Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

JUNE 2, 2025

Some of the best entry-level healthcare jobs in Hamden, CT include: Medical administrative assistant: These employees perform crucial administrative tasks , from scheduling patients’ procedures and updating patients’ medical records to keeping the exam rooms stocked. Completion of a medical assisting program is required.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

They support patients and clinical staff by handling the essential administrative tasks that keep healthcare facilities running smoothly. As a medical office assistant, some of your day-to-day responsibilities may include: Greeting and checking in patients. Confirming patients’ insurance coverage.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

They are often the first interface for patients experiencing mental health crises, not academic medical centers. These programs recognize the increasing difficulties in having to first see a community-based primary care provider before seeing a specialized psychiatrist. References Benton TD , Boyd RC , Njoroge WF. 2022;31(2):211-221.

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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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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Innovative medical practices thrive by embracing change, prioritizing patient care and learning from setbacks to enhance success and satisfaction. Neil Baum, MD Successful practices do not follow others; rather, they make their own paths and follow their own pathways and agendas.

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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

MAY 4, 2023

mobile applications to capture patient-reported outcomes through questionnaires). The draft guidance also states that informed consent can be collected remotely or electronically as part of a DCT, so long as there is institutional review board oversight. DHTs include monitoring instruments (e.g.,

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

FDA announced on October 3, 2022 that the voluntary electronic Submission Template And Resource (eSTAR) templates would be required beginning October 1, 2023, as we blogged about here. Several sections of the eSTAR templates have questions that walk through related guidance documents.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Chemical characterization identifies and quantifies chemicals that may be released from the medical device, while a toxicological risk analysis (TRA) evaluates the risks to the patient associated with the chemicals identified. Data from chemical characterization studies must be evaluated in a separate TRA following ISO 10993-17 guidelines.

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Canadian Family Physician

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Design Population-based retrospective descriptive cohort study using electronic health records. Main outcome measures Prevalence of advance care planning, goals of care (GOC) discussions, access to specialized palliative care, frequency of hospitalizations, places of deaths, and mean survival time.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

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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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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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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

What is known is that special cells in the eye called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) detect blue light and send signals to the SCN to reset the clock. But what happens inside the SCN after receiving this light signal has remained largely mysterious—until now.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In addition to a special day called Valentines, I would like to bring awareness to why we should keep our hearts healthy. 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. This may help you better recognize unhealthy foods and save money too!

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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

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. What words to use? Is the POLST useful?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? Patients have all sorts of problems. And while they identified thousands of patients and enrolled. By diagnosis? By prognosis?

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. And you’re thinking, hey! Brad’s not a pediatric medical geneticist. No, I’m not.

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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

JULY 13, 2023

On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. It’s really special to be here and to be talking about this paper, which was really important to Randy. We’ll have a link to the article on our notes. Erin: Mm-hmm.

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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

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

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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