Patient Privacy Crucial in SUD Fight, Academy Tells HHS
The AAFP supports a proposed federal rule that acknowledges privacy is essential when family physicians are treating patients who have substance use disorder. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 30, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Study Finds No Link Between IIV, Miscarriage
A study published in the journalVaccine on Oct. 16 found no association between administration of inactivated influenza vaccine to pregnant women and miscarriage. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 30, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Hospital CEO Discusses Challenges, Rewards of Rural Health
National Rural Health Association President Tim Putnam, D.H.A., answers questions about rural health from his perspective as a rural hospital administrator. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 29, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
AAFP to Feds on Vaccines: End EHR Costs, Fight Hesitancy
The Academy has called on regulators to ensure HHS ' 2020 National Vaccination Plan ends EHR financial burdens related to immunization functionality and addresses vaccine hesitancy. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 29, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
AAFP to Feds on Vaccines: End EHR Gouging, Fight Hesitancy
The Academy has called on regulators to ensure HHS ' 2020 National Vaccination Plan ends EHR financial burdens related to immunization functionality and addresses vaccine hesitancy. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 29, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
AAFP, Other Groups Laud Promising Rural ACO Improvement Act
The Academy and 14 other organizations have voiced support for a Senate bill that aims to fix a flawed formula used to measure accountable care organization performance. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 28, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
In NFL and in Clinic, This FP Knows Teamwork Counts
After injuries ended his professional football career, family physician Kip Corrington, M.D., Ph.D., switched his focus from preventing touchdowns to preventing illness. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 28, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Survey: One in Five Young Americans Thinks Vaping Is Harmless
Results of an American Society of Clinical Oncology survey reveal that more than 20% of young Americans think that e-cigarettes are not only nonaddictive -- they ' re actually harmless. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 23, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
More Study Needed on Illicit Drug Use Counseling in Youth
On Oct. 1, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force posted a draft recommendation statement and evidence review that addressed primary care-based prevention of illicit drug use among children, adolescents and young adults. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 22, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
AAFP to CMS: To Shrink Opioid Crisis, Grow Primary Care
The AAFP told CMS that the agency can help family physicians combat the opioid misuse crisis by increasing investment in primary care physician workforce growth and reducing administrative complexity. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 21, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Rural, Urban, OB and More: This Family Doc Does It All
Joe Skariah, D.O., M.P.H., found his dream job practicing full-scope family medicine -- including obstetrics -- in both rural and urban practices and an academic setting. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 21, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Family Physician Couple Returns to Rural Roots in Minnesota
Two family physicians who just happen to be married giveAAFP News a firsthand view of their wide scope of practice and strong community ties in their small rural town of Sleepy Eye, Minn. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 18, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
End Surprise Medical Billing, AAFP Tells Lawmakers
Congress must end surprise medical billing -- a practice that harms patients and damages the physician-patient relationship -- the AAFP said in a recent letter to lawmakers. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 17, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Vaccination Gaps Leave Pregnant Moms, Infants Unprotected
According to recent research from the CDC, about 65% of mothers surveyed reported they had not received the seasonal influenza and tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis vaccines before or during pregnancy. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 16, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
AAFP Query Prompts CMS Order on Pneumococcal Vaccine Denial
In response to AAFP concerns that some physicians ' Medicare claims for administering pneumococcal vaccinations have been denied, CMS has instructed Medicare contractors to cease local pneumococcal vaccination frequency edits. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - October 16, 2019 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
