GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family. Caregivers too.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

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. Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. This is Eric Widera. Alex: Go ahead Matt.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. How do you make decisions about work and family? Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. Karl: Okay. Karl: You can write it in. That’s part of why that not part of the form, right?

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 126

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. Alex: And, they were talking about how they were so annoyed because they felt like they got called so frequently by companies trying to sell them electronic wheelchairs.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? These were EHR documents in the patient’s chart built within the Atrium Health’s electronic health record, where they document other things. Justification has been used in multiple other contexts.

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? So, you really have to leave this up to the patients and their families to understand what the context is and what is meaningful to them. She has advance dementia. They would be horrified.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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.

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

That’s why we use the terms assessment and intervention and we think of assessment as a skill of a very advanced skill that chaplains have of doing an in-depth evaluation of a patient or family member, and then the interventions should certainly follow naturally from that. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

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. I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. We all focused on studying the outcomes for patients and families of our intervention and then the processes to get there. The family meeting. There have to be if possible patient or family reported outcomes would be ideal.

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

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. And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. What does that mean? Like in sort of practice? Just going back to that trial.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I wonder if you could suggest an empathetic conversation that I could have with her that would not sugarcoat the idea that she has cancer, but do it in the most supportive possible way, and taking into account that she’s got a family and she’s got young kids?” That’s a risk with electronic health records in general.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. But this lady continued to see me every three or four months and routinely asked me the very same question.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. The formal system is a wraparound on what families, friends, and neighbors have been doing for generations and are doing now.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And then we started pushing a lot more surveys electronically to patients, which, of course, has its challenges, because not everyone’s as tech savvy as, you know, our highly educated patients who have access to technology. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

” And I saw Randy run family meetings before I knew he was famous, before I knew he was this legendary researcher. And he was just such a great doctor and such a great advocate for families. So sharing one electronic health record, but three separate hospitals within them. And the guy was just so good. Erin: Correct.

Patient-Centered 83

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 83

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know. Juliet: Because even in the ICU, they’ll often have multiple meetings just to try and help a family move along before they can make a decision. It’s part of our family mythology.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. And also, you know, do they know of anyone, friends, family, coworkers who’s been attacked, were assaulted as a part of these incidents? Maybe we’ll get some BTS followers to subscribe to GeriPal?!? Eric 18:34 And what did you find?

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community IT Screening 116

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

If we’re going to get really academic, that’s the umbrella, and that can include a lot of things like including phone calls between a provider and a patient or messages in someone’s electronic medical record. I think you’re a loving family doing the best you can.” Eric: Yeah.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73