Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

MBC is presented not simply as data collection, but as a dynamic, evidence-based clinical process that enhances outcomes, promotes equity, and strengthens team-based care. MBC enhances therapeutic alliance and improves culturally informed care to diverse patient groups. (10, 3, 4) Why is MBC important? 3, 4) Why is MBC important?

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

An electronic medical record (EMR) alert is effective for reducing food allergy panel ordering among pediatric and adult patients, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, held from Feb. 24 to 27 in San Antonio.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Protocols and Reminders Reminder and recall systems (mail, phone, text, apps, other media, and electronic health records) to identify and remind or notify individuals or parents when vaccines are due to have shown evidence of increasing vaccine uptake, and they are often combined with other strategies.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Mental health and SUD bias impact the quality of ED care that patients with these conditions receive for physical health concerns, according to research. What the Patients Said According to the study, three key themes emerged: Negative encounters dominated. Isbell, PhD , of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Calac June 22, 2023 Summary : This episode highlights a selection of antiracism research presentations at a live recording of the podcast at the 2023 SGIM Annual Meeting. Identify strategies to mitigate bias and stigma in the electronic health record as a trainee and medical practitioner.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

Authors of an abstract presented at the American Diabetes Association’s 85th Scientific Sessions called for a holistic, chronic treatment model to support children and young adults with obesity. The retrospective analysis incorporated data from Optum MarketClarity claims and electronic medical records. of adolescents and 5.7%

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

The PATHWEIGH trial aims to embed structured obesity care into primary care, addressing barriers and boosting clinician confidence and patient outcomes. Through this model, PATHWEIGH seeks to improve both the clinical delivery of weight management services and patient outcomes. From the clinician perspective, Peter C.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

Upshaw, MD , and colleagues developed an anonymous electronic survey they emailed to 12 academic medical systems, three US lymphoma cooperative groups, and two community hospitals, and distributed at one international lymphoma meeting. Clinicians were asked how they would treat this patient.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 6, 2023

In Maine, Anopheles mosquito vectors are present. Providers should encourage confirmed and suspected patients with malaria to avoid activities that would put them in contact with local mosquitoes. While the risk in Maine remains low, it is possible for local mosquitoes to acquire Plasmodium spp. READ Maine CDC Health Advisory (PDF)

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Currently, DEA regulations do not address transfer of controlled substance prescriptions — whether paper or electronic — between pharmacies for the initial filling of the prescription. At present, a pharmacy that receives an EPCS that it is unable to fill can only notify the patient that the prescription cannot be filled.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Card studies have been influential in changing clinical practice, such as the reduction of antibiotics in patients with upper respiratory infections. Cards are usually printed on heavy-stock paper, include 2-5 questions, and take >3 minutes to complete at a patient visit.

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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.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

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. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 7, 2023

Doctors who received customized electronic health record (EHR) alerts for specific patients were 2.5

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

[link] Episode Description Dr. Joshua Inglis presents a Human Dx case to Sharmin , Vivek Nair and Joshua Morris. 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. Take our Episode Quiz here.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Cooper September 19, 2024 Summary : This episode highlights a selection of antiracism research presentations at a live recording of the podcast at the 2024 SGIM Annual Meeting. She has advanced training in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Science. She has advanced training in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Science.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Please check out FDA’s presentation on this very topic – Is My Product a Medical Device? See here for the slides, here for the recording of the presentation, and here for the transcript.). Step 4: Is the software function intended to serve as electronic patient records?

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

12, 2012). “[W]hen the circumstances surrounding the presentation of a prescription would give rise to suspicion in a ‘reasonable professional,’ there is a duty to question the prescription.” Providers should be aware of the other drugs prescribed to their patients. Holiday CVS, L.L.C. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy, Nos. 62,316, 62,342 (Oct.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These data are routinely collected from a variety of sources, such as electronic health records, providing information on health and healthcare in actual patients, rather than in the controlled environment of a clinical trial. This value is potentially even greater for rare diseases, where there are limited sources of data.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

To request an FEI Number, laboratories will need to provide a long list of identifying information to FDA via email ( feiportal@fda.hhs.gov ) ( see slide 23 of the FDA’s presentation for the complete list). is it the lab itself, the healthcare provider, or the patient?). There is no cost associated with obtaining an FEI Number.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. I think this is where there are two parallel pathways here that are implied in your question.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

With increasing emphasis on patient turnover and documentation, all while navigating the complexities of billing and authorization, our jobs are stressful and time-consuming. You spend your life dedicated to patient care while still hoping to leave work and have the energy to be mentally and physically present for your families and friends.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2022

In recognition that hard copy communications are slower and more cumbersome, FDA recommends that firms use electronic communications, as they lay out the details of the electronic means here , to notify the public about recalls. The saying “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst” applies to recalls.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

FDA announced on October 3, 2022 that the voluntary electronic Submission Template And Resource (eSTAR) templates would be required beginning October 1, 2023, as we blogged about here. In the eSTAR template, because answers to early questions cause various sections to appear in the template or not (e.g.,

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Chemical characterization identifies and quantifies chemicals that may be released from the medical device, while a toxicological risk analysis (TRA) evaluates the risks to the patient associated with the chemicals identified. Data from chemical characterization studies must be evaluated in a separate TRA following ISO 10993-17 guidelines.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Interestingly, new research has highlighted differences in smoking behaviors and cessation rates in African American (AA)/Black smokers compared to White smokers which present a unique opportunity for tailored interventions. Results In the Cosmos database, 11.3% (n=17,124,293) of patients reported previous or current tobacco use.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online June 16 in Pediatrics , updated recommendations are presented for providing adolescent patients with contraceptive counseling and methods. ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

By building an integrated, patient-centered colorectal cancer screening program, we doubled screening rates, cut deaths by 50%, and made major strides in closing racial disparities in outcomes. The approach was simple: consistently alert patients that it’s time to get screened and make getting screened as easy as possible.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 29, 2025

Early screening helps erase racial health disparities The study showed a significant reduction of colorectal cancer deaths among Black patients, which decreased from 52 per 100,000 in 2009 to 23.5 Deaths per 100,000 for Hispanic, white, and Asian patients decreased to 20 during the same time period.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

difficulty of sending patient messages through the electronic medical record in languages other than English), limited healthcare literacy, and English-only signage on healthcare campuses are just a few of the structurally racist barriers faced by many Asian folks seeking healthcare. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. William: Thanks so much.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Caveat as well that RCTs should not be placed on pedestal as the only answer- often patients enrolled in RCTs do not represent real world patients – observational studies do. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The patient case. I think the theme is more saving someone’s life and the regret that follows.

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