Barton Associates

JUNE 2, 2025

Traveling across state lines to provide critical healthcare services to patients in need is the bread and butter of any locum tenens provider. As of June 2025, 17 states have enacted the PA compact, and while the agreement isn’t operational yet, the news is a positive step toward decreasing the barriers PAs face when they travel and practice.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Complication IT 52

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Gertz, MD, MACP, Chair, ABIM Hematology Board The Hematology Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of ABIM policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on May 2, 2025. The post Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025 first appeared on ABIM Blog.

Board-Certified 40

Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there.

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. For those individuals, how do you think about that? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) .

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? We have all of these models that are out there that have proven benefits for patients, for caregivers, and some of them for healthcare systems as far as saving money for, let’s say, Medicare. Why do we need to do more?

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125