ACP 2025: Collaborative care can help address the mental health crisis, but payment and EHR challenges remain. Matthew Press, MD, explains how primary care can overcome these barriers and why integration is essential.

ACP 2025: Dr Press explains how primary care clinicians can implement the collaborative care model to integrate mental health services, improve outcomes, and navigate reimbursement.

Beware the potential pitfalls of telemedicine, from privacy concerns to patient confusion, says associate general counsel for The Doctors Company.

Health care leaders increasingly are looking to technology for solutions to the challenges facing primary care.

It's time for some good-natured holiday health care gift-giving and we did some window shopping for you. Take a moment, take a breath, and scroll through 10 potential winners.

Despite approved funding and a mandate to CMS to create 1000 new residency slots in "primary care health professional shortage areas," progress is extremely slow.

An overview of common headache conditions and treatments for primary care clinicians, here.

The importance of avoiding judgement, monitoring behavior, and cardiovascular risk prevention in primary care are discussed, here.

Early intervention is crucial to help prevent complications in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Two experts explain more, here.

The AHRQ, Mayo Clinic, AMA, and National Academy of Medicine each recommend actions steps for all organizational levels to help build more supportive environments.

An ongoing relationship with a primary care clinician is foundational to personal and community health and adults of color are less likely than White adults to have that.

Family physicians are positioned to identify at the patient level specific factors that contribute to and sustain disparities in health and US health care, says AAFP president.

Disparities in US health and health care delivery along some dimensions are moving backward, not forward, says AAFP president Iroku-Malize in this interview.

Get a quick look at the 5 states ranking highest and lowest on metrics including wages, competition, state medical board punishment, cost of malpractice insurance, and size of malpractice payout.

Shorter office visit length increased risk for inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, coprescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines, and potentially harmful prescriptions for seniors.

Screening rates for e-cigarette use in primary care were almost two-thirds lower than those for combustible tobacco, alcohol, and illicit substances, according to new data.

Train your staff well, says this expert in business texting solutions, and make sure to develop and use appropriate checks and balances.

For a health care systems that is " wildly out of balance and in critical need of reform,” the tracking tool can benchmark and measure change over time.

Three tips on how to support patients on their weight management journey this year.

The AAFP wants assurances in policies to avoid disruptions for doctors and patients even though HHS says it plans to preserve some flexibilities.