GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Mental health screening is recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force for all patients in areas where treatment options are available. Still, it is estimated that only 4% of primary care patients are screened for depression. 95% CI, 69.0-73.5) and a specificity of 73.5 (95% 95% CI, 71.5-75.5).

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Primary Care Screening Mental Health Utilities 130

AMMD

JUNE 17, 2025

For more information on nutrient-dense eating, take a listen to this Take Back Your Health™ episode with Dr. Sarah Ballantyne. Evening Enjoy a warm, mineral-rich dinner (think leafy greens and pasture-raised protein), unplug from screens, and wind down with herbal tea or journaling. Coconut oil also supports energy and brain function.

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IT Provider Management Utilities 182

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design & Analysis We used a screening questionnaire to purposively select interview participants. Results/Findings Information management is central to health care delivery, but often not valued or actively supported. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment.

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Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician 130

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Through food pharmacies, food insecurity screenings and innovative community partnerships, health care providers are ensuring patients get the nourishment they need to thrive. Food Insecurity Screenings: Hennepin Health Care has integrated the Hunger Vital Signs tool into routine screenings to identify and support at-risk patients.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Community Family Families 52

Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

No longer just pet videos and pranks, short-form videos are utilized more and more to share health information. Doctors and researchers are taking to social media networks themselves to encourage regular screenings for disease.

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East Cary Family Physicians

JULY 26, 2023

Regular check-ups allow your healthcare provider to conduct screenings, perform tests, and monitor vital indicators that may indicate the early onset of such conditions. Utilize health check-ups as an opportunity to discuss any stress, anxiety, or emotional struggles you may be facing.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Mental Health Healthcare 52

Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

At its core, the technology utilizes sophisticated speech recognition to transcribe a conversation in the exam room or at the bedside. By removing the need to constantly look at a screen or type notes, we can be more present and engaged, fostering stronger therapeutic relationships and improving patient satisfaction. NAM Perspectives.

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Patient-Centered Telemedicine Clinic Electronics 52

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A phone call to FDA requested information about the number of Remote Interactive Evaluations (RIEs) that FDA has performed at drug manufacturing facilities since it announced in April 2021 that it would start using them as an alternative to on-site inspections.

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Manufacturing Clinic IT Utilities 105

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. .”

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Patient-Centered Patients Medical IT 52

Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

Also, when you do re-apply for a residency position, you will be considered a graduating medical student senior which is useful for those residency programs that automatically screen out graduates. The drawback is having to travel all around a city and you may have to enter homes that may be unsanitary or in unsafe areas.

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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. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Is that right?

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Physician's Practice

JUNE 19, 2025

A single stolen phone loaded with protected health information (PHI) can trigger six-figure penalties and weeks of patient-notification headaches, yet many small practices still lack a written plan to lock down their hardware. Every one of those touch points expands your practice’s digital footprint—and the bull’s-eye hackers aim for.

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Management Patients Screening Finance 52

Physician's Practice

JUNE 26, 2025

Physicians Practice Pearls Profiles is a dynamic new feature designed to bring our trusted columnists off the page and onto your screen. He has written ten books on practice management and the business of medicine.

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Management Diabetes Patients Insurance 52

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

To address the growing demand for health care services combined with workforce shortages, utilizing health care innovations that improve patient health and restore the joy in medicine for physicians and clinicians is more essential than ever. And utilization is expected to grow as the number of Americans who are 65 and older is expected to.

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Utilities Chronic Condition Healthcare Patients 52

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Ed Oliver, HB 45 would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover any noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test assigned a grade A or B under the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. Any contractual clause that limits or penalizes providers for sharing this information would be unenforceable.

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Insurance Management Hospital Vaccination 130

The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health.

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Chronic Disease Screening Transportation Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 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 what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today. Dr. Jordan then questions the utility and continued operation of methadone clinics, especially as the United States largely moves on from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

FDA Law Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Although overall enforcement against prescription drug ads has been relatively low, the OPDP Warning and Untitled Letters issued over the past year reflect OPDP’s interest in not only the substance of the communications, but in the audience processing of information based on the platform used.

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IT Medical Patients Utilities 52

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. If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The enrollment goals should be informed by the estimated prevalence or incidence of the disease or condition in the U.S. DAP Goal Rationales The sponsor must also provide a rationale for the study’s proposed enrollment goals, including information and analysis to explain how these goals were determined. intended use population.

Clinic 59

Clinic Provider Individual IT 59

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. It is a screening? And so then it would be nice to have those other than the chaplains, be aware of the spiritual component and then just ask some basic screening questions. I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. Because it suffers from an informative censoring problem. Did they screen charts? Eric: Yeah. Eric: Okay.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. I put a lot more information about Dr. Groopman and how to contact her in the show notes. Now, newborn screening, or NBS, includes testing newly born infants for certain IEMs. Take it away, Emily.

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Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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 resource utilization was very low in all the groups. You just email them or email them information on prepare for your care. It was not very different.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric 17:06 Think like almost 50% of nursing home decedents utilize hospice, and that number has grown over the last two decades. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well. Like an AI robot goes in the room with the screen and that links to the human palliative care provider and is also the companion.

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Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Today, we are going to discuss firearm safety and ways to screen for it in both the ED and clinic settings. Studies demonstrate that utilizing one of these storage methods can reduce the suicide and unintentional gun deaths in children by up to 54%. [ Kristen ] Great question. I’m here with my co-resident, Dr. Humphrey.

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Family Families Mental Health Healthcare 52

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. The specifics of how it does that depend on the population in which it’s implemented, and the outcome measure that is utilized. ‘I want everything.'”

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And we were able to work under a waiver of informed consent with making the case that we were promoting, which should be standard of care. Should it be decreased utilization, decreased use of CPR?

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 83

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I could walk down the hall and get information. So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. I found it to be an incredibly hard journey. I had a supportive spouse.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. I think at least we like to think of ourselves as ahead of the curve. So as Carly mentioned in our practice at UC San Francisco, we were already doing about 50% of our visits by telemedicine before the pandemic.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73