GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. Or electronically, to fill out, right? Do you worry about that? This is terrific.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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. primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Why do so many (most, all??)

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Eric: Nudge it. Kate: Nudge it.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? But there’s no real system and systematic electronic way to identify need-based palliative care right now. By diagnosis? Alex: Yeah.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. So I think that was a factor also that they thought, like, this is fixable.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. And so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. Eric 22:03 Okay.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80