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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

primary care is posing a grave threat to the wellbeing of communities nationwide. adults lacked a usual source of care in 2022—marking the highest level in a decade, despite historically high rates of insurance coverage during this period. More than 30% of U.S. In 2022, only 24.4% of new physicians entered primary care—or 19.8%

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

Permanente Medicine

In Kaiser Permanente here, we exist to provide high-quality, affordable health care for our patients in the communities we serve. So people doing self-service online, helping themselves so that we can re-devote our resources to actually other things and reduce that cost structure for our patients and our communities.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

The company works closely with a continuously growing number of insurance companies in Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK, in the Netherlands among others, as well as with companies offering this service to their employees. If you’d like to support this mission, we invite you to join The Medical Futurist Patreon Community.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

We learned this and much more, and I had a great time making engine noises singing the Woody Guthrie song “driving in my car.” . But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. OT programs).

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. Many were community hospitals. Prior-auth forms? Examples of nudges, some based in health care, others in coffee.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

People are also using YouTube specifically, but social media as its own search engine. Well, the irony is that this diethye resurrected from the poorest communities in the mediterranean region. But if your patient is not able to do those things, I wouldn’t say don’t have insurer. They’re this influencer.

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Long-lasting HIV prevention shot headed toward approval

Medical Xpress

Many people still face stigma or lack insurance coverage, which can limit access. Most current PrEP users have commercial insurance, but Medicaid will be key for expanding access to lower-income communities. Black Americans represent 39% of new HIV cases but only 14% of current PrEP users.