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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Individuals with complex conditions—those with multiple physical, mental, or behavioral health conditions--require numerous health and social services that are not effectively co-delivered by the current healthcare system. This study also provides the first formal evaluation of the KHH program.

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Health Trends Across Communities: a healthcare system-public health collaboration to advance health equity across Minnesota [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health Trends Across Communities (HTAC) is a collaboration of Minnesota healthcare systems and state and local public health that helps fill the gap in community health information by providing timely, detailed, and accessible summary electronic health record (EHR) information and reports. Population Studied: Minnesota residents.

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Exploring the Relationship Between Racial Microaggressions and Substance Use, and Healthcare Interactions in Asian Americans [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

We also explored patterns of substance use discussions with healthcare providers (HCPs). Objective We examined the relationship between RMs and substance use in Asian Americans (AAs), and whether ethnic identity strength moderated associations. tobacco, cannabis, and alcohol), controlling for demographic factors.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. What are the limitations of permanent healthcare staffing solutions? As a healthcare facility, your primary focus is on consistently providing the highest-quality services possible to your patients.

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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

At Mesa Family Physicians, we believe that preventing illness is always better than treating it. As your trusted healthcare providers in Mesa, Arizona, we’re committed to helping you understand and access the preventive services that can keep you and your family healthy for years to come.

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Tracing impact: building capacity in patient-oriented primary care research in Ontario and beyond [Patient engagement]

Annals of Family Medicine

Together with ten patients who have experience managing chronic illness or life-limiting conditions, PERC encourages and supports the meaningful engagement of patients as partners in PC research. In Ontario, Canada, more people access PC than any other type of healthcare.

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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. Many seemed to blame physicians as much as insurers and the government for everything they experience as wrong in healthcare, from long waits to Covid-19. In today’s healthcare marketplace, that’s concierge care. But what can be done?

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