Electronics, Family Physician and Patients

Electronic Health Record Use and Patient-Centredness [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Large-scale electronic health record (EHR) programs have reported a number of issues to their implementation in primary care including physician patient-centredness and clinical performance. Population: Ten resident physicians and six staff physicians. Sessions were virtual and recorded over Zoom.

Electronics

Electronics Education Patients Primary Care

Describing Differences Across Place and Provider in Canadian Team-Based Care Settings Using Electronic Health Records [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background Team-based care (TBC) has established benefits for patient outcomes. In both cases, TBC can help by providing a collaborative approach to care that can better manage the complex needs of patients. In both cases, TBC can help by providing a collaborative approach to care that can better manage the complex needs of patients.

Electronics

Electronics Provider Family Physician Mental Health

Factors Associated with Documenting Social Determinants of Health in Electronic Health Records by Family Physicians [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding SDOH documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for care management to improve patient outcomes and mitigate health inequities. Context: Social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly impact health outcomes more than medical care alone, yet their integration into decision-making is inconsistent.

Family Physician

Family Physician Electronics Family Families

Primary care severe asthma registry project-phase 1: e-Delphi results for registry entry and indices of clinician behaviour [Pulmonary and critical care]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: The University of Toronto Practice-based and Learning Research Network (UPLEARN) in Ontario, Canada, comprises ~400 primary care physicians contributing data on ~400,000 patients.

Asthma

Asthma Primary Care Primary Care Physician Family Physician

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

The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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.

Primary Care

Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Behavioral Health Services

Electronic consultation questions asked to addiction medicine specialists by primary care providers: Retrospective content analysis

Canadian Family Physician

MAY 14, 2025

Objective To determine the major themes among clinical questions asked to addiction medicine specialists sent by primary care providers (PCPs) via the Champlain Building Access to Specialists through the eConsultation (BASE™) electronic consultation (eConsult) service and the PCP-perceived benefits of this service.

Primary Care

Primary Care Consulting Electronics Provider

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

Whether you’re establishing care with a new physician or attending a new patient visit , understanding the process can help you feel more confident and prepared. Many patients ask: What happens at a new patient appointment in primary care? People often search: What happens at a new patient visit? Absolutely.

Primary Care

Primary Care Appointment Telehealth PCP

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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment.

Primary Care

Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician

Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: 87 primary care providers, including family physicians, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Instrument: Providers randomly received an electronic medical record (EMR)-embedded survey in approximately 10% of telemedicine visits.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Primary Care Provider Nurse Practitioner

Administrative burden in primary care: Critical review

Canadian Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

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.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Electronics Patients

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

Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

For instance, in May, I prescribed a diabetic medicine for a patient. The patient was unable to pick up the medicine due to the cost (about $1800), so I prescribed the other diabetic medicine in the same class. The cost was also above $1000 so the patient left the pharmacy empty handed. My patients have a say in their care.

Healthcare

Healthcare Insurance Primary Care Board-Certified

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

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Patients IT Medical

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

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

They candidly discuss the unique challenges and opportunities health care organizations face in meeting patient expectations. Today we are talking about the patient care experience specifically here at Kaiser Permanente, but also in general. WM: Like you, I’m a family physician. AM: Thank you so much.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical

How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to cover a wide range of preventive services without patient cost-sharing. Dr. James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine.

Preventive Care

Preventive Care Preventative Care Appointment Screening

Older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease and access to palliative care: Retrospective cohort study in primary care

Canadian Family Physician

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Design Population-based retrospective descriptive cohort study using electronic health records. Setting St Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team, including 5 clinics and an interdisciplinary home-based outreach team, in Toronto, Ont. Almost half of the patients (n=22) lived alone.

Primary Care

Primary Care Hospital Electronics Consulting

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Electronic Health Record Use and Patient-Centredness [Education and training]

Describing Differences Across Place and Provider in Canadian Team-Based Care Settings Using Electronic Health Records [Health care informatics]

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Factors Associated with Documenting Social Determinants of Health in Electronic Health Records by Family Physicians [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Primary care severe asthma registry project-phase 1: e-Delphi results for registry entry and indices of clinician behaviour [Pulmonary and critical care]

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

Electronic consultation questions asked to addiction medicine specialists by primary care providers: Retrospective content analysis

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

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

Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Administrative burden in primary care: Critical review

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

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

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

How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease and access to palliative care: Retrospective cohort study in primary care

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