Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. This conversation represents one of the most valuable aspects of your preventive visit.

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Preventative Care Preventive Care Appointment Screening 100

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. Five minute appointments. Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. This is Eric Widera. Alex: Yeah, that means you could see more patients, right. I think that is so interesting.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. We put a couple extra things in place to really try to reschedule appointments, and this was telehealth.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. And then found out at the appointment; the wife was there, too: and no, it turns out he was still driving.

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

So you don’t have to have the piece of paper that says, I appoint so-and-so only if you want to go outside the legal of the default characterizations, but you have to have a legal document. Many states have gone on to say you can appoint a proxy in an oral discussion with your physician. What words to use? Is the POLST useful?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. So in chronically critically ill patients, the idea that one visit is going to do anything is just. You’re right.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Eric: We’re going to be talking about telemedicine for those who have serious illness, and this came out of a recent publication Carly did in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Telemedicine Helps People in Pain, Don’t Take That Away. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73