GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support. And so we did a similar intervention but using electronic means.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. That’s a risk with electronic health records in general. And it happened, and it happened in large part, as you note, because of enormous stimulus from the US government for health systems to adopt electronic health records.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 140

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. The post Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98