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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

We got some really special guests with us. And so that lends it properties of being a pretty strong analgesic and it lends its special properties for safety, from a safety profile. So this is 2008 when they were running this study, I’m like why did the heck did they choose buprenorphine? Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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

GeriPal

He created fee for service, special fee for depression. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. So since 2008, we’ve been providing the service using our foundation money. And when we made that with David and other, we talk with Jürgen Unützer. Think about CPC+.

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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. Joe: Yeah.