Treating substance use disorder as a family physician
Patients with substance use disorders may experience stigma that can interfere with treatment options. But when substance use disorders are recognized and treated as a chronic disease, that stigma can be reduced.
Treating patients with substance use disorders in a family medicine setting can be a unique situation because physicians are often treating other members of the patient ’s family as well. At first, patients may be reluctant to discuss substance use but once the condition is out in the open, having the family involved can be beneficial.“I really think it’s an advantage,” said Sarah Fessler, MD, a family...
Source: AMA Wire - August 18, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Health Extension Toolkit
Intended for a wide audience and designed as a tool for states to use as they collaborate to improve the quality of primary care practices as well as community health, using a model based on the agricultural Cooperative Extension Service. Includes chapters on engagement, the Health Extension model, primary care, population health, and sustainability, and features profiles on lead states Pennsylvania, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. -- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Source: Rural publications via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Rural publications via the Rural Assistance Center - August 9, 2016 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Primary care’s rising role in behavioral health requires specialty partnerships
Amid rising suicide rates and a raging opioid crisis, the key to improving behavioral health care services nationally is to structure primary care practices for collaborative care, according to... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - August 8, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
CMS Picks Arkansas for CPC+ Model; Practices Can Apply Through Sept. 15
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this week that Arkansas has been selected as one of 14 regions nationwide where primary care practices can participate in a new five-year multi-payer payment model called Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+). The model will launch in January.
Practices that serve Medicare patients (ages 65-plus) can apply through Sept. 15 for the public-private partnership program.
According to CMS, with CPC+, Medicare, state Medicaid agencies and private insurance companies partner to support primary care practices, moving the health care system away from a one-size-fits-a...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - August 5, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
9 Pointed Questions on Lichenoid Eruptions
You will likely see these rashes in the course of primary care practice. Take this quick quiz to see what you know. (Source: ConsultantLive)
Source: ConsultantLive - August 3, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Leo Robert Tags: Quiz Skin Diseases Source Type: news
Creating a Sustainable Direct Primary Care Practice
Making the jump to direct primary care isn ' t going to generate changes overnight, but this doctor says it was worth it. (Source: Physicians Practice)
Source: Physicians Practice - August 3, 2016 Category: Practice Management Authors: Robert Lamberts, MD Tags: Pearl Patient Relations Pearls Practice Models Physician Compensation Source Type: news
CMS Announces next Phase in Largest-ever Initiative to Improve Primary Care in America
The Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services opened the application period for practices to participate in the new nation-wide primary care model, Comprehensive Primary Care Plus. CPC+ is a five-year primary care medical home model beginning January 2017 that will enable primary care practices to care for their patients the way they think will deliver the best outcomes and to pay them for achieving results and improving care. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - August 2, 2016 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Montefiore, Einstein and Columbia Awarded $3 Million for HIV Prevention
July 27, 2016—(BRONX, NY)—Researchers atMontefiore,Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center have been awarded nearly $3 million from theNational Institute of Mental Health to increase the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—a medication that reduces the risk of contracting HIV. The intervention will integrate PrEP into Montefiore primary care practices throughout the Bronx, a borough with one of the highest HIV rates in the nation. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - July 27, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Montefiore, Einstein and Columbia Awarded $3 Million for HIV Prevention
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Source: Einstein News - July 27, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Three Minnesota organizations receive funding to improve diabetes care
( < i > Medica Research Institute < /i > ) The three Minnesota organizations will evaluate how the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model -- known in Minnesota as the Health Care Home (HCH) model -- provide care for patients with diabetes. PCMHs have become widely regarded as the preferred model for delivering care nationwide. In Minnesota, more than two thirds of primary care practices have earned HCH certification in the years since the state passed legislation creating the process in 2008. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 25, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Iora Primary Care Gets Creative in Tackling Chronic Disease
Iora Health and its Seattle-based primary care practices have found success using creative approaches to treating patients with chronic diseases. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - July 19, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
What ’s keeping PrEP under wraps
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Source: AMA Wire - July 19, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
What’s keeping PrEP under wraps
PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a safe and effective medication that can prevent at-risk patients from contracting HIV, yet the treatment is not widely known by physicians or the patient base that could benefit most from it. Learn what HIV experts say about the treatment and the obstacles to integrating it into primary care practice.
Getting the word out
PrEP reaches a small proportion of the Americans who could benefit from it, experts said at an education session by the AMA LGBT Advisory Committee during the 2016 AMA Annual Meeting.
“What’s really interesting about it is a lot of people haven’t heard ab...
Source: AMA Wire - July 19, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Primary Care Not Well Equipped to Manage Depression
Depression requires the same time and attention given to other chronic diseases, but few primary care practices are equipped to deliver. (Source: ConsultantLive)
Source: ConsultantLive - July 19, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Mark L. Fuerst Source Type: news
