Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Appropriate care for people with complex needs calls for integrated care programs that include providers from primary care and other health and social services. Research is needed to identify mechanisms supporting successful scale-up of integrated care programs for this population. healthier communities).

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

Introduction The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) recognizes the utility and potential for Measurement Based Care (MBC) as a core feature of high-quality integrated healthcare. MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. What is MBC?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patients with diabetes who receive structured and integrated care have better control and outcomes; however, care may shift between multiple settings making coordination challenging. Results: We identified 176 patients with recent hemoglobin A1c ≥8%.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Appropriate care for these people calls for integrated care. However, few studies assessed the organizational conditions to implement integrated care programs (ICP), in preparation for scale-up. Results: Identifying patients targeted by the ICP was challenging. Case stories were developed and then compared.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Motivational interviewing is an effective tool for resolving ambivalence in parents or patients who express hesitancy about vaccination. Communication Strategies Using the presumptive format for initiating vaccine communication (“Johnny’s due for three shots today”) as opposed to the participatory approach where an open-ended question is used.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Case management in primary healthcare has been documented as a promising integrated care approach to overcome fragmented care faced by adults with complex healthcare and social needs (hereafter complex needs).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The "Sparkbrook Children’s Zone" (SCZ) is one of the first initiatives in the UK to co-locate GPs, dentists, pharmacists, social care organisations, and community-based services in a collaborative attempt to meet the specific needs and challenges of the local population.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 9, 2023

The latest clinical practice guideline from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization offers advice for treating patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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Sound Physicians

JUNE 16, 2025

A lack of clear communication among clinicians can leave patients feeling uneasy and uncertain. Identifying misalignment: The misalignment of people, process, and technology is the most common obstacle when it comes to successfully integrating emergency and hospital medicine. Want to take a deeper dive into integrated care?

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 10, 2025

. “This recognition honors the dedication of our Permanente physicians, clinicians, nurses, and staff who bring Permanente Medicine to life every day — delivering care that is compassionate, patient-centered, and seamlessly coordinated,” said Dr. Ansari. Improving physician wellness. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Genomic and personalized medicine implementation efforts have largely centered on specialty care in tertiary health systems. There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. More than 35,000 patients completed clinical genetic testing following GWA or BHA completion.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 23, 2025

The pursuit of value-based care has long been a clarion call for strengthening the American health care system. But there is still much to be learned about how and why it benefits patients and health care systems. We are dedicated to the mission of improving the health of our patients and communities.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

As an experienced physician leader, she is known for always going the extra mile for our patients and colleagues. ” Dr. She has held a variety of leadership positions within the organization dedicated to maintaining and advancing high-quality care that delivers value and superior outcomes for patients.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 20, 2025

In a commentary published in Becker’s Hospital Review, Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, and Ramin Davidoff, MD, co-CEOs of The Permanente Federation, explain why value-based care provides a blueprint for ensuring our health care system can deliver high-quality care to the growing population of older adults. Ansari and Davidoff.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 27, 2025

The portrayal of the doctor-patient relationship in films is rather interesting. The post Doctors Within Borders appeared first on Integrated Care News. When the film is a documentary, such portrayal is also revealing, as is the case with “Fire at Sea,” directed by Gianfranco Rosi in 2016.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Forget a lunch break; she often eats a sandwich or some nuts as she heads to her next patient visit. “Our patient isn’t just the older adult,” Johnson said. “Hello.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

To address the growing demand for health care services combined with workforce shortages, utilizing health care innovations that improve patient health and restore the joy in medicine for physicians and clinicians is more essential than ever. “The healthier the patient is, the better the system is,” said Dr. Ansari.

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 29, 2025

Early screening helps erase racial health disparities The study showed a significant reduction of colorectal cancer deaths among Black patients, which decreased from 52 per 100,000 in 2009 to 23.5 Deaths per 100,000 for Hispanic, white, and Asian patients decreased to 20 during the same time period.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And so, let’s help them.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

And just going back to that patient, I’ll tell you, before I started this role, I would have probably looked at the handout box in our clinic and been like, oh, okay. We just kind of start to amass these handouts and I would give them to the patient. Is it the patient? Eric: Wait, county 911? Lindsey: Our county 211.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

Topics on the AAFP agenda included: Improving Access to Primary Care for High Deductible Health Plans Enrollees - high deductible plans discourage patients from accessing primary to deal with problems such as diabetes and hypertension and delay care, leading to worsening health outcomes.

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NPR Health

MARCH 12, 2025

The Department of Veterans Affairs is one of the largest providers of mental health care in the U.S. Its integrated care model means patients are already feeling the cuts and changes that are underway. Image credit: Al Drago)

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