Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding SDOH documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for care management to improve patient outcomes and mitigate health inequities. Conclusions: Socioeconomic aspects of the communities and a practice-level capacity to address SDOH were the biggest predictors of documenting SDOH.

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Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

With the absence of intensivists on the ground in these community hospitals, the question becomes how to treat these patients where and when they need care. Our tele-ICU program , which is part of our critical care specialty, has brought meaningful and much-needed intensive care to remote communities for the past five years.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It includes modifications to the EpicTM electronic medical record (EMR) for guidance on treatment alternatives, support for provider-patient communication and goal setting, billing and coding support, and a new visit type called a Weight Prioritized Visit (WPV).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Health insurance instability may be particularly challenging for patients with diabetes who need regular chronic care management to reduce the risk of diabetes complications. Study Design: Retrospective observational cohort study. 46,844 patients were diagnosed with diabetes during study period.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Many of these patients are clinically complex and receive care from multiple professionals—which creates unique management hurdles. It’s easy to understand why communication barriers can hinder care coordination between primary care physicians (PCPs), specialists, hospitalists, and professionals at other facilities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In 2022, Bunce et al embedded "card" questions into an electronic health record (EHR) with responses saved to the EHR database. This talk describes revisions to their methods for designing and building EHR-based cards that can be replicated in academic healthcare settings and some community clinics.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Healthcare administrative assistants manage crucial administrative tasks in medical offices. Typical responsibilities include: Managing front desk operations, including greeting patients and answering phones. Communicating with patients, healthcare providers, and insurance companies to coordinate care.

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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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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Technical skills: Being comfortable with technology helps you learn to navigate electronic health records (EHRs). Many community colleges in Connecticut offer training programs that can be completed in as little as six months to one year. After graduation, you may consider taking a certification exam.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This year’s episode, our fourth conducted at SGIM, is focused on the importance of qualitative research and the role it plays in antiracism research, community-based work, and scholarship. Clinician Response to Patient Medication Prices Displayed in the Electronic Health Record. During this episode, we hear from Dr. S. Zakaria, S.,

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Here are a few reasons: Overwhelmingly, index funds have lower expense ratios because they are passively managed. No significantly excessive charge is needed to manage a fund that just mimics a market index. Diversification is a strategy for managing risk by holding different types of investments within a portfolio (e.g.,

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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 really enjoyed that, but really had my eye on more systems of things.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Research suggests most CXRs are performed because ED clinicians (and many parents) are concerned for the possibility of missing pneumonia or another diagnosis requiring specific management. A common phenomenon in EDs around the country, this scenario is only made worse by typical spikes in patient volumes during respiratory viral seasons.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

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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. Many practices now offer electronic pre-registration that can be completed before your appointment.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. For instance, our indigenous communities, such as some of our indigenous communities use the Term two spirit, to identify their sexual orientation and also sometimes their gender identity.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

When a patient visits any physician for any reason, they are reminded that it is time for their screening, flagged by our integrated electronic health record. million men and women between the ages of 50 and 75, over nearly two decades. But at its core, this program is about communicating with patients and understanding their needs.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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. Why are all these companies after me trying to get my money and get me an electronic wheelchair? Alex: And, it means pain management. Lynn: Great.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Alex and I did a study on over 2000 community dwelling older adults, and we found that over two thirds of people had geriatric conditions, these geriatric syndromes, and palliative care related problems like pain, difficulty climbing stairs. One of my good friends, Jerome Kim, is a community oncologist. Throw it in the trash.”

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

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. ” Right? This is what we’re expecting.

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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. No, no, no.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

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., What Mattered Then, Now, and Always: Illness Narratives From Persons of Color.

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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. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. These were EHR documents in the patient’s chart built within the Atrium Health’s electronic health record, where they document other things. But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial. Kate 16:25 Yeah, right.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. Emmy: Within my company, we partner with hospital-based and outpatient community-based occupational therapists to do more of that initial screening and triage.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. And so mine is here at the University of Colorado system, so a non-VA system, so different electronic health records, we have Epic. And then came back.

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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 ). It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. Joel: I’ll come into that in a second.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. 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. Lindsey: Thank you so much.

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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. .; www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/assessment/code-of-practice

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. Eric 23:45 Yeah, I love that, too, because I think that one for me really is, can our interventions need to target the patient population that we’re managing? It’s not just about physical symptom management. Palliative care.

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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. What’s in the electronic health record? Eric 22:03 Okay.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them. Eric: Yeah.

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