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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

Mobile health, or "mHealth" for short, describes technology that allows clinicians or public health professionals to monitor and/or deliver health-related messages to patients via cellular phones, tablets, or other wireless devices. and abroad was the topic of a recent Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar.

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Increasing Primary Care Research Workforce and Output through T32 Primary Care Fellowship Training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. Culturally-competent, high-quality training is provided via coursework, seminars/workshops, and mentored, hands-on research. Research training is rate-limiting.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Since their continuity clinic continues to be located in Maryland, we decided that a great topic to revive this series of seminars was the Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP), which was recently featured in a Milbank Memorial Fund Issue Brief. Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network.

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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

These questions were the subjects of two recent Georgetown University Health Policy seminars. For example, telehealth technologies could lighten the load on family physicians by promoting patient self-management of chronic conditions; improving medication adherence; and facilitating real-time specialist consultations.

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What is a Leadership Course

LEAD Physician

Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. For example, a physician might be dealing with a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

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OptiSleep Appliance.A 'How To'

CDOCS

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Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The Health Policy Exchange

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy seminar, we discussed two examples, anemia drugs and the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) , which were prominently featured in recent articles by Peter Whoriskey in The Washington Post. for three more years, during which thousands of new patients were prescribed the drug.