Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Booking, rescheduling, or canceling appointments. Confirming patients’ insurance coverage. Effective communication skills: Medical office assistants must clearly communicate with patients, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Maintaining accurate and organized records.

Medical 52

Medical Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered Healthcare 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Have you had difficulty managing a particular type of cancer pain? Janet Abrahm is one of the world’s experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer joins us to talk about (among other things): Ketamine for hyperalgesia and allodynia, how to treat dissociative side effects. Alex: It’s a wonderful book.

Management 101

Management IT Patients Family 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And, David, I’m going to start off with you because you wrote an entire book about this. Eric 06:53 I loved your book. Do you want one?

Medical 98

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. Prior-auth forms?

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. That’s Oregon Health Sciences University, and whose new book is T he G ift of Aging. Eric 08:13 And Elizabeth, you just read a book. What was the title of the book again? Elizabeth 01:04 Thank you, Alex.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. And I was terrified.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125