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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

At the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), we see your agenda aligning with ours in powerful ways. It moves away from fragmented systems, provides alternatives to medication-only treatment paths, and leads patients to practical pathways for healing—whether for anxiety, diabetes management, depression, or addiction.

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Automatic Detection of Osteoporosis in Electronic Consultation (eConsult) Service Using Natural Language Processing [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures We used a combination of evaluation indices, such as accuracy, precision, recall, to decide the optimum feature engineering approach and model. Results Training sample from eConsult, TFIDF transformation with the Stochastic Gradient Descent model could distinguish osteoporosis cases by 91% accuracy.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

I’d been working with persons who had diabetes and also caregivers and so forth, trying to go at the direction and realize as I look more and more at hearing loss, that it was totally unrecognized in clinical practice. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. I don’t like this anymore.”

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Matt: I was going to say that you said something very clearly that we’ve heard in our NIH funded study around AI based prognostication talking to patients and family members and so on, that there’s a comfort level when it’s being used to identify people who might benefit from palliative care or benefit sooner. Eric: Yeah.

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Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

May reduce the risk of heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. Yes, both are important, but family, faith, work, money and the environment we create matter too. We follow ALL VACCINATION GUIDELINES set forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Medicine! Learn more.","robots":"index","keywords":"skin

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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. And one of the really fantastic programs and studies that we have is the diabetes prevention program. So the first diabetes prevention program was published in 2002. So diabetes prevention programs have been going on for over 20 years.

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