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Exploring Primary Care Provider eConsult Utilization Trends [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital. Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Study Design and Analysis: This retrospective analysis of program data spans from 2018 through 2023. It includes templated eConsult exchange data extracted from the electronic health record.

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Primary care workforce planning within integrated care models: Application of a workforce planning toolkit [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Regional human resources and population health data was collected from multiple data sources including federal, provincial/territorial, regional, and hospital/primary care levels, along with surveys to all providers. Descriptive analysis was conducted for quantitative data. Qualitative data was analyzed used thematic analysis.

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Staff perspectives of a novel integrated community care hub in an urban underserved population (UK) [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

o Context or Objective: The UK is witnessing an increase in emergency department use and hospital admissions for children and young people from underserved populations, exacerbated in the UK by continued issues around access to primary care.

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AAFP Represents Members During 2025 Legislative Session

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

What Happened: The Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education did not meet to discuss the bill. HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep. Under this program, qualifying hospitals would receive gifts to support their provision of acute care services to rural populations.

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Patient Experience of Emergency Department Care in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

The final analysis showed that age, gender and hospital location are associated with patient ED care experience. All the variables had a factor loading of ≥0.7 with the latent variable, except patient experience with staff responsiveness to requests. Older patients reported a better experience than younger patients [OR 1.11, CI 1.04-1.19].

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Permanente Live webinar — Finding success in value-based care

Permanente Medicine

Who: Ceci Connolly, president and CEO, Alliance of Community Health Plans Nolan Chang, MD, EVP of Strategy, Corporate Development, and Finance, The Permanente Federation Stephen Parodi, MD, EVP of External Affairs, Communications, and Brand, The Permanente Federation (Host) What: “Permanente Live: Finding success in value-based care.”

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My Green Doctor Begins Pilot with Weill Cornell Medicine

My Green Doctor

Since its launch in 2010, MGD has been helping healthcare clinics, offices, and systems around the world make practical, measurable progress toward environmental sustainability—without compromising patient care, staff efficiency, or clinic finances. MGD by the Numbers: 30 health professional societies offer MGD as a free membership benefit.