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Matthew P. Martin
September 23, 2021 by Matthew P. Martin

Diseases and Deaths of Despair: The Great Divide

4 minute read It is no surprise that COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the wellbeing of individuals and families. Overall stress and worry for all Americans increased from 47% in 2019 to 59% in 2020. Two in five individuals reported an adverse mental or behavioral health condition in June 2020 with many linking their symptoms […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconsocial determinants of health,  social justice,  poverty

September 13, 2021 by Nina Russin

Evolving Roles for Behavioral Health in Precision Medicine

3 minute read There is no question that precision medicine, defined as the use of genetic, genomic, and epigenetic information to ‘personalize’ therapeutic strategies is creating unprecedented opportunities for improving health care delivery (Denny et al., 2021). As the cost of genomic sequencing decreases, the speed at which such technologies are transitioning from ‘bench-to-bedside’ has […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconprecision medicine,  genomics,  informatics

Matthew P. Martin
September 7, 2021 by Matthew P. Martin

Your Measurement System Analysis Results Are Now Ready

3 minute read Concentration is a scarce commodity in healthcare delivery. Although our systems are flush with data, we can only process a finite amount of information to make clinical decisions for engaging, treating, and monitoring patients in our catchment areas. We screen and triage patients as stewards of scarce resources using measures that we […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconmeasurement,  patient health questionnaire

August 18, 2021 by Nina Russin

The Beauty of Numbers: How Mathematics Drives Scientific Inquiry

2 minute read The Cambridge dictionary defines mathematics as a system for the study of numbers, shapes, and space (Cambridge.org, n.d.). While most of us conceptualize mathematics as a method for computing complex functions, the true beauty of numbers lies in their ability to transcend cultural and linguistic barriers. Simply put, mathematics is the universal […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconscientific method,  scientific inquiry

Matthew P. Martin
August 12, 2021 by Matthew P. Martin

What Level of Integration is Your Practice?

3 minute read Spreading the gospel of care integration is not for sprinters. To be sure, this game is for long distance runners. One of the beauties of integration is that individual clinics and care systems can use whatever model meets the needs of their patients and matches their available resources. This variability, though, also […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconresearch update,  measurement

Matthew P. Martin
July 30, 2021 by Matthew P. Martin

Is Yours a Learning Clinic?

5 minute read. Original post here. In 2018, I had a sweet setup for my work commute. My friend, who also worked downtown, would pick me up at my house, use the carpool lane on the highway, and drop me off in front of my office building. When I offered to pay for gas, he […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconQuality Improvement,  Learning Organization,  Practice Improvement

July 19, 2021 by Nina Russin

Flow: How mindfulness can drive intellectual and athletic achievement

2 minute read The role of mindfulness meditation in reducing stress, anxiety and depression is well established, with a 2017 meta-analysis linking such practices to better control of the sympathetic nervous system (Pascoe et al., 2017). Key to the practice of mindfulness is present-state awareness, also referred to as flow (Davis & Ludwig, 2018). In […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconmindfulness,  physical activity

July 3, 2021 by Gerald Nebeker

Parents Hoping to Outlive Their Children

3 minute read I recently received an emotionally laden call from a close friend of mine, Jessica, that sucked the air right out of me. Jessica is the mother of “Chrissy,” a 30-year-old woman with profound intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who lives at home. My agency has provided Chrissy with supports in Jessica’s home […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconspecial needs,  parenting

June 1, 2021 by Gerald Nebeker

Glass children: The overlooked siblings of the people we treat.

5 minute read We work with children, adolescents, and adults with chronic conditions: mental illness, medical conditions, intellectual or developmental disabilities. We do the very best we can to treat the patient, but what about their siblings? What about them? The first memory Nathan has is being in the hospital. He says, “I pretty well […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconfamily health,  special needs,  parenting

May 24, 2021 by Nina Russin

What can Behavioral Economics Prospect Theory Teach us about Vaccine Pushback?

3 minute read Behavioral economics, as proposed by Kahneman and Tversky, was created in response to neoclassical theories that endorse rational decision-making (Reuter & Montag, 2016). According to Nobel laureate, Daniel Kahneman, people make decisions based on heuristics and biases, which, depending on the situation, may or may not yield the greatest gain (Kahneman, 2011). […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  vaccine,  behavioral economics

May 19, 2021 by Carol Levine

“Amour” or Love Among the Ruins

5 minute read. Original post link. Nominated for five Academy Awards, “Amour” is a film about love and death. (Read no further if you haven’t seen the film and don’t want to know who dies and how.) The setting is Paris, the language French, but any resemblance to a conventional French film about light-hearted romance […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconcaregiver,  loss,  Family

Barry J. Jacobs
May 14, 2021 by Barry J. Jacobs

Home-Based Care is Rising. So Must Family-Oriented Care.

5 minute read In the pre-Covid years, when I was the family caregiver for my mother with mild dementia and chronic pain, I became the point person for her home-based care team. I was forever on the phone managing the shifting schedules of her home health aides and receiving instructions from her home-based physical therapists […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconFamily,  home care

May 6, 2021 by Gerald Nebeker

Caring for Decades: A Story of Parents, Children, and Special Needs

5 minute read In 1974 Sue delivered two beautiful identical twin daughters. They were the “talk of the hospital,” she says. They were still talking days later, but for different reasons, when the girls had their first seizure in the nursery. At three months, Kaylie and Kylie were diagnosed with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy. The […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconFamily,  caregiver,  disability,  special needs

April 26, 2021 by Daniel Kim

Metabolic Health: Discussing Body Weight With Your Patient

5 minute read Heart disease and cancer continue to be the biggest leaders for US deaths in 2020.1 Heart disease led the way at 650,000 while cancer was just shy of 600,000. One common risk factor is obesity which is also correlated with the development of other diseases such as type II diabetes and hypertension. […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconmetabolic health,  patient communication

April 23, 2021 by Alejandra Renteria

The Metabolic Syndrome Epidemic in America

3 minute read In 2012, only one third of all United States adults met the criteria for metabolic syndrome.1 In recent years this number has increased drastically. Today, it is estimated that only about 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy. Certain factors may put an individual at a higher risk of being diagnosed with metabolic […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconnutrition,  exercise,  metabolic health

April 22, 2021 by Nina Russin

Goober’s Logic: Lessons from my Cat

2 minute read It is no surprise that pandemic-related isolation has, for many, had pathological consequences. Hardly a day passes without some mention in the media of anxiety and depression. What has received less attention is how COVID-19 affected our furry friends. For my cat, Goober, it has been the greatest thing to ever happen […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconCOVID-19,  pets

Neftali Serrano
April 15, 2021 by Neftali Serrano

Tech Survey Results: This Is How Healthcare Professionals Engage Social Networking Tools

Five Minute Read We were curious about how our members utilize social media and connectivity tools, so we asked and they answered. The results are fascinating and will help us plan future efforts to support networking amongst the members of our association, the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA). Why should you care? Well, read on […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconPrimary Care,  social media

April 9, 2021 by Nina Russin

Food for Thought: How the Brain Feeds Itself

3 minute read The human brain constitutes about two percent of body mass yet consumes approximately 20% of available blood sugar (Mergenthaler et al., 2013). Unlike other major energy consumers such as muscle and liver cells, neurons store very little glucose, certainly not enough to avoid a shortage (Dienel & Rothman, 2019). In addition, while […]

Category iconIntegrated Care News Tag iconneuroscience,  nutrition

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