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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

The zero-sum medical day In many healthcare systems the Epic feature is turned on and health professionals are expected to respond. It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. Maybe it’s our faulty healthcare model? It’s everything written here about electronic health records.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things. It’s closer to 80.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Understanding how to prepare for this important appointment ensures you receive maximum benefit from your healthcare provider’s expertise. Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. But a lot of that is because older adults don’t do as well after injury, because of physiologic changes. ” Alex: Interesting.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist?

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. Or electronically, to fill out, right? Drugs has to do with polypharmacy. William: Yeah.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

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. Areej: That’s exactly right.

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