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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

SkinIO , Scanoma , Miiskin , FirstDerm , Direct Derm , iDoc24 , and SkinVision all work based on the same principle: they promise patients the option to self-check their symptoms and then to connect to a dermatologist online for consultation within a very short period of time. If there were ever a time to join us, it is now.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult. Charlotta: But that’s where generative AI, what I’m like, one thing I’m really excited about is this new field called prompt engineering. Like who is at high risk or low risk?

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. I’m the project manager, so my job’s to zoom in. The pushback is we can’t find folks.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? What does it mean for functional status, symptom management, location of care? And that these serious illness conversations ought to involve more palliative care consultations, I think. Joel: I’ll come into that in a second. Yep, for geriatrics?

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

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. But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial. What is sludge?

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

GeriPal

Like, how do we help ourselves maintain psychological integrity in the face of the stressors that we have to manage? That’s how I managed without screaming at my 4 year old who was coping. Well, maybe they’re an engineer and understanding makes them feel rooted. There was less in the repertoire that I could touch.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

People are also using YouTube specifically, but social media as its own search engine. But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. They’re this influencer.

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