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My Cancer Story  
By JEFF GOLDSMITH On Christmas Eve 2014, I received a present of some profoundly unwelcome news: a 64 slice CT scan confirming not only the presence of a malignant tumor in my neck, but also a fluid filled mass the size of a man’s finger in my chest cavity outside the lungs. Two days earlier, my ENT surgeon in Charlottesville, Paige Powers, had performed a fine needle aspiration of a suspicious almond-shaped enlarged lymph node, and the lab returned a verdict of “metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with an occult primary tumor”.  I had worked in healthcare for nearly forty years when ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice The Business of Health Care Cancer Jeff Goldsmith Medicare Advantage Patient Experience Source Type: blogs

The synergy of AI and human intelligence in transforming health care
The health care industry is witnessing a transformative phase with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI). AI’s ability to process vast amounts of data and provide predictive insights is revolutionizing medical diagnostics and patient care. AI’s precision is invaluable in diagnosing and managing kidney disease, offering both speed and accuracy in analyzing patient data. Unleashing Read more… The synergy of AI and human intelligence in transforming health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

Stephanie Strong, CEO, Boulder
Stephanie Strong is the CEO of Boulder, which has been blazing a trail in the virtual treatment of substance use disorder. She left venture capital to start the company and has been steadily building its capabilities and reach. We talked in depth about how Boulder helps its patients, who are predominantly on Medicaid and in general tend–as you’d expect–not to have easy circumstances. One remarkable thing Stephanie has done is spearhead resistance to the DEA’s proposal to ban telehealth prescribing of the anti-addiction drug Buprenorphine. And it looks like that campaign has been successful. that alo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Medical Practice Buprenorphine DEA opiates Stephanie Strong Source Type: blogs

AI and the patient-physician relationship [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! We sit down with guest Andrew Wilner, a neurologist, to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on medicine. Join us as we discuss how AI is changing the role of health care professionals, the tasks it can take over, its limitations, and the Read more… AI and the patient-physician relationship [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Health IT Source Type: blogs

How the NFL offers a window into health care solutions for our country
The NFL season is now in full swing, with TV screens ablaze in households across the nation, eyes glued to an elliptically-shaped ball being thrown and kicked far distances. This reminds me of an incredibly rare case that happened to a male patient I saw in the ER many years ago, whose right testicle had Read more… How the NFL offers a window into health care solutions for our country originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 3, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

I Have A Strong Feeling Believing In The Promise Of AI As A Way To Get Value From The myHR May Be An Dangerous Illusion.
I don ’t claim to be an expert but I can confidently assert that there are many, many spruikers for the advantages and possibilities of AI in the health sector. This from the Harvard Business Review provides a flavour: GenAI Could Transform How Health Care Works by Ron Adner and Dr. James N. Weinstein November 27, 2023 Summary.    Consider how Napster, the networked (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Decoding AI hallucinations in health care: Embracing a new era of medical innovation
The health care landscape is rapidly evolving with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI). While AI brings transformative power, it also demands great responsibility, especially in understanding and managing AI hallucinations—a new challenge in health care. Understanding AI hallucinations AI hallucinations occur when AI systems produce incorrect or misleading information. These errors can have dire Read more… Decoding AI hallucinations in health care: Embracing a new era of medical innovation originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

Tackling health care conflicts and stereotyping
Concerns about conflicts of interest and stereotyping differ in their complexity. Resolving stereotyping-related concerns is relatively straightforward. Stereotyping should be dismantled immediately, regardless of the reasons for its creation, before it continues to perpetuate unchecked. However, merely dissolving stereotyping might not be enough if one form of stereotyping is replaced by another. Therefore, the ongoing Read more… Tackling health care conflicts and stereotyping originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Lacertus syndrome and the quest for diagnosis
An excerpt from BATTLE SCARS: A courageous memoir of one person’s life experience within our health care system. The main part of my memoir focuses on the journey which led to my eventual recovery from Lacertus syndrome. I now have a name for my condition but am yet to understand why I’ve been struck down by Read more… Lacertus syndrome and the quest for diagnosis originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Orthopedics 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

NODE.Health ’ s Digital Medicine Conference
Next week is the NODE.Health Digital Medicine Conference in New York. Dec 6-8. It features a great line up of speakers and digital health tech luminaries & THCB readers can get a 30% discount using the code THCB30. Register here (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech NODE.health Source Type: blogs

Unlocking the potential of allied health roles for a thriving health care system
In the complex world of health care, doctors and nurses often take center stage. But behind them is a much larger team supporting the delivery of exceptional care. Allied health professionals – like radiology and surgery technicians – play an essential role in health care, and it’s time we shine a brighter light on the Read more… Unlocking the potential of allied health roles for a thriving health care system originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Policy Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs

THCB Gang Special: Episode 138, Thursday 30 November 2023 with Jen Goldsack
On #THCBGang today we have a special solo episode with Olympic rower for 2 countries and Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack, (@GoldsackJen) joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy). It’s at at 1pm PST 4pm EST on Thursday November 30. Find out about what DiME is and does, and what projects it is pushing forward in the future of health tech. You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang #THCBGang Jennifer Goldsack Matthew Holt Source Type: blogs

Efficient staffing partners for health systems
Although the health care workforce has begun to normalize following the historic lows of the pandemic, according to Staffing Industry Analyst’s most recent Healthcare Staffing Report, health care employers across the board still struggle with a tight labor market, high turnover, and continued attrition. In fact, the health care sector continues to rank last for Read more… Efficient staffing partners for health systems originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Policy Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Health Innovation & Data: Five Common Missteps (and How to Interrupt Them)
By MARIE COPOULOS I’ve had the great fortune of spending much of my career at the intersection of health care innovation and the underlying data that drives new models. For those of us who’ve worked in this space for a long time, there’s a certain pattern recognition that comes with this work that is often immediate and obvious – both in terms of really cool developments but also gotchas. “Ah, you’re stumbling here. Everyone does that.” The challenge, I’ve found, is that these ‘gotchas’ that can be so visible to the folx who’ve worked in health tech for the past few decades can be counterintu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Bardavon Health Innovations Data Marie Copoulos Teams Source Type: blogs