Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Booking, rescheduling, or canceling appointments. Relaying information between patients and providers. Effective communication skills: Medical office assistants must clearly communicate with patients, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Maintaining accurate and organized records.

Medical 52

Medical Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered Healthcare 52

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. Five minute appointments. This is Eric Widera.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all?

Families 102

Families Family IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. It was very difficult.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 115

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare.

Families 112

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. I don’t need to know how to bill, to enter encounter information to code. That’s a risk with electronic health records in general. It expressed empathy, it expressed non-abandonment.

Electronics 139

Electronics IT Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. And then we started pushing a lot more surveys electronically to patients, which, of course, has its challenges, because not everyone’s as tech savvy as, you know, our highly educated patients who have access to technology.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119