FDA Law

JULY 10, 2024

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) recently partnered with the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) to host a two-day workshop to help advance the use of patient-generated health data (PGHD) to support improved clinical trials, medical device development, and regulatory science.

Patients 59

Patients Patient-Centered Clinic Medical 59

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. What are the risks and rewards of new classes of medications? When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. How high is too high?

Diabetes 73

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 73

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Keep yourself physically as active as possible.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters? And it is going to affect, if it hasn’t already, our food quality, the food that’s available, our medications. I mean, many people in their mid to older years are on certain medications. Ruth: Right. And then access to those. Ruth: Yeah.

Healthcare 129

Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

They found that between 2017 and 2030, they think the percentage of the population that’s 65 and up is going to triple in that 15-year period. These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. Eric: Oh, wow.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123