GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. ” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. Or electronically, to fill out, right? This is terrific.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. So that’s a piece that I think is important for providers anywhere along that process to be asking about driving.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? I was always critical care bound since medical school. By diagnosis? By prognosis? Can nudges help? (see

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there. They deal with that.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. As Pahlavi said, you could refer to other providers.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. Sydney 22:01 Well, it’s what’s in the electronic health record.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And then you can make a medical recommendation that matches with what they’ve told you. Get the hospice referral. And I also think, we still operate under pay for… We get paid for the services we provide, right? You have to hear what they understand. And that skill is hard. So you need to do them in order.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done? Joe, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Joe: Great to be here.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73