Canadian Family Physician

MAY 14, 2025

Objective To determine the major themes among clinical questions asked to addiction medicine specialists sent by primary care providers (PCPs) via the Champlain Building Access to Specialists through the eConsultation (BASE™) electronic consultation (eConsult) service and the PCP-perceived benefits of this service.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Consulting Electronics Provider 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Medicaid Claims, Epic electronic health record. Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine. Population Studied: Attributed patients of participating clinics; clinic staff; Colorado state agency staff. Intervention/Instrument: Legal-needs screening tool.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Medical Behavioral Health Services Utilities 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 21, 2025

Use shared electronic health record (EHR) features to enable smooth referrals and tracking of patient progress between primary care and specialty behavioral health services. Leverage Technology and Data Implement measurement-based care tools that work across both systems to track patient outcomes and demonstrate effectiveness.

Behavioral Health Services 130

Behavioral Health Services Primary Care Integrated Care Mental Health 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

Reclaiming Time and Attention Primary care professionals may log more than eleven hours a day, over half of it in the electronic health record (Menchaca, 2025). Administrative overload fuels burnout and pushes us away from our patients.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional 130

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. referrals, and 6.6 (2.8) prescriptions, 1.1 (0.5)

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Provider Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Individuals identified through electronic medical record (EMR) periodic surveillance with either diagnosed with HCV and either not engaged in treatment or not completed treatment, as well as those needing additional testing (SVR or high-risk re-testing).

Behavioral Health Services 130

Behavioral Health Services Primary Care Patients Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Electronic risk assessment and communication may enhance screening and prevention, but patient perspectives are understudied. Perceived harms included unintended interpretation of results, uncertainty of results’ accuracy or validity, lack of awareness of results or referrals to genetic services for those at elevated risk.

Screening 130

Screening Patients Referral Families 130

Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Firsthand referrals often lead to trusted and patient-focused providers. Look for patterns in reviews, such as: Timeliness Bedside manner Support staff professionalism Also, ask friends, family, or even your pharmacist for personal recommendations.

Diabetes 52

Diabetes Board-Certified Management Internal Medicine 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

There are a growing number of Child Psychiatric Access Programs, including one in Massachusetts, which provide quick access to psychiatric consultation and facilitates referrals for accessing ongoing behavioral health care. Disclosures The hosts and guests report no relevant financial disclosures.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Community Patient-Centered Hospital 52

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

When you put in that referral, how do we make sure that that patient walks out with the specialty appointment versus phone tag. They’ll also pen the rheumatology referral. Last year we [met] to talk about how to make the booking experience of our patients superb, how do we give them the red-carpet treatment.

IT 52

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 52

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? Should we just use the referrals, whatever’s coming into us, whoever, whatever clinician decides. By diagnosis?

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. ” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. Or electronically, to fill out, right? This is terrific.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

” So a lot of times it’s a referral back to their primary care, to a specialist-. Or have electronic health record prompts so people remember to ask it? Emmy: Sometimes it is, “Go see your eye doctor. You currently don’t meet the state standard, but I think you could, if you filled your glasses prescription.”

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

So that’s kind of something that we’ve really been interested in most recently and just have a pilot implementation study funded to get it implemented into the stream of care and are figuring out how do we get this information summarized quickly and into the electronic health record. Eric: LaVera, I got a question for you.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from. So the problem of, hey, look at us, we promise we’ll be helpful.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It’s that first place that you start where it may not be the AAAs job, but we’ve organized where they have to have the partnerships and they know who the players are and they know who to make a referral to. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. I think most states have them.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records. Sydney 22:01 Well, it’s what’s in the electronic health record. Eric 22:03 Okay.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Get the hospice referral. Tell me what would you… Juliet: Fully Integrated electronic medical records system that made this very easy for clinicians to do. So you need to do them in order. And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? We want to get the DNR, right? Eric: On EHR?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

If we’re going to get really academic, that’s the umbrella, and that can include a lot of things like including phone calls between a provider and a patient or messages in someone’s electronic medical record. So it developed all this issue around what is a qualifying referral that would allow me to do telehealth prescribing?

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73