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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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.

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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. Women were 3.8 times (95% CI 1.5-15.1)

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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. In all three cases, one or two simple followup questions provided information that the prescribed treatments had actually worked fairly well. Difficile diarrhea.

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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

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

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. A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Strategic Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) finds and supports synergy between people with lived experience, communities, partners, health care providers, researchers and policy makers. Results: The Pan-Canadian Patient Council met electronically to co-analyze and interpret the themes.

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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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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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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

We provide many more services over the phone and virtually and we have a whole division for preventative care. And, as the NEJM article points out, there are no financial incentives to have nurses or other non-providers manage routine problems like hypertension in our current system. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered.

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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? This blog covers everything you need to know—from appointment types and coding to telehealth options and what really happens during your time with the provider.

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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. prescriptions, 1.1

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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.

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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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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. Results Most participants’ risk level matched their expectations, informed by prior knowledge.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The aim is to analyze the feasibility of natural language processing (NLP) to train and automatically detect osteo from endocrinology cases in eConsult, to use primary care providers’ text data, provide explanations and help route endo cases to the more appropriate MD.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting and Population Studied Interviewees were primary care providers and administrative staff representing a range of payment models, a variety of clinic models, from both urban and rural locations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment.

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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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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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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Their role improves the patient experience and helps doctors, nurses, and other providers work more efficiently. Scheduling patient appointments and ensuring providers’ schedules are well-organized. Scheduling patient appointments and ensuring providers’ schedules are well-organized.

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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. ” This will streamline information access and task execution, freeing up valuable time for direct patient care.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

In an effort to clarify for industry and alleviate some of the stress associated with these activities, last week the FDA issued a draft guidance aimed at providing recommendations on how to handle inspections under FDA’s Bioresearch Monitoring (BIMO) program. Provide both completed and planned actions and related timelines.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As readers may recall, the current regulation provides for four options for a disclosure statement, i.e., text disclosure, symbol disclosure, electronic disclosure (QR code with a phone number for further information), and a text message disclosure.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Relaying information between patients and providers. Technical skills: Being comfortable with technology helps you learn to navigate electronic health records (EHRs). Professionalism: In healthcare, professional conduct involves compassion for patients and using discretion to protect private information.

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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. to be codified at 21 C.F.R.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study. These themes reflect a shift in the role of PGx in primary care with implications for education. Our results support previous survey study outcomes and give deeper understanding of the limited use of PGx.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal. By 2027, at least 80% of electronic prior authorization requests will be answered in real time, and the process will be easier to do online. More information Harvard Health has more on prior authorization. All rights reserved.

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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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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

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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FDA Law Blog

JULY 28, 2021

Registrants may also use DEA’s electronic Controlled Substance Ordering System (“CSOS”)). Both the single-sheet and triplicate forms require information about the supplier, including their name, address and DEA registration number. Electronic comments must be submitted, and written comments postmarked, on or before August 19, 2021.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 4, 2023

is among the first to survey the current landscape of FHIR apps, providing a snapshot of how the innovative standard is used to enable the flow of health information. FHIR apps can pull in data from most electronic health record systems, facilitating secure movement of information when and where needed.

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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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