GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. We need more consults.

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. And there’s a mortality number of people who just can’t make it to get to our clinic.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? Get the hospice referral. Tell me what would you… Juliet: Fully Integrated electronic medical records system that made this very easy for clinicians to do. Rachelle: One of the things, they are definitely ordered steps, right?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

If we’re going to get really academic, that’s the umbrella, and that can include a lot of things like including phone calls between a provider and a patient or messages in someone’s electronic medical record. So it developed all this issue around what is a qualifying referral that would allow me to do telehealth prescribing?

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73