Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

More than a year after her riding accident, Diamond was back at the emergency room after she tripped on a step while entering a New York restaurant. Those big claims “seem to get on the insurer’s radar,” said Casey Schwarz, senior counsel for education and federal policy at the Medicare Rights Center.

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Insurance Patient-Centered Government Provider 52

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. That put me in the emergency room. David 12:31 Yeah, if you believe the results of an informal. They set up a medical cannabis clinic, has some great slides and information. Where can we get good information? Alex 12:33 Sure, sure. David 12:34 Yeah.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. But yeah, it’s complicated.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? I think the two spaces it comes out of, one is informed consent, which is this idea that people need to have an understanding of their disease and treatment. Gretchen: Absolutely.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98