The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

SkinIO , Scanoma , Miiskin , FirstDerm , Direct Derm , iDoc24 , and SkinVision all work based on the same principle: they promise patients the option to self-check their symptoms and then to connect to a dermatologist online for consultation within a very short period of time. It’s a jackpot software for eczema troubles.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Christine Twining, MD, Chair, ABIM Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on April 1, 2025. Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings.

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Diabetes Board-Certified Telehealth Government 52

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management. These symptoms require immediate medical attention. Changes in voice (“hot potato” voice) Speaking in a muffled, strained voice, which some doctors call a “hot potato” voice, indicates severe swelling in the throat that needs medical attention.

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ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

When Bob changed jobs, the price tag for his daughter’s medication went through the roof. In January of last year, Cole went to a Walgreens in Appleton, Wisconsin, to get refills on the medication he used to control his asthma. They started trying out different medications and dosages. And we heard back from a LOT of you.

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Insurance IT Board-Certified Medical 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. But watch out! Alex, who is gonna be answering that question?

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

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.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound. And so it really got me interested in how we improve symptom management. Not just pain, but symptom management, then for people that are in a nursing home and that.

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Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

If you own and operate a nursing home and you’re taking people in, and you’re admitting new residents, what’s their accountability for how they manage compensation and quality delivery? Of course, we acknowledge that there needs to be more pay, better pay and better benefits across the board. What does that look like?

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Should they?

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome Joel Weissman, who is a health services researcher and deputy director and chief science officer for surgery at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School. Did I get that right? Joel: Oh yeah.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done? Joe, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Joe: Great to be here. Eric: Yeah.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73