Diagnosis Education Healthcare Professional Insurance 
The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. These systems will considerably reduce the workload of – but not replace- human healthcare professionals.
GeriPal
JUNE 8, 2023
And so a lot of it’s the education for patients and their care partners, “This is why we’re doing the things we’re doing. Are clinicians adequately trained and educated about signs and symptoms of that right balance of knowing when to change the whole medication regimen? And Nadine, you’re cheering.
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The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade.
GeriPal
JULY 21, 2022
Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. Is this our role?
GeriPal
OCTOBER 24, 2024
And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs. But to this day, I haven’t heard of an insurance company that’s willing to cover cannabis. So we have a whole suite of education available.
GeriPal
APRIL 14, 2022
Zachary: So seeing a non-onc population at the VA and out-patient at Dana-Farber, and that when someone comes to me with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder, it is much easier you kind of have an idea of where you’re going to start. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.
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?
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