FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Texas imposed a $275,000 civil penalty on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC, in San Antonio, and its pharmacist-owner. Prescriptions Containing No Diagnosis or Intended Use Controlled substance prescriptions issued with a non-specific diagnosis or no diagnosis. Complaint ¶ 60.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Nguyen shared the multiple benefits of an AI ambient listening tool — recently rolled out nationally to more than 25,000 Permanente physicians — that transcribes office visits (with patient consent) that can be edited and added to electronic health records. Let’s explore patient care a little more here.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Objective(s): Understand the unique lived experiences of Latinas with cervical cancer over 45 years old across the cancer care continuum. Verbatim transcripts in English and Spanish were analyzed in NVivo 14.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

Corley, MD, PhD I think I can speak for most physicians in saying that one of the most frustrating situations we face is late diagnosis of a serious condition. To improve early diagnosis and drive better outcomes, KPNC launched a powerful, integrated screening program that has saved thousands of lives. A third of U.S.

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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? Emmy: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist?

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I feel like a lot of this is really, you know, moving away from another podcast we did is industrialization of healthcare and really focusing on the individual that’s in front of you. This is still part of the gap that we need to do collectively as a, as a healthcare organization. Eric 29:17 Why do you think that is?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? And that’s where things like diagnosis triggers, if you will, prognostic triggers, and then the ideal need-based triggers. But there’s no real system and systematic electronic way to identify need-based palliative care right now. Kate: A diagnosis. Is that appropriate at diagnosis?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we were able, because of the way OHSU has the registry and POLST link had just been integrated into our electronic medical records. So you can actually quantify how often it was accessed, at least by either calling the registry or clicking in the electronic record. Those are the only four things that surgery can accomplish.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. So for the stepped care model, all patients see palliative care at the time of diagnosis.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. Samir: Unequivocally, unequivocally. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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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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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults. Really, to be a bridge between whether it’s a health plan on the healthcare side, Greg mentioned a hospital discharge, which is so common.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. And then we started pushing a lot more surveys electronically to patients, which, of course, has its challenges, because not everyone’s as tech savvy as, you know, our highly educated patients who have access to technology. English or spanish speakers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records. What’s in the electronic health record?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I’m worried about all of us as healthcare workers, but particularly… And when I say particularly those in the hospital, because they are just tired. If they had a healthcare agent, then this would be better, right? That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? Juliet: Sure. Eric: On EHR?

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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. million, he said. “The

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