The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. So, make that appointment, build that connection, and take charge of your health.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. If your symptoms get worse before your appointment, you may need to go to urgent care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. This is Eric Widera.

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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?

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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. Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 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. David: Right.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Canadian Press Feature A powerful and widely shared piece on our work.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So I do think it often does happen that younger adults appoint a surrogate when they engage in estate planning, for example. And I don’t think necessarily, that appointment needs to be a medicalized process.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

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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. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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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. We put a couple extra things in place to really try to reschedule appointments, and this was telehealth. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Somebody shouts at my front Desk staff because they’re pissed off about their appointment time. I said, you know, I don’t usually start my appointments in laughter. And I think that’s why by the end of the appointment, we were able to go to equally deep places that were pretty dark and pretty heavy together.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 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.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

OCTOBER 1, 2024

You can schedule an appointment at our clinic, or stop into a local pharmacy such as Hy-Vee or Lewis to get your flu shot. For more information, contact our team of healthcare professionals. The flu vaccine is very accessible. The post Get Your Flu Shot Before the Flu Season!

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments. But we do have the information about referrals to other ancillary providers as part of that multidisciplinary team. And also on those forms, we do know, I mean, that part wasn’t in the supplement, unfortunately. So it matters.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I think the two spaces it comes out of, one is informed consent, which is this idea that people need to have an understanding of their disease and treatment. The problem is, that’s actually not a very good narrative for nearly everything we take care of in healthcare. Gretchen: Absolutely. Justin: Yeah, that’s part of it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. So Annie Since I was appointed timekeeper. It’s never just to use the song, but it’s to help the information sink in, Help think about how we should address these issues. It’s okay.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. And I was aware in the room that at the appointment when he was mad at the system, I could have sat with that forever. Eric: Bored, thinking about- Dani: Feel helpless. Eric: Yeah. And that’s all normal, right? Dani: Yeah. And he was livid.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

You can tell, are they showing up to oncology appointments, to palliative appointments, are there urine tests as expected? It is the CME activity providers responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) .

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

These kind of tropes inform the mindset that keeps people. So for 50 years, I’ve been saying to families, you know, when we go to the crematory, we do it by appointment, just like when we go to the cemetery to bury. This is both informative and I also felt like a therapeutic session for me.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Bob: Exactly. It could be anybody.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Back at that capacity question, right? Eric 19:00 So let’s talk about what was in the syringe in both groups.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I chose, not healthcare management, which a lot of my colleagues have done, but I actually chose negotiation and dispute resolution, which I thought was fun, as well as marketing. That’s something that I figured we could definitely go after is using those negotiation skills and then moving them over towards the healthcare setting.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? I think amputation was on there. It was like 60 to 65% accurate.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so one of the patients that we mentioned in that article is a gentleman who lived four hours away who was unable to come to chemotherapy appointments because his pain was so debilitating once we gave him not a huge amount of opioids, he was actually able to come get chemotherapy and then live for much longer.

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