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Translating complex clinical environments to virtual care: Standards of Care in Virtual Medicine in Canada [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Rapid adoption of virtual care in early 2020, meant there was little time to develop or plan integrated virtual health care services, resulting in an urgency to establish governance for quality-based virtual care in Canada. Ethical, professional and legal requirements were alike for virtual care and in-person settings.

Finance

Finance Telemedicine Relationship Government

From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

They are often overwhelmed by physically and mentally daunting tasks, and the result is often an unpleasant experience for everyone involved. The power of exoskeletons Rather than move around independently to clean surfaces or handle deliveries, exoskeletons wrap around the user’s body to support them physically. In the U.S.,

Healthcare

Healthcare Hospital Medical Patient-Centered

Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

Looking ahead, here are several emerging innovations that promise to shape the next generation of these tools: Deeper integration with hospitalist workflow: Initiating an AI-assisted note may soon be as effortless as speaking naturally during a patient consult—no disruptions, no clicks. References: 1. Shanafelt TD, West CP, Sinsky C, et al.

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Patient-Centered Telemedicine Clinic Electronics

Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Additionally, he consults with federal agencies on mental health system design and practices. Dr.  Disparities in Restraint Practices: Disparities in restraint practices are addressed, particularly the disproportionate use of physical and pharmacologic restraints on Black people. 2020 Nov 12;383(20):1904-1905. JAMA Netw Open.

Mental Health

Mental Health Community Hospital Appointment

Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. What effect does that have on the bottom line?

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner

You don’t need labs or CT scans in children who have recovered after a simple febrile or first time seizure

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A careful history and physical examination are ways that we as providers can “see what’s going on inside the head.” Occult trauma Any trauma that is not seen on your physical (e.g. This includes scarring abnormalities, bleeds, and tumors. 2000; 55(5):616-623.

Patients

Patients Screening Illness Physicals

Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. It has to do with movement and food in a lot of ways- Tamryn: Physical activity, nutrition, dietary changes. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. Absolutely.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients

Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT

RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. I mean, they’re appropriate to enroll, I think. Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients

PEMPix 2023 Online Case 4: You Can’t Get Fooled Again

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Physical exam Vital Signs: Temperature: 37.9 °C, Additional labs ordered per the consultant’s recommendations were notable for elevated PT/PTT, AFP, plasma tyrosine, and urine succinylacetone consistent with a diagnosis of tyrosinemia. 2020 Jun 5;38:e2018158. doi: 10.1590/1984-0462/2020/38/2018158. Rev Paul Pediatr.

Screening

Screening Diagnosis Diagnose Management

Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my social work colleagues and/or my spiritual care provider colleagues because they do really lean into some of these other aspects of the who, not just the physical. Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L.,

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT

Better Late Than Never – Unpacking FDA’s Highly Anticipated (and Long Overdue) Draft Guidance on Diversity Action Plans

FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

geographic location, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, physical and mental disabilities, pregnancy status, lactation status, and co-morbidity) may impact outcomes. FDA encourages sponsors to consult patients and healthcare providers to assist in developing such strategies.

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Clinic Provider Individual IT

Grief, Loss, and Well-Being Debriefing: Vickie Leff, Matthew Loscalzo, Craig Blinderman

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Susan Block had reached out to me and asked if I could contribute something specifically on the experience during the peak months in New York City and COVID Pandemic in 2020. And then to see her show up in our hospice unit in April of 2020, it just completely broke my heart. She was homeless.

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Primary Care Digest

Translating complex clinical environments to virtual care: Standards of Care in Virtual Medicine in Canada [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

You don’t need labs or CT scans in children who have recovered after a simple febrile or first time seizure

Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

PEMPix 2023 Online Case 4: You Can’t Get Fooled Again

Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

Better Late Than Never – Unpacking FDA’s Highly Anticipated (and Long Overdue) Draft Guidance on Diversity Action Plans

Grief, Loss, and Well-Being Debriefing: Vickie Leff, Matthew Loscalzo, Craig Blinderman

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