Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Optimizing continuity of care improves care quality, outcomes, and costs. Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S remain between 15-30%, costing $150 billion annually.

Appointment 130

Appointment Primary Care Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Telehealth became an essential tool to assist care delivery in the outpatient primary care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous studies documented that the type of insurance coverage was associated with the likelihood of a patient receiving care through telehealth.

Telehealth 130

Telehealth Primary Care Finance Insurance 130

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Palliative care outpatient was a single visit a month for six months. We started pre-pandemic and very quickly it went to telehealth, so it was primarily telehealth. Most places had one visit that had to be face-to-face because of prescribing and regulatory issues, but it was primarily telehealth. Eric: Okay.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

But to come back to just nursing homes, when you think about what a nursing home is and the range of people that they take care of, you can see why it’s so tricky to think about how do we get the right services in there. Eric 14:32 So there’s financial disincentives for interdisciplinary palliative care teams.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73