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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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The US Healthcare System vs…….South Park ?!?!

Noreta Family Medicine

While some medical offices have changed to electronic forms, many still require that you put pencil to paper. However, why are there so many layers of red tape to cut through in order for my patients to get care that has been recommended by me, a licensed and board-certified family physician?

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. The visual value for a frightened family in a foreign land is hard to quantify. It’s everything written here about electronic health records. Probably needs a conversation, be it on video or telephone. Happy reading.