Electronics, Hospital, Presentation and Relationship

“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

I thought of it the other day when I put together a presentation about Galileo’s way of interacting with patients. The drugs are better, but the way patients engage with doctors during office visits and hospital stays is unchanged. We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

Patients

Patients Patient-Centered Hypertension Healthcare

Episode 293 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Calac June 22, 2023 Summary : This episode highlights a selection of antiracism research presentations at a live recording of the podcast at the 2023 SGIM Annual Meeting. Identify strategies to mitigate bias and stigma in the electronic health record as a trainee and medical practitioner.

Electronics

Electronics Internal Medicine Patient-Centered Healthcare

Using technology to reclaim our time

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. By removing the need to constantly look at a screen or type notes, we can be more present and engaged, fostering stronger therapeutic relationships and improving patient satisfaction. References: 1.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Telemedicine Clinic Electronics

Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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.,

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT

Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

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. And then came back.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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? Absolutely.

IT

IT Family Families Diagnosis

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients

Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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.

Family

Family Families Patient-Centered IT

Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. 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. Eric: Can I ask why?

Finance

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider

Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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? So they are an important part of developing a relationship where one of the manifestations clearly is, “Well, yeah, I felt good about that. William: Not the future, but the present.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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. Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. These studies are important. Is that your grandchildren?

IT

IT Patient-Centered Family Families

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

Patients

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital

How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them.

Community

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

A real advantage of our study, something that Danny works really hard on, is that that in Maryland we were able to look at these as statewide outcomes and we were able to pull information from the health information exchange to be able to look at whether this happened at any hospital in Maryland. What’s in the electronic health record?

Primary Care

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered

Primary Care Digest

“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

Episode 293 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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