Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: A severe asthma registry in primary care is needed to determine the population prevalence and best practices in the real world. Objective: To establish consensus on a) a definition of severe asthma, b) criteria for severe asthma registry entry and c)indices of clinician behaviour.

Asthma 130

Asthma Primary Care Primary Care Physician Family Physician 130

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

We didn’t need technologies to be able to differentiate between patients based on coughs, as primary care physicians have been doing that for centuries. These could even make cough monitoring as common as step tracking to inform individual patients and provide doctors with deeper health insights.

Patients 85

Patients Primary Care Physician Provider Healthcare 85

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Self-care and telemedicine for patients The options of teledermatology services, as well as self-care platforms, are soaring. It is a win-win for everyone: patients do not have to wait in crowded waiting rooms for an exam, while dermatologists can deal with the easier cases in shorter time online.

Patients 98

Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 98

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Families Family GP 130