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Oregon-based medical group Northwest Permanente announces affiliation with The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California

Permanente Medicine

Both groups have a shared mission of delivering high-quality, cost-efficient care that achieves superior clinical outcomes. By collaborating clinically, sharing innovations, and supporting physicians and staff, NWP will improve quality of care. Most transactions are largely focused on size, scale, and finance.

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Pearls profiles: Get to know Neil Baum, MD

Physician's Practice

Reynolds Feature Video Introducing Neil Baum, MD, Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the author of multiple books. Schrödinger's Cat: Financial perils of Allograft diabetic ulcer grafts Martin Merritt, Esq. Now is your chance to get to know them.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. So whether it’s 50, 52, 55, 65, we should ask every person who comes into clinic at least once a year, how do you feel like your thinking is? So I’m in a specialty clinic, so I’m in this interdisciplinary memory assessment clinic.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. As Sei Lee notes, the argument for developing prognostic models has won the day, and we increasingly use prognostic scores in clinical decision making.

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Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy

GeriPal

It does seem that if communities, particularly historically marginalized communities, are interested in ACP, that fact should carry some weight in how resources are allocated to research and health care financing. So am I measuring it for that specific clinic level quality metric or am I measuring it for my research study?

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law Blog

In the Senate, the repeal is also included in the Principles for Drug Pricing Reform issued by Senator Wyden, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and is expected to be included in the Senate version of the reconciliation bill. Finally, the HHS plan encourages Congress to create incentives to foster scientific innovation.