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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit. It moves away from fragmented systems, provides alternatives to medication-only treatment paths, and leads patients to practical pathways for healing—whether for anxiety, diabetes management, depression, or addiction.

Integrated Care

Integrated Care Primary Care Mental Health Family Healthcare

Researchers develop antibiogram to help providers treat nontuberculous mycobacteria

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Researchers at National Jewish Health have published data that will help medical providers better understand the susceptibility of various nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) to different drugs. This new antibiogram will assist providers in making informed treatment decisions for patients with NTM.

Provider

Provider Medical Provider Medical Patients

What Does Team Function Look Like in Primary Care Integrated Behavioral Health? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Medical providers and staff, and integrated behavioral health (IBH) psychologists and psychiatrists. Intervention: N/A for this portion; therapeutic services were provided by IBH providers to patients. Setting: Seven primary care practices in one Colorado USA health system.

Primary Care

Primary Care Illness Mental Health Medical Provider

A classic educational video about the dangers of Repetitive Read Syndrome

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Choosing Wisely recommends that doctors and all medical providers have detailed conversations with patients and their families about why X-Rays are unlikely to give new information or provide any additional reassurance. They also expose young children to unnecessary radiation.

Asthma

Asthma Education Medical Provider Family

A video that teaches you how to talk about why we don’t need chest X-Rays in respiratory illnesses

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Choosing Wisely recommends that doctors and all medical providers have detailed conversations with patients and their families about why X-Rays are unlikely to give new information or provide any additional reassurance. They also expose young children to unnecessary radiation. This video features Dr.

Illness

Illness Asthma Medical Provider Family

Talking to families about why we don’t need tests after febrile seizures or first-time seizures

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Choosing Wisely recommends that doctors and all medical providers have detailed conversations with patients and their families about why labs and CT scans are unlikely to give new information or provide any additional reassurance. They also expose young children to painful venipuncture and unnecessary radiation.

Family

Family Families Lab Testing Medical Provider

Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. Welcome, Ariel. Ariel: Thanks.

Specialization

Specialization Medical Patient-Centered Provider

Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. Rightly so, these policies have changed frequently as we sort out the information amid new revelations, details, and statistics as they come in. We are all scared. Wear a mask. Don't engage.

ER

ER Illness Physicals Provider

Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. With that said, there is so much more that I learned from our guests for this trauma-informed care podcast. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Individual Screening

Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. He provides spiritual support to the patients, to the staff, and to the peer workers.

Families

Families Family IT Community

PRESS RELEASE: Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion

Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

This federal law has required hospitals with emergency departments to provide stabilizing treatment, including abortion, to patients experiencing medical emergencies for nearly four decades. EMTALA was designed to protect patients in crisis.

Patients

Patients Medical Student Patient-Centered Emergency Room

‘Til I Hear It From Congress: FDASLA to Direct Publication of Final OTC Hearing Aid Rules

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Back in the 2017 user fee package, the FDA Reauthorization Act (also called “FDARA”), Congress set forth a process for establishing a category of OTC hearing aids—hearing aids that may be sold directly to patients without the intervention of a medical provider.

IT

IT Provider Government Patients

Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? So provide multiple sort of concrete examples of what you’re talking about. Areej 24:39 For sure.

Illness

Illness IT Physicals Patients

Navigating Executive Orders and DOJ Memos That Threaten Criminal Prosecution

FDA Law Blog

MAY 26, 2025

Specifically, these are procedures and drugs used in providing what HHS had, until recently, referred to as gender-affirming care. Department of Health & Human Services purporting to provide a comprehensive review of the evidence and best practices for promoting the health of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Provider Medical IT

Primary Care Digest

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Researchers develop antibiogram to help providers treat nontuberculous mycobacteria

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What Does Team Function Look Like in Primary Care Integrated Behavioral Health? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

A classic educational video about the dangers of Repetitive Read Syndrome

A video that teaches you how to talk about why we don’t need chest X-Rays in respiratory illnesses

Talking to families about why we don’t need tests after febrile seizures or first-time seizures

Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

Corona Together

Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

PRESS RELEASE: Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion

‘Til I Hear It From Congress: FDASLA to Direct Publication of Final OTC Hearing Aid Rules

Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

Navigating Executive Orders and DOJ Memos That Threaten Criminal Prosecution

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