Search Tag: primary care
2023 29 May
The government will invest £645 million over two years to expand community pharmacy services. For the first time, patients who need prescription medication will be able to directly receive it from a pharmacy, without a GP appointment. This will be allowed for several common conditions including earache, sore throat, or urinary tract infections....Read more
2023 10 Feb
A team of researchers conducted a study to assess whether primary care physicians who used a community health information exchange were able to improve patient care transitions, from hospitalisation to outpatient care. Electronic health records (EHRs) are available to enhance coordination and efficiency of care, but several issues have made...Read more
2022 19 Jul
Grover Brings More Than a Decade of Progressive Finance Experience to the Greater Good Health Leadership Team Greater Good Health , the company redefining value-based care through the first primary care model centered around nurse practitioners (NPs), announced the addition of Michael Grover as chief financial officer (CFO). With more...Read more
2022 11 May
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2022 01 Mar
New findings published in the BMJ show that exercise interventions delivered in primary care boost levels of moderate to vigorous intensity activity in adults by an average of 14 minutes a week. This effect might seem modest, but the researchers say that even small increases in moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity are important in...Read more
2021 20 Jul
Stroke is a complex disease with multiple causes, treatments and consequences. The American Heart Association reports that nearly 80,000 adults in the U.S. will have a new stroke each year. Out of these, 10% will die within 30 days. Figures also show that approximately 5% of patients younger than 55 years of age at the time of stroke and 40% over 85...Read more
2020 19 Nov
New research shows that, in the primary care setting, both patients and practitioners perceive patient safety more in terms of work functions, which reflect grouping of tasks or responsibilities in delivery of care. You might also like: Future of Patient Safety: What We’ve Learned from the Pandemic In this study (Lai...Read more
2020 22 Oct
New care-delivery models should include screening, preventive check-ups and follow-up of patients with chronic diseases. All specialties, including radiology, need to be involved. This will involve significant investment, practice reorganisation and systems that are high-value based and patient-centred. This will require coordination and organisation...Read more
2019 28 May
A new study endeavoured to research whether breast and colorectal cancer screening are related to the time of day a patient visits their primary care clinician. As part of this quality improvement study shows, both clinical ordering and patient completion of cancer screening tests decreased later in the day. The study published in JAMA found that...Read more
2019 06 Feb
Executive Summary Artificial intelligence ( AI ) is clearly the new trend in automation. This article, "The AI-powered radiologist" , authored by Dr. María Jesús Díaz Candamio , a radiologist at the Servicio de Radiología, Hospital Universitario de A Coruña (Spain), highlights the advances in AI technology that will propel a revolution in...Read more
2019 06 Feb
The importance of artificial intelligence ( AI ) is ever increasing in healthcare, especially in enhancing the accuracy of diagnostic tools and disease risk predictive models. Radiology is said to be among the medical specialities most primed to incorporate AI into clinician workflow. It's no wonder that conversations about AI replacing radiologists...Read more
2018 04 Jul
Babylon boasts that its artificial intelligence bot performs better than human doctors at a medical exam. Not surprisingly, such claims have elicited doubts and protests from practitioners and medical groups. For starters, the Royal College of General Practitioners contends that no app or algorithm will be able to do what a GP does. "An...Read more
2018 08 Jan
- 41% of GCC residents go directly to a specialist when they fall ill, reveals survey commissioned by Arab Health 2018 - Only 34% of survey respondents in the GCC visit a general practitioner (GP) A recent survey commissioned by Arab Health 2018 – the largest exhibition for healthcare and trade professionals...Read more
2017 18 Apr
I am writing this blog on a train to Manchester, conscious that I have already missed the Editor's deadline by a few days. I am not sure why, but my chosen title has been more challenging than I expected. At first I wondered about using my Dad's experience of being a stroke patient as my starting point for a diatribe on 'Do Patients Matter?'...Read more
2016 11 Feb
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, part of Mubadala’s network of world-class healthcare facilities, is a multispecialty hospital on Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi is a unique and unparalleled extension of US-based Cleveland Clinic’s model of care, specifically designed to address a range of complex and critical care requirements...Read more
2015 22 Nov
A national survey found that 9 out of 10 physicians in the U.S. would use telehealth, provided they were properly reimbursed. The majority of physicians surveyed cite administrative issues and a lack of billing services to address the need for reimbursement tools as a major detraction from implementing telehealth into their practices. The Robert Graham...Read more
2015 01 Aug
Primary Care Information Network (https://www.pcin.org) is a new online resource intended to help improve practices of safety net primary care providers. The website features a library of tools and resources — all of which are free to download — that can help providers tackle issues such as scheduling workflows, care coordination and management, and...Read more
2015 14 Jul
Most physicians (57 percent) in the United States are open to having video consultations with their patients, according to a nationwide survey conducted by telehealth vendor American Well. Only 12 percent of respondents are unwilling to see a patient over video and 31 percent remain uncertain. More than 2,000 primary care doctors took part in the online...Read more
2015 03 Mar
A new report estimates that the defunding of medical residency training programs in underserved areas of the United States will affect millions of patients who do not have easy access to primary care physicians. Researchers from the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health warn that discontinued support for the Teaching...Read more
2015 26 Jan
A majority of primary care physicians believe that advanced medical imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET), provides considerable value to patient care, according to a study published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) . Notably, primary care...Read more