Debunking sensational euthanasia myths in the Netherlands
While surfing cellphone news headlines, my attention was caught by one from the New York Post that blared: “Dutch are Euthanizing Autistic People.” The Post aims for sensationalism, and the headline implied mass slaughter, akin to the Nazi gassing of individuals with mental disabilities. As euthanasia is of academic interest to me, I felt compelled
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Debunking sensational euthanasia myths in the Netherlands originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: M. Bennet Broner, PhD Tags: Conditions Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Biorithm Secures $3.5 Million in Series A Funding to Advance Maternal Care Worldwide
New Funds to Fortify US Market Entry and Growth Strategy, as well as Advance Breakthrough Research
Biorithm, a global women’s health medtech, has closed $3.5 million in Series A funding, co-led by Adaptive Capital Partners and SEEDS Capital. With a homegrown spirit and a global vision, Biorithm is dedicated to developing cutting-edge solutions for personalized connected maternity care. The funding will fuel Biorithm’s expansion in Southeast Asia and the United States. It also will assist the company in advancing Femom, a comprehensive obstetric remote monitoring solution, and completing clinical studies to support ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Adaptive Capital Partners Amrish Nair Biorithm Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Julian Robinson SEEDS Capital Shi Ying Tan Kaixin Source Type: blogs
2024 Prediction: Society Will Arrive at an Inflection Point in AI Advancement
By MIKE MAGEE
For my parents, March, 1965 was a banner month. First, that was the month that NASA launched the Gemini program, unleashing “transformative capabilities and cutting-edge technologies that paved the way for not only Apollo, but the achievements of the space shuttle, building the International Space Station and setting the stage for human exploration of Mars.” It also was the last month that either of them took a puff of their favored cigarette brand – L&M’s.
They are long gone, but the words “Gemini” and the L’s and the M’s have taken on new meaning and relevance now six decades l...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Google LLM Microsoft Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Academic career versus private medical practice: a guide to the right decision for you
You are so close to completing your medical training: Congratulations! You worked and studied hard through grade school, college, and medical school. You completed—or are about to complete—residency training or perhaps a subspecialty fellowship. You gained valuable skills and knowledge, but—more importantly—you also grew to realize that your MD (or DO) stands more for “making
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Academic career versus private medical practice: a guide to the right decision for you originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Samir Kahwash, MD Tags: Physician Pathology Source Type: blogs
The hidden costs of “ free ” medical interpretation
He is a typical patient of our academic primary care internal medicine practice: elderly, frail, and with several complex conditions, including a history of a liver transplant requiring chronic immunosuppression, recurrent venous thrombosis requiring treatment with blood thinners, and type 2 diabetes. But in one very important way, he is different: our doctors don’t speak
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The hidden costs of “free” medical interpretation originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Victoria Johnson, MD, MPH and Maria Isabel Angulo, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Concerted Effort to Define Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare is Sorely Needed
The following is a guest article by Amy Hester, PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, Chairwoman and CEO at HD Nursing
The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) across a number of industries, particularly in healthcare, has shown both great promise as well as cause for alarm.
A perfect example of not only misusing AI, but also continuing to use a model to make decisions affecting individual care that can be error-prone involves a recent class-action lawsuit filed against one of the nation’s largest health plans and its subsidiary.
Both companies stand accused of illegally using an algorithm to deny rehabilitation care to seriousl...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Artificial Intelligence Dr. Amy Hester Ethical AI HD Nursing Healthcare AI Healthcare Automation responsible AI Source Type: blogs
Radiology and Cardiology Technology
The world of healthcare IT is ever-evolving. It seems as though every day there is a new piece of technology to talk about or an exciting update/new approach to old technology. Staying on top of all of this news for every piece of technology or area in healthcare can very quickly become overwhelming. This in turn almost always results in a development, new release, or even an entire area of healthcare left behind and forgotten. So today we are going to take a little pause to focus in on technology for radiology and cardiology. To get some insights on what is actively being done in these two fields of healthcare IT, we reac...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Braj Thakur Cardiology Cardiology Tech emtelligent Evan Ruff Experity Hayley Dezendorf Mark Dobbs Myndshft Technologies OXOS Medical Pure Storage Source Type: blogs
How Do I Craft a Strong Application?
This post is part of a series outlining NIGMS research priorities, funding opportunities, and the grant application process. You can read more posts in this series and sign up to receive all future posts delivered straight to your inbox.
You’ve determined that you’re conducting research related to the NIGMS mission and have found a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) you’d like to apply to. Now it’s time to craft your application.
There are many resources providing guidance on what to include in an NIH funding application. We recommend reviewing our grant writing webinar series, which discusses faculty readi...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 14, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Research Administration Resources NIGMS Grant Basics Preparing an Application Source Type: blogs
Do What You Do Better: Using AI Tools to Ease the Workload Burden on Faculty
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Christy Boscardin, PhD, Brian Gin, MD, PhD, Marc Triola, MD, and Academic Medicine assistant editor Gustavo Patino, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help ease the workload burden on faculty and staff, with a focus on assessment and admissions. They explore the opportunities that AI tools afford as well as ethical, data privacy, bias, and other issues to consider with their use. They conclude by looking to the future and where medical education might go from here.
This episode is now available through App...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 13, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine Academic Medicine podcast admissions AI artificial intelligence assessment ChatGPT Source Type: blogs
Unraveling the mysteries of mast cell disorders [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us on as we delve into the world of mast cell disorders, including the lesser-understood mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS). Our guest, Kara Wada, a board-certified academic adult and pediatric allergy, immunology, and lifestyle medicine physician, will shed light on the complexities of
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Unraveling the mysteries of mast cell disorders [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Allergies & Immunology Source Type: blogs
Occlusion myocardial infarction is a clinical diagnosis
Written by Willy Frick (@Willyhfrick). Willy is a cardiology fellow with a keen interest in the ECG in OMI.A woman in her late 70s presented with left arm pain. The arm pain started the day prior when she was at the dentist ' s office for a root canal. Her systolic blood pressure at the dentist was over 200 mm Hg. She was given nitroglycerin which improved her blood pressure, and she completed the procedure. Her arm pain abated. The pain returned that evening and woke her from sleep. She eventually fell back asleep, and woke up feeling normal the next day (the day of presentation). After dinner the day of presentatio...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 11, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 11th 2023
In this study, a single treatment at the peak of disease resulted in the ablation of senescent cells in the lung and attenuation of key fibrotic and inflammatory markers, which ultimately resolved fibrosis. Deciduous Therapeutics has used computational assisted design to synthesise a suite of proprietary therapies that could be used in the clinic to re-activate tissue-resident iNKT cells. To date, the company's lead program has shown single-dose efficacy in resolving both metabolic and fibrotic diseases along with a favorable safety profile at doses significantly higher than the efficacious dose.
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Source: Fight Aging! - December 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Targeting Oxidative Stress to Provoke Greater Tissue Maintenance and Regeneration in the Aging Heart
The heart is one of the least regenerative organs, and what limited ability it has to recover from injury is further diminished by age. This is of particular concern in the context of recovery from a heart attack, which leaves regions of scar tissue rather than functional tissue, weakening the heart. The best approach to this problem is to prevent heart attacks from occurring in the first place, which would have to be achieved by in some way halting and reversing the underlying processes of atherosclerosis and the growth of fatty lesions in the vasculature. There is enthusiasm for this goal in academia and industry, at lea...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 7, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Where is AI in Medicine Going? Ask The Onion.
By MIKE MAGEE
One of the top ten headlines of all time created by the satirical geniuses at The Onion was published 25 years ago this December. It read, “God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy. ‘No,’ Says God.”
The first paragraph of that column introduced us to Timmy Yu, an optimistic 7-year old, who despite the failures of the health system had held on to his “precious dream.” As the article explained, “From the bottom of his heart, he has hoped against hope that God would someday hear his prayer to walk again. Though many thought Timmy’s heavenly plea would never be answered, his dream finally...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Cris Ross John Halamka Mayo Clinic Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Synthetic Data and LLMs Power the World ’ s Most Powerful Research Assistant
The next public health pronouncement or clinical treatment might emerge from synthetic data: rows of totally invented people that contain no real data but reflects the actual characteristics of a population such as race, gender, and medical conditions.
Synthetic data plus large language models (LLMs), which lie at the base of current generative AI, provide “the world’s most powerful research assistant” in the words of Josh Rubel, chief commercial officer for MDClone. This video contains a wide-ranging discussion between Rubel and interviewer John Lynn about the current applications and future possibilitie...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Generative AI Healthcare AI Healthcare Data Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare LLMs Josh Rubel Large Language Models MDClone Synthetic Data Source Type: blogs
