RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Practice Innovation for Care Integration, Opioid Management, and Quality Measurement in Family Medicine JF The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO J Am Board Fam Med FD American Board of Family Medicine SP 1 OP 3 DO 10.3122/jabfm.2017.01.160349 VO 30 IS 1 A1 Anne Victoria Neale A1 Marjorie A. Bowman A1 Dean A. Seehusen YR 2017 UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/1/1.abstract AB Ringing in the new year 2017! This may finally be the year of real practice improvement after many false starts. Research into practice transformation has informed both local work and national policy. Human factors and payment structures are key. And payment structures depend on how quality is measured. Large gaps between practicing physician recommendations for the most important quality measures and those currently imposed externally are exposed in this issue. Also see information on in-practice social work consultations and their outcomes and recommendations from innovators in integrated care, and for chronic opioid therapy management based on visits to many family medicine offices. Visit entropy is negative for hospital readmissions. Another article reaffirms the importance of family physicians in rural obstetrics, including Cesarean deliveries. Two articles address changing Latino health care access. New Mexico's innovative health extension agent implementation now includes research in ways that benefit all. And a glass half-full: the growth in the diversity of family medicine faculty is above average, but is not occurring as quickly as in the general population.