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Journal of the American Medical Association: Modification of the Associations Between Duration of Oral Contraceptive Use and Ovarian, Endometrial, Breast, and Colorectal Cancers
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From Food Deserts to Food Swamps: Interventions to Improve Patient Health
Aug 15, 2018
From Food Deserts to Food Swamps: Interventions to Improve Patient Health
Aug 15, 2018

We each make over 200 decisions about food daily. Many of these decisions are strongly influenced by our food environment and may contribute to health status based on what is available. Limited access to nutritious foods, as well as overwhelming access to nutrient-poor foods, can be addressed by health professionals through motivational interviewing with tailored education and knowledge of community resources.

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Aug 15, 2018
Integrated Care – A Whole-Practice Change to Provide Whole-Person Care
Jul 22, 2018
Integrated Care – A Whole-Practice Change to Provide Whole-Person Care
Jul 22, 2018

When you hear the phrase integrated care, you probably think about a behavioral health clinician embedded in a primary care office. But, that’s not the only form of integrated care. Like all of health care, integration occurs on a continuum.

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Jul 22, 2018
Aledade, Emtiro Health Partner to Create Independent Primary Care Physician-Led ACO in North Carolina
Jun 12, 2018
Aledade, Emtiro Health Partner to Create Independent Primary Care Physician-Led ACO in North Carolina
Jun 12, 2018

Today, Maryland-based Aledade, Inc. and North Carolina-based Emtiro Health, LLC announced they are forming a new partnership to support independent providers in the North Carolina Foothills and Greater Piedmont-Triad area under Aledade’s newly formed, physician-led Accountable Care Organization (ACO). The Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACO benefits North Carolina physicians and their patients by offering a model that rewards doctors for improving quality of care and patient health outcomes, while lowering costs.

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Jun 12, 2018
Trusting our Gut (Microbiome) in Nutrition-Focused Healthcare
May 31, 2018
Trusting our Gut (Microbiome) in Nutrition-Focused Healthcare
May 31, 2018

We have all experienced a “gut feeling” about something or someone in our lives. These strong, intuitive instincts have likely lead us to act one way or another, perhaps even serving to protect. In a similar way, research is revealing that the beneficial microbes found in our gut may be influencing our mental state (via the gut-brain axis) and protecting us from a host of diseases and illnesses.

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May 31, 2018
Project ECHO: Improving Access to Speciality Care
May 18, 2018
Project ECHO: Improving Access to Speciality Care
May 18, 2018

In 2003, Dr. Sajeev Arora, a liver specialist at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, realized that his specialty clinic for the treatment of Hepatitis C was overrun with patients in need of care. Wait lists were long and many of the patients who were being seen struggled to keep their appointments because of the long distances they had to travel to Albuquerque to receive Interferon, a complicated and sole treatment available at the time.

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May 18, 2018
Medication Experts Hold Key to Transitions of Care
Apr 30, 2018
Medication Experts Hold Key to Transitions of Care
Apr 30, 2018

Pharmacists are truly the medication experts and, with a recent estimate putting the cost of hospital readmissions at over $40 billion annually and a Medicare readmission rate of nearly 20%, it’s long past time to invest in Pharmacists’ expertise.

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Apr 30, 2018
Rethinking (Patient Centered) End of Life Care
Apr 16, 2018
Rethinking (Patient Centered) End of Life Care
Apr 16, 2018

Technology has done wonders for the medical world, enabling providers to sustain life in ways that were not imaginable 50 years ago. However, when there’s no hope of a reasonable recovery, why is every life sustaining option implemented in spite of what the patient may want?

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Apr 16, 2018
New Study Confirms Existing Guidelines for Prescribing Opiates in the Treatment of Chronic Pain
Mar 12, 2018
New Study Confirms Existing Guidelines for Prescribing Opiates in the Treatment of Chronic Pain
Mar 12, 2018

Just this past week a new study from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) System published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) provides further evidence that the decades old conventional practice of prescribing opioids for certain types of chronic pain may be no more effective than over-the-counter remedies found at the drugstore.

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Mar 12, 2018
What Counts in Care?
Mar 11, 2018
What Counts in Care?
Mar 11, 2018

Health inequity is a pervasive fact in American life, but does it have to be?

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Mar 11, 2018
Emtiro Health Announces New President and CEO
Jan 30, 2018
Emtiro Health Announces New President and CEO
Jan 30, 2018

Emtiro Health’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Kelly B. Garrison will serve as the organization’s next President and CEO.

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Jan 30, 2018
Evoking Change in Patient Behavior through Motivational Interviewing
Jan 28, 2018
Evoking Change in Patient Behavior through Motivational Interviewing
Jan 28, 2018

Many patients are intimidated in health care settings. The mere fact that the provider is holding the knowledge and answers that ultimately affects the patient’s health and wellbeing puts them in a position of power. With that much influence and power, patients will of course do what their provider has directed them to do, right? Wrong. 

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Jan 28, 2018
The Role of Medical Nutrition Therapy in Addressing Food Insecurity and Disease Prevention
Jan 7, 2018
The Role of Medical Nutrition Therapy in Addressing Food Insecurity and Disease Prevention
Jan 7, 2018

The more I learn about nutrition, the more I believe Hippocrates’ words to be true. Unfortunately, the best dietary “medicine” is out of reach for many.

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Jan 7, 2018
Improving Health, Outcomes by Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Dec 22, 2017
Improving Health, Outcomes by Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Dec 22, 2017

What if I told you the FDA was about to approve a drug that increased life expectancy by 10 years, halved the infant mortality rate, and substantially decreased hospital admissions and emergency department use, while at the same time saving our health system $1 trillion per year?

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Dec 22, 2017
Feeling the Pressure of New Guidelines for the Treatment of Hypertension
Nov 21, 2017
Feeling the Pressure of New Guidelines for the Treatment of Hypertension
Nov 21, 2017

On November 13th The American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and nine other groups redefined high blood pressure as a reading of 130 over 80, down from 140 over 90. The change, the first in 14 years, means that 46 percent of U.S. adults, many of them under the age of 45, now will be considered hypertensive.

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Nov 21, 2017
Bringing Psychiatric Services to Primary Care with the Collaborative Care Model
Nov 19, 2017
Bringing Psychiatric Services to Primary Care with the Collaborative Care Model
Nov 19, 2017

Ask any primary care clinician and they will tell you that their practice is a de facto mental health clinic. Over half of individuals who receive mental health services in any given year receive those services in medical settings.

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Nov 19, 2017
Partnership for Community Care Network and Northwest Community Care Network Launch Joint Venture
Oct 18, 2017
Partnership for Community Care Network and Northwest Community Care Network Launch Joint Venture
Oct 18, 2017

Today, Partnership for Community Care Network (P4CC) of Greensboro and Northwest Community Care Network (NCCN) of Winston Salem announced the formation of Emtiro Health, a joint venture of the two organizations. Emtiro Health will build on the vast experience of P4CC and NCCN to provide a total population health management solution to patients, providers, and payers.

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Oct 18, 2017
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