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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Engage, Empower, Encourage On a recent webinar hosted by ZERO TO THREE HealthySteps , Dr. Omolara Thomas offered the following recommendations to advocate for the communities we serve: Engage patients in non-targeted ways, asking the same questions to all patients, to gauge how government policies are impacting them.

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Permanente Live webinar — Finding success in value-based care

Permanente Medicine

(June 19, 2025) — National health care leaders from Kaiser Permanente and the Alliance of Community Health Plans will share insights on value-based care during a free Permanente Live webinar on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. The post Permanente Live webinar — Finding success in value-based care appeared first on Permanente Medicine.

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Outcomes of a virtual CGM initiation service (virCIS) for primary care patients with diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: Primary care providers were invited to attend a webinar that focused on identifying patients who may benefit from CGM use, best practices for prescribing, and CGM interpretation. Patients were provided a CGM, received education on medication, diet and exercise, and completed surveys at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months.

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Beware the bait-and-switch when it comes to HM program contracts

Sound Physicians

The challenge with this approach is that comparing total cost doesn’t always provide the complete picture. What I hear on the other side of their decision is that hospital executives wish they’d known what to look for — how to really compare apples to apples — before moving forward with what seemed like the obvious choice. Why the gap?

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FDA Hosts Webinar for Stage 1 Requirements under LDT Final Rule

FDA Law

The webinar largely consisted of summarizing the general requirements under Parts 803, 806 and 820.198, which we do not reproduce here ( but see another of our prior blog posts discussing these requirements and their applicable to LDTs in greater detail; you can also find FDA’s slides from the webinar here ). By Steven J.

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Shorter stays, better outcomes

Sound Physicians

Finally, caregivers—often family members—play a critical role in educating the care team, flagging barriers to care once out of the hospital, and providing necessary insights into the bigger picture. So, what’s the best strategy to help reduce length of stay (LOS)? All rights reserved.

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ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

Sound Physicians

Increasingly a valuable option for rural hospitals, tele-ICU provides access to higher acuity care and support to emergency and hospital medicine clinicians who are called to the ICU. In many cases, patients who receive tele-critical care can stay in the community where they live and have a support network. All rights reserved.