The Direct Doctors Difference
DECEMBER 14, 2021
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance companies and state & federal regulators really reduced the requirements surrounding telehealth. This allowed patients who were sick or in need of prevention-related care from their primary care doctors or specialists to reach the doctor without going in for a visit.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: Primary care delivery was significantly impacted by COVID-19, with rapid deployment of telehealth after the United States’ national public health emergency (PHE) declaration in March 2020. In the years following the PHE, rates of screening for tobacco use decreased, particularly during telehealth visits.
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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
APRIL 22, 2025
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.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. 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 ). That rings true to me.
GeriPal
APRIL 3, 2025
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.
GeriPal
JUNE 5, 2025
Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Connie 06:18 So, I’ve been a clinician working in the nursing home since back in the 80s, and I saw a lot of patients that really needed palliative care.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
How to be sensitive to the risks of stereotyping based on recommendations from the few members of the board to the many heterogeneous patients served? And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. Who would/should be on that board?
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