Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We utilized AI tools in the qualitative software program Atlas.ti This analysis was part of a larger implementation study called PATHWEIGH, which provides a toolset embedded in the EpicTM electronic health record and other supportive services to help practices provide weight management to their patients.

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The Motivated MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, I think it is important to highlight some of the more frequent offenders to describe how this commonly affects individuals’ lives. Though this is in no way an exhaustive list, the following represents what I believe to be the most common culprits of lifestyle creep and financial pressures in individuals’ lives.

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Finance Insurance Individual IT 52

Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections. In the event you are unsuccessful at extending your graduation date or securing an internship position, options for practicing medicine tend to become severely limited.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The decision to rent or buy a home is the root of much anxiety in many individuals’ lives. I overhear individuals say things like ‘owning a home is the best investment you can make,’ and’ if you are renting, you are just ‘throwing your money away.’ These posts may contain affiliate links.

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Finance Insurance Individual Medical Advice 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. Nguyen, also the chief medical officer for care navigation with the Federation, described the innovation priorities at Kaiser Permanente.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

Both documents discuss how membership should include individuals without conflicts of interest and with expertise in trial conduct, relevant clinical specialties, a qualified biostatistician, and a medical ethicist (in studies with greater risk). It is also reflective of evolving FDA perspectives, in addition to evolving regulatory science.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

enable individuals to have virtual consultations with healthcare providers through video calls or online platforms), at-home diagnostics (e.g., How can the FDA facilitate individuals accessing medical technologies in remote locations when they are unable or unwilling to access care in clinical settings?

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Medical Patients Healthcare Electronics 45

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? 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. Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive?

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. Before we discuss each individual savings account, let us first highlight exactly what it means to ‘automate’ your savings. Saving money is simple but not easy.

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Finance Individual Education Healthcare Professional 52

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Meaning that an individual must inherit two copies of the mutation, so one from each of his or her parents, to be affected. And not all IEMs are included on NBS, NBS can miss individuals with IEMs.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we were able, because of the way OHSU has the registry and POLST link had just been integrated into our electronic medical records. So you can actually quantify how often it was accessed, at least by either calling the registry or clicking in the electronic record. So we have the intervention is a big part.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. I highly encourage you. Kate 13:59 What did we do?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Corita 09:39 Yeah, so we used the electronic health record, I think, in support. What does that mean?

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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. Eric: And we’re going to get to results, but that’s why I also love that 2016 paper: I think it was the very first palliative care trial that ever looked at individuals getting curative therapy.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

But there’s no real system and systematic electronic way to identify need-based palliative care right now. Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying. And I actually think the cool thing about a needs-based approach would allow us to better utilize the service. But we just haven’t scaled that yet.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Again, as Greg said, where the individual chooses what works best for them. This is reaching the highest utilizers with a wraparound suite of services. To Susan’s point.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Can someone describe for me what a stepped model is? Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. That is correct.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. So if you count talking to a nurse on the telephone and then writing an electronic prescription as a form of telemedicine, that was the norm for hospice prescribing of controlled substances even before the pandemic.

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