Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Opportunities for healthcare admin assistants across Connecticut are growing, from clinics and hospitals to private practices like the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut. Healthcare administrative assistants manage crucial administrative tasks in medical offices. What Does a Healthcare Administrative Assistant Do?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers, Systems, and Patient‑Experience scores —and word of mouth—suffer when bias is perceived, jeopardizing both reimbursement and community trust. Embedding a psychiatric registered nurse or SUD counselor can decompress boarding and free physicians to manage medical presentations.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them? Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Eric: And we’re going to be talking about improving hospital care for older adults via ACE units, or acute care for elders.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

The demand for medical office assistants is growing in clinics, hospitals, and private practices, including here at PACT. 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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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

This financial predictability allows for better budgeting and resource allocation.​ – Reduced Operational Costs : Implementing energy-efficient technologies, such as LED lighting and automated energy management systems, can decrease energy consumption by up to 30%, leading to further cost reductions. ​ 3 “Each U.S.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. These new ‘colleagues’ will definitely make a difference in every field of medicine.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

Some medical assistants work in the offices of other health practitioners, outpatient care centers, or hospitals. Those who work in hospitals or other settings that are open around the clock may work night or evening shifts. Many community colleges and career colleges in Connecticut offer medical assistant training.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , Brad Sobolewski discusses advanced imaging in pediatric emergency care with Dr. Jennifer Marin ( jennifer.marin@chp.edu ) from UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh. So here to help us navigate these complex decisions is Dr. Jennifer Marin.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

The company has expanded its palliative care services through partnerships with hospitals and other managed care providers, according to AccentCare CEO Stephan Rodgers. Attendee 3: PCHETA, the Palliative Care Hospice and Education Training Act, of course. Attendee 9: Early integration of palliative care in medical education.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

The Problem: Free open access medical education (aka FOAM) is great in that it allows for asynchronous, focused learning. We published the first pediatric SOAR review in AEM Education and Training on the topic of respiratory infectious disease. The rMETRIQ tool is a quality evaluation tool for online educational resources.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about. And I quickly found myself in a role of access lead for Orange County and where I managed over 300 doctors. Khang Nguyen (01:45): Thank you so much, Chris. And I think that’s really critical.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Next, we turn to Emily McDonald, the director of the Canadian Medication Appropriateness and Deprescribing Network , to discuss her study on the impact of direct-to-consumer educational brochures on gabapentin deprescribing. Additionally, clinicians participated in monthly educational sessions. in the usual care group. in the U.S.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Without even forming an enquiry committee, he was suspended for a few days by the hospital administration in order to satisfy the public. Even though doctors are in no way responsible for the lack of facilities in hospitals like lack of beds, delay in getting blood test results, delay in getting a slot for scanning, etc.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. Lona: Absolutely.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. If you want to take a deeper dive into someo of the references, here you go: Pallmed Post on why “ Opioid Equianalgesic Tables are Broken ”. Delighted to be here. Is that right?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade. 8) VisualDx Thousands of hospitals, clinics, and medical schools use VisualDx to aid diagnostic accuracy, enhance medical education, and improve patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Yannis Valtis, Ebi Okah, and Carine Davila, about research in their respective fields. Calac, Victor A.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Additional free firearm resources available at: The BulletPoints Project provides clinical tools for doctors and medical educators to help prevent firearm injury. Key Takeaways Recommendations developed during a consensus conference can help healthcare facilities and communities be ready to respond if a mass shooting occurs nearby.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. ABIM and the Infectious Disease Board gratefully acknowledge the service of Wendy Armstrong, MD , and Jesse Milan, Jr.,

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025 designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Running from February 4 to May 15, this session promises to bring substantial changes to medical consent laws, Medicaid coverage, rural hospital funding, taxation on essential goods, and the transparency of healthcare costs. HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. In their communities? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. With their regular providers?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today we talk with DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace about the notion that we should revolutionize our education programs, training programs, teams, incentive structures, and practice to be intentionally interprofessional in all phases. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. Alex 22:05 Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today we talk with Sarguni Singh, hospitalist-researcher at the University of Colorado, Ann Henshaw, Occupational Therapist who teaches at George Washington and works clinically at Georgetown, and Tamra Keeney, Physical Therapist-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

Ken 12:14 I’ll remind you, Nancy, that this is an honor for companies that manage to make lots of money despite having a product that’s worthless or doesn’t. I believe the age range was over 80 hospitalized patients and showed that relatively light level physical activity, often with weights, improved hospital outcomes.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. And those of us who work in palliative care are more familiar with the 5ht3 receptor, which we use for nausea management. 7 out of 10 of these patients said it was one of the top five most educational and meaningful experiences of their entire lives. James 00:32 Good afternoon.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. hospice use). Tammie 02:56 It usually doesn’t work no matter what. Corita 04:32 Yep.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? They’re often angry.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. It’s something that has no place in a hospital in most people’s thinking. Tyler 01:43 Okay.

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