GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Does a good history matter anymore?

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. I’m not going to talk about finances. Eric: Lynn or Anne? But there was an impact on us as a team too. Lynn: Sure.

Families 97

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Someone who’s healthy in their 60s and just got diagnosed with diabetes, yeah, they might benefit, if they have a very long life expectancy, to prevent that decline in kidney function. Those have a very, very long time horizon. Most of which, almost all of which were non-clinical, right? That’s been reported previously.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Eric 12:03 I’m interested in that because I hear a lot about people losing their, like, one way, like people get health issue and then lose all their finances, especially in the U.S. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. So let’s put a pin in that.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How is it financed and what comes next? I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. 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. Yeah, Eric: Yeah.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Diagnose Medical 52