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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis Retrospective, longitudinal study using electronic health records. Outcome Measures Appointment outcome status was categorized into 1 of 3 event types: completed appointment (CA), noshow (NS), or same day cancellation (SDC), with NS and SDC representing a MA.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

This electronic tool uses artificial intelligence to sift through patients' demographics, claims, and other data to produce a list of those with the greatest likelihood of an emergency department visit or hospitalization, theoretically allowing primary care physicians to intervene to prevent the event and its associated medical expenses.

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

In the event you are unsuccessful at extending your graduation date or securing an internship position, options for practicing medicine tend to become severely limited. After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections.

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How Doctors Should Address Lifestyle Creep

The Motivated MD

Most don’t understand that, unless you can shell out a substantial downpayment, your home is often accompanied by higher insurance costs, more square footage then expects nicer furnishings, increased utility costs, and often the expenses associated with repairs or remodels. Further, why subject yourself to a monthly payment?

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

For example, practices have adopted electronic medical records (EMR) systems only to find that productivity in the practice ground to a halt. Successful practices have found ways to work around the loss of productivity and ultimately made Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) work effectively in their practices.

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

Permanente Medicine

Nguyen shared the multiple benefits of an AI ambient listening tool — recently rolled out nationally to more than 25,000 Permanente physicians — that transcribes office visits (with patient consent) that can be edited and added to electronic health records. By the way.

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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. The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen.