FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have aggressively pursued antikickback cases in the healthcare industry. HHS noticed an increasing trend of illegal kickbacks in connection with speaker programs and in November 2020, the Office of Inspector General issued a Special Fraud Alert on the topic.

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Consulting Healthcare Professional Government Specialization 105

The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system. As a result of this dehumanization and mistreatment, people who are incarcerated may forgo seeking medical care because they do not trust that the system and healthcare professionals will do anything but harm them further.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare Patient-Centered Mental Health 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Number three, this specialized prepared environment that promotes safe mobility and cognitive stimulation and delirium prevention, so sort of environmental changes. ” And the environment that we worked in, in geriatrics, was more of this sharing information and different groups or calling. What is your clinician to patient ratio?

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Part of my proposal is, again, that we can actually use very similar information. Really because of the structure and the nature of equianalgesic tables, similar information with simpler math, can easily be presented to our colleagues. Eric: But is that just something special about methadone and buprenorphine?

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IT Patients Individual Relationship 139

GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

But I do think people can give you pretty specific information. Eric: Are you also talking to their significant others, getting other information about how things are going at night? Brienne: It’s just that the reliability of getting the information back, that’s the problem. Brienne: Yeah. Brienne: 100%.

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Illness IT Clinic Medical 85

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

One of those tools is eradar from UCSF and Deborah Barnes work, but there are several others of a similar kind that takes readily available information from an electronic medical record for patients who have them, who are in care and uses various associations with cognitive impairment to create clusters of individuals. Yeah, Medicaid program.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

It’s just another example of, I think, that there’s a little extra special sauce there in the Beeson program. There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. The post Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Frequently Asked Questions What is the definition of a clinic?

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 67

The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. However, for many high-income healthcare professionals, investing in more than just one’s employer retirement plan will be commonplace. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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Finance Individual Education Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? And then be quiet and listen.

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IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. We have the chemo talks tool posted, so people can go there and click and immediately get the information about this. What do they do with this information? Do you worry about that?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So, I think, right now, we’re talking with some key informants in our own health system to say, what do you think are some barriers that could influence implementation?

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Whether they have a social worker, a nurse, a physician, an NP on the team, they know what to do with that information. There are very few palliative care fellowships for social workers, very few specialized programs who teach palliative care as a specialty area. If they don’t, they know how to get to community resources.

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Screening IT Family Families 120

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). It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . I appreciate that information. You’re trying to include information from symptoms in a population, also in a geriatric population that may have multiple reasons going on. Lots of information in there.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

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. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Tell us more about what you mean,” because they give us beautiful information from that. Between those two things, usually you get all the information you need.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes the existential landscape of serious illness, there’s no special thing.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. My voice is nothing special. It is the CME activity providers responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah: Yeah I similarly feel like, you know, focusing more on the process, the qualitative kind of from a research standpoint, the qualitative information that we’re getting from folks. We don’t push any information at them. Sarah: Yeah, a really interesting and I think really important information. Hillary or Sarah.

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Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It was about me talking about what happens about six months, when you have six months or less to live, the general information of what people usually look like. Alex: Hsien? Hsien: Oh, man.

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Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: Okay. Alex: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. Why do so many (most, all??)

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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Family Families IT Patients 106

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? They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge. By diagnosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. Matthew 39:22 Quality of life, you know, for shared decision making is so important, but it presumes that the, on the clinician end that you have the right information to share and that’s, you know, feel a lot of uncertainty and I, what I’m going to be doing.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: In the trial we tested two nudges: one was called a focusing effect. I don’t want to misspeak because now I forget. Why another study?

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. Eric 24:59 Have to release any embargoed information with us. James, I think you got the song request for Alex. James 01:34 Yeah, right on. And one of my neighbors, my office door is green.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. In addition, about 25% of all deaths in the United States occur within these facilities. Go ahead, Alex.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Midnight special shine a light on me or let the midnight special shine a light on me let the midnight special shine another loving light on me.” Alex 03:31 That was fun.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

It’s going to be published as a special report in JPM I hope in May with as of today, 279, I think HPM physician colleagues, signatures including 21 of the living past presidents of the academy. And this is on average. Tell me about that. And with that, everybody have a great time in Montreal.

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IT Provider Patients Family 114

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

We didn’t really have any available information about changing from one opioid to the other, about… Medicines were used in a very unsophisticated way because we just didn’t know any stuff. And so people were just doing whatever they wanted, whatever moved them to do. She’s so responsive.”

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Illness IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. Alex: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith. I only know what I see.

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IT Family Families Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

You’re getting them with a little teeny slice of their information and you’re just trying to build some willingness for them to hear more. We’re just talking about getting your foot in the door to get them to at least reach out and ask for information about these things. But go ahead with your thing there. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101