The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

The Health Policy Exchange

OCTOBER 21, 2020

primary care physicians accept Medicare, and Medicare enrollment has been associated with improvements in age-specific mortality relative to peer nations. fewer cancer screenings, more conservative prescribing of statins) or declining to cover some beneficial but very expensive therapies. He pointed out that 93% of U.S.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Family Physician Insurance Primary Care 130

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. It’ll certainly write the letter summarizing your visit to the primary care doc, and then, write another version of it in patient language, both their language and their reading level, if you want, to the patient.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients?

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

” And I could tell you that’s a lot for a government agency to hear. I mean people can walk to your office and you can have all kinds of problems recorded to your prescription just because they came to your office rather than you looked at them on a computer screen doesn’t really change. We hear that all the time now.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73