Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We caught up with Dr. Osman Saleem, Medical Director for our hospital medicine practice at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, to go behind the stethoscope and learn more about how he came to Sound and his leadership journey:    When did you first consider a career in medicine? What keeps you at Sound?

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Hospital Telemedicine Healthcare Provider 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them? Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Eric: And we’re going to be talking about improving hospital care for older adults via ACE units, or acute care for elders.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

In 2013, only 56 percent of Americans owned a smartphone, which climbed to around 90% by now. 8) VisualDx Thousands of hospitals, clinics, and medical schools use VisualDx to aid diagnostic accuracy, enhance medical education, and improve patient outcomes. VisualDx is an excellent source for diagnostic clinical decision support.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. Now, my SWHPN friends will get mad at me if I got that wrong, but I think it was 2013. Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team. Eric: … social work-led research, social work-led clinical program. Founding board member of SWHPN? Is that right?

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So a couple weeks after it was published, I took a trip to a medical school in the western part of the country and I was visiting to think about their geriatrics research program, and they had a geriatrics evaluation clinic. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what?

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

And if we’re seeing somebody in the clinic, how they might be able to do things in four years, we’re looking ahead to try to slow any progression down. But I think clinical concerns are legitimate to bring up. For hospitalization, for death, for all sorts of adverse events, I think are a reason for concern.

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Diagnosis Diagnose IT Physicals 141