The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Digital contact lenses sound like science fiction: the translucent layer on your eye transmitting special information about your body to an outside device. Harbisson received a specialised electronic eye, his “eyeborg” to be able to render perceived colours as sounds on the musical scale. Yet, it might be a reality soon.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Her mission — preparing the next generation of diverse physician leaders in pediatric healthcare and mental health and creating partnerships between communities and academic centers — will be critical for eliminating disparities among minority populations. Dr. Kevin M. References Benton TD , Boyd RC , Njoroge WF.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So, with this chapter, I hope to briefly touch on the basics of market investing and describe why simple diversification and index fund investing are the most effective ways for busy clinical physicians and healthcare providers to invest with the expectation of long-term gains. This will come as no surprise to most healthcare workers.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. It’s closer to 80.

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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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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I found this to be true in my life, and I think that for those in healthcare professions with prolonged training, it can be even more difficult. I am not liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages.

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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. The bad thing is it’s all here and we have to find it.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, reprocessing (cleaning and disinfection and/or sterilization) is typically performed by the end user in a healthcare facility rather than part of the manufacturing process. FDA’s suggestion to test the maximum reprocessing cycles for reusable devices is aligned with the recommendations in clause 4.8

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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. However, for many high-income healthcare professionals, investing in more than just one’s employer retirement plan will be commonplace.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. Or electronically, to fill out, right? Do you worry about that? This is terrific.

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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. Alex: Okay.

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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. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare. Alex: Bernie.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. 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. Why do so many (most, all??)

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

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. And as you’ve written in your work, there is a justified mistrust of the healthcare system and an ethic of struggle that needs to be appreciated.

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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. 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. We’ve come so far as a field.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? But there’s no real system and systematic electronic way to identify need-based palliative care right now. By diagnosis? Alex: Yeah.

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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. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. And I was.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

It’s really special to be here and to be talking about this paper, which was really important to Randy. So sharing one electronic health record, but three separate hospitals within them. Eric: I also wonder healthcare providers, certainly doctors don’t like to have not done something. Erin: Yeah, I can go first.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

At a high level to sort of step in and start, you know, tinkering with workflows that, you know, are kind of as healthcare is a giant machine in primary care. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. Sydney 22:01 Well, it’s what’s in the electronic health record.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

I had fun trying to make a danceable version with electronic drums for the audio-only podcast. We do talk about healthcare policy. Families have really checked up on their elders and really, again, sought to care for their elders in special ways during the pandemic. Maybe we’ll get some BTS followers to subscribe to GeriPal?!?

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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. ” Why don’t we say, “All of healthcare is dangerous.” Eric: Yeah. Joe: Yeah.

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