Nvidia ’s AI Bot Outperforms Nurses: Here’s What It Means for You
By ROBBIE PEARL
Soon after Apple released the original iPhone, my father, an unlikely early adopter, purchased one. His plan? “I’ll keep it in the trunk for emergencies,” he told me. He couldn’t foresee that this device would eventually replace maps, radar detectors, traffic reports on AM radio, CD players, and even coin-operated parking meters—not to mention the entire taxi industry.
His was a typical response to revolutionary technology. We view innovations through the lens of what already exists, fitting the new into the familiar context of the old.
Generative AI is on a similar trajectory.
As I pl...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI chatbot IBM-Watson iPhone Robbie Pearl Source Type: blogs
Lean Digital: How Tracking Feeds Into Behavior Change for Weight Loss
This article is part of a series on today’s philosophies regarding weight change and how digital interventions can help. In this article, we’ll look at the contribution of tracking. The article looks at standards, making sure data meets a useful need, and some particular applications of tracking to metabolic control and diet.
Finding Meaning in Data
Device manufacturers are finding more and more things to track. While some people love measurements such as steps taken through the day, and there’s even a site called Quantified Self exploiting this fad, most people don’t care about data unless they s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Behavior Management Behavioral Change Candice Source Type: blogs
What ’ s So Unique About CGC Year 8?
Does this list represent what you’d like to experience this year?
New Explorations
High Trust
Open-Mindedness
Open-Heartedness
Spirit Energy
Stimulating Growth
Fiery Wisdom
Curiosity
Surprise
Purpose
Intuitive Knowing
Alignment
Balance
Playfulness & Fun
Full-Range Friendships
Courageous Steps
Powerful Shifts
Honesty
Feeling Nurtured
Feeling Protected
Intentionality
Imagination
Variety
Uniqueness & Originality
Depth & Intimacy
Flexibility
These vibes are all part of Conscious Growth Club Year 8, which is starting today, May 1st....
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Announcements Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Lean Digital: Behavior Change for Weight and Obesity
This article, part of a series about obesity, interviews a number of experts to explore the philosophy and practice of behavioral therapy for obesity.
Medical and Behavioral Interactions
Dr. Luke Twelves, medical director of the contract research organization Lindus Health, says, “Obesity is a multifactor disease.” He believes that technology helps people take control of their own treatment. For instance, a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) allows patients to decide what food or medication they need at each moment in the day.
A similar viewpoint was cited by Eric Bormel, a director in the Healthcare Group at S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 1, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 9amHealth Amwell Avantika Waring Behavior M Source Type: blogs
First Illumina Complete Long Reads Preprint
Readers of this space might have detected a significant slant towards skepticism in my coverage of Illumina Complete Long Reads (iCLR), exacerbated by now deposed Illumina CEO Francis deSouza claiming it isn't a synthetic read technology. Illumina's posters on iCLR at AGBT this year seemed to reinforce my view that Illumina was marketing purely on short-read like terms - call SNPs in a few more hard-to-map regions of the genome, but not really compete head-to-head with the true long read platforms. But now there isa preprint out on MedRxiv that reports iCLR results for a Genome In A Bottle (GIAB) sample as we...
Source: Omics! Omics! - May 1, 2024 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Keith Robison Source Type: blogs
A Peek At QuantumSI's Protein Sequencer
A number of academic labs and startups have been trying to build new ways of parallel sequencing of large numbers of peptides using schemes that have significant resemblance in their logic to the highly parallel DNA sequencing schemes often highlighted in this space; QuantumSI is the first (and so far only) such company to actually commercialize in this space. Resemblances to NGS but not identity - for a few important reasons.The biggest such challenge is the lack of anything resembling Watson-Crick basepairing in proteins. Sequencing chemistries almost invariably rely on basepairing, with the notable exceptions of Maxa...
Source: Omics! Omics! - April 30, 2024 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Keith Robison Source Type: blogs
11 Ways Conscious Growth Club Will Expand Your Experiential Range
Conscious Growth Club is our primo online self-development club. It’s been running for 7 years now, so we’ve had plenty of time to evolve and improve it.
The new Year 8 version of CGC is especially rich, abundant, and divergent – so different and unique compared to anything I’ve seen elsewhere in the self-development world.
Instead of focusing primarily on content or coaching, in CGC we prioritize crafting and guiding you through unique growth experiences. You’ll learn more through direct experience than you will by just reading and watching videos. CGC includes a strong content library too,...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Creating Reality Emotions Lifestyle Productivity Relationships Values Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 29th 2024
In conclusion, we assigned stemness scores to human samples and show evidence of a pan-tissue loss of stemness during human aging, which adds weight to the idea that stem cell deterioration may contribute to human aging.
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The Role of Immune Aging in Neurodegenerative Conditions
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/04/the-role-of-immune-aging-in-neurodegenerative-conditions/
The research community has come to see chronic inflammation and other age-related immune system dysfunctions as an important aspect of neurodegenerative conditions. Inflammation in the short term is n...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 28, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Rodent Aging Interventions Database
You might compare the LEV Foundation's Rodent Aging Interventions Database with the DrugAge database, both emerging from the efforts of researchers who found themselves frequently reviewing the existing literature on age-slowing interventions in animal models. One of the things to bear in mind about the existing literature is that rodent studies that show an apparent modest slowing of aging frequently fail to replicate when later investors take a more rigorous approach, with larger numbers of mice. The history of the NIA Interventions Testing Program is largely a repeated demonstration of this point.
The Rodent Ag...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 15th April 2024
Selected new (or newish) items of interest. I am trying with this one to use DOIs as the link, please consult your library service, if you have access to one, if you have trouble accessing full text.In the news, Guardian analysis of NHS figures shows black women in England are more likely to have serious birth complications, Some systematic reviews and researchEffectiveness of care bundles in preventing postpartum haemorrhage, a systematic review, Socio-economic disadvantage and utilisation of labour epidural analgesia, a study carried out in Scotland, A systematic review of maternal and neo...
Source: Browsing - April 15, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 15th 2024
In conclusion, although several clinical trials targeting SnCs are ongoing, various questions about the biology of SnCs remain open, resulting in a gap between molecular and cellular data. Concerning the need, initiatives such as SenNet aiming to create openly accessible atlases of SnCs should contribute enormously to the area. Advances in understanding the subcellular structure, the heterogeneity, and the dynamics of SnCs require the integration of molecular and cellular techniques with data analysis packages to evaluate high throughput evidence from microscopy and flow cytometry. It is also necessary to develop new equip...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 14, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Medicine is not apolitical: Your vote dictates your ability to practice medicine
It’s Wednesday, March 6th, 2024. The day after Super Tuesday. I am sitting in the library, taking a break from writing a final paper for my health economics class, when I see a Politico article: “San Francisco’s Proposition F passed.” 3,000 miles away from my hometown and my medical school, all I can think about
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Medicine is not apolitical: Your vote dictates your ability to practice medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 11, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Elizabeth Picazo Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Securing Patient Data: A Practical Guide to Compliance in Open-Source Healthcare CMS
The following is a guest article by Jon Stewart, Co-Founder and President at ZenSource
Historically, the terms “patient data,” “open-source,” and “healthcare CMS” might have seemed incongruous. Open-source has often been perceived as the Wild West. But times have changed, and open-source platforms are now making significant strides, particularly in highly regulated industries. The modern world of the open web combined with a secure cloud, smarter planning, and robust support can enable healthcare organizations to enjoy the benefits of proprietary systems with the cost and flexibility of open-source platforms. S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 11, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Security and Privacy Cloud Infrastructure CMS Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Training Healthcare CMS Jon Stewart Open Source Healthcare patient data Security Audit ZenSource Source Type: blogs
Intermittent Methionione Restriction may be an Improvement on Continuous Methionine Restriction
Regulatory systems that detect low levels of the essential amino acid methionine are one of the more important triggers for the metabolic response to fasting and calorie restriction. Methionine is not manufactured in mammalian cells, can only be obtained from the diet, but is nonetheless essential for protein synthesis. Thus reducing only methionine levels in the diet can capture a sizable fraction of the benefits of calorie restriction.
While it is possible for a self-experimenter armed with time, a suitable database of methionine content by food type, and considerable willpower to practice significant levels of me...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 10, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
David Lareau, CEO, Medicomp
Medicomp provides a medical database within an EMR and which delivers all the diagnoses and other information directly to the clinician. It represents the note to the physician as a SMART on FHIR app so that they can quickly find the information they need within their workflow. I had a quick catch up with CEO Dave Lareau, and asked him not only what Medicomp does but how all that generative AI has started to change this. He thinks that the output of LLMs and ambient AI will actually make a greater demand for their tools–from a company that’s coming up on its 50th birthday! (Well 46th….)–Matthew Holt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Dave Lareau Generative AI MEDICOMP Source Type: blogs
