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?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. Eric: So we’ve got a lot to talk about today.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

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.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Bill 00:53 Thank you, Alex.

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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 then you can make a medical recommendation that matches with what they’ve told you. And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? Eric: On EHR?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. Prior authorization mostly happens behind the scenes, almost always electronically, and nearly all requests are quickly, or even instantly, approved.

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