News Release

Innovations in primary care: Telehealth and patient-entered data

Peer-Reviewed Publication

American Academy of Family Physicians

Annals of Family Medicine continues its new feature, Innovations in Primary Care - brief one-page articles that describe novel innovations from health care's front lines. This issue's innovations include:

* Expanding Primary Care Access: A Telehealth Success Story - A widespread telehealth project in Brazil has reduced the wait for specialty consultations and appointments. http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/4/383

* Using Patient-Entered Data to Supercharge Self-Management - Solo practices use a low-burden method to measure and improve the health confidence of their patient populations.

http://www.annfammed.org/content/15/4/382

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