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 Patients 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

AUGUST 8, 2024

And this seems very basic, but try it with your insurance agent or your pastor, you know, or your banker at 03:00 in the morning. I reckoned reading frost would put you right and making something from a line of his a better way to use what’s left of time than trying to diagnose what’s killing you.

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IT Family Families Relationship 124

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Bob: Exactly. It could be anybody.

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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. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Insurance companies. Healthcare provide. Healthcare 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.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 113

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. As you know the healthcare system right now, we struggle. Diane: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? 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. It’s not that simple.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How can we take our healthcare system, and really break it, and do it better for older adults who may not fit within, or may not have the conveniences of going into the clinic, or going to the hospital, all these things that we think about. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. There’s so many things you could have done.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115