N of 1 studies – great examples
This study examined whether it’s more fruitful to expose people to many activities they’ve previously avoided, or instead, to limit the number of activities each person was exposed to. This is SUCH an important component of therapy where people have avoided doing things that bother them because they anticipate either that their pain will go to untolerable levels (or interfere with other important things like sleep) or because they’re worried they’ll do harm to themselves. Why? Because doing things in one safe space is not life. We do lots of activities in lots of different spaces, and most of them a...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 12, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Low back pain Research Science in practice pain management single case experimental design Source Type: blogs
The dangers of sharing personal health information online: Protecting your privacy and health
As the internet has become increasingly accessible, many individuals have turned to online platforms, such as ChatGPT and “Doctor Google,” to search for information about their symptoms and health concerns. While these resources can help provide individuals with a general understanding of their symptoms, there are risks associated with self-diagnosis and relying on online resources
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The dangers of sharing personal health information online: Protecting your privacy and health originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Harvey Castro, MD, MBA Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
Leverage Advanced Analytics to Process Petabytes of Streaming Clinical Data at the Edge
In conclusion, real-time data management strategies are essential for healthcare and life sciences organizations to enable data-driven decision-making critical for business survival in today’s digital landscape. With the vast influx of data and access to real-time data streams, these HCLS organizations must collect, store, and use data securely, efficiently, and cost-effectively. They require intelligent compute infrastructure, software, and algorithms to rapidly turn data into meaningful insights to deliver individualized experiences for their patients, innovate smarter services, and develop new data-driven business...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy Artificial Intelligence Big Data Analytics Data Management Data Management Strategies Source Type: blogs
OI May Be The Next AI
In the past few months, artificial intelligence (AI) has suddenly seemed to come of age, with “generative AI” showing that AI was capable of being creative in ways that we thought was uniquely human. Whether it is writing, taking tests, creating art, inventing things, making convincing deepfake videos, or conducting searches on your behalf, AI is proving its potential. Even healthcare has figured out a surprising number of uses.
It’s fun to speculate about which AI — ChatGPT, Bard, DeepMind, Sydney, etc. – will prove “best,” but it turns out that “AI” as we’ve known it may become outdated...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Artificial intelligence health technology Kim Bellard Organoid Intelligence Source Type: blogs
How to Address Security Issues in IoT Devices – Cybersecurity
Conclusion
The security of IoT devices is a shared responsibility between device manufacturers, institutions, and end-users.
Addressing cybersecurity issues in IoT devices requires following best practices for cyber security and cyber resiliency, such as implementing encryption mechanisms, access controls, and two-factor authentication.
Governments around the world are increasingly introducing regulations aimed at protecting users and ensuring the safe and secure deployment of IoT systems. These efforts play a critical role in promoting cyber security and resiliency in the healthcare industry and help create a safer and mo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy 2FA Cyber Resiliency Cybersecurity Healthcare Security Identification and Authenticatio Source Type: blogs
A Crime Bigger than the Murdaugh Murders
Paul MatzkoThe Cato Institute has advocated for tort reform for decades. As the CatoPolicy Handbook put it in 2017, tort litigation creates an incredible quarter of a trillion dollar annual bill that is ultimately footed by consumers. While such litigation is an important means for holding companies liable for bad behavior, in excess it is a growth ‐minimizing and innovation‐stymyingcancer.The latest example of the costs of excessive litigation comes from a surprising source: the murder trial of Alex Murdaugh in the low country of South Carolina.Murdaugh himself stole millions in settlement money f...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 21, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Paul Matzko Source Type: blogs
Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration
The following is a guest article by John Gaede, Director of Information Systems at Sky Lakes Medical Center.
Imagine a rural business is the victim of a cyberattack. A nefarious person or group convinces an unsuspecting employee to open an email promising a bonus. Within 12 hours, every piece of technology connected to that network, and every process needed to conduct daily operations, is paralyzed.
Now imagine that business is a hospital. It serves 80,000 people and it’s the only one within 10,000 square miles. Add to the scenario a global pandemic that is steadily ravaging the nation’s healthcare system. On October...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy 3M 3M Health Information Systems 3M HIS Abbadox Cohesity Cyberattacks Cybersecurity Electromek Diagnostic System FBI’s Source Type: blogs
What ’ s On Your Plate? Culinary Medicine as an Innovative Nutrition Education Model
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests Courtney Newman and Jaclyn Albin, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss culinary medicine and its role in teaching nutrition, nutrition counseling, and hands-on cooking skills to medical students. The conversation also covers how culinary medicine programs build connections and community and improve the well-being of students, faculty, and patients.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available.
A transcript is below.
Read the article discussed in this episode: Newman C, Yan J, Me...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 20, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast culinary medicine medical education nutrition patient care Source Type: blogs
5 Best Practices To Build A Future-Ready Digital Health Company
Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, and addressing real-life clinical needs might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are working in the healthcare sector. It is also a rapidly expanding one where investments were heavily channelled during the pandemic.
However, some estimate that 90% of digital health startups will go bust or be ‘acqui-hired’ within a few years of being founded. If digital health represents the future of medicine and healthcare, it is important to understand why this is the case.
We previously dissected the reasons why digital h...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Science Fiction Telemedicine & Smartphones theranos study inves Source Type: blogs
Neuroscience: The 10 Most Awe-Inspiring Studies
Neuroscience experiments demonstrate how to reverse brain aging, control the mind over the internet, boost mood and way more... (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Breaking the stigma: Why doctors are afraid to seek mental health treatment
We are over 25 years apart in our careers. One of us began her medical career in a time before the internet and email. The other is a digital native. Remarkably, though, our experiences have been very similar in one respect. We have spoken with colleagues who decided to avoid seeking care for their mental
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Breaking the stigma: Why doctors are afraid to seek mental health treatment originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alexandra Townsley and Rajani Katta, MD Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Will AI cultivate or curb our creativity?
You may have noticed I’ve been using the ChatGPT language model and some image generation tools like MidJourney recently to produce some material for the blog. Mostly, it has been experimentation to see what these so-called AI tools might be capable of.
They’re all very clever but also very limited. At least as far as the free ones are concerned. I’ve not tried any of the paid tools and have no idea how powerful any of the under-the-counter AI tools are.
ChatGPT is essentially a very, very, very sophisticated autocomplete tool. At the basic level, autocomplete kicks in on your phone when you’re typi...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs
How Will IoT and AI Transform the Patient-Doctor Relationship?
The following is a guest article by Thomas Serval, CEO and Founder of Baracoda.
Healthcare has never been an easy topic to discuss. Whether you’re at the doctor’s office or in the comfort of your home, talking about your health can be overwhelming. Most of us don’t enjoy going to the doctor. The anxiety of a doctor finding something wrong or being embarrassed to ask questions are some of the reasons why people prefer to get in and out at appointments. Coupled with primary care physicians spending a little more than 15 minutes with their patients, there isn’t enough time to discuss concerns or take a deep look at a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AliveCor Analyzing Data Artificial Intelligence Baracoda ECG EndoBRAIN EndoBRAIN-EYE Health Data Internet of Things IoT Patient-Doctor Rela Source Type: blogs
What is the ECG Diagnosis?
I came across this ECG while reading ECGs for Cardiologs in order to train the Cardiologs Deep Convolutional Neural Network. I don ' t have any clinical information or any other associated ECGs on this case, but wanted to post it here because it is interesting and it ispathognomonic.What is it?This is a proximal LAD Occlusion. First, there are hyperacute T-waves in V2-V4. These are preceded by ST depression and are de Winter ' s T-waves, though somewhat atypical. There is also a hyperacute T-wave in aVL with subtle STE. There is reciprocal ST depression in II, III, and aVF: it is more vis...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - February 10, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
New Digital Course: Introduction To Artificial Intelligence In Medicine And Healthcare
We’re happy and proud to announce the launch of another major project we have been working on this past year: the Introduction To Artificial Intelligence In Medicine And Healthcare online course is now live.
The impact AI will have on our everyday and professional lives can only be compared to the changes the Internet has brought to the world. We are at the dawn of a new era and our capabilities will be hugely enhanced by algorithms, machine- and deep learning.
At The Medical Futurist and The Medical Futurist Institute, we designed this course to provide a crystal-clear overview of the role artificial i...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Source Type: blogs
