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Guidelines call for internists to screen for depression, but only if they can offer support once they make a diagnosis. Internists who've already achieved this describe how they did so, and how it's benefited their patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/03/depression.htm
1 Mar 2010
Keep it simple for patient portal success
Experts recommend patient portals that implement a more stripped-down approach, with the focus falling on one or two straightforward components such as streamlining appointments and filling prescriptions.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/04/keep-it-simple-for-patient-portal-success.htm
1 Apr 2018
Caring for veterans outside the VA system
About three-fourths of nearly 22 million veterans get some or all of their outpatient medical treatment outside the VA health system, creating a need for identifying these patients in a practice and screening for potential physical and mental symptoms.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/07/caring-for-veterans-outside-the-va-system.htm
1 Jul 2017
CMS demo aims to help seniors stay healthy, independent
CMS is partnering with private companies to address multiple health risk factors that contribute to senior's chronic diseases.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/10/cms.htm
1 Oct 2008
Medicine and management: hits from Hospital Medicine
An expert discusses managing aortic dissection as a disease for life. Also, highlights from Hospital Medicine 2009 discuss caring for the pregnant patient, documenting care for the best reimbursement and ways to improve handoffs from shift to shift.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/07/shm.htm
1 Jul 2009
Candidates split on staying with employer health coverage
Employer-based coverage is the backbone of the current U.S. health insurance system. Is that a good or bad thing?.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/09/campaign.htm
1 Sep 2008
HIV comes of age as disease of mid-to-late life
Protease inhibitors revolutionized HIV management, morphing it from a death sentence to a chronic, manageable condition. Medical issues have since grown more complex as doctors consider how HIV interacts with aging, and how aging interacts with these sometimes toxic drugs used to control the virus.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/11/HIV.htm
1 Nov 2011
‘Year of the Lung’ draws attention to COPD, asthma
Chronic respiratory disease is projected to be the third most common cause of death by 2020, but it currently underestimated. This year's American Thoracic Society meeting focuses on issues to bring them to the attention of the rest of the medical community.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/07/thoracic-copd.htm
1 Jul 2010
Reflections from a physician who faced his mortality
A physician who developed severe heartburn recalls his thinking as he reflects on his own progressively severe symptoms and increasingly worrisome differential diagnosis.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/05/doctor.htm
1 May 2013
College Fellow's foundation helps support health care workers
For many people, retirement means a chance to improve one's golf handicap and vacation in Europe. For Larry Crook, MD, FACP, it meant setting up a nonprofit to help people halfway around the world.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/profile.htm
1 Jul 2014