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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

Invest in Person-Centered, Data-Informed Care Support the use of measurement-based care (MBC), which allows providers to track symptoms over time, improve quality, and avoid unnecessary treatments. Fund technology that supports behavioral health labs —routine assessments just like bloodwork—to inform care in real time and empower patients.

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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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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 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. percent, touch 1.5 percent and taste 1 percent.

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

Permanente Medicine

Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. 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. Outside of work.

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The New FDA Draft Human Factors Guidance: A Bridge Too Far

FDA Law

In 2016 , the agency issued its definitive HF guidance, guide manufacturers through human factors engineering processes during the development of new medical devices, focusing specifically on the user interface. Now FDA has issued a draft guidance , Content of Human Factors Information in Medical Device Marketing Submissions (Dec.

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

GeriPal

My great-grandmother in particular had a very profound hearing loss and I don’t know, as a kid, I was obsessed with taking them apart and wanted to do more of the engineering side. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time.

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New insights on genetic damage of some chemotherapies could guide future treatments with less harmful side effects

Medical Xpress

Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) and their collaborators analyzed blood cell genomes from 23 patients of all ages who had been treated with a range of chemotherapies. The content is provided for information purposes only.

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