From the identification of thousands of diabetes and blood pressure patients to the development of electronic referrals in urban and rural areas "Iran": according to the Ministry of Health report, the family medicine program was implemented in 64 health and treatment networks covering 13.3 million people, and the coverage of the rural population reached 100%. Registration of more than 3.5 million visits in the first level and electronic referral led to the identification of more than 19 thousand new patients with diabetes and 34 thousand with hypertension. Developing special meetings, registering two million drug prescriptions and planning screening tests for common types of cancer and risk assessment for non-communicable diseases are other important measures on the way to organizing treatment referrals. Read the full text here.

From the identification of thousands of diabetes and blood pressure patients to the development of electronic referrals in urban and rural areas "Iran": according to the Ministry of Health report, the family medicine program was implemented in 64 health and treatment networks covering 13.3 million people, and the coverage of the rural population reached 100%. Registration of more than 3.5 million visits in the first level and electronic referral led to the identification of more than 19 thousand new patients with diabetes and 34 thousand with hypertension. Developing special meetings, registering two million drug prescriptions and planning screening tests for common types of cancer and risk assessment for non-communicable diseases are other important measures on the way to organizing treatment referrals. Read the full text here.