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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

Matthew Enevoldson, PR Manager at SkinVision told The Medical Futurist that technology such as their own is becoming more integrated within the health system, to both ensure that those who need treatment are made aware of it and that those who have an unfounded concern do not take up valuable time and resources.

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

GeriPal

We learned this and much more, and I had a great time making engine noises singing the Woody Guthrie song “driving in my car.” . Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? OT programs).

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. I’m the project manager, so my job’s to zoom in. The pushback is we can’t find folks.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Charlotta: But that’s where generative AI, what I’m like, one thing I’m really excited about is this new field called prompt engineering. We should build models to identify symptoms, to do proactive symptom management, and AI can totally do that. But we don’t actually know what the data inputs are.

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Coping with Serious Illness: Danielle Chammas and Amanda Moment

GeriPal

Like, how do we help ourselves maintain psychological integrity in the face of the stressors that we have to manage? That’s how I managed without screaming at my 4 year old who was coping. Well, maybe they’re an engineer and understanding makes them feel rooted. There was less in the repertoire that I could touch.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? What does it mean for functional status, symptom management, location of care? The post Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial. Has to somehow be, I think nudging has to almost be engineered into the decision making process, which is again, if I have were to imagine how I see rounding, I would probably design it very differently, right?