The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

SkinIO , Scanoma , Miiskin , FirstDerm , Direct Derm , iDoc24 , and SkinVision all work based on the same principle: they promise patients the option to self-check their symptoms and then to connect to a dermatologist online for consultation within a very short period of time. If there were ever a time to join us, it is now.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. and consulting for Papa Health. So in this case consultations. Scott: Kate would miss you. laughter] Alex: Yeah.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This is back in, I don’t know, like 2014 maybe. And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. I’d been a nurse at the time, and I went back to do my clinicals in an oncology clinic locally. Eric, do you want me to go first?

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77