GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. And what should we be doing as far as assessment?

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

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. We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 116

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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. Why are all these companies after me trying to get my money and get me an electronic wheelchair? Alex: And, it means pain management. Alex: Thank you.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

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. I still worry about that.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

If you get an electronic alert, how many times clinicians will just cancel out that alert and keep going. The post AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Medical IT Patients Clinic 97

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I will say that it’s challenging, because we don’t have, unlike City of Hope, we don’t have a big team like they do of geriatricians and palliative care physicians, who can screen these older adults or help with management. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

So in your electronic health records, I think it’s really important to have that and include a question about pronouns and assigned sex at birth, because that’s the only way for us to really see the individual for who they are. It’s like this one big book that you can access. Noelle Marie 40:23 That’s interesting.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

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 78

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 106

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

These were EHR documents in the patient’s chart built within the Atrium Health’s electronic health record, where they document other things. But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial. Like it just doesn’t go into the ether if you put that reasoning.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 118

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. Joel: I’ll come into that in a second.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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. And so if we look at things from either a managed care or a population health point of view, there is a huge impact of the distress that these family members face.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 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. As a managed care state also, our care managers in managed care for Medicaid could be 300 miles away. Eric: And Susan? Having that visual is really important.

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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.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

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. Sydney 22:01 Well, it’s what’s in the electronic health record.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Juliet: And so the question is like, how do we… There are these massive shifts because that’s not just about symptom management. Tell me what would you… Juliet: Fully Integrated electronic medical records system that made this very easy for clinicians to do. Juliet: I would use it on EHR. Eric: On EHR?

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

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