Podcast: Reading pain from the brains of infants, modeling digital faces, and wifi holograms
This week, we discuss the most accurate digital model of a human face to date, stray Wi-Fi signals that can be used to spy on a closed room, and artificial intelligence that can predict Supreme Court decisions with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic.
Caroline Hartley joins Sarah Crespi to discuss a scan that can detect pain in babies—a useful tool when they can’t tell you whether something really hurts.
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See more book segments. (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - May 4, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Should all American doctors be using electronic medical records?
Evidence shows using electronic health records can increase efficiency, and reduce preventable medical errors - but only if they are used properly. However, in the US, the president of the American Medical Association calls them almost unusable.
In this debate, Richard Hurley is joined by George Gellert, Regional Medical Informatics Officer at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System and Edward Melnick, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale, who debate whether US doctors should be using electronic medical records.
Read the related article:
http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j242. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - January 19, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Advertising junk food to children
In the UK, junk food advertising is banned on children’s TV - but manufactures are still able to target children in other ways. A recent report from the WHO "Tackling food marketing to children in a digital world", takes a look at the issue.
In this podcast we're joined by João Breda, programme manager for nutrition physical activity and obesity at the regional office for Europe of the World Health Organisation, and Mimi Tatlow-Golden, lecturer in childhood studies and developmental psychology at the open university, and the lead author on the report.
Read the full report:
http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 4, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Opioid Prescribing: Rising to the Challenge
An opioid abuse epidemic now plagues US healthcare. It was caused, in part, by overzealous advocacy for controlling chronic pain resulting in overuse of narcotics. There are now 2 million Americans addicted to opioids. The approach for treating chronic pain must change. In this podcast, we summarize recent CDC guidelines for the proper use of opioids for treating chronic pain.
Articles discussed in this episode:
CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain— United States, 2016
The CDC Guideline on Opioid Prescribing: Rising to the Challenge (Yngvild Olsen, MD, MPH)
The DSM-V definition for opioid use diso...
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - March 15, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast: 1 October 2015
This week, the future of digital currency; a new lead for antibiotics; and 25 years of cataloguing the human genome. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - September 30, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
bmj.com at 20
The BMJ website is 20 years old this week - the first general medical journal online. Launch editor Tony Delamothe discusses with fellow digital pioneers Richard Smith and John Sack how the internet transformed doctors’ reading habits and the journal’s international reach. David Payne reports
www.bmj.com/twenty (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 22, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
How to diagnose overdiagnosis
Overdiagnosis means different things to different people. Stacy Carter, associate professor at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney argues that we should use a broad term such as too much medicine for advocacy and develop precise, case by case definitions of overdiagnosis for research and clinical purposes.
Read the full analysis article:
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h869
For the full overdiagnosis digital edition:
http://www.bmj.com/specialties/digital-theme-issue-overdiagnosis (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 5, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Patient spotlight - How can we get better at providing patient centred care?
Participants in our discussion on person centred care in January
agreed that a change in culture and better use of technology
could benefit both patients and doctors.
At the roundtable:
Fiona Godlee (chair), editor in chief, The BMJ
Tessa Richards, senior editor, patient partnership, The BMJ
Rosamund Snow, patient editor, The BMJ
Navjoyt Ladher, clinical editor, The BMJ
Angela Coulter, director of global initiatives, Informed Medical Decisions Foundation (www.informedmedicaldecisions.org)
Paul Wicks, vice president of innovation, PatientsLikeMe (www.patientslikeme.com)
Michael Seres, founder, 11 Health (www.11health.com)...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 10, 2015 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
How Information Technology Is Changing the Way Health Care Is Delivered
Learn how health IT can dramatically change health care delivery by improving communication and saving time—and can even save lives by providing key information at the right time.
(Source: New Directions in Health Care)
Source: New Directions in Health Care - July 18, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The Commonwealth Fund Source Type: podcasts
Patient confidentiality in the digital age
Digital technology introduces new concerns for confidentiality and information security. In this podcast Bradley Crotty and Arash Mostaghimi, both from Harvard Medical School, outline the regulations governing confidentiality and medical privacy and provide practical advice on how to safeguard patient information
Read their article for more details:
http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g2943 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 9, 2014 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Health IT Czar on Making Meaningful Use 'Meaningful'
Farzad Mostashari, MD, reflects on his tenure as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in an interview with Medscape Editor-in-Chief Eric J. Topol, MD. (Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast - September 4, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Health IT Czar on Making Meaningful Use 'Meaningful'
Farzad Mostashari, MD, reflects on his tenure as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in an interview with Medscape Editor-in-Chief Eric J. Topol, MD. (Source: Medscape Allergy and Immunology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Allergy and Immunology Podcast - September 4, 2013 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Health IT Czar on Making Meaningful Use 'Meaningful'
Farzad Mostashari, MD, reflects on his tenure as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in an interview with Medscape Editor-in-Chief Eric J. Topol, MD. (Source: Medscape Dermatology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Dermatology Podcast - September 4, 2013 Category: Dermatology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Seeing the body
A traumatic death can be very difficult for friends and family to deal with. A clinician’s instinct may be to protect them from seeing the extent of the damage to the body. However this may not be best in the long run. Duncan Jarvies talks to Alison Chapple about her research into people’s experiences of viewing a body after a traumatic death.
Also this week, the National Patient Safety Agency regularly issue alerts about clinical problems that can be averted. Mabel Chew talks to the NPSA about its latest alert featuring digital tourniquets.
Birte Twisselmann takes us through the news. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 29, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Judging the nudging
In this week’s podcast Theresa Marteau, director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, wonders if a nudge is enough to change our health behaviours.
Also this week, Aziz Sheikh, from the E-medicine Group at The University of Edinburgh, explains how telemedicine is going to be an integral part of future healthcare. (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - August 28, 2013 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
