Health information technology, electronic health records, primary care physician, quality, meaningful useWe used data from the mandatory statewide Rhode Island (RI) Health Information Technology (HIT) Survey to characterize office-based PCPs’ adoption and use of EHRs from 2009–2014. We found ...
One key may be putting theprimary care physician(PCP) at the center of the patient relationship as a coordinator who can help patients better understand their care plans, adhere to medication regimens, and improve wellness to reduce visits to the emergency room, all of which meets current...
Job vacancy rates at Rhode Island's community health centers are 21% for physicians, 18% for physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and 10% for registered nurses, according to six of the state's eight health centers that responded to a survey conducted by RIHCA for The Public's Radio...
A significantly greater percentage of participants with PD received care from practices that utilize nurse practitioners and physician assistants (79% vs. 72%). There were no statistical differences between the percentage of participants with and without PD that receive their primary care from practices...
I had a last minute emergency and needed to speak with my primary care physician,. Because his office was closed Cheryl a patient advocate was able to help me by contacting Scott in my physicians office. He was able to quickly make the necessary appointments needed. Both Cheryl and Scott ac...
This epidemiological study evaluates the association of primary care physician supply and both all-cause and cause-specific mortality by comparing US
Generalist-Subspecialist Communication About Children With Chronic Conditions: An Analysis of Physician Focus Groups Objective.—To describe barriers and facilitators to effective generalist-subspecialist communication in the care of children with chronic conditions. Meth... CJ Stille,N Korobov,WA Primack...
| Family Health Care, P.C. retired Since Medicare does not have a means to reliably indicate a person's primary physician at the time of any reimbursable healthcare encounter, it would be largely futile to assess the portion of Medicare health spending that originated from the professional invo...
We also performed a logistic regression to investigate the adjusted predictive value of the physician descriptors on perceived im- portance. We dichotomized perceived importance for this model at the approximate median split value (Strongly agree versus all other). We used independent sample t test ...
"There is no consensus about the optimal share of medical spending that should be devoted to primary care," said Dr. Rachel O. Reid, the study's lead author and a physician scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. "However, a currentestimateof such spending can be a reference...