Blog - Wixom Family Doctor

13 Jan , 2017

Predictions for the physician of the future

Doctors and patients alike whine about the computers in the exam rooms. I tell students it won't matter how you keep your records – if they could prove to me they could manage all of the gaps in care via a paper record. The truth is, as doctors got shoehorned away from taking excellent care of just...

13 Mar , 2013

Technology won’t Fill the Deficit Unless Docs Bring Knowledge and Caring to the Table

Theodore Shively

medicine, novi, technology Technology

As anyone who has been around PrimeCare of Wixom from the beginning knows, we are no stranger to technology. When we started in 1999 we were one of the first if not thefirst, Family Medicine practices in Oakland County to go “electronic”. I could see back then that this was the way it was going to...

3 Mar , 2013

The evisceration of the Patient Centered Medical Home

Theodore Shively

Medical Home

In 2007, the American Osteopathic Association along with the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, released the Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Central to the concept were the following princ...

Predictions for the physician of the future

Technology won’t Fill the Deficit Unless Docs Bring Knowledge and Caring to the Table

The evisceration of the Patient Centered Medical Home

We need to see the potential harm of social media