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Electronically-delivered PHQ9s increase engagement in patients with depression [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Eligible patients had a diagnosis of MDD, but had not filled out a PHQ9 in the past 2 weeks to 6 months. Main Outcome Measures: Percentage of patients who booked a visit for mental health. Such a system, when deployed more broadly could help close care gaps and improve mental health. in the comparison regions (43.6%

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

Finally, the arrival of interoperability can connect and harmonise various hospital systems An M-LLM could serve as a central hub that facilitates access to various unimodal AIs used in the hospital, such as radiology software, insurance handling software, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), etc.

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) disproportionately impacts persons with substance use and mental health disorders within the United States. Micro-elimination projects aim to selectively foster diagnosis, treatment and reinfection of high priority demographic groups.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. So I think that was one of the key eligibility criteria. English or spanish speakers. And they had to be within.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging. Do I exercise, do I smoke?

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? Tell me what would you… Juliet: Fully Integrated electronic medical records system that made this very easy for clinicians to do.

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