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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. And so the attitude isn’t like, you know, oh, like they missed an appointment, like, okay, like this is so annoying. Government is not the 51st state. And so the metrics kind of spoke for itself.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records. That makes sense. Give one to the patients.

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