PALTmed President Leslie Eber, MD, CMD, FPALTC, has been on the organization’s Board of Directors since 2019, and it has been a rewarding experience since her very first day, especially hearing all the different perspectives from people she admires and respects. Now, in her current role, she’s working to i...
More than 150 leading health care organizations have been accepted to participate in the launch of the Advancing Chronic Care with Effective Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) Model.
A major leap forward in modernizing America’s health-care system was announced during the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) HealthTech Ecosystem Live! First Wave Launch event, which brought together CMS infrastructure, a new Medicare App Library, and an initial set of patient-facing applic...
The bipartisan Provider Reimbursement Stability Act (H.R. 8163), introduced by Reps. Greg Murphy, MD (R-NC) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY), aims to modernize Medicare clinician payment by updating outdated budget neutrality rules and improving stability for practices and patients.
Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, has been nominated to serve as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pending Senate confirmation.
To assess palliative care utilization, estimate duration of care, and identify predictors of care duration among general practitioner (GP)-referred patients following commencement of specialist palliative care.
Deprescribing reduces inappropriate polypharmacy in older adults and may be initiated in hospital. However, deprescribing changes initiated during a hospital admission are not always continued post discharge and deprescribing recommendations for inpatients to implement post discharge are not always actione...
The CHemical Restraints avOidance MEthodology (CHROME) was developed to help general physicians with quality prescribing of psychotropics for people with dementia (PwD). A new enhanced version (CHROME 2.0) was implemented and tested for improved outcomes.