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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Reclaiming Time and Attention Primary care professionals may log more than eleven hours a day, over half of it in the electronic health record (Menchaca, 2025). Beyond the Screen: The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Patient Learning and the Patient‑Physician Relationship. Anderson, E. E., & Henderson, R.

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

The patient reached out to me and asked what I thought or recommended because I had built that relationship with that patient, I had built that trust. When you put in that referral, how do we make sure that that patient walks out with the specialty appointment versus phone tag. They’ll also pen the rheumatology referral.

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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. ” So a lot of times it’s a referral back to their primary care, to a specialist-. Or have electronic health record prompts so people remember to ask it? Eric: Yeah. Emmy: Sometimes it is, “Go see your eye doctor.

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

GeriPal

Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. And the other thing is that verbatim question for research, that’s fine, but that might not be the way to enter into a spiritual relationship with a patient with that kind of question.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

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. It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from.

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

GeriPal

It’s that first place that you start where it may not be the AAAs job, but we’ve organized where they have to have the partnerships and they know who the players are and they know who to make a referral to. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them.