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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Needs and Cervical Cancer Screening [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective To understand how patient-reported social needs are associated with cervical cancer screening in a fully insured population. Study Design Cross-sectional study combining patients’ screening data from the electronic health record (EHR) with self-reported social needs. Screening rate also varied by insurance type.

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Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Physician's Weekly

WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Getting approval from your insurance company before a procedure or treatment may soon get a little easier. said this week that several of the nation’s largest health insurers have agreed to change how they handle prior authorization, a system that often causes delays in care. Kennedy Jr.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Cash practices are appearing and evolving to meet patients’ needs without the mandates of Medicare and the private insurance industry, but are in essence duplicating cost and effort because of Obamacare’s insurance mandate. We meet people where they are and in many different ways. These approaches will improve with time.

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

The Health Policy Exchange

This electronic tool uses artificial intelligence to sift through patients' demographics, claims, and other data to produce a list of those with the greatest likelihood of an emergency department visit or hospitalization, theoretically allowing primary care physicians to intervene to prevent the event and its associated medical expenses.

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. What does the doctor do first? How long will it take? What information should you bring? Many patients ask: What happens at a new patient appointment in primary care? What Happens at Your First Visit? Absolutely.

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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Providing incentives such as tying vaccination to insurance-related or public benefits or offering small monetary or non-monetary incentives can also improve vaccine uptake. Vaccine hesitancy is the delay in accepting or refusing vaccination despite the availability of vaccination services. I discussed this debate in my previous blog post.

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

Finally, the arrival of interoperability can connect and harmonise various hospital systems An M-LLM could serve as a central hub that facilitates access to various unimodal AIs used in the hospital, such as radiology software, insurance handling software, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), etc. ” Patient points to lower abdomen.