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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

and foreign medical graduates matching into family medicine residency programs over the past five years will fall well short of supplying an additional 52,000 primary care physicians by 2025 , a shortage projected by the Robert Graham Center. By reducing face-to-face interactions, telehealth could easily make family medicine less rewarding.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Hearings and Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Last week, the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) was actively engaged in multiple discussions on health care policy, including Medical Assistance rate reimbursement, coverage for the Psychiatric Collaborative Care Model and broader reforms to patient-centered care. Read a summary of HF 1005. Read a summary of HF 958.

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He Slimed Me: FTC Hits GoodRx Over Unauthorized Use of Consumer Data

FDA Law Blog

Among its services are prescription drug discounts, telehealth visits, and other health services. It permanently bans the company from trafficking-in patient data on several fronts. FDA is building its Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCE). It may be that cases like this one may affect future FDA data cases.

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As the Calendar Turns, Cybersecurity Remains Key Focus of Digital Health Enforcement

FDA Law Blog

Claud — As we turn into the New Year, we offer a few items of interest in digital and telehealth regulation, enforcement, and compliance that may provide some helpful guideposts for stakeholders. By John W.M. Combination products might be part drug, part device, or part software or hardware.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Then, “Keep your hand up if you frequently refer patients with cancer pain to a psychologist?” That rings true to me. All hands go down.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

And we have Kate Courtright, who’s at University of Pennsylvania, the PAIR Center. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: Alex, who do we have with us today? We are at AAHPA…uh.AAHPM… Alex: Was it a long night last night? laughter] Eric: 2:30 AM.