Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: 1) Test the virtual model of MLP to achieve more favorable economies of scale 2) Develop a policy-informed lexicon for MLP to inform model development, D&I research, and improve data sharing across models to ultimately advance sustainable state-based funding for MLP. Intervention/Instrument: Legal-needs screening tool.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Because people with MCC typically see multiple providers in multiple care settings often using different EHRs, critical information is difficult to obtain, leading to fragmented care, clinician and patient burden, and suboptimal outcomes. The apps also collect patient reported data on goals, social needs, and functional status.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Neither delivery of electronic nudge letters nor letters to general practice increase uptake of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published online June 7 in Circulation. Kristoffer Grundtvig Skaarup, M.D.,

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

All three messages were false alarms, misleading missives, inadequate information or whatever you want to call it. After a few more questions, all three patients turned out to actually be doing much better than the messages suggested. Difficile diarrhea. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

POPULATION STUDIED: Diverse stakeholders (PC clinicians, survivorship experts, policy leaders, oncologists, and patient advocates) were interviewed (n=45). CONCLUSIONS: Stakeholder developed strategies were prioritized to inform the development of a multi-component intervention to improve follow-up care in PC.

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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. Study Design and Analysis Retrospective cross-sectional study.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Electronic health records (EHR) and patient portal systems have resulted in an unrestricted, undefined, and often uncompensated workload for Primary Care providers. Quantify distribution of uncompensated workload based on provider characteristics/demographics. Results: 192 surveys sent; 67% response rate.

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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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project. Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. What information should you bring? 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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Increased workload associated with electronic visits (eVisits) in primary care could potentially be decreased by the use of artificial intelligence (AI); however, it is unknown whether this use of AI would be acceptable to staff and patients. We analyzed verbatim transcripts using thematic analysis.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccine uptake A recent systematic review provides an overview of evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccine uptake and indicates that multi-component interventions are more effective than single-component interventions.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Electronic risk assessment and communication may enhance screening and prevention, but patient perspectives are understudied. Study design and analysis Our approach was informed by the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability. Patient coinvestigators and clinicians were involved in all research steps.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care providers in Canada face significant workload challenges, including managing prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests alongside patient visits. This study aims to analyze electronic medical record (EMR) data to understand these workload dynamics. 0.9SD) encounters per patient since 2007.

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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. Setting: De-identified EMR data from 1,574 primary care providers participating in the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN). depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder), and schizophrenia.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 12, 2023

Finding the right patients for clinical trials can be a struggle and require much time and effort. 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?

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context The primary care practitioners’ (PCP) perceptions of disease given patients’ conditions are reflected in their narrated questions to specialists while using eConsult, an online primary care service. We then used pretrained Language Model (BERT) to extract important terms associated with contrasting segments of data.

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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. Results/Findings Information management is central to health care delivery, but often not valued or actively supported.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Healthcare administrative assistants handle the clerical and office tasks that support patient care. Their role improves the patient experience and helps doctors, nurses, and other providers work more efficiently. Typical responsibilities include: Managing front desk operations, including greeting patients and answering phones.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

Since the mid-1990s, our capacity for innovation has never stopped as hospitalists navigate a complex landscape of acute illnesses, interprofessional collaborations and the imperative to provide efficient, high-quality care. Beyond time savings, ambient AI can enhance the quality of our patient interactions. The result?

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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 In 2015, surgeons in Manchester, UK have performed the first bionic eye implant for an AMD patient using Second Sight’s innovation. The journal Nature provided a commentary report on HKUST’s research into the bionic eye.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This analysis was part of a larger implementation study called PATHWEIGH, which provides a toolset embedded in the EpicTM electronic health record and other supportive services to help practices provide weight management to their patients. We utilized AI tools in the qualitative software program Atlas.ti

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

They support patients and clinical staff by handling the essential administrative tasks that keep healthcare facilities running smoothly. As a medical office assistant, some of your day-to-day responsibilities may include: Greeting and checking in patients. Confirming patients’ insurance coverage.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Team-based models of care have become an integral part of the primary care system and is increasingly regarded as a key feature in achieving high-quality primary care by providing integrated, comprehensive, and continuous person-centred care. Only 4 indicators directly capture the individual contribution of IPC providers.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study. A proportion of these ADEs can be explained by a difference in enzyme activity between individuals. Recurrent themes were identified.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Starting next year, if a patient switches insurance plans while getting treatment, the new plan must honor the old plan’s prior authorization for at least 90 days. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal. More information Harvard Health has more on prior authorization.

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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

Houck — If a patient presents a paper prescription for a controlled substance to a pharmacy and the pharmacy cannot fill it, the patient can take that prescription to another pharmacy. Instead, the patient must request that the prescriber send a new prescription to a different pharmacy. By Larry K. 48365, 48369 (July 27, 2023).

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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. His academic interests include clinical reasoning, drug allergy and the electronic health record.

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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.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845 The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has fueled numerous massive global health initiatives. As impressive as these large numbers may be, the question that is less often asked is “How much of that big data is actually helping us do better?”

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Medicine is facing a crisis of information. Beyond the increase of biomedical information are rising demands for physician response to portal messaging (MyChart messages) and review of wearable generated data. More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

FDA notes that the distinctions between responsibilities for these groups and DMCs should be clearly defined, particularly with respect to access to unblinded information. FDA has dropped such restrictive language in the new draft guidance, and instead intends to refer “relevant and important” information.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

FDA recognizes the potential of RWE to support regulatory submissions of medical devices and to inform benefit-risk analysis of such products, while assuring patients have timely access to devices. Rather than looking at how RWD/RWE provide meaningful information on safety and effectiveness, reviewers often focus on perceived gaps.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While the methodology for determining if your product is a medical device has not changed, FDA’s Digital Health Policy Navigator (“Navigator”) provides a convenient and efficient framework for developers to assess software functions. Step 4: Is the software function intended to serve as electronic patient records?

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