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Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Chronic pain is a common, complex, and costly condition that is managed primarily in primary care in Canada. 3) ECHO Pain is equitable – through use of telehealth technology, ECHO Pain provides timely education to clinicians practicing in rural, remote, and underserved communities.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Deliver the program via an interdisciplinary healthcare team. What practical strategies would you recommend for implementing resistance training in community or home-based settings? For older adults, the YMCA’s Silver Sneakers Program is a fantastic community resource. Structured exercise programs can help in both regards.

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What’s next for value-based care

Permanente Medicine

Today we’ll learn about what value truly means and understand whether it offers a path to better outcomes for our patients and the teams that are providing the care that they need. He has been named a Great Leader in Health Care in the 2025 by Becker’s Hospital Review. Let’s meet our guests. With me is Ceci Connolly.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

None of the changes that we saw in end-of-life care processes relied on specialist palliative care increases or resources, which is really important because seven of the 10 hospitals that participated were rural or community-based, which is where most Americans receive their care, and also where specialist palliative care is often most limited.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

But to come back to just nursing homes, when you think about what a nursing home is and the range of people that they take care of, you can see why it’s so tricky to think about how do we get the right services in there. Eric 14:32 So there’s financial disincentives for interdisciplinary palliative care teams.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. But yet the changes we saw, the transitions we saw, but we didn’t transition the care. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Ruth: Absolutely.