Electronic Access to Adolescents' Health Records: Legal, Policy, and Practice ...
Apr 1, 2015 - Letting minors view their health records online means finding a compromise between patient privacy and parental rights.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2015/0300/p11.html
Offering Oral Health Services in Your Office -- FPM
Aug 1, 2014 - Health problems of the mouth can affect the whole patient, making primary care physicians a natural ally.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0700/p21.html
How to Identify, Understand, and Unlearn Implicit Bias in Patient Care -- FPM
Aug 1, 2019 - Taking steps to recognize and correct unconscious assumptions toward groups can promote health equity.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/0700/p29.html
Risk Stratification: A Two-Step Process for Identifying Your Sickest Patients -- FPM
Jun 1, 2019 - Assessing the health risk of your patients can yield improvements in efficiency and use of resources.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/0500/p21.html
Protecting Adolescent Patient Privacy: Four Key Questions -- FPM
Feb 1, 2019 - When an adolescent patient requests confidential services, here’s what you need to know about their rights and your responsibilities.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/0100/p7.html
Coding & Documentation - May-Jun 2021 -- FPM
Jun 1, 2021 - Home health or hospice care supervision | Advance care planning via telehealth | Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring | Counseling patients about foreign travel | Catching up on children's vaccines
Family Practice Management : Coding & Documentation
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0500/p34.html
Preparing for Value-Based Payment: Five Essential Skills for Success -- FPM
Jun 1, 2017 - As physician payment increasingly becomes tied to value, these five habits can help you succeed.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2017/0500/p25.html
Tips for Balancing Parenthood and Medicine -- FPM
Oct 1, 2021 - With limits and support, it can be done.
Family Practice Management : The Last Word
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2021/0900/p40.html
Protecting Family Well-Being Through Social Connectivity and Time Management -- FPM
Jun 1, 2020 - Families are a physician’s core source of support. Making time to nurture family connections is crucial to keeping that support system strong.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/0500/p13.html
Emotional Intelligence: Five Ways to Have Better Interactions and Improve Your Work ...
Oct 1, 2020 - These simple tools can help you respond effectively when you feel emotionally hijacked by difficult people or circumstances.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/0900/p9.html
Practice Pearls - Mar-Apr 2020 -- FPM
Apr 1, 2020 - Make office redesign a collaborative project | Designate a vaccine update expert | Handle disability exams with empathy and practicality
Family Practice Management : Practice Pearls
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/0300/p32.html
Practice Pearls - Nov-Dec 2019 -- FPM
Dec 1, 2019 - Liven up your exam rooms | Be prepared for last-minute gynecologic exams | Use nudges to encourage behavior change
Family Practice Management : Practice Pearls
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/1100/p31.html
Four Tools for Reducing Burnout by Finding Work-Life Balance -- FPM
Feb 1, 2016 - If your career feels like an 800-pound gorilla that’s been crowding out the rest of your life, it’s time to find some balance.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0100/p28.html
Encouraging Children’s Literacy in Your Practice -- FPM
Jun 1, 2016 - Providing free books to your youngest patients can improve literacy and patient satisfaction.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0500/p20.html
How to Start Your Workday -- FPM
Apr 1, 2016 - Could a better morning routine lead to a better workday? Here are seven tips to try in your practice.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0300/p26.html
Coding & Documentation - May-Jun 2011 -- FPM
Jun 1, 2011 - ...range of motion testing (95831) as part of your driving assessment, you can bill Medicare for it separately. However, vision screening, health risk assessment and preventive medicine counseling are not separately payable services under Medicare Part B. If the patient is eligible for...
Family Practice Management : Coding & Documentation
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2011/0500/p37.html
Protecting Adolescent Patient Privacy: Four Key Questions
...compliance and health care reimbursement. Author disclosure: no relevant financial affiliations disclosed. HIPAA’s confidentiality rules are challenging enough to apply in a typical patient scenario, with an adult patient making his or her own health care decisions. When third...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/0100/fpm20190100p7.pdf
What Do Retail Clinics Mean for Family Medicine? -- FPM
May 1, 2006 - Whatever we do in response to the advent of retail clinics, it seems that they have a place in health care as long as they are able to improve access, decrease costs and improve quality.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0500/p19.html
Unconventional career advice: a physician reflects on her dad
With Father’s Day approaching, one family physician looks back on her father’s words of wisdom that inspired her quest to become a doctor.
Family Practice Management : FPM
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/fathers_day_advice.html
What You Need to Know When Called Upon to Be a Good Samaritan -- FPM
Apr 1, 2008 - Understanding your legal protections and ethical obligations can make it easier to respond when duty calls.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0400/p37.html
fpm20140700p21.pdf
...Health problems of the mouth can affect the whole patient, making primary care physicians a natural ally. HUGH SILK, MD, MPH, AND MARK DEUTCHMAN, MD Evidence that poor oral health is connected to poor systemic health has grown over the last decade. Children with dental caries...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0700/fpm20140700p21.pdf
Coding & Documentation - May 2007 -- FPM
May 1, 2007 - ...If you spend more than half of your face-to-face time counseling the child or the child's caregiver regarding obesity-related health concerns and risk-factor reduction, you may choose a level of service based on time rather than the history, exam and medical decision making...
Family Practice Management : Coding & Documentation
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/0500/p16.html
Coding & Documentation - Mar-Apr 2010 -- FPM
Apr 1, 2010 - ...representative or executor with rights to the deceased patient's health information under your state's laws and HIPAA. Unless the review of records was related to a medically necessary service (e.g., determining health risk to family members), this is not likely a service that is...
Family Practice Management : Coding & Documentation
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2010/0300/p46.html
Practice Pearls - Jul-Aug 2010 -- FPM
Aug 1, 2010 - ...The physician-patient experience doesn't have to suffer when you use an electronic health record (EHR) in the exam room. Consider these things to do – and not to do: Do not complain about the EHR to the patient. Replace eye contact with voice contact when necessary. Let the patient...
Family Practice Management : Practice Pearls
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2010/0700/p36.html
fpm20150300p11.pdf
...Letting minors view their health records online means finding a compromise between patient privacy and parental rights. Electronic Access to Adolescents’ Health Records: LEGAL, POLICY, AND PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Neil Calman, MD, Helen R. Pfister, JD, Ruth Lesnewski, MD, Diane...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2015/0300/fpm20150300p11.pdf
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