Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

Since the mid-1990s, our capacity for innovation has never stopped as hospitalists navigate a complex landscape of acute illnesses, interprofessional collaborations and the imperative to provide efficient, high-quality care. But these early systems often struggled with complex medical terminology and the natural flow of conversation.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 22, 2025

While we pride ourselves on providing high-quality care for all children, we must acknowledge that the noisy, fast-paced, and unpredictable environment of the ED can be especially distressing for autistic patients. Discuss options like oral medications, intranasal routes, or the presence of trusted caregivers during procedures.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  2019-1187 9. Pediatrics.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. These factors include a high-protein diet, muscle mass, creatinine generation, and certain medications. link] Tsai J.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 25, 2025

These videos are 5 to 10 minutes in length and will provide practical ideas and suggestions that have been tested in his practice or used by other physicians that significantly improve the efficiency and productivity of their medical practices. He has written ten books on practice management and the business of medicine.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Javitt — On September 28, 2022, the FDA issued the long anticipated final Clinical Decision Support Software Guidance (CDS Guidance), which replaces the revised draft guidance document from 2019. Criterion 2 : Non-Device CDS software functions display, analyze or print medical information about a patient or other medical information.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Philip Won & Gail H. In February 2020, FDA granted a de novo classification request (DEN190040) for software intended to assist medical professionals in the acquisition of cardiac ultrasound images and that included a PCCP for future software modifications.

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BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

7 Moreover, medical professionals, health practitioners, and relevant academic institutions should proactively disseminate creditable news and information during such health outbreaks through mainstream social media channels. Psychological health during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic outbreak. Scholars such as Wen et al.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

Shapiro — One of the more complex areas of device regulation is the management of risks associated with malfunctions reported from the field. Medtronic Warning Letter) provides an important reminder from FDA as to the correct estimation of risk associated with malfunctions. By Jeffrey K.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Identifying the specific type of virus that are causing a child’s symptoms, like rhinovirus vs parainfluenza, is often unnecessary, especially in otherwise healthy children who are managed at home. A negative test can also provide false reassurance. Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e.,

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

This matter is the latest in a recent string of large monetary settlements between the government and health care providers involving employee diversion. Lax Controls Provided Employees with Opportunity to Divert. In short, the employees were provided the opportunity to not only commit the crimes but that they went undetected.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

The United States filed a Complaint against Texas entities Zarzamora Healthcare LLC, Rite-Away Pharmacy and Medical Supply #2– and its Pharmacist-in-Charge (PIC), and part owner. attorneys’ offices since 2019, the Complaint seeks monetary and permanent injunctive relief ( see 21 U.S.C. §§ 832(f)(1) and 882(a)). 21 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.” 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § S&G Labs Haw.,

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.” 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § S&G Labs Haw.,

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physicians are central to managing the medical needs of older adults. This specialized workforce has not yet been classified in health administrative data, limiting our understanding of their individual and medical practice characteristics. focused), primary care activities (i.e.,

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

We learned this week that Palomar Health, one of California’s largest healthcare districts, agreed to pay $250,000 to resolve allegations that numerous vials of fentanyl had been diverted from automated medication dispensing machines over a five-month period and that the hospital did not properly dispose of unused fentanyl.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

When Bob changed jobs, the price tag for his daughter’s medication went through the roof. In January of last year, Cole went to a Walgreens in Appleton, Wisconsin, to get refills on the medication he used to control his asthma. Bob’s journey here begins in 2019 — the first day of high school for his daughter, Mary.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

This means: Direct influence: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between environment and illness. And perhaps most importantly, we provide the information to the healthcare community to educate their patients. Link NRDC/Medical Society Consortium. Working on a Warmer Planet (2019).

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. Eric: Any other interesting tidbits or facts that we should know as providers about gabapentin or Lyrica dosing or pharmacology? J Am Geriatr Soc. Eric: Are these generic?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? But my medical training kicked in. S a ch, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. So medication adjustments.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

While many of these procedures provide critical care, we know they are acutely painful. The commonest strategy to manage acute pain in preterm babies is to give them sucrose , a sugar solution. One of these sites does not use sucrose for acute pain management. Whats more, pain isnt always managed.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. We’ll talk about is it in medical practice yet? Eric: You’ve timed it perfectly.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. They were all actually publicly traded or private equity owned for-profit hospice providers. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

I’m Dr. Carney and I am a pediatric resident at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. From 2019 to 2020, the rate of firearm related deaths among children increased by 30%. In our current environment, it can feel overwhelming as a healthcare provider to discuss firearms. Children’s Defense Fund. 2022, March 18).

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

2019 Jul;144(1):e20183221. Let’s go ahead and pivot to initial management. So the highest risk patients, these patients have a risk of cervical spine injury of about 12%, are going to recommend immediate medical attention. I’ve provided a link in the show notes. Pediatrics. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-3221.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Since that blog post, an important step forward was the decoupling of the coverage requirement from the FDA Birth Control Guide in the guidance provided by the Department to plans and issuers.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As it stands, the rule allows insurers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to broadly use copay accumulator programs, which have long been criticized by patient advocacy groups as padding insurers’ pockets while leaving patients high and dry. These prohibitions are often referred to as copay accumulator adjustment programs.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Russell Vought, the administration’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, framed Medicaid as sagging under the weight of improper payments. “Look, one out of every $5 or $6 in Medicaid [payments] is improper.”

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

Immunization status and the management of febrile children in the pediatric emergency department: what are we doing? And so I do encourage you to be familiar with some of the information provided by the CDC as long as it’s still online. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2023;39(1):1-5. doi:10.1097/PEC.0000000000002864 Unfortunately.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. Some providers were eventually referred to the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office for Medicaid fraud investigation.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Farah provides clear examples from the Biden administration, in which having the most diverse cabinet in history was critical to building bridges, empathy, and inspiring others to feel included. Eric 10:04 And how many Major League managers are. So that Jackie Robinson had hoped to become a manager after he left baseball.

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