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

The Physicians Foundation

adults lacked a usual source of care in 2022—marking the highest level in a decade, despite historically high rates of insurance coverage during this period. The percentage of NPs and PAs in primary care dipped to new lows of 30% and 24.3% in 2022, respectively, compared with 34% and 29.7% More than 30% of U.S.

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Bathrooms “R” Us

Physician's Practice

This may cause you to question the airline’s attention to details like engine maintenance or losing passenger’s luggage. Neil Baum, MD Perhaps you have been on an airplane and pulled down the tray only to find food scraps and coffee stains on the tray. 60: Strategic planning with Stephen A. 60: Strategic planning with Stephen A.

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

Permanente Medicine

Our patients stay with us for just a really long time and longer than any other health insurance. Patients nowadays have evolved, so our ability to build and engineer AI systems to help people help themselves is going to be the future. By the way. The second thing is really around patient self-service.

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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. I don’t like this anymore.”

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

The company works closely with a continuously growing number of insurance companies in Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK, in the Netherlands among others, as well as with companies offering this service to their employees. So far, this dermatology app has been used by 3.5 million instances globally by almost 2 million users.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

We learned this and much more, and I had a great time making engine noises singing the Woody Guthrie song “driving in my car.” . Then some may not take insurance, and it might be an out-of-pocket cost, which maybe some people then won’t be able to afford and so forth. Additional Links: (A to Z – under driving). OT programs).

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. The pushback is we can’t find folks. ” Who would stay on that plane? Eric: Okay.

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