Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Rural facilities report challenges and solutions to meet community needs for specialty care. Rural health system leaders described 5 methods to provide rural specialty access: community-based, visiting, referrals to larger towns, telehealth, and management by primary care with specialist support.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Community Telehealth Referral 130

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Ryan Haight Act did not limit the ability to prescribe controlled substance medications by telemedicine so long as the patient and prescriber had a least one in-person visit. a prescriber that engages in telemedicine with the patient), including a review of PDMP data for the past year.

Telemedicine 59

Telemedicine Telecommunication Telehealth Medical 59

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care.

Telehealth 106

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Practical strategies to overcome these barriers and enhance care. Thank you so much.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this? Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients. That doesn’t work.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73