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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

More specifically, healthcare facilities benefit from partnering with medical staff recruitment agencies to: Maintain regular appointment schedules and avoid cancellations. Adapt quickly to new processes, electronic health record (EHR) systems, and more. Keep emergency departments and urgent care centers fully operational.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. We put a couple extra things in place to really try to reschedule appointments, and this was telehealth. Getting the appointments for outpatient palliative care was a challenge, it sounded like. Is that right?

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? That is correct.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. So if you count talking to a nurse on the telephone and then writing an electronic prescription as a form of telemedicine, that was the norm for hospice prescribing of controlled substances even before the pandemic.