This Is The End Of The Beginning Rather Than The Beginning Of The End.
This appeared a few days ago.Google AI system beats doctors in detection tests for breast cancerHannah KuchlerJan 2, 2020 — 3.19pmNew York | Google Health has developed a system that can identify breast cancer more accurately than radiologists, in the latest sign that artificial intelligence could improve early detection of disease in images.In a paper published in the scientific journal Nature, experts from Google H ealth, Alphabet’s DeepMind unit, and UK and US universities showed the AI model reduced both false positives, in which patients are wrongly told they have cancer, as well as false negatives, where the dise...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 7, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Let ’s stop trying to change what doctors do
Our organization, like most health care providers, is working hard to improve the care we provide to our patients, while also striving to improve the lives of our physicians. All too often, a narrow view of the former can create conflict with the latter. For example, a reductionist view of clinical quality, which equates good […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 1, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ira-nash" rel="tag" > Ira Nash, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician breast cancer Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Reinventing CDS Requires Humility in the Face of Overwhelming Complexity
Paul Cerrato and I have created a new book,Reinventing Clinical Decision Support, our first to be published about Platform thinking. Although it is being published during my tenure at Mayo Clinic, it is not endorsed by Mayo Clinic and represents the personal opinions of Paul and me. Below is the preface.In our last book, on mobile health(1), we wrote about the power of words such as cynicism, optimism, and transformation. Another word with powerful connotations is misdiagnosis. To a patient whose condition remains undetected, it is a source of frustration and anger. To a physician or nurse who has be...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - December 30, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
The Dangers of Alcohol
The dangers of alcohol begin at the first sip of the first drink. Although most responsible drinking habits shouldn’t be cause for major concern, everyone who drinks runs the risk of encountering the negative effects of alcohol.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans defines moderate drinking as up to 1 drink per day for women and up to 2 drinks per day for men. A single drink is considered as:
12 ounces of beer (5% alcohol content)
8 ounces of malt liquor (7% alcohol content)
5 ounces of wine (12% alcohol content)
1.5 ounces of 80-proof (40% alcohol content) distilled spirits or liquor (e.g., gin, rum, vodka, whiskey)...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - December 27, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Alcohol Alcohol Rehab Information Alcoholism alcohol abuse alcohol dependence alcohol dependency alcohol detox alcohol treatment alcohol treatment center alcohol treatment facility Alcoholics Anonymous Source Type: blogs
Will Your Health Plan Tell You That It Can Save Your Life?
This article originally appeared on Forbes here.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - December 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy AHIP Anthem Health insurance Health Plans Matt Eyles Michael Millenson Rajeev Ronaki Source Type: blogs
Is Mammography + MRI the Key for Early Detection of Breast Cancer?
Dense breast tissue not only increases a woman ’s risk of developing cancer, it also makes it more difficult for physicians to identify possible tumors. However, emerging research from University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands has found that implementing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) screening in addition to mammography can be a more effective cancer diagnosis method in patients with dense breast tissue than mammography alone. Over the course of two years, the group of researchers led by Carla van Gils evaluated 40,000 women with immense dense breast tissue with mammography and 4,783 were designated to rec...
Source: radRounds - December 23, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Thou Shalt Not Try to Outsmart Me
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD
Medical researchers and their groupies – early adopters, thoughtleaders, those easily influenced or whatever you want to call them – never seem to learn that when you try to outsmart Mother Nature or Our Heavenly Father, whichever appeals more to your world view, you usually get your hand slapped.
When I was a resident (1981-1984), I got penalized if I didn’t offer postmenopausal women estrogen-progesterone replacement therapy because it seemed obvious that if women with endogenous estrogen didn’t get many strokes or heart attacks and women without estrogen did, all we needed to do was ma...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs
Patient-Directed Uses vs. The Platform
By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD
It’s 2023. Alice, a patient at Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin, decides to get a second opinion at Mayo Clinic. She’s heard great things about Mayo’s collaboration with Google that everyone calls “The Platform”. Alice is worried, and hoping Mayo’s version of Dr. Google says something more than Ascension’s version of Dr. Google. Is her Ascension doctor also using The Platform?
Alice makes an appointment in the breast cancer practice using the Mayo patient portal. Mayo asks permission to access her health records. Alice is offered two choices, one uses HIPAA without her consent...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Adrian Gropper Ascension Google Health Data HIPAA Patient privacy Source Type: blogs
Mini-Circuits and Vayyar Imaging Announce 4D Millimeter Wave Imaging Kits: Interview
Last year, Vayyar Imaging, a leader in 4D imaging technology, announced its next-generation CMOS System on a Chip technology and made its first foray into remote patient monitoring with Walabot HOME. Vayyar’s latest announcement came out last week as part of an expanded partnership with Mini-Circuits, a leader in design, manufacturing, and distribution of radiofrequency (RF) and microwave components. Together, the two companies are offering a new development kit for academic and industry researchers to explore and develop 4D millimeter wave (4D mmWave) imaging and sensing applications.
VTRIG-74 Millimeter Wave Im...
Source: Medgadget - December 12, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Explain yourself, machine. Producing simple text descriptions for AI interpretability
We describe a feature, give a location, and then synthesise a conclusion. For example:
There is an irregular mass with microcalcification in the upper outer quadrant of the breast. Findings are consistent with malignancy.
You don’t need to understand the words I used here, but the point is that the features (irregular mass, microcalcification) are consistent with the diagnosis (breast cancer, malignancy). A doctor reading this report already sees internal consistency, and that reassures them that the report isn’t wrong. An common example of a wrong report could be:
Irregular mass or microcalcification. No ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech AI Luke Oakden-Rayner machine learning Radiology Source Type: blogs
What Are the Risks of Drinking Alcohol?
Drinking alcohol causes damage to your health in both the short term and long term, even for moderate drinkers. For individuals who suffer from addiction to alcohol and frequently drink in excess, these risks become higher. Knowing the risks of drinking alcohol is important to help avoid drinking to excess and reduce the likelihood of these risks.
Short-Term Risks of Drinking Alcohol
There are many short-term risks that occur when drinking alcohol. These risks can happen to anyone, including individuals suffering from alcohol use disorder, or individuals who are drinking for the very first time.
Injuries
When you drink al...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - December 3, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Alcoholism alcohol abuse alcohol dependence alcohol dependency alcohol detox alcohol treatment alcohol treatment center alcohol treatment facility alcohol use risks Source Type: blogs
3DQuorum Mammography Tech Reduces Number of Images for Radiologists to Review
Hologic has won FDA approval to introduce its 3DQuorum imaging technology to the U.S. market. Powered by the company’s Genius AI analytics platform, the new software reconstructs 3D data captured by a Hologic 3D mammography system to generate so-called “SmartSlices” that are each 6 millimeters in width. During the reconstruction, the system spots clinically important regions and keeps relevant image features intact. In the process, though, the image volume that radiologists have to review drops by 66 percent.
Image quality, sensitivity, and the accuracy of reproductions remain the same, but the radiolo...
Source: Medgadget - December 3, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Ob/Gyn Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
The Digital Health Future of Oncology
It’s in the early morning of April 15th, 2030 that when looking at your smart mirror, the latter beeps a warning notification: that new mole on your chin should be checked by your dermatologist. That was to be expected. After all your genetic test revealed that you possess a mutation in the CDKN2A gene. But you also get the recommendation to have your esophagus and stomach checked as your connected smart scale registered a noticeable drop in weight and this mutation also carries an increased risk of gastrointestinal (GI) tract cancer.
With such increased awareness and early stage diagnosis methods, will the cancer de...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Future of Medicine Personalized Medicine cancer digital health cancer treatment digital technology oncology cancer research cancer care digital health technologies Source Type: blogs
Evidence Pours More Cold Water on The False Narrative That Prescriptions Caused the Opioid Crisis
Jeffrey A. SingerA new study reported in the November 1, 2019Annals of Emergency Medicine pours more cold water on the false but persistent narrative that the opioid overdose crisis was caused by doctors prescribing opioids to patients in pain.This prospective cohort study by researchers in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine followed 484 “opioid naïve” patients prescribed opioids for acute pain upon release from the emergency department during a six month period. The statewide prescription drug monitoring program was employed in addition to regular follow up telephone inter...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 20, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
A diagnosis that creates an instant bond with others
An excerpt from With Mirth and Laughter: Finding Joy in Medicine After Cancer. I am sitting in the waiting area for the one year follow up appointment with my oncologist, Dr. Anne Blaes. Using the handy phone app, “How Long Ago,” I see it’s been eleven months, nine days, five hours, twenty-nine minutes, eig hteen seconds since […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 19, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/heather-thompson-buum" rel="tag" > Heather Thompson Buum, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions breast cancer Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
