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Jonah Mink is a family physician.

Primary care isn’t broken. It needs a better support system.

Jonah Mink, MD
Physician
June 4, 2020

Primary care is at the heart of each and every health care system. Effective and efficient primary care leads to positive health outcomes across the board, most notably lower rates of mortality and hospitalization, and higher life expectancy. But to achieve such results, primary care needs an integrated system to support efficient care delivery.

Despite the diligent work performed every minute by doctors, nurses, and other clinicians, …

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Primary care isn’t broken. It needs a better support system.

Why medical scribes are accidental blessings

Jonah Mink, MD
Physician
February 2, 2018

Some doctors choose medicine because of the medicine, and some doctors choose medicine because of the people. I veer towards the latter: Medicine is my tool to help the person sitting across from me.

However, I am finding more and more stuff getting in between me and my patients, primarily my computer. The increasing burden of gathering coded health data in the EMR, especially in light of the impending MACRA, MIPS …

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