Time to integrate oral health screening into medicine? A survey of primary care providers of older adults and an evidence-based rationale for integration.

Objective: Primary care providers were assessed regarding their training and interest to screen oral conditions in patients ≥55 years old.

Background: Oral health (OH) is an essential component of overall health and can affect systemic health. Medical/dental integration in older adults is underdeveloped.

One Leader's Journey Toward Empanelment.

Empanelment is an important step toward managing population health. Achieving empanelment in a fee-for-service world necessitates organizational support for panel size measurement and creativity regarding use of panel size to inform access decisions. Empanelment efforts and access must be balanced to create sustainable, high-quality care models and to improve practitioner and patient experiences.

Physicians caring for physicians: the perspective of the primary care physician.

Objectives: How physicians provide longitudinal primary care to physician-patients (ie, physicians as patients) has not been well studied. The potential challenges of providing care to physician-patients include maintaining professional boundaries and adhering to practice guidelines. The objective was to explore the differences in identifying how physicians perceive caring for physicians-patients in the longitudinal setting versus caring for other patients in the general population.

Personalized healthcare in the era of value-based healthcare.

Medical care in the USA is plagued by high costs, poor quality and fragmented care delivery. In response, new methods of integrated healthcare delivery are needed, including the patient-centered medical home. At the same time, we need to revitalize our approach to the practice of medicine, moving to a personalized approach, even as we increasingly focus on population management.