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

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. However, it wasn't clear to us how easy it would be to apply this information, given that we usually need to prioritize patients on the schedule for that day.

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Using a typology to understand and address primary care administrative workload in Atlantic Canada [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design & Analysis We used a screening questionnaire to purposively select interview participants. Results/Findings Information management is central to health care delivery, but often not valued or actively supported. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment.

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Administrative burden in primary care: Critical review

Canadian Family Physician

Data sources A systematic search of MEDLINE and CINAHL electronic databases for peer-reviewed original research articles, literature reviews, and commentaries that discuss administrative burden in the context of primary care or primary health care.

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

Permanente Medicine

Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. I’m a family physician by training. They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Your provider updates this information at each visit to maintain an accurate picture of your health journey.

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

I just listened to the one on national cancer care that we’re doing, which was very informative and pretty impressive. WM: Like you, I’m a family physician. The second thing that is different is access to information. Let’s get this important cancer screening test done. AM: Thank you so much.

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