the onus on individuals.