Tag: Primary Care
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Nation & World
Can Amazon remake health care?
Health policy expert explains Amazon’s nearly $4 billion investment in One Medical and what the marketplace disruptor can, and cannot, do to change the way consumers get their health care.
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Nation & World
Fewer Americans are getting primary care
A national analysis revealed an alarming decline in primary care use, which is associated with better health outcomes than episodic, inconsistent care. The decline was most pronounced among younger Americans and those without complex medical conditions.
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Nation & World
Where the doctor treats you like a neighbor
MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center was part of the first wave of community health centers that spread across the nation in the late 1960s. This fall it celebrates 50 years of neighborhood care.
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Nation & World
HMS center launches $10M initiative
The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center for Primary Care announced the formation of an Academic Innovations Collaborative that will provide more than $10 million in resources over two years to nine HMS-affiliated hospital-based primary care teaching practices and eight affiliated community health practice partners.
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Nation & World
Yes to testing children
According to a new study released online Monday (March 21), 60 percent of parents, whether they smoke or not, said they would like to have their children tested for tobacco smoke exposure during pediatric visits.