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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

At the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), we see your agenda aligning with ours in powerful ways. We’re already doing it in places like community health centers in New Mexico, rural clinics in North Carolina, and urban hospital systems in Chicago. Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash The post An Open Letter to Robert F.

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From Neural Networks to Human Brains: The Next Tech Leap Has Begun

Physicians News Digest

These numbers extend far beyond healthcare expenses. With aging populations worldwide, these burdens are only expected to grow—placing additional pressure on healthcare systems and economies alike. In the U.S., Parkinson’s disease costs $52 billion annually, and sleep disorders drain another $94 billion from the economy.

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Episode 177: Wdx #10 – Negotiations

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Katrina Armstrong is the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of Massachusetts General Hospital. Through her role, she bridges educational and hospital leadership to engage frontline staff into the institutional quality, safety, and value mission.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital. Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. That must have been truly amazing! solutions for eye care, though.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Misplaced Training Dollars: Lack of funding for community-based training impacting the primary care physician pipeline Hospital-based graduate medical education (GME) receives significantly more funding than community-based programs, a disparity linked to fewer new primary care physicians entering the workforce. In 2022, only 24.4%

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. And nurses and other healthcare practitioners knew nothing about it. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

And then, so from that point on, I began to look at technology systems, processes for all settings, inpatient, outpatient care at home, a hospital at home. Patients nowadays have evolved, so our ability to build and engineer AI systems to help people help themselves is going to be the future. Outside of work.