Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Frequently Asked Questions What is the definition of a clinic?

Clinic 52

Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming. Is this our role?

IT 102

IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right?

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. The information there and you limit it in that way.

IT 100

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And several times now, I read the notes and it’s just that someone has copied the contact information for someone into that note, but no one has actually contacted them or confirmed that they would want that person present. Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. Eric: Lynn or Anne?

Family 98

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. I appreciate that information. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? You’re trying to include information from symptoms in a population, also in a geriatric population that may have multiple reasons going on. Is that right?

Management 123

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 123

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. Should we have like a list of diagnoses or prognosis. They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge. That gets really complicated as well. Thank you, Eric.

Consulting 100

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. And those two are closely aligned.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

Illness 134

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And a moral compass that’s informed by understanding that the world isn’t the way you see it necessarily. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. That the wish to… Eric: Complicated. Harvey: Complicated. ‘I want everything.'”

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Where do we go with all of this information? And then from a dementia and multiple different diagnoses, how much should hospice look the same for everyone, or tailored to the patient or the diagnosis that we’re dealing with? People across all diagnoses want hospice care. I think it goes back to Lauren. Melissa: Yeah.

Families 107

Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then, I did a lot of introspection and realized that I’ve actually been doing this for folks in an informal way, family church members and friends, but I didn’t do it so well with my own mother. ” I spent 32 years in information technology, would you believe, and switched over to this full time a few years ago.

Provider 119

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. I recently had this patient in clinic who, for complicated reasons that I won’t go into, our outpatient clinic had to put limits on his frequency of visits with me. Eric: Yeah.

Patients 110

Patients IT Families Family 110

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. It was information about our ACP facilitator.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But I think that would be a really interesting next step to see if the trend in PPS scores adds information about the patient’s prognosis, which I expect it would.

Families 108

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Don 13:50 Well, you know, I think one of the issues, though, when you ask about prevalence data, especially, say, in the oncology world, not only does it matter about how you ask the questions, but because it’s such a complicated topic, people may infer very different things as to what you’re talking about. Sharon 15:21 Right.

Illness 131

Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Something which draws on some idea of what a human being is, which many of our citizens will disagree with, holding a different philosophical or religiously informed review about that. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

IT 115

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 115

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017).

Diagnosis 141

Diagnosis Diagnose IT Physicals 141