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Healthcare Administrative Assistant: Skills, Training, and Career Outlook in Connecticut

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Communicating with patients, healthcare providers, and insurance companies to coordinate care. Managing accurate, up-to-date electronic health records while protecting patient confidentiality. Soft skills are personal traits you bring to your role, while hard skills are job-specific abilities you learn through education or training.

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Is a Medical Office Assistant Career Right for You?

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Technical skills: Being comfortable with technology helps you learn to navigate electronic health records (EHRs). Education and Certification Requirements The typical path to becoming a medical office assistant involves getting your high school diploma (or GED) and then completing a certificate/diploma program.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

Nguyen shared the multiple benefits of an AI ambient listening tool — recently rolled out nationally to more than 25,000 Permanente physicians — that transcribes office visits (with patient consent) that can be edited and added to electronic health records. It’s such a pleasure to speak to you again.

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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

How, then, can any physician find the time to research individual companies and make educated decisions on which publicly traded businesses are undervalued? I am not liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. We simply cannot.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community.