FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Note that EKRA’s reach is broader than the Anti-Kickback Statute, which applies only to “federal healthcare programs” — e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, etc. S&G Labs has no contractual relationships with the entities that referred clients to S&G Labs. 18 U.S.C. § 24(b) (emphasis added). 18 U.S.C. §

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Lab Testing Referral Individual Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Alex Lee: And I think there’s a dearth of information about what proportion of nursing home residents have diabetes. So say you have somebody new diagnosis, you’ve just put them on Metformin and something else, and you slap a CGM on them and they can see it. They need to be back on insulin.”

Diabetes 73

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 73

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority.

Clinic 52

Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. Lynn: Sure. Anne Rohlfing: Yeah.

Family 97

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97

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.” Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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Families Family IT Diagnosis 102

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. Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. There’s a small book called Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings written by Hilary Moss.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered IT Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? And then be quiet and listen.

IT 132

IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

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?

Individual 85

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Matt Tyler (aka Pallidad for those on Twitter ): Matt is the Hospice and Palliative care doctor who created How To Train Your Doctor , which helps patients living with serious illness find tips on “owning” their healthcare plan on his Instagram and YouTube pages. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

Education 127

Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered Patients IT Clinic 109

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. All of this really turns into an emotional partnership with someone. John: Yeah. I would add, too.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Alex: Okay, interesting.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. And that’s going to be very interesting to see how that unfolds in healthcare practice.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Do we have any information on that, do you know?

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. So I would agree, just in terms of not trying to dismiss a lot of these patients in terms of deconditioning and really trying to sometimes hone in on the diagnosis despite a Bnp level that is not necessarily very high. Nicole 12:14 No, HFpEF is cool, and it’s fine. What is GDMT?

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7) 162 (58.7)

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Vaccination Healthcare Professional Healthcare Primary Care 40

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 their practices were really collaborative and informed. I have oncology on the brain.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion. Abby Rosenberg, Nick Purol, Daniel Eison, & Andrea Thach appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. It’s very fraught.

Families 83

Families Family IT Illness 83

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But we know from previous studies that a lot of older adults actually want this information, but might not feel comfortable bringing it up. So yes, it’s imperfect and we recognize that, and we’re always clinically making decisions that are based on imperfect information. Eric: Well, let me push you on that.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 10:49 And then when you say accountability without termination, that sounds like it speaks to a core principle of palliative care around non abandonment and building relationships. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers have no relationships to disclose.

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Who do you give informed consent to? Yeah, but I mean, in healthcare you need to appreciate the risks, benefits and alternatives of the proposed intervention. Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Alex 23:47 Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

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.

Electronics 139

Electronics IT Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And then I was inspired by this paper and then really interested in looking at the bidirectional relationship between the two of them. So still we have this bidirectional relationship. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar have no relationships to disclose. So I think that was one of the key eligibility criteria.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. We’re selling objectivity, information, independence and choice. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them. Take some time to get trust, to get real information.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . Every time you experience pain, it is informed by so many different things. Sometimes it is that simple.

Patient-Centered 105

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105

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. It was information about our ACP facilitator. So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. We have a lot of loss of libido, loss of physical intimacy as a result of the changing dynamic in the relationship.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. Something which draws on some idea of what a human being is, which many of our citizens will disagree with, holding a different philosophical or religiously informed review about that. Alex 04:49 Amyloid.

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 113