Beyond the Clinic Family Medicine on a Mission Part 1: How Air Force Physicians Achieve Humanitarian Goals Read Family Medicine on a Mission Part 1: How Air Force Physicians Achieve Humanitarian Goals
Phoenix Newsletter - March 2025 President’s Message: ABFM’s Unwavering Commitment to Diplomates and the Specialty Read President’s Message: ABFM’s Unwavering Commitment to Diplomates and the Specialty
Home Research Research Library Clinical Quality Measures in a Post-Pandemic World: Measuring What Matters in Family Medicine (ABFM) Clinical Quality Measures in a Post-Pandemic World: Measuring What Matters in Family Medicine (ABFM) 2020 Author(s) Shuemaker, Jill C, Phillips, Robert L, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Measurement, and Quality Of Care Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine COVID-19 altered the way the American public lived their lives; the way they worked, ate, socialized, traveled, and ultimately received their health care. Family Medicine largely closed its doors to face-to-face preventive and chronic care visits and made a large shift to telephone and online video visits. Ten days after the World Health Organization pronounced that the COVID-19 outbreak was a global pandemic, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced that CMS was granting exceptions from reporting requirements, “so the health care delivery system can direct its time and resources toward caring for patients.”15 Suddenly quality reporting requirements were optional, and clinicians who did not submit data would not be penalized, but instead receive neutral payment adjustments. This pause led the ABFM to ask, if current clinical quality measures are not valuable in a pandemic, what does that tell us about what we are measuring? Read More ABFM Research Read all 2023 Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals Go to Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals 2024 Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Family Medicine Practices Go to Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Family Medicine Practices 2021 Advancing primary care with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Go to Advancing primary care with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2014 Which family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants or certified nurse midwives Go to Which family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants or certified nurse midwives
Author(s) Shuemaker, Jill C, Phillips, Robert L, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Measurement, and Quality Of Care Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2023 Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals Go to Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals 2024 Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Family Medicine Practices Go to Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Family Medicine Practices 2021 Advancing primary care with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Go to Advancing primary care with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2014 Which family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants or certified nurse midwives Go to Which family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants or certified nurse midwives
2023 Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals Go to Primary Care Physician Leadership in Top Ranked US Hospitals
2024 Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Family Medicine Practices Go to Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Family Medicine Practices
2021 Advancing primary care with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Go to Advancing primary care with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
2014 Which family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants or certified nurse midwives Go to Which family physicians work routinely with nurse practitioners, physician assistants or certified nurse midwives