Medical assistants have seen their roles expand as a result of team-based primary care models. Unlike their health care provider colleagues, however, financial incentives are rarely a part of MA compensation. Researchers conducted an exploratory evaluation to understand MAs’ attitudes toward financial incentives and their perceived control over common population health measures.

The authors assessed the effectiveness of Primary Care 2.0, a team-based model that includes an increase in the medical assistant-to-primary care physician ratio; advanced practice provider integration; expanded medical assistants’ roles; and utilization of an extended interprofessional team to support medical assistants.

Researchers from Hebrew University-Hadassah in Jerusalem and Cardioinfantil Foundation, Cardiology Institute in Bogota, Colombia, conducted a repeated, cross-sectional study to examine whether breast, colorectal and cervical cancer screening rates in women differed by age and socioeconomic position , and whether screening rates and socioeconomic disparities changed following the introduction of a primary care-based national quality indicator program.

University promotion and tenure criteria and processes should be broadened and made more inclusive to value innovation, entrepreneurship and other forms of scholarly impact.

Managers should be aware that salespeople’s past performance success and experience create biases in their decision-making while prospecting.

MIT economist Daron Acemoglu is co-author of a new study showing that aging populations lead to greater implementation of robots in workplace settings.