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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis Retrospective, longitudinal study using electronic health records. Some features affecting appointment outcomes were the provider’s experience and type, patient age, patient ethnicity, area deprivation index, home-clinic distance, number of comorbidities, usual provider of care index, insurance, and weather.

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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

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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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. 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. What does the doctor do first?

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

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network. I stepped down as director of the Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

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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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

It will break language barriers These M-LLMs will easily facilitate communication between healthcare providers and patients who speak different languages, translating between various languages in real time. Just as we’ve seen how live translation works with ChatGPT-4o.