Physician Practices

High Value Office Visits

Primary Care

• Survey: 43 percent of physicians say they have the needed tools to succeed under value-based care (6/7/17)
• Two direct primary care clinics close, calling model's viability into question (6/1/17)
• Automated appointments help physician practice fill its patient schedule, save staff time (5/26/17)
• Study: Team-based primary care improves patient outcomes (4/24/17)

Referrals

• Los Angeles Safety-Net Program eConsult System Was Rapidly Adopted And Decreased Wait Times To See Specialists (3/2017)

Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) Coding

• Apixio uses AI to extract patient conditions from medical records (7/6/17)

Scribes

• Scribes for physician burnout: How scribes help reconnect doctors with their patients (8/3/17)

Second Opinions

• Second Opinion on Costly Surgery can control medical costs (8/20/15)

Provider Wellness

• MultiCare Health System (MHS) created the Provider Wellness Program to find and address the root causes of workplace frustrations for its physicians and advanced practice providers (8/30/17)

See Managing Health Playbook