MAY / JUNE 2025

Having a team member whose time is split 50-50 between inbox cross coverage and acute care can reduce physician burden while increasing patient access.

An organized approach to quality improvement, with active physician engagement, led to an estimated 130 lives saved at 10 offices. Here's how they did it.

These evidence-based strategies can help you understand your patients' context so you can better care for and empower them.

With ransomware attacks increasingly targeting health care institutions, practices must protect themselves by developing a cybersecurity response plan.

If you've seen one family physician's schedule, you've seen … one.

Why do women in family medicine earn approximately 16% less than men, and what can be done to narrow the gap?

Review of multiple records from one source | Review of external notes and included test results | Review of data for tests ordered outside a visit

Leverage summaries for Medicare wellness visits | Make conflict productive | Ask FPM: Negotiating payment with a new employer

Each life saved gives our patients another chance to overcome addiction.

Family physicians have cared for their patients’ whole health for as long as the specialty has existed, and research now recognizes the importance of this approach. Can it be leveraged into payment and training changes?

Early detection of cognitive impairment through key blood biomarkers can improve patient care by enabling timely interventions, treatment, and support.

Amid the growing number of patients with cognitive concerns, primary care needs a structured approach for evaluation. This validated, six-step process is backed by evidence.