Healthcare Medical Primary Care Referral 
Integrated Care News by CFHA
MAY 1, 2025
Traylor and colleagues (2025) show that generative‑AI tools can boost health literacy by translating medical jargon into plain language. Evidence‑informed care was literally at his fingertips. For AI in Primary Care, Start With the Problem. Administrative overload fuels burnout and pushes us away from our patients.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: For many patients with long-COVID, primary care is the first point of interaction with the healthcare system. In principle, primary care is well-situated to manage long-COVID. However, beyond expressions of disempowerment, the patient’s perspective regarding the quality of long-COVID care is lacking.
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Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: In Ontario, multiple organizations operate under a ‘boutique’ medicine model where patients pay a block or annual fee to access primary care services. Comparatively, physicians in general practice were more likely to see patients for mental health, chronic disease, and preventive care.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: The Transitional Care Management (TCM) clinic visit is a uniquely billed visit type to review a recently discharged patient’s hospital course, reconcile medications, and continue ongoing workup. Intervention: A team was created with an attending physician, care coordinators, and front office staff.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: Patients with chronic medical conditions (CCs) and behavioral comorbidities have lower quality of life and increased healthcare expenses. Study Design: Secondary data analysis of patient demographic, referral, and encounter-level data extracted from site eMR (Epic).
Concierge Choice Physicians
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The industry was new then, developed largely as a response to the feeling that HMOs were taking over healthcare and making decisions that should be between a patient and their doctor. But it became increasingly clear that not all physicians could transition their medical practice to an exclusive concierge practice. They didn’t.
Plum Health
MAY 22, 2023
Direct Primary Care (DPC) has emerged as a viable, high-quality primary care model that liberates itself from the constraints of traditional fee-for-service (FFS) products. As employees change their healthcare usage behavior, both primary and specialty care claims decrease. Sadly, up to 80% do not.
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