Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

News & World Report in 2024 , the unemployment rate for physicians is 0.3%, which is less than the national unemployment rate of 4.2% When you think of healthcare, you likely think of doctors first. in April 2025. Where do physicians commonly work? Why become a locum tenens physician?

Private Practice 52

Private Practice Healthcare Internal Medicine Family Medicine 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We could look at cancer registry linked with… Like, I see here Medicare type big data sets, but then you have to rely on insurance claims and that’s going to underestimate SUD when most people aren’t getting treatment and it’s a tough nut to crack.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? Would you have that same pessimism that you had then today about these predictive algorithms and their ability to transform healthcare? maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. ” Now, that of course is wacky.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So I lived with a family there. But if your patient is not able to do those things, I wouldn’t say don’t have insurer. But if they have family support or they’re able to make some foods from scratch at home, that would be preferable.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. Insurance companies. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians.

IT 113

IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113

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.” Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125