Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

JUNE 2, 2025

Healthcare is a growing industry that offers diverse opportunities and career paths. At the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut, we have an ongoing need for professionals in a wide range of roles, from entry-level support staff to seasoned medical professionals. Completion of a medical assisting program is required.

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Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Physician Primary Care 52

Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Any healthcare professional would benefit from some Medelita gear, so head over to their website and treat the physician in your life. This year, I started using the CariPro electronic toothbrush and my mouth definitely feels cleaner. I believe she bought it from Shutterfly , but I'm sure any photo calendar place would work.

Electronics 52

Electronics Healthcare Professional IT Medical Student 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

We didn’t have medications that were effective with a few side effects. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. As my colleague mentioned, I am not a whole person to my medical record, I am a collection of codes. We’re very datified.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people.

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Medical IT Patients Clinic 97

The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. A study by Johns Hopkins in 2016 found that medical errors may potentially be the third leading cause of death nationwide. So yes, humans make mistakes.

Finance 52

Finance Individual Education Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. They’re really not. Emmy: Yeah.

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we have Scott Halpern, who is Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center or Payer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. And he’s a professional Uber driver for his daughter’s softball games. Hey, it’s National POLST Collaborative now.

Patient-Centered 127

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol. Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L.,

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 116

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. He had a very aggressive lymphoma, highly aggressive, with a lot of different medical conditions. I slowly introduced higher doses as he recovered from his medical conditions that were acute. Or electronically, to fill out, right?

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so when I had decided to socially, medically, and surgically transition, I had to really sit down with members of the department and really did a lot of in services. Eric 04:53 How is it public? Can you tell me about that? Noelle Marie 04:57 Yeah. So when I joined Sinai In 2013, I was in a different form at that time. Making sure.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Families 113

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 113

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.

IT 100

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And so I went into medical school wanting to cure cancer. I entered medical school and I did a course that was offered that’s called living with a life threatening illness. I entered medical school and I did a course that was offered that’s called living with a life threatening illness.

Illness 111

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So we have community volunteers who often they have a background in writing or background in healthcare, certainly an interest in interviewing and an interest in writing. And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA.

IT 106

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 106

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. The post PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

Consulting 116

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

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?

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

I was always critical care bound since medical school. I’m controlling everything your placebo versus medication trials. But there’s no real system and systematic electronic way to identify need-based palliative care right now. Kate: So it was a little windy path. That’s purely pragmatic. Alex: Yeah.

Consulting 100

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome Joel Weissman, who is a health services researcher and deputy director and chief science officer for surgery at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School. And where I’m going with this is even if … Or patient-centered medical home, patient-centered care, right?

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. What do you hope would change when we’re thinking about medical training?

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Then, it was like, well, it does as well as, and now, better than humans passing the medical boards, passing the law boards, doing great on the SAT, all that stuff. That’s a risk with electronic health records in general. Bob: Yeah, but you can imagine- Alex: I wish, but I worry I will not. Bob: Yeah.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 140

FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

The 2016 reviews concluded that marijuana continued to meet schedule I criteria for having a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S., and lacked accepted safety for use under medical supervision. Currently Accepted Medical Use in Treatment in the U.S. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. §

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Physicals Medical Clinic Emergency Room 69

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Not just with our aging and independent services, but also with our behavioral health services, with our public health services, with our medical care services, to really have everyone see older people as part of their work. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis.

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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 it even changed over the course of the study. So there’s some trade offs there.

Patient-Centered 120

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. Eric 14:41 You mentioned the study.

Mental Health 118

Mental Health Community Screening IT 118

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.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

So sharing one electronic health record, but three separate hospitals within them. So somebody had to write something down in the medical record that talked about goals of care, and there was no template, there was no form that you filled out for this. We really said anything that’s looking at overarching goals of medical care.

Patient-Centered 84

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 84

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And then you can make a medical recommendation that matches with what they’ve told you. Tell me what would you… Juliet: Fully Integrated electronic medical records system that made this very easy for clinicians to do. appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done? Joe, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Joe: Great to be here. Eric: Yeah.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73