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Whole Health: A Personalized Approach to Veteran Care

Relias

How to get started using this approach Healthcare organizations aiming to adopt the VA’s Whole Health approach can begin by focusing on personalized, proactive, and patient-centered care that addresses the full spectrum of a patient’s health, including physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

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Understanding Functional Medicine

Minority Nurse

Nurses can also apply functional medicine principles in their current roles by incorporating holistic assessments, personalized care plans, and lifestyle counseling.” They also provide more individualized, patient-centered care, which itself leads to better outcomes.”

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Why Attribution Bias Might be the Costliest Bias

Sensible Medicine

The provision of safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care hinges on a correct diagnosis. No one approach is best for patient-centered care because each clinical context is unique. This varied and integrated practice is our specialty as generalists.

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Enhancing Patient Care: Medical Assistants’ Key Role in Preventive Healthcare

Northwest Suburban College

Supporting Primary Care Providers Medical Assistants are integral members of primary care teams, aiding physicians, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare providers in delivering patient-centered care.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Latanya Weston

Minority Nurse

The healthcare industry has come a long way in recognizing the impact of social determinants of health on patient health, but this is still the most significant challenge facing us today. As nurses, we see first-hand, time and again, that providing “equal” care to patients is not enough.

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Main Value-Based Care Metrics for Healthcare Practices

Practice Builders

Value-based care metrics cover a wide range of criteria, from the effectiveness of care coordination to the adherence to preventative care. These measures encourage medical providers to prioritize patient-centered care, maximize resource utilization, and reduce healthcare costs by tying financial incentives to quality results.

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Negotiating the physician identity in an era of complexity and connectivity (Part 1)

Sensible Medicine

The argument that we “have earned” the right to dictate the care plan by working long hours is superseded by the reality that the best plans are co-constructed and evidence-based. Interconnectivity The other significant generational shift in our work is the speed and accessibility of our connections with patients.

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