Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. This position statement is intended to clarify and inform all members, partners, and the public regarding CFHA’s organizational stance on MBC. MBC is much more than simply administering behavioral health measures.

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Integrated Care Mental Health Healthcare Clinical Practice 300

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To develop and validate a novel electronic medical records (EMR)-based UTI case definition that can be applied to elucidate and understand UTI treatment and practice patterns in primary care. Context Misdiagnosis and over-diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) are a leading cause of inappropriate antimicrobial use.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Diagnosis 130

PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

While no validated clinical prediction rule is available yet to determine which children should receive a CXR, we do know that the presence of bacterial pneumonia is uncommon in otherwise healthy, immunized children with usual presentations of asthma, bronchiolitis and croup. But it’s just a CXR right?

Asthma 52

Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. And either of those could be given to the patient or an informant. And we give a variety of validated tools.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Alex: And, they were talking about how they were so annoyed because they felt like they got called so frequently by companies trying to sell them electronic wheelchairs. Lynn: Great.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Alex: Thank you.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 115