GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Eric: And how did you do that? Eric: So how do you put that all together?

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. I think probably you’ve been hospitalists at some point in your life, you do palliative care consultations. Eric: Yeah, I feel like a lot of value that we provide as a palliative care consult service is to do that legwork.

Families 112

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

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. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? And then the infusion nurse comes and she walks a few steps and she talks about what it was like to hear that prognosis.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Prior authorization mostly happens behind the scenes, almost always electronically, and nearly all requests are quickly, or even instantly, approved. For most patients, though, the process works seamlessly. But the use of prior authorization has also increased in recent years.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patients Behavioral Health Services Diagnose 52