The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She was awarded the Society of Biological Psychiatry Humanitarian Award and the Community Outreach Award by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

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. I’m a family physician by training. million members and patients.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. You spend your life dedicated to patient care while still hoping to leave work and have the energy to be mentally and physically present for your families and friends.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

System level innovations such as the electronic health platform, including order entry, were intended to improve efficiency but may result in the unintended consequence of making it easier to order a chest radiograph without substantiating the need or in conflict with best clinical practice guidelines.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Our Community Advisory Board (CAB) guided this work. Treatment: hysterectomy, radiation, and chemo were reported with a need for more trauma-informed and better communication for shared decision making.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Dr. James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. Review your family health history, particularly any new diagnoses among blood relatives since your last appointment.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service. By appreciating the impact of factors affecting entire communities, we can be better positioned to act upon them. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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Canadian Family Physician

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Design Population-based retrospective descriptive cohort study using electronic health records. Setting St Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team, including 5 clinics and an interdisciplinary home-based outreach team, in Toronto, Ont.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol. Connection — The Integration of a Person-Centered Narrative Intervention into the Electronic Health Record : An implementation study. Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L.,

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. Alex: And, they were talking about how they were so annoyed because they felt like they got called so frequently by companies trying to sell them electronic wheelchairs. Lynn: Great.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. 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. So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? These were EHR documents in the patient’s chart built within the Atrium Health’s electronic health record, where they document other things. If not, why not?

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. You started off as a physician, right? LaVera: Yes.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. Karl: Okay. Karl: You can write it in. That’s part of why that not part of the form, right?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? She wasn’t communicating, she couldn’t remember anybody’s name, nothing. She has advance dementia. Eric: So, let’s talk about that. They would be horrified.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. Alex: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community.

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BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 9 The availability of electronic health records makes it easier to follow up on patients’ health information for an extended period. and the prediction window at 5 years.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. My mom, who’s half chinese and half hawaiian, helped rally the asian american community in Michigan after the Vincent Chin incident. And one of the things that we’ll talk about today is how did the community respond?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. And then we started pushing a lot more surveys electronically to patients, which, of course, has its challenges, because not everyone’s as tech savvy as, you know, our highly educated patients who have access to technology. I’m so sorry.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

The reason I chose this song is because I’m currently working on bringing advanced care planning sessions to the Latino community. In our planning sessions, one of the biggest barriers to advanced care planning in this community is just talking about death. I’m hearing family and caregivers. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. If we’re going to get really academic, that’s the umbrella, and that can include a lot of things like including phone calls between a provider and a patient or messages in someone’s electronic medical record. Eric: Yeah.

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