Plum Health

OCTOBER 2, 2024

These facilities offer a wide range of medical services, from treating minor injuries to managing chronic conditions, without the long wait times and hefty price tag of an emergency room. Understanding Urgent Care Centers Think of urgent care as your neighborhood medical clinic on steroids.

Emergency Room 52

Emergency Room Healthcare Patient-Centered Chronic Disease Management 52

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Alex 06:50 So you’re an embedded model.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. These were clinically significant and statistically significant improvements. I’m just stunned even writing that!

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

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 then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. That put me in the emergency room.

Medical 98

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. Why is that important in the emergency room? And then we had clinical decision support.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers.

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Gretchen: Yeah, I think probably the underlying story here is that I’m really good at doing negative randomized clinical trials, but there is a good thing about doing a big clinical trial, which is that you get tons of data even if you don’t end up with the result that you want. And that’s how we connected.

IT 128

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. That’s just one hypothesis.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And when I was getting my PhD, I wanted to find something that spoke to me, and I had been doing clinical work in nursing homes. ” And the requests from management were to ask her to prescribe antipsychotics to try and sedate some of these behaviors away. I barely know what it is.”

Community 97

Community IT Mental Health Medical 97

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. It improves symptom management.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

It isn’t the randomized trials, which are very important, obviously, for the work that all of us do, the work that I do clinically. This was something you were … You’re a grieving daughter and also trying to manage probably a lot of other things during the pandemic. ” So very minimal changes. Eric: Yeah.

IT 95

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. There’s so many great tech tools out there now that older adults are using and can use to really wrap around the social services and the clinical services.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. And that’s just one example of how, especially when you’re on the clinical side, talking about it as a science and talking about it to scientist pain is very, very clean.

Patient-Centered 105

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105

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. So what that means is I take care of you just in my clinic, just in my hospital.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. Like, should we be doing advance care planning? What’s the evidence behind it? Should we throw it out?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience. Bruce: Sure.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115