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How Virtual Primary Care Can Enrich Your Practice

HIT Consultant

Primary care has also benefited from virtualization of services. According to a study published in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health , telehealth offered by primary care physicians rose from 5.3% before the pandemic to 46.2% to $186.10

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Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids

Briggs Healthcare

The February 10, 2022 Federal Register includes the announcement of the opening of a docket to obtain comment on the proposed clinical practice guideline, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids—United States, 2022.

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Health IT leaders can do better boosting access for underserved populations

Healthcare It News

For example, when patients seek a primary care provider, they may be looking for someone with whom they can build a relationship with – perhaps for decades. I saw this situation play out first-hand during my years of clinical practice. To find the right provider, patients first need access to the right information.

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Johns Hopkins has big plans for AI in Epic chart summarization

Healthcare It News

Today, Hasselfeld, who also is a primary care physician in internal medicine and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, turns his focus to Johns Hopkins itself, where he and a number of teams throughout the organization have implemented AI in ambient scribing and patient portal applications.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

.” To solve the challenge of structural racism in American health care, the authors say, “there needs to be much more intensified and multifaceted approaches that by necessity will require a much larger and committed investment in research, training, clinic practice, and community engagement.” colonoscopy).

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Bedrock Healthcare at Home Leans On Technology To Keep Patients Out Of The Hospital

Home Health Care

It’s also hoping to better care for patients as they become more sick and complex when discharged to home health or other settings. Everyone in health care is a primary care provider,” Gomez said. Our therapists, dieticians, they’re all primary care providers.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Geisinger plans to open more clinics for primary care, senior care, and convenient/retail care. Virtual first and direct primary care for faster on-ramps to care. patients still delaying care is lack of easy access to primary care , especially risky for patients dealing with chronic conditions.