Encouraging connected care can reduce costs by facilitating coordination of care, and moving care into lower-cost settings – from a hospital to a doctor’s office; or preventing emergency care [...]
“… too few physicians are entering our field to meet society’s needs. The situation is worse than studies suggest. Some studies count all internal medicine training as “primary care,” even though [...]
The shift to pay based on quality metrics is a scary new world, but it is good news for primary care physicians because they bring a tremendous amount of value to healthcare system.
The U.S. is expected to need 52,000 more primary care physicians by 2025, according to a study by the Robert Graham Center, which does family medicine policy research. But funding for teaching [...]
While the Federal Communications Commission is not technically a healthcare entity, it is driving a key project that will ultimately facilitate the underlying infrastructure for telemedicine: [...]