PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis. Non invasive H. Non invasive H. pylori in the kid.

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Diagnosis Management Patient-Centered Diagnose 52

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade. It can diagnose six types of common skin conditions – pimples, acne, scars, dark spots, pigmentation, and dark circles. So far, this dermatology app has been used by 3.5

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Healthcare Patients Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: Having said that, I think we need to recognize that the gold standard, thorough OT assessment is not a reality for a lot of people, because of there aren’t enough of them, because of insurance might not cover it, and so forth. Somebody who’s older, maybe just diagnosed them with very mild dementia. Emmy: Yeah.

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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

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. Devon: Yes.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 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. I often need a prior off but I have been surprised that the insurance hasn’t been the barrier that I thought it would be.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 102

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) .

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

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. I’m aging myself a little bit.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

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.

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Electronics IT 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.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

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. Alex 43:18 Okay, educate us. It’s not that simple. Areej 43:13 Done.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Insurance companies. Eric 11:54 And also lots of other things we don’t even think about too revolve around this life insurance and whether or not how much you can sue your doctor or healthcare providers for depends if the patient’s still alive or if they’re dead. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies.

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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.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed. Key examples include: Well-child visits at regular intervals Childhood immunization series Developmental screenings Vision and hearing tests Dental health promotion Nutrition and physical activity counseling Safety education (car seats, bicycle helmets, etc.)

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

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.” I felt like a lot of doctors feel—they feel like they’re locked into criminal rings committing insurance fraud just to stay afloat. Insurance pays that.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

He was diagnosed as a baby with Prader-Willi syndrome — a rare disorder sparked by a genetic abnormality. But Strong said that already some of the contacts at the FDA she’d spent nearly 15 years educating about the disorder have left the agency. Dean attends a special education program, his mother said.

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Patient-Centered Emergency Room Insurance Patients 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. What is it about my insurance, that does not cover me staying in this hospital?” It really doesn’t matter all that much. There are some subtleties there.

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