Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Opportunities for healthcare admin assistants across Connecticut are growing, from clinics and hospitals to private practices like the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut. Managing accurate, up-to-date electronic health records while protecting patient confidentiality. What Does a Healthcare Administrative Assistant Do?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers, Systems, and Patient‑Experience scores —and word of mouth—suffer when bias is perceived, jeopardizing both reimbursement and community trust. Assuming that chest discomfort is “just anxiety” in a patient with a panic disorder can delay acute coronary syndrome work‑ups.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Joshua Inglis Dr Josh Inglis is an aspiring General Physician training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Adelaide and is studying towards a Masters of Clinical Education. His academic interests include clinical reasoning, drug allergy and the electronic health record.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to… Differentiate between stigma and bias in health care and the electronic health record using provided examples. Identify strategies to mitigate bias and stigma in the electronic health record as a trainee and medical practitioner.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

The demand for medical office assistants is growing in clinics, hospitals, and private practices, including here at PACT. Technical skills: Being comfortable with technology helps you learn to navigate electronic health records (EHRs). Becoming a medical office assistant might be the perfect choice for you.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital. A year later, the search giant announced they have begun working on integrating the technology into a chain of eye hospitals in India.

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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. Khang Nguyen (01:45): Thank you so much, Chris. Outside of work.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Why MyChart messages create a challenge for hospital systems So more contact and connection between doctors and patients seems like a good thing, right? Some of these Epic features can create the expectation of concierge-level service — a challenge at a time when hospitals are facing a global pandemic with crisis-level staffing.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

From the moment you start post-graduate education (internship and residency), this is seen as a physician’s first ‘real job.’ ’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L., Doorenbos, A.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay. What is sludge?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. She was a heart failure patient. And here she was with me today. And then came back.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Also the same hospital system? Eric: And how did you do that? That’s when they got enrolled. Eric: Okay. Kate: 3,500.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Emmy: About 25%.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

If you get an electronic alert, how many times clinicians will just cancel out that alert and keep going. Todd: There are some studies that’ll show decreased readmission if they’re stopped in hospital. It’s a little hard to, I think come to an inclusive recommendation.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

As somebody who works in a nursing home, I can barely read a nursing home note anymore because if it’s on electronic medical record, it’s usually a bunch of check boxes, several pages. Mike: Electronic record keeping, Eric, is the government’s gift to defense attorneys. It’s just these clicks.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I would say that a lot of the education we received were on cutting edge research and the latest drugs in clinical trials, the latest cellular therapies that are coming out. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. Or electronically, to fill out, right? John: Right.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

As is the case internationally, sucrose is used widely in New Zealand, but there is considerable variation in protocols of use across hospitals. Routine assessment of pain and parent education videos are useful initiatives to encourage pain management. No national guidelines for best practice exist.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

At the Mayo clinic, for example, they’ve got a very robust hospital at home program. That’s a risk with electronic health records in general. And in your book, you’ve written previously talked previously about adoption of electronic health records, how much hope and hype there was around adoption of health records.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all. And if hospitalized, and then the step quality of life is monitored, if their quality of life dropped, they stepped up. Jennifer 27:11 Yes.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. And that’s critical. Eric: Yeah. Things like that.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. Three hospitals all within the UW medicine system.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean? So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records. Sydney 21:41 So we did find increased documentation of the primary outcome in the electronic health records.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. Joe: Great to be here. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you. Eric: Yeah.

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