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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. And guess what?

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. I think at least we like to think of ourselves as ahead of the curve. Go ahead Eric.