GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? Jessie: Yes.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I can name probably 10 organizations across the United States where you can get education on being an end-of-life doula and they’re all slightly different. Our folks all die of congestive heart failure and dementia, even oncology diagnoses with new immunotherapies like the old days. Alex: That is not around the time of diagnosis.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

So let’s say a patient who has lung cancer, relatively newly diagnosed, has a long history of substance use disorder, had been taking methadone as an outpatient, and now has this pain. You know the case. Eric 31:10 Okay, do the case. Alex 31:10 Do the case. Because we just talked about methadone. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) .

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. They had no idea. ” Now, that of course is wacky.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. You go back home. To Susan’s point.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. A lot of people, and we have some data to say that you might have distress, but sex is not one of the reasons for your distress when you’re first diagnosed.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Insurance companies. Like, if we think about the fact that hospitals around the country, around the world, you know, people are, you know, coming in, they’re being diagnosed as dead on the basis of neurologic criteria, and that we. Icus for beds.

IT 113

IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. They could have diagnosed him earlier. I had a supportive spouse.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.” It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. Is that true?

Clinic 246

Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. We’re not paid, as part of a DRG, for any particular diagnosis. There are some subtleties there.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115