GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians. We started pre-pandemic and very quickly it went to telehealth, so it was primarily telehealth. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. Eric: Okay.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. Eric 14:24 So it’s hard to improve resource utilization for these people where some of them didn’t sound like the sickest of people admitting them to the hospital, but all had some type of serious illness. It was not very different. It was not different.
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GeriPal
JUNE 5, 2025
Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well. Eric 33:25 What about telehealth? But some of these things are addressable potentially through education. Is that a black box?
GeriPal
JULY 20, 2023
This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Now is the time to act, dear listeners! This is Eric Widera. Well, what do we do now? Eric: Yeah.
FDA Law
JUNE 1, 2025
The Protecting Patients from Deceptive Drug Ads Online Act, co-sponsored with Senator Mike Braun (R-IN), seeks to close regulatory gaps by empowering FDA to issue Warning Letters and impose fines on social media influencers and telehealth companies that promote prescription drugs without proper disclosures of risks and side effects.
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