Health plans use selective physician networks to control costs while improving quality. However, narrow (limited) networks raise concerns about reduced access to and continuity of care. In the period ...

As integrated care boards transition to become strategic commissioners, there is a need to focus on all commissioning decisions, including those relating to primary care. The potential for primary ...

Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) serve as pivotal collaborative platforms that connect primary care practitioners with academic researchers to conduct studies embedded in routine clinical ...

A new partnership aims to bring employers and their employees access to direct primary care — even when they’re in a primary care desert. Through the partnership, employees of Hint Connect’s employer ...

Faced with increasing operational costs, primary care physicians are repurposing or turning to health networks.

Pupils at Mwiyenga Primary School in Bumula Constituency, soaking their feet in an herbal solution during an anti-jigger campaign in the school recently. [File, Standard] The ambitious implementation ...

The National Institutes of Health is allocating about $30 million over fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to create a national primary care research network. The Communities Advancing Research Equity for ...

For many Americans, health care means going to a local primary care office. But the vast majority of clinical research is conducted inside the walls of large, specialized academic health centers.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts announced that it’s contracting with three new provider groups partly in an effort to offset the primary care physician shortage. BCBSMA has expanded its ...

Primary care doctors in First Physicians Group, a multi-specialty medical group affiliated with Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, will no longer be considered in-network for patients with Florida ...

Health centres will offer screening, health checks, and chronic-disease management. Hong Kong plans to bring private doctors, ...