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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Residents and local leaders joined forces to send food and clothing to the island and to welcome newly arrived families to their town. The Holyoke Health Center, in collaboration with the Family Resource Center at Enlace de Familias , played a pivotal role in this local relief effort.

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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

That small win reminded me that artificial intelligence is already shaping the way our patients (and our families) search for health advice. I believe that as clinicians, educators and supervisors, we are called to guide this shift. Within minutes he integrated the latest findings into practical recommendations for the family.

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Planning scale-up of integrated care programs for people with complex needs: a multiple case study [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Appropriate care for these people calls for integrated care. However, few studies assessed the organizational conditions to implement integrated care programs (ICP), in preparation for scale-up. Case B: 12 operational committee meetings; 8 clinical support meetings; 14 people trained.

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Adoption, implementation, and impact of a Diabetes Navigator program based in primary care [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Patients with diabetes who receive structured and integrated care have better control and outcomes; however, care may shift between multiple settings making coordination challenging. Navigators attempted to call 96 patients and reached 64 patients (67% response rate).

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Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. Objective: To describe a decade-long implementation process for genomic and precision medicine embedded in a primary care community hospital network.

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

Permanente Medicine

Related health care AI podcast: Assessing the impact of AI in medicine The podcast episode also examined how the value-based care model, which emphasizes prevention, coordination, and patient-centered care, creates a better environment for innovations that improve care quality. I’m a family physician by training.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” She works with the patient and a family member who often has power of attorney. “She was accurate,” Watt said.