Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Instrument: Providers randomly received an electronic medical record (EMR)-embedded survey in approximately 10% of telemedicine visits. Population Studied: 87 primary care providers, including family physicians, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. Crucial that we fix this. Absolutely.

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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. It would also be possible to go into concierge medicine and focus on VIP patients.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

This process includes requesting an ESG (electronic submission gateway) account, submitting a “test MDR submission”, and sending FDA a copy of the “pass” acknowledgement (AcK3) to the eMDR help desk to request approval for a production account, all of which can take some time before the laboratory is able to submit MDR electronically.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

With increasing emphasis on patient turnover and documentation, all while navigating the complexities of billing and authorization, our jobs are stressful and time-consuming. You spend your life dedicated to patient care while still hoping to leave work and have the energy to be mentally and physically present for your families and friends.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. I think this is where there are two parallel pathways here that are implied in your question.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2022

In recognition that hard copy communications are slower and more cumbersome, FDA recommends that firms use electronic communications, as they lay out the details of the electronic means here , to notify the public about recalls. The saying “Hope for the best, prepare for the worst” applies to recalls.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Instrument Electronic survey to assess sludge encountered in the CRC screening process (0-100 visual analog scale for five sludge types), treatment burden (Treatment Burden Questionnaire), and whether screening was delayed/skipped. We used ICD-10 codes from patient records and the CMS Chronic Conditions algorithm to categorize MCC status.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to cover a wide range of preventive services without patient cost-sharing. I encourage all my patients to prioritize these visits, even when feeling perfectly healthy.” Wear comfortable clothing that can be easily removed or adjusted for the physical examination.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

difficulty of sending patient messages through the electronic medical record in languages other than English), limited healthcare literacy, and English-only signage on healthcare campuses are just a few of the structurally racist barriers faced by many Asian folks seeking healthcare. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. William: Thanks so much.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

A 2024 study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that military veterans with brain injuries saw major mental and physical improvements after just one ibogaine session. Some studies suggest it may help people stop using opioids or other drugs, even after just one session. In Brazil, the therapy has helped thousands.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 7, 2024

The guidance restates the central premise of the final rule, i.e., that LDTs are medical devices and the clinical laboratories that design, manufacture and use them to test patient specimens are manufacturers. MDRs must be reported to FDA in electronic format. report certain device malfunctions, and.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. My worry though with that is that are we going to be expected to be more productive then, to see more patients? Alex: Yeah, that means you could see more patients, right. This is Eric Widera. Which I thought were great questions. Eric: Yeah.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

This achievement is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in life science, physics, and computer science. Dr. Po-Ting Yeh, the studys first author, explains the challenge: "It is difficult to study the basic physiological functions controlled by the hypothalamus, which lies deep inside the brain.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

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. Eric: And what a research agenda that you’ve done, including one of the most seminal papers that we have in palliative care in lung cancer patients.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. We’re going to go into how to talk to patients about this, because Emmy, you’ve done some research on it. “When can I get back to driving?” Eric: Yeah.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I urge patient’s to come face to face with what they are buying by saving receipts, then highlight the unhealthy foods and calculate $$$ spent. Sleep Better: Many patients state that they experience trouble sleeping. This may help you better recognize unhealthy foods and save money too! Convenience is often the motivating factor.

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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. The patient case. I think the theme is more saving someone’s life and the regret that follows.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. And that’s it.

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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

JUNE 9, 2022

Patients have all sorts of problems. We all focused on studying the outcomes for patients and families of our intervention and then the processes to get there. Whether it’s the consult rate or documentation of a conversation, hospice referrals, those kinds of things, and then patient outcomes, quality of life, symptom burden.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. So in your electronic health records, I think it’s really important to have that and include a question about pronouns and assigned sex at birth, because that’s the only way for us to really see the individual for who they are.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

After doing her MD PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the genetic diagnosis of kidney disease, she started her residency training with the long term goal of being a physician scientist caring for patients with rare genetic disorders. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. These studies are important. So, learn as many as you can and what they’re all about.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. Eric 05:32 Yeah.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

and its abuse may lead to only moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence. Public comments must be submitted electronically or postmarked on or before July 22, 2024, 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. § Basis at 61; NPRM at 44,615. Basis at 24; NPRM at 44,617.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ongoing reports from patients about anti-Asian hate experiences Should clinicians screen for Anti-Asian hate? This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). I’m hearing dementia patients or patients with dementia. Eric 09:15 And then who were the patients just with dementia or were they. Is that right?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And maybe we should have more patient-centered conversations. Eric: Well, how about just with the debate? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

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