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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

Todd Sack concludes that, “ the medical office waiting room appears to be an accepted, time-efficient, and effective site to communicate knowledge on climate change and health. ” According to the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown, mortality caused by extreme heat events increased by 53.7% Need help planning an event?

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15 Years Strong: Rare Disease Week’s Remarkable Journey of Support

FDA Law

What started as a day has — due to its popularity and the persistent efforts of patients and industry — evolved into a week-long event. And my support and pride continue since we now see a host of programs and events the last week of February playing out around the world.

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Rheumatology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. ABIM does not contact individual programs with a lower pass rate to initiate changes to the program.

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

Permanente Medicine

In Kaiser Permanente here, we exist to provide high-quality, affordable health care for our patients in the communities we serve. So people doing self-service online, helping themselves so that we can re-devote our resources to actually other things and reduce that cost structure for our patients and our communities.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). We talk about: . difficile infections.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. those experiencing homelessness).

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. And the government can do something about that?!? Alex 03:41 Okay, so today we’re going to talk about disruptive events.

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