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Telehealth for Maternity Care: Qualitative Perspectives of Clinicians and Mothers [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Background The use of telehealth to mitigate the maternity care crisis is an area of great interest. Telehealth as an alternative to in-person health appointments gained prominence at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, health leaders have cautioned about expanding telehealth into maternal-fetal medicine.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities in Senate Omnibus Bill

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Audio-Only Telehealth This bill to include audio-only telehealth as a reimbursable option was also included in the Senate HHS omnibus bill. Including metachromatic leukodystrophy in the newborn screening program. Requiring informed consent for sensitive examinations of an anesthetized or unconscious patient.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. That’s a lot.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. This was 2018 in AGS Orlando, and they did a song about when to stop screening for cancer for colon cancer. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. Ken 10:29 Yes.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process. Later on, of course, we added health professionals to, you know, give us more information. And they had requested in their cultural tailing that the physician wore a white coat when he was going to be seen on the screen. Would you do it again?

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

And so bringing information to people that says, you know, we think that your parent or your mom or your dad, you know, meets the criteria and would benefit from a palliative care consult can really set someone aback that’s not ready for that information. Eric 33:25 What about telehealth? Eric 30:01 That’s beautiful.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Ruth: Very strong odor, devoid of furniture, broken screens … Eric: So it was the physical environment and … Ruth: Physical environment. Ruth: Decision-making processes, we saw the lower nursing homes tended to have a clear process for advanced care planning and for decision making to include families in an informed decision.