GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

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. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

If you get an electronic alert, how many times clinicians will just cancel out that alert and keep going. Eric: Or another good example is like for individuals with dementia. So if you look at the Beers and you look at the STOPP and you think of a Venn diagram, the circles are largely overlapping. There are some different.

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Medical IT Patients Clinic 97

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. Eric: And what do we know about the outcomes of individuals getting these procedures, especially those with cognitive issues and dementia.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And so mine is here at the University of Colorado system, so a non-VA system, so different electronic health records, we have Epic. And so began the journey of, okay, how can we emulate what they’re doing with a different electronic health record program? ” So lo and behold, that’s how I met Thor. And then came back.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

If you own and operate a nursing home and you’re taking people in, and you’re admitting new residents, what’s their accountability for how they manage compensation and quality delivery? Mike: Electronic record keeping, Eric, is the government’s gift to defense attorneys. What are they accountable for?

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

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. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? What does that mean? Like in sort of practice? No, no, no.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. I highly encourage you. Kate 13:59 What did we do?

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 117

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. This is Eric Widera.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: And Susan?

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 23:45 Yeah, I love that, too, because I think that one for me really is, can our interventions need to target the patient population that we’re managing? It’s not just about physical symptom management. So in chronically critically ill patients, the idea that one visit is going to do anything is just.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. And is it at all individualized to the patient? It’s a lot. Yeah, yeah.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them. Eric: Yeah.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73