Grant aims to expand inland Southern California's primary care workforce
(University of California - Riverside) The School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside has received a $2.3 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to help transform the local healthcare system. The school plans to accomplish this by embedding continuous quality improvement in inland Southern California primary care practices throughout the healthcare provider training spectrum. The school emphasizes primary care and improving the health of the community - both of which constitute the focus of the grant. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 12, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
8 Key Primary Care Takeaways: Digestive Disease Week 20168 Key Primary Care Takeaways: Digestive Disease Week 2016
Dr David Johnson discusses some of the highlights from key data presented at this year's Digestive Disease Week and how they may affect primary care practice. Medscape Gastroenterology (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines - June 27, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Gastroenterology Commentary Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic opens 4th primary care clinic in Phoenix area
Mayo Clinic has opened its fourth primary care clinic in the Phoenix area.
The 13,000-square-foot facility cost about $2.9 million to develop. It was designed by Orcutt/Winslow and built by McGough Construction.
The new primary care practice comes on the heels of a recent 50 percent expansion at Mayo's primary care practice in Chandler, said Paula Menkosky, chief administrative officer of Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
"While our focus remains on complex specialty care, we continue to evaluate our primary… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - June 21, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Angela Gonzales Source Type: news
PodMed: A Medical News Roundup From Johns Hopkins (with audio)
(MedPage Today) -- This week's topics include the mortality benefit of whole grains, changes to primary care practices that don't seem to have helped, weight-loss drugs, and reducing cardiovascular outcomes in people with diabetes and kidney compromise (Source: MedPage Today Endocrinology)
Source: MedPage Today Endocrinology - June 18, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
The opioid crisis and physician burnout: A tale of two epidemics
In April, the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, attended a meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists. In an exclusive interview with MedPage Today, he shared his mounting concerns about two matters: the impact of burnout on physicians and our society’s current opioid crisis. Dr. Murthy stated that he views physicians as being an essential part of the solution to the epidemic of drug overdoses, which have exceeded motor vehicle accidents as one of the leading causes of death.
Dr. Murthy correctly linked the well-being of health professionals with that of the general public, stating, “As I think abo...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - June 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Steven A. Adelman, MD Tags: Addiction Behavioral Health Health care Pain Management Source Type: news
Study Highlights Success of Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation
A recent study examined use of the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation in primary care practices and found it increased rates of tobacco cessation treatment delivery. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - June 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
What Lichen Planus Looks Like: A Diagnostic Quiz
The condition is common but seen infrequently in primary care practice. Take this quiz for a quick refresher. (Source: ConsultantLive)
Source: ConsultantLive - May 25, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Leo Robert Tags: Quiz Skin Diseases Source Type: news
Teledermatology linked to access to dermatologists for Medicaid enrollees in California
Primary care practices in a large California Medicaid managed care plan offering teledermatology had an increased fraction of patients who visited a dermatologist compared with other practices, according to an article. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 4, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Amazing GRACE Care Team Model
Whether facility-based or community-based, traditional primary care practices are not optimally designed to support the complex needs of older adults. Traditional practices tend to prioritize episodic, acute care over longitudinal chronic illness management. A host of innovative models have emerged to provide primary care physicians and practices with the systems, tools, and expertise to effectively serve this growing population. (Source: Caring for the Ages)
Source: Caring for the Ages - April 29, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Bill Kubat Source Type: news
Better health, costs: One practice’s value-based care outcomes
As U.S. health care shifts toward quality of care over quantity of services, physicians providing value-based care have been able to renew their focus on patients at the center of care. Find out how a practice in North Carolina successfully implemented and continued a value-based care model that both saved money and resulted in better health outcomes.
Why value-based care?
Grace Terrell, MD, chief executive officer and president of Cornerstone Health Care in North Carolina, authored a new module for the AMA’s STEPS Forward™ collection of practice improvement strategies to help physicians prepare their practices for...
Source: AMA Wire - April 28, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
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Source: AMA Wire - April 28, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Five Key Cardiology Lessons for Primary Care: ACC 2016Five Key Cardiology Lessons for Primary Care: ACC 2016
What key research released at the American College of Cardiology 2016 meeting could and should affect primary care practice? Medscape Family Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Article Source Type: news
UCLA faculty voice: How to stop over-prescribing antibiotics
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Craig Fox
Craig Fox is a professor of management, psychology and medicine at UCLA. Jeffrey Linder is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Jason Doctor is an associate professor of pharmaceutical and health economics at the USC. This op-ed appeared March 25 in the New York Times.
Antibiotics are an indispensable weapon in every physician’s arsenal, but when prescribed unnecessarily for nonbacterial infections like the common cold, as they too often are, they provide no benefit and create problems. They wipe out healthy bacteria and can cause side effects like yeast infections and allergic re...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 20, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Evaluation of the Regional Extension Center Program: Final Report (2016)
This report provides an overview of methods and findings about Regional Extension Center implementation and impact. The REC provided support for 100,000 providers working in small primary care practices, practices with a large proportion of patients with Medicaid or without insurance, community health centers, rural health clinics, and critical access hospitals. (Source: HSR Information Central)
Source: HSR Information Central - April 13, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Complex Care Center Forges New Outpatient Model
UR Medicine's Complex Care Center is Rochester’s first primary care practice dedicated to caring for adults with chronic childhood-onset conditions such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, childhood cancers, autism, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. (Source: University of Rochester Medical Center Press Releases)
Source: University of Rochester Medical Center Press Releases - March 17, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
