GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Is that right, Nick?

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And so to them, the real frustrating part is they’re supposed to be treating people like it’s a one-time event the very first time, and the system of EMS is not designed to be longitudinal complex care, and yet that’s basically what we’re seeing happening. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. So if you have say two similar patients who go to the ICU with COPD, both are an event, one lives for 27 days and dies in the ICU, the other one gets a palliative care consult and dies four days from hospital admission. Did they screen charts? Eric: Yeah. Eric: Okay.

Consulting 120

Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

What we ended up doing with this study was we used NLP to screen these 44,000 notes for 2,000 patients, 2,512. And we would screen it and then we would filter that down to sort of a select number of EHR passages that we thought were of high likelihood to have a goals of care discussion. Randy always got mad at me when I said 2,000.

Patient-Centered 83

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 83