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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

It offers care where people already are: their doctor’s office, their community mental health clinic, their OB/GYN’s exam room. It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit. Integrated care is already doing that—and we’re ready to help scale it nationwide.

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What Does Team Function Look Like in Primary Care Integrated Behavioral Health? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Medical providers and staff, and integrated behavioral health (IBH) psychologists and psychiatrists. Intervention: N/A for this portion; therapeutic services were provided by IBH providers to patients. Intervention: N/A for this portion; therapeutic services were provided by IBH providers to patients.

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A classic educational video about the dangers of Repetitive Read Syndrome

PEMBlog

Symptoms include dictations including the same phrasing and suggesting clinical correlation repeatedly. Choosing Wisely recommends that doctors and all medical providers have detailed conversations with patients and their families about why X-Rays are unlikely to give new information or provide any additional reassurance.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

Alex: And we have Kevin McConeghy, who is a clinical pharmacy specialist at the VA Medical Center in Providence, and a PhD candidate at the Brown School of Public Health. And this paper really gave us some important insights into older adults’ priorities about medication use that can inform these conversations.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

There are clinics. But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community. Because I feel like as a medical provider of taking care of somebody, the man in the hallway, I’ve known that person for 15 years.

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‘Til I Hear It From Congress: FDASLA to Direct Publication of Final OTC Hearing Aid Rules

FDA Law Blog

Back in the 2017 user fee package, the FDA Reauthorization Act (also called “FDARA”), Congress set forth a process for establishing a category of OTC hearing aids—hearing aids that may be sold directly to patients without the intervention of a medical provider.

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