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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

As healthcare professionals we can: ask during history taking what the patient has already searched or generated with AI, clarify when an AI answer is helpful and when a live conversation is safer, and show patients how to write better prompts so they receive accurate, actionable advice. References Menchaca, J. Traylor, D.

Patient-Centered

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Katie: Yeah.

Illness

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Mazie, welcome to GeriPal. William: Sure.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

Mental Health

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening

How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. Nate 05:29 Ooh.

Primary Care

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. 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? Is this our role?

IT

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And what does that referral process look like? So that part we know and I.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. As Sei Lee notes, the argument for developing prognostic models has won the day, and we increasingly use prognostic scores in clinical decision making.

IT

IT Clinic Screening Patients

EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We require, especially if they’re coming to us, we’re often making them come to our clinics if they’re going to get treatment, and we’re relying upon what they report to us, and are they going to tell us, “Oh, my steps are uneven and actually my railing’s all rickety and I’ve got boxes everywhere”?

Community

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

It is a screening? Okay, I don’t necessarily want to stay clinical, but I really love that spiritual work and what’s the closest profession. We compared the raw scores on those measures, but we also were interested in making sure that the differences were clinically meaningful. I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

IT

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. And so the importance of the picture and the epiphany that really came many years later, I published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology called Dignity in the Eye of the Beholder.

Patient-Centered

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family

Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? Get the hospice referral. So I’m just going to share on my screen. appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Like, should we be doing advance care planning?

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Joe: Well, the proposed rule changes would’ve included, for example, that you have to have a face-to-face encounter with a patient in order to prescribe over telemedicine, or you have to have received a referral from someone who did have a face-to-face, and they also would’ve had to be DEA certified. What state are they in?

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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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