Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Formative research included depth interviews with primary care/oncology clinicians, patient advocates, and policy influencers (n=40), and two Delphi panels (1-national survivorship experts; 1-local primary care clinicians) to identify/prioritize strategies for breast cancer survivorship care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participating clinic sites offered convenience sample frame, patients with legal needs were identified through universal and secondary screening approach. Descriptive analysis utilized primary legal record and secondary electronic health record sources. Intervention/Instrument: Legal-needs screening tool.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Little is known about how patients’ social needs (i.e. Objective To understand how patient-reported social needs are associated with cervical cancer screening in a fully insured population. Dataset Utilized data from a large integrated health system. Results Over 30% of patients reported at least one social need.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

Introduction The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) recognizes the utility and potential for Measurement Based Care (MBC) as a core feature of high-quality integrated healthcare. MBC enhances therapeutic alliance and improves culturally informed care to diverse patient groups. (10, 3, 4) Why is MBC important?

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

In this blog, we’re going to outline four key ways temporary medical staff such as locum tenens providers can help healthcare facilities maintain continuity of high-quality patient care in the face of growing shortages. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Successful implementation required the development of a scalable family history collection tool, the Genetic and Wellness Assessment (GWA) and Breast Health Assessment (BHA) tools; integrated pharmacogenomics programming; educational programming; electronic medical record integration; and robust clinical decision support tools.

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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 23, 2025

Obesity drugs were not utilized often in young adults and adolescents despite high complication rates, prompting researchers to call for chronic, holistic care. The retrospective analysis incorporated data from Optum MarketClarity claims and electronic medical records. The data spanned from January 2019 to March 2024. of young adults.

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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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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. Study Design & Analysis We used a screening questionnaire to purposively select interview participants.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community health centers (CHCs) provide critical safety-net health care for millions of underserved patients in the U.S., The Self-Identified Need for Contraception-based electronic clinical quality measures (SINC-based eCQMs) measure if patients who self-identify their interest in contraception receive a method.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 23, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

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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. At its core, the technology utilizes sophisticated speech recognition to transcribe a conversation in the exam room or at the bedside. The result?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We utilized AI tools in the qualitative software program Atlas.ti 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.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 25, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

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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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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections. It would also be possible to go into concierge medicine and focus on VIP patients. This would require relocating and I am not aware of how much it pays.

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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. Patients that use ESD undergo continuous 24/7 monitoring. Patients are continually monitored for safety. percent of examples.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

According to the announcement, enabling patients to access medical devices beyond traditional clinical settings can help close the healthcare gap by delivering care “directly to patients, wherever they are – at home, at work, in cities, in rural communities.” and remote or wearable patient monitoring devices (e.g.,

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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 11, 2023

This announcement addresses one of the commitments in FDA’s Medical Device Safety Action Plan: Protecting Patients, Promoting Public Health. Over the years, we’ve blogged on similar initiatives related to the 510(k) pathway. In a statement released at the time, CDRH Director Jeffrey Shuren, M.D.,

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 19, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

However, notably absent from the new draft guidance are some specific recommendations from the 2006 guidance regarding number of members, types of scientists, and representatives of the relevant patient population and from different gender and ethnic groups.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

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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. So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: American Family Cohort, a data asset including electronic health records of 8 million patients from family practices across 50 US states. Population Studied: Patients with ≥1 visit between January 2018 and December 2019 and who remained in the cohort until at least May 2020. 95% CI 0.51, 0.7)

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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. FDA has model recall communication templates available here that firms can utilize.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This summary covers everything from format and contents of INDs to their submission and use of the Electronic Submissions Gateway to cross-referencing other applications to FDAs review of the IND and the associated timelines. Section #1: FDA Interactions Given the wide range of sponsors (i.e.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting & Population Studied De-identified electronic health record data of patient demographics and treatment from health systems participating in the Epic Cosmos database were accessed. Results In the Cosmos database, 11.3% (n=17,124,293) of patients reported previous or current tobacco use. p<0.0001).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Identify patient, provider, and healthcare process and utilization factors associated with rates of secondary acceptance of the HPV vaccine.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: 1) Demonstrate the feasibility of collecting data from prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) for population health reporting, 2) analyze trends in PDMP and electronic health record patient data relative to CDC guidelines and 3) identify use of patient-centered measures for pain management in primary care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Some research has found lower HPV vaccine uptake in Latino patients and others have demonstrated higher uptake by Latino subgroups. Dataset OCHIN electronic health record data from 27 US states. Results Among both male and female patients, all Latino/a groups had higher odds of vaccine initiation and of ?

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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

MARCH 28, 2024

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. And that’s it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Patients have all sorts of problems. We all focused on studying the outcomes for patients and families of our intervention and then the processes to get there. Whether it’s the consult rate or documentation of a conversation, hospice referrals, those kinds of things, and then patient outcomes, quality of life, symptom burden.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Clinicians were randomized to 4 groups: Usual care Prognosis nudge – EHR prompt asking, do you think your patient will be alive in 6 months?

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