BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845 The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has fueled numerous massive global health initiatives. Mobile phone penetration has finally exceeded 90% in low- and middle-income countries.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. I think this is where there are two parallel pathways here that are implied in your question.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

FDA announced on October 3, 2022 that the voluntary electronic Submission Template And Resource (eSTAR) templates would be required beginning October 1, 2023, as we blogged about here. As anyone who has ever worked on a lengthy and/or complicated AI response knows, these responses do not always fit neatly in a text box.

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Provider Electronics IT Complication 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: 1) Demonstrate the feasibility of collecting data from prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) for population health reporting, 2) analyze trends in PDMP and electronic health record patient data relative to CDC guidelines and 3) identify use of patient-centered measures for pain management in primary care.

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Patients Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to cover a wide range of preventive services without patient cost-sharing. Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications. Compile a list of questions or topics you want to discuss.

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Preventative Care Preventive Care Appointment Screening 100

Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

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Provider Complication Medical Diabetes 109

Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

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Mental Health IT Medical Specialization 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. William: Thanks so much.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Samir: For me, it really came out of an interest in improving the care of patients who undergo surgery. AlexSmithMD.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. My worry though with that is that are we going to be expected to be more productive then, to see more patients? Alex: Yeah, that means you could see more patients, right. This is Eric Widera. Which I thought were great questions. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Eric: And what a research agenda that you’ve done, including one of the most seminal papers that we have in palliative care in lung cancer patients.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Caveat as well that RCTs should not be placed on pedestal as the only answer- often patients enrolled in RCTs do not represent real world patients – observational studies do. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The patient case. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. Okay, we’ ve got a lot to talk about.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. And that’s it.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. We’re going to go into how to talk to patients about this, because Emmy, you’ve done some research on it.

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Clinicians were randomized to 4 groups: Usual care Prognosis nudge – EHR prompt asking, do you think your patient will be alive in 6 months?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 117

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Patients have all sorts of problems. We all focused on studying the outcomes for patients and families of our intervention and then the processes to get there. Whether it’s the consult rate or documentation of a conversation, hospice referrals, those kinds of things, and then patient outcomes, quality of life, symptom burden.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Public comments must be submitted electronically or postmarked on or before July 22, 2024, 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. DEA explained that “the lack of consistent concentrations” of delta-9-THC and other substances in marijuana complicates the effects of different constituents within marijuana. 21 U.S.C. §

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Physicals Medical Clinic Emergency Room 69

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). I’m hearing dementia patients or patients with dementia. Eric 09:15 And then who were the patients just with dementia or were they. Is that right?

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And maybe we should have more patient-centered conversations. We see them struggle, right? We see how hard it is. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

And like the Tennants, many patients find themselves stuck in a convoluted appeals process marked by long wait times, frustrating customer service encounters, and decisions by medical professionals they’ve never met who may lack relevant training. For most patients, though, the process works seamlessly.

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