A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

All three messages were false alarms, misleading missives, inadequate information or whatever you want to call it. In all three cases, one or two simple followup questions provided information that the prescribed treatments had actually worked fairly well. We learned this in medical school and residency. Difficile diarrhea.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting/Dataset: 121,570 registered patients over 18 years of age with an email address available in their electronic medical record. Setting: 104 PHC clinics across Quebec, Canada. Measures: The optimal number of profiles (four) was determined using LCA measures (best model determined by AIC, BIC, and entropy).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To validate and apply electronic medical record (EMR)-based definitions for mood and anxiety disorders (inc. Application of validated algorithms to capture mental health conditions can inform disease surveillance and health system planning. depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder), and schizophrenia.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cross panel strategies where consensus was reached included: (1) educating PC providers on survivorship guidelines, (2) enabling screening reminders, templates, and monitoring alerts in the electronic medical record, (3) educating patients on survivorship and communicating needs with PC, and (4) increasing oncology-PC communications.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There is limited research on implementation of LM in medically underserved communities. Instrument: REDCap survey administered electronically or by phone. The survey highlighted motivators and barriers unique to this underserved population that will be used to inform efforts to quality of care in primary-care based LM clinics.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Health Policy Fellowship three years ago, though I still enjoy working alongside these talented family physicians in clinic, such as Dr. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To develop and validate a novel electronic medical records (EMR)-based UTI case definition that can be applied to elucidate and understand UTI treatment and practice patterns in primary care. Context Misdiagnosis and over-diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) are a leading cause of inappropriate antimicrobial use.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 8, 2025

Electronic medical record notes are simply way too cumbersome, no matter in what order the segments are displayed, to be of much use if we quickly want to check what happened in the last few office visits before entering the exam room. We need something better – aSOAP ! It should follow logic.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Education and Information Education and information about vaccines can improve vaccine uptake if there is a significant knowledge gap and if the education is culturally and linguistically appropriate. Likewise, training healthcare professionals on vaccine information alone has not been found to improve vaccine uptake.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

Most medical practices are still stuck doing piecework. Even the required operational framework for Patient Centered Medical Home recognition is completely top-down. We meet people where they are and in many different ways. We provide many more services over the phone and virtually and we have a whole division for preventative care.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Exploring a Medical Office Assistant Career Are you looking for a stable, rewarding career in the healthcare field that doesn’t require a degree? Becoming a medical office assistant might be the perfect choice for you. What Does a Medical Office Assistant Do? What Does a Medical Office Assistant Do?

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

What information should you bring? Typically, it includes a full review of your medical history, a physical examination, and a conversation about lifestyle, medications, and future health goals. What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. Absolutely.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There is an urgent need to develop novel methods that accurately identify medication discontinuations in the electronic health record (EHR) to generate evidence to inform deprescribing. Text strings and algorithms were specific to each medication class to account for clinical documentation reflecting the indicated use.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

Traylor and colleagues (2025) show that generative‑AI tools can boost health literacy by translating medical jargon into plain language. Evidence‑informed care was literally at his fingertips. Our Patients Are Already Using AI Many people now ask their first health question to a chatbot rather than to a clinician.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 16, 2023

Recent increases in the use of health information technology (health IT) and electronic health records (EHR) provide avenues to untapped potential for improving health care productivity and efficiency.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 12, 2023

Clinical researchers have wondered whether screening the electronic health record (EHR) could improve the process. Could it provide enough information to determine whether a patient is a good fit for a study? Finding the right patients for clinical trials can be a struggle and require much time and effort.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Joshua Morris Josh is a proud cat dad to four kitties and a fourth year student at Dell Medical School applying Medicine-Pediatrics. He spent his third year doing an MA in design that cemented his passion for using creativity and innovation to better deliver care and information to patients and providers.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

Demand for new obesity medications like semaglutide (GLP-1 analogs) is high, but availability is low. Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? 9 The American Academy of Ophthalmology offers more information here 11.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Philip Won & Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Lisa M. Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — With the explosion of health‑related software, many software developers are generating products with functionality that is subject to regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This study aims to analyze electronic medical record (EMR) data to understand these workload dynamics. Context: Primary care providers in Canada face significant workload challenges, including managing prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests alongside patient visits.

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ABIM

MARCH 27, 2025

To help advance this mission, ABIM and the ABIM Foundation are proud to sponsor the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Visiting Scholars Program , a year-long, part-time research program that supports early career physicians and researchers as they strive to become leaders in their field.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

It takes more than just a physician’s clinical expertise to achieve optimal outcomes for these patients; it also requires effective communication and care coordination to ensure that physicians receive all the information necessary to care for their patients. Have open gaps in care or medications not filled.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. Qualitative interpretation and analysis involved representatives from each stakeholder group.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The development of an electronic submission template for 510(k) submissions is significant in that: eSTAR submissions are not expected to go through the refuse to accept (RTA) process. This has the potential to make the FDA’s review efficient as relevant information is collected upfront. add-to-files).

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Healthcare administrative assistants manage crucial administrative tasks in medical offices. As a healthcare administrative assistant, your day-to-day tasks may vary depending on the needs of the medical office. Managing accurate, up-to-date electronic health records while protecting patient confidentiality.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Electronic medical records (EMR) are digital versions of the paper charts in doctors' offices and hospitals that contain notes and information collected by and used for health care providers.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

But these early systems often struggled with complex medical terminology and the natural flow of conversation. For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 31, 2022

Mullen — On July 19, 2022, CDRH announced to users of its Customer Collaborations Portal (CCP) that it is now accepting premarket submissions electronically. As previously noted, this is very exciting news for the device industry, which up to this point has had to continue to ship electronic media to CDRH each time a submission is filed.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 3, 2023

Australia's My Health Record is a national, integrated electronic record, intended to overcome the problem of having personal health information "siloed" in different systems.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field. percent, touch 1.5 percent and taste 1 percent. Don’t you think that’s possible? Renowned scholars, L.D.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A higher concentration of medication in the body can lead to more side effects such as headaches, dizziness, or tremors. Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). A proportion of these ADEs can be explained by a difference in enzyme activity between individuals.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

It’s “going to streamline it in some incremental ways only,” Dr. Adam Gaffney , a critical care doctor and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told NBC News. Medical professionals will be required to review all denials (though insurers say they already do this). But experts say the changes may not go far enough.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: We conducted 25 semi-structured interviews informed by the Health Equity Implementation Framework. Interviews were transcribed and then analyzed using a combination of content and thematic analysis. Setting: Primary care clinics in the Minneapolis-St.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (“EPCS”), which a practitioner transmits directly to a pharmacy, do not allow the patient such an option. Transfer of Electronic Prescriptions for Schedule II-V Controlled Substances Between Pharmacies for Initial Filling, 88 Fed. 48365, 48369 (July 27, 2023).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

to complete an analysis of qualitative data collected from primary care clinician and staff perspectives on the use of anti-obesity medications. Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative study involving key informant interviews over two years. We utilized AI tools in the qualitative software program Atlas.ti using thematic analysis.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 31, 2023

In addition, a pharmacist could partially fill a schedule II prescription issued to patients in a Long Term Care Facility or who have a terminal medical illness diagnosis. For an emergency oral prescription, the prescribing practitioner must communicate the information to the pharmacist during the oral communication. 21 U.S.C. §

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed an electronic patch that can monitor biomolecules in deep tissues, including hemoglobin.

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