MedPage Today November 11, 2024
Fred Pelzman

— Can electronic systems help put more of our annual visit recommendations into action?

It often feels like a big part of our annual visits with patients, when they come in for their physical and blood tests and to update us on their medical conditions, is spent seeing how their lives, especially as related to their health, have been progressing over the past year.

Or not progressing.

When I pre-chart on patients coming to see me for their Medicare annual wellness visits, or for their annual physical that’s covered by their commercial insurance or Medicaid, I look at the chores we decided at last year’s visit to accomplish together in the coming year. This is part of shared medical decision-making,...

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