Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

With the absence of intensivists on the ground in these community hospitals, the question becomes how to treat these patients where and when they need care. Our tele-ICU program , which is part of our critical care specialty, has brought meaningful and much-needed intensive care to remote communities for the past five years.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. Objective: To describe a decade-long implementation process for genomic and precision medicine embedded in a primary care community hospital network. Study design: Descriptive epidemiological and implementation methodology description.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to… Differentiate between stigma and bias in health care and the electronic health record using provided examples. Identify strategies to mitigate bias and stigma in the electronic health record as a trainee and medical practitioner.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Managing Type 2 diabetes requires more than just medication—it demands a long-term partnership with a skilled healthcare provider who understands your individual needs. But how do you find the right diabetes specialist in a crowded healthcare landscape? Firsthand referrals often lead to trusted and patient-focused providers.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Exploring a Medical Office Assistant Career Are you looking for a stable, rewarding career in the healthcare field that doesn’t require a degree? The demand for medical office assistants is growing in clinics, hospitals, and private practices, including here at PACT. Medical office assistants are a crucial part of any healthcare team.

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33 Charts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since the pandemic healthcare has undergone a remarkable transformation. I’ve been thinking about the conditions that define healthcare. The belief that perfecting the electronic health record would fix burnout in physicians is a great example. Complexity Our healthcare delivery system is a complex system.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers, Systems, and Patient‑Experience scores —and word of mouth—suffer when bias is perceived, jeopardizing both reimbursement and community trust. Assuming that chest discomfort is “just anxiety” in a patient with a panic disorder can delay acute coronary syndrome work‑ups.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

OUR ENTIRE FIELD of hospital medicine grew out of the need to innovate to address the growing complexities of inpatient medicine. AI Implementation: key considerations Integrating new technology in a hospital requires careful planning and attention to detail. Clinician burnout and its impact on healthcare delivery: A narrative review.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Describe the positive impacts of qualitative methods on healthcare provision and/or policies in clinical settings. She currently practices at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. She currently practices at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. She has advanced training in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Science.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital. A year later, the search giant announced they have begun working on integrating the technology into a chain of eye hospitals in India.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Jeffrey Bridge, a leading researcher at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kevin M. Disclosures The hosts and guests report no relevant financial disclosures.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I also love wearing my Medelita Kinetic Scrub Jacket especially since the hospitals and clinics are so cold. Any healthcare professional would benefit from some Medelita gear, so head over to their website and treat the physician in your life.

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FDA Law

JUNE 21, 2023

According to the announcement, enabling patients to access medical devices beyond traditional clinical settings can help close the healthcare gap by delivering care “directly to patients, wherever they are – at home, at work, in cities, in rural communities.” telemedicine and telehealth solutions (e.g.,

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

So we measure things like hospitalizations and ed visits and the like, and those data are a bit weaker, but they’re also, you know, I think they need to be contextualized in what, why we would even want to reduce hospitalizations right. Why would we want to? I mean, let’s focus for a minute on multi morbidity.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Playbook is a guide for healthcare delivery organizations to respond to cybersecurity incidents that threaten device function and, potentially, patient safety. In mid-November, FDA collaborated with the MITRE Corporation to publish an update to the Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Why MyChart messages create a challenge for hospital systems So more contact and connection between doctors and patients seems like a good thing, right? The zero-sum medical day In many healthcare systems the Epic feature is turned on and health professionals are expected to respond. Maybe it’s our faulty healthcare model?

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Nguyen shared the multiple benefits of an AI ambient listening tool — recently rolled out nationally to more than 25,000 Permanente physicians — that transcribes office visits (with patient consent) that can be edited and added to electronic health records. And from there I was asked to help lead the Federation for care navigation.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

For example, practices have adopted electronic medical records (EMR) systems only to find that productivity in the practice ground to a halt. Successful practices have found ways to work around the loss of productivity and ultimately made Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) work effectively in their practices.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story. Bennett, C.R.,

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. Unmute, Thor.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay. What is sludge?

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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. ’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Is this our role?

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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. Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Alex: Bernie.

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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. Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Also the same hospital system? I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. Eric: Okay. Kate: 3,500.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. Or electronically, to fill out, right? Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Joel: Oh yeah.

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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. Plain and simple.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. They were at the VA, but not so much at our main hub hospital where I trained. I do tend to focus in the hospital setting. That’s just not how the hospital works. Or the hospital, the intervention delivery is by who’s in practice.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare. These studies are important.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

If you get an electronic alert, how many times clinicians will just cancel out that alert and keep going. Todd: There are some studies that’ll show decreased readmission if they’re stopped in hospital. I say there’s mixed evidence. It’s a little hard to, I think come to an inclusive recommendation.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Eric 08:16 It’s interesting because if you look at it from hospital metrics, it’s a success.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: This study aims to evaluate screening rates and factors influencing LCS in a large healthcare system in Southeast Michigan. Dataset: Electronic medical records (EMR) from an 8-hospital health system in Southeast Michigan. Despite this, screening rates among eligible individuals remain low.

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