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Development and Testing of an Interoperable e-care Plan for Person-Centered Care Planning for Multiple Chronic Conditions [Multimorbidity]

Annals of Family Medicine

Background: Multiple chronic conditions (MCC) the most common condition seen in practice are present in 33% of adults and 80% of individuals age > 65. The apps also collect patient reported data on goals, social needs, and functional status. Results of testing and evaluation will be presented.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Its basic argument was that it isn’t sustainable to only see patients one by one in traditional doctor visits. I thought of it the other day when I put together a presentation about Galileo’s way of interacting with patients. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered.

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Health Trends Across Communities: Engaging Healthcare Systems, Public Health and Community in a Statewide Public Health Tool [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Building patients’ and health professionals’ trust in health research includes responsibly sharing health information. Setting: A partnership between the Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium (MNEHRC), public health professionals at the Center for Community Health (CCH), and Hennepin County Public Health.

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

This was in part because we shared patients and patient experiences between our departments and had a bidirectional way of making warm handoffs. If a primary care patient was going through a difficult time with their social life or mental health, we would walk them down the hall to meet a therapist right then and there.

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Cervical Cancer Screening Differences Between Black and White Women: An Examination of HPV and Pap Test Utilization. [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context The introduction of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) test and the 2012 Cervical Cancer Screening (CCS) guidelines expanded the way providers offer and interpret screening for their patients. These factors will be discussed in the presentation. population.

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Revisiting the Advantages of aSOAP Notes: The Best of the Paper Chart and Old School Photography

A Country Doctor Writes

We may only have 15 minutes with each patient. In primary care it is often necessary to think in terms of including more than our area of interest in our mental picture of our patient. So my mental picture of the problem area ends up being like a photograph with everything surrounding the center of the picture a bit blurry.

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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. SETTING: Academic medical center.