Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This need became apparent with the initiation of the Alberta Surgical Initiative’s Facilitated Access to Specialized Treatment (FAST). Setting: Alberta, Canada from May 2022 to October 2023. We employed diverse strategies to solicit respondent participation in clinics, provider networks, community and, social media.

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Referral Healthcare Provider Utilities 130

FDA Law

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Gonzalez — The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently published a series of articles as part of its special report “What’s Ahead for Artificial Intelligence.” Javitt & Steven J. Three of these articles focus on medical applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) and explore FDA’s role in regulating such products.

Medical 119

Medical Patient-Centered Healthcare Specialization 119

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Healthcare administrative assistants handle the clerical and office tasks that support patient care. Opportunities for healthcare admin assistants across Connecticut are growing, from clinics and hospitals to private practices like the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut. Effective communication improves the patient experience.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Private Practice Electronics Management 52

PEMBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together. NASEMSO: Clinical care and restraint of agitated or combative patients by emergency medical service practitioners. link] Patient restraint in emergency medical services [Position Statement]. Prehosp Emerg Care.

Transportation 122

Transportation Patient-Centered Management Finance 122

FDA Law

MAY 4, 2023

Cato — On May 2nd, FDA released a new draft guidance with recommendations for decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) for drugs, biologics, and devices. In a DCT, trial-related activities may occur in trial participants’ homes, at local health care providers’ offices, or in local clinical laboratories.

Clinic 59

Clinic Telehealth Provider Electronics 59

FDA Law

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Starting in 2022 with a patent certification requirement, both Jazz and Avadel have sued FDA over this drug, with Jazz most recently bringing suit challenging FDA’s decision that Avadel’s Lumryz (sodium oxybate) is clinically superior to Jazz’s Xywav (sodium oxybate) in 2023. The Court held that it does.

Clinic 111

Clinic IT Patient-Centered Consulting 111

FDA Law

MAY 19, 2023

In this blog we examine the Special Controls put in place to mitigate false results, incorrect interpretation of results, and incorrect operation of the device. analytical, clinical and stability). The Special Controls are silent on what would constitute appropriate levels of evidence necessary to satisfy this criterion.

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Specialization Clinic Provider IT 40

FDA Law

JULY 17, 2024

We also commend and congratulate the legions of rare disease patient advocates and the leadership of the EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases (“ELF”) who championed the advocacy efforts that led to this important milestone. By Sarah Wicks & James E. Valentine & Frank J.

Patient-Centered 105

Patient-Centered Community Medical Specialty Clinic 105

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Dr. Benton mentors clinical and research physicians, fellows, and postdoctoral trainees. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Community Patient-Centered Hospital 52

PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together. Pediatrics March 2023; 151 (3): e2022057383. Boarding of Mentally Ill Patients in Emergency Departments: American Psychiatric Association Resource Document. Nash, Kavita Parikh, Bonnie T. 10.1542/peds.2022-057383 2019.6.42422.

Mental Health 98

Mental Health Management Patient-Centered Illness 98

FDA Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That emergency declaration is set to expire on May 11, 2023. While no “special registration” will yet be required to engage in telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances, DEA is proposing parameters to guide the practice of telemedicine encounters in a post-COVID world. 21 U.S.C. § 802(54)(D)(i). 21 U.S.C. § 802(54)(D)(i).

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Telemedicine Telecommunication Telehealth Medical 59

FDA Law

AUGUST 18, 2024

The De Novo process provides a regulatory pathway to classify novel devices for which general controls alone or general and special controls provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness for the intended use. Each of these De Novos can represent a clinical advance. De Novos now play an important role in product advancement.

Specialization 69

Specialization Hospital Physicals Provider 69

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a complex and progressive disease requiring highly specialized care, especially in emergency situations. The condition affects multiple organ systems—muscular, cardiac, and respiratory—leading to a myriad of clinical complications.

Patients 52

Patients Complication Management Consulting 52

FDA Law

MAY 8, 2023

The discussion paper described a PCCP as including (1) the types of anticipated modifications (SaMD Pre-Specifications or SPS) based on the retraining and model update strategy and (2) the associated methodology (Algorithm Change Protocol or ACP) being used to implement those changes in a controlled manner to manage patient risks.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Provider Medical IT 98

FDA Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The generation of HF data is a detailed and fairly burdensome process, although certainly short of a full-blown clinical study. A “critical task” is a “user task which, if performed incorrectly or not performed at all, would or could cause serious harm to the patient or user, where harm is defined to include compromised medical care.”)

Manufacturing 64

Manufacturing Engineering Medical IT 64

FDA Law

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The brevity of this change belies the foreseeably seismic impact of FDA regulation of clinical laboratories on the healthcare system. What, if any, unintended consequences may result from the proposed phaseout policy to certain patient populations (for example, Medicare beneficiaries, rural populations, etc.)

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Provider Manufacturing IT Medical 64

FDA Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

FDA announced on October 3, 2022 that the voluntary electronic Submission Template And Resource (eSTAR) templates would be required beginning October 1, 2023, as we blogged about here. There are two forms: one for non-IVD devices and one for IVD devices. The situation is similar for submissions where software is not changing.

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Provider Electronics IT Complication 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Hot off the presses RCT in JAMA October 2023: Study that looks at 1000 female resident physicians at 26 sites that showed that coaching improved each outcome assessed (burnout, moral injury, imposter syndrome, self-compassion, and flourishing). AlexSmithMD 1. This is what Greg was talking about, life coaching blurs with executive coaching.

Board-Certified 111

Board-Certified IT Primary Care Referral 111

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Forget a lunch break; she often eats a sandwich or some nuts as she heads to her next patient visit. “Our patient isn’t just the older adult,” Johnson said. “Hello.

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Nurse Practitioner Families Family Primary Care 52

Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The goal is to support clinical trials and bring in another $50 million in private investment to help ibogaine win approval from the U.S. Other states like Oregon and Colorado have already launched legal clinics using psilocybin, the compound found in mushrooms, The Times reported. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Mental Health 52

Mental Health IT Medical Specialization 52

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.

Illness 109

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 109

Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

What is known is that special cells in the eye called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) detect blue light and send signals to the SCN to reset the clock. But what happens inside the SCN after receiving this light signal has remained largely mysterious—until now.

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Provider Medical Complication Diabetes 109

ABIM

MAY 30, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Of note, the findings so far indicate that 90% of nephrologists who responded are clinically active.

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Board-Certified Government Internal Medicine Private Practice 40

PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Well dive into the clinical presentations, including acute and chronic symptoms, the dangers of sudden sniffing death, and the specific risks associated with nitrites, hydrocarbons, and nitrous oxide. Formulate effective strategies for identifying, managing, and preventing inhalant misuse in pediatric patients. Ganetsky M (ed).

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered Management Patients 52

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. And that’s an ADC of two to three patients a day. JAMA Health Forum.

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IT Provider Patients Families 115

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. Updated 2023 Jul 17]. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. On clinical presentation. Inborn Errors of Metabolism.

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Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. I think even the word patient, patient, I think, comes from the word suffer, the one who suffers. More of the point is we get in big trouble with ourselves and with our patients and each other if we go down that comparison track too far, I think that we can cause some real trouble there.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

FDA Law

APRIL 8, 2024

In its report, Drug Shortages: Root Causes and Potential Solutions, FDA explains that the equipment needed to produce sterile injectables is highly specialized and expensive, meaning that in a shortage situation, production capacity cannot be substantially increased without taking the time and expense of procuring and qualifying new equipment.

Supply Chain 59

Supply Chain Manufacturing Government Hospital 59

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. These studies are important. So, learn as many as you can and what they’re all about.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. Randy died February 26, 2023. It’s really special to be here and to be talking about this paper, which was really important to Randy. Erin: Yeah, I can go first.

Patient-Centered 84

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 84

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism.

Mental Health 118

Mental Health Community Screening IT 118

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless.

Mental Health 124

Mental Health IT Community Individual 124

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73