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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Individuals with complex conditions—those with multiple physical, mental, or behavioral health conditions--require numerous health and social services that are not effectively co-delivered by the current healthcare system. Additionally, we found a statistically significant reduction in PMPM Kansas Medicaid costs.

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Rapid Sequencing Shortens Diagnosis Time in Children

Physician's Weekly

Source: jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(25)00240-9/fulltext The post Rapid Sequencing Shortens Diagnosis Time in Children first appeared on Physician's Weekly. Following policy implementation, the proportion of rES/rGS tests ordered rose from 14.5% [8/55] to 79.8%[130/163].

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High use of the emergency department among patients in Krakow, Poland: An alternative to seeking primary care? [Acute and emergency care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Individuals who frequently attend the ED comprise up to 10% of patients, while accounting for a third of ED visits. Patient and visit-level data on gender, age, residence location, ambulance arrival, triage category, specialist consultations, ICD-10 discharge diagnosis, and hospital admission were analyzed. median: 6, IQR: 2.0).

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Electronic Nudge Letters Do Not Improve Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in CKD

Physician's Weekly

from Copenhagen University Hospital-Herlev and Gentofte in Denmark, and colleagues examined whether electronic letter-based nudges delivered to individuals with CKD and their general practices could increase GDMT uptake in a nationwide 2-by-2 factorial implementation trial. Kristoffer Grundtvig Skaarup, M.D.,

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Outcomes associated with timing of screening for gestational diabetes [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: A combined dataset consisting of prenatal data from a primary care database and intrapartum data from a provincial hospital administrative database. Exclusion criteria included a pre-pregnancy diagnosis of type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Significance was set as p < 0.05.Dataset:

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

Finally, the arrival of interoperability can connect and harmonise various hospital systems An M-LLM could serve as a central hub that facilitates access to various unimodal AIs used in the hospital, such as radiology software, insurance handling software, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), etc. AI used in the hospital.

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WDx Clinical Unknown with Dr. Steph Sherman and the CPSolvers

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Steph Sherman, Lindsey , Emma , and Sharmin tackle a case presented by Anna Want to learn more about Women in Diagnosis (WDx) series? She went to medical school at the University of Michigan and did internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. Blog post – by Smitha Want to test your learning?

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