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Translating complex clinical environments to virtual care: Standards of Care in Virtual Medicine in Canada [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Rapid adoption of virtual care in early 2020, meant there was little time to develop or plan integrated virtual health care services, resulting in an urgency to establish governance for quality-based virtual care in Canada. Ethical, professional and legal requirements were alike for virtual care and in-person settings.

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From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Concierge Choice Physicians

For medical professionals and those working in healthcare, the article was grim. Time constraints and pressure on physicians, leading to a decay in the doctor-patient relationship, have eroded trust. Physicians, particularly primary or family care doctors, value the doctor-patient relationship too.

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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Families received help finding housing and employment, transferring social security benefits, and accessing healthcare. That experience still shapes my thinking today, as I reflect on how we might expand our healthcare teams’ presence and impact within the community.

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Direct Primary Care - Role for the Future of Healthcare

The Direct Doctors Difference

The strength also comes from a group of physicians who want something more and something better - improved work-life balance, return of joy to practicing medicine, and a renewal of the pure physician-patient relationship where the doctor knows his or her patient well. Most of the movement will stay small practice/grassroots.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Written by Pat Moody on Moody on the Market When it comes to healthcare, and primary care in particular, it has become increasingly difficult to remain successful as a small, independent practice. The good doctors say that to state that stepping outside of the traditional box of healthcare has been challenging would be an understatement.

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

The Physicians Foundation

Along with tracking the health of primary care, the Scorecard provides progress updates on the NASEM report’s policy recommendations for federal and state governments, health care organizations, and payers. The Physicians Foundation is dedicated to reversing this trend by championing increased investment and systemic support for primary care.

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Get the 4-1-1 on your 1099s: 5th and 7th Circuits Permit Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Independent Sales Agents

FDA Law Blog

Two recent cases from the Fifth and Seventh Circuits, however, support the legality of these arrangements in the absence of the government proving certain circumstances. Mallory , 988 F.3d 3d 730 (4th Cir. Sorenson follows the Fifth Circuits decision last year in United States v. Marchetti, 96 F.4th Marchetti, 96 F.4th Medicare or Medicaid).