Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Opportunities for healthcare admin assistants across Connecticut are growing, from clinics and hospitals to private practices like the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut. Healthcare administrative assistants manage crucial administrative tasks in medical offices. What Does a Healthcare Administrative Assistant Do?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Successful implementation required the development of a scalable family history collection tool, the Genetic and Wellness Assessment (GWA) and Breast Health Assessment (BHA) tools; integrated pharmacogenomics programming; educational programming; electronic medical record integration; and robust clinical decision support tools.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Finally, the arrival of interoperability can connect and harmonise various hospital systems An M-LLM could serve as a central hub that facilitates access to various unimodal AIs used in the hospital, such as radiology software, insurance handling software, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), etc. AI used in the hospital.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

million electronic health records in the USA showed a lower risk for suicidal thoughts in those taking semaglutide than in those taking other weight loss medications. Patients with heart failure show less hospital admissions improved symptoms (in correlation to their weight loss). 17 An analysis of 1.8

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation questionnaires designed to provide rapid assessments of the physical, social, mental and cognitive health of older adults may support effective primary care management and improved patient outcomes for this population. Secondary endpoints were visits to the emergency department and hospitalizations in last 3 months.

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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. Embedding a psychiatric registered nurse or SUD counselor can decompress boarding and free physicians to manage medical presentations.

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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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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. It is crucial to have seamless integration with the existing EHR system.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

She currently practices at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. She currently practices at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. Interconception Care for Primary Care Providers: Consensus Recommendations on Preconception and Postpartum Management of Reproductive-Age Patients With Medical Comorbidities. Zakaria, S.,

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

The demand for medical office assistants is growing in clinics, hospitals, and private practices, including here at PACT. Technical skills: Being comfortable with technology helps you learn to navigate electronic health records (EHRs). Becoming a medical office assistant might be the perfect choice for you.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

By 2027, at least 80% of electronic prior authorization requests will be answered in real time, and the process will be easier to do online. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

There is also the option of electronic health record (EHR) training and support work where you would travel to various hospitals/clinics around the country and train individuals on how to use EMR systems. This would require relocating and I am not aware of how much it pays. Urgent care work definitely isn’t for everyone though.

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33 Charts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The belief that perfecting the electronic health record would fix burnout in physicians is a great example. Examining the broader social and technological conditions of healthcare helps us manage expectations and allows us to set the stage for understanding what we might ‘fix’ and what we need to just understand better.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Michele Nypaver, MD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA michelen@med.umich.edu Jennifer Thull-Freedman, MD Alberta Children’s Hospital Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jennifer.Thull-Freedman@albertahealthservices.ca

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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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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? Some of these Epic features can create the expectation of concierge-level service — a challenge at a time when hospitals are facing a global pandemic with crisis-level staffing.

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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.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things. Why would we want to?

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The law directs Texas universities and hospitals to lead the research. Ibogaine shows potential for promoting neuroplasticity and aiding recovery, though it carries cardiac risks that require careful management. It also makes sure the state keeps a share in future profits if the drug is approved.

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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. 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.

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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?” Every Veteran has a story. Our mission is to help them tell it.

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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? Eric: And how did you do that? That’s when they got enrolled. Eric: Okay. Kate: 3,500.

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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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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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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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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

The commonest strategy to manage acute pain in preterm babies is to give them sucrose , a sugar solution. One of these sites does not use sucrose for acute pain management. We found no link between preterm babies later behavior and how much sucrose they were given to manage pain. Whats more, pain isnt always managed.

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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? Emmy: About 25%.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. As always, I’m your host, Brad Sobolewski, and this episode focuses on the management of children with metabolic disorders who present to the emergency department.

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? 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. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Did I get that right? Joel: Oh yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. We should build models to identify symptoms, to do proactive symptom management, and AI can totally do that. This is Eric Widera. And I asked them, “What questions should I ask at a podcast about artificial intelligence in palliative care?”

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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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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. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. 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? Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.

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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. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. Eric: And Susan?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital.

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