By Anuja Vaidya
March 06, 2024 – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California has sentenced a former physician to 37 months in federal prison for illegally prescribing medications, including opioid-based drugs,…
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Physicians who care for children — including pediatricians, family medicine physicians, and psychiatrists — have been sounding the alarm for years with regard to the negative impacts of social media on the health of…
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By Anuja Vaidya
January 26, 2024 – Primary care settings provided safe, acceptable, and positive telehealth medication abortion experiences for patients, new research published in the Annals of Family Medicine shows.
Conducted by researchers at the University…
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Mr. H posed a question last week about how to streamline training for PCPs and asked me to weigh in as well.
To really answer the question, we have to ask ourselves what we…
I’ve been doing some locum tenens work in a traditional family medicine practice. I can attest that the negative feelings that primary care physicians have towards performing uncompensated work are real.
I was brought…
In telehealth, diagnosing flu through patient-reported symptoms complicates accurate assessments. University of Georgia’s study explored clinical decision rules (CDRs) reliability in telemedicine, revealing discrepancies in patient and clinician symptom reports. The research, published in…
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What You Should Know:
Harmonic Health, announced the launch of its comprehensive, evidence-based, dementia care model that bridges gaps in care by bringing together advanced technology and an expert care team to partner with physician,…
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Harmonic Health, a tech-enabled dementia care platform, announced its launch today alongside a partnership with Stoney Batter Family Medicine, a medical practice with locations in Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. St. Louis-based Harmonic Health is a…
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Point of care alerts are helping John M. Robertson, MD – a family medicine specialist at Family Medical Clinic of Harrogate – to ensure that patients are getting preventative care they need to stay…
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A Machine-Learning tool accurately triages patients with respiratory symptoms before primary care visits, according to a study. By categorizing patients into risk groups, unnecessary interventions like chest X-rays can be reduced for low-risk individuals,…
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