China Is Building The Ultimate Technological Health Paradise. Or Is It?
How could a country keep around 1.4 billion
people healthy when the system struggles with corruption, lack of resources and
an aging population? China, the emerging giant with a strong central leadership
fostering technology and innovation, places its bets on artificial
intelligence, telemedicine, cloud-based hospitals, and WeChat. While that could sound like
an ultimate technological paradise, the question is, what are they going to do
with the vast amount of data or to what interests are they going to leverage
their state of the art A.I. systems? Generally, how will we speak about digital
health in China: a healthcare dy...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers AI chatbot china digital digital health Healthcare Innovation smartphone technology telehealth telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Designer Babies: A Dystopian Sidetrack of Gene Editing
A Chinese scientist shocked the scientific community a couple of days ago with the announcement of having modified the very blueprint of life. If his claims are true, he tried to bestow two baby girls the ability to resist possible future infections with HIV. The outrage shows that humanity is not prepared to utilize the power of gene editing on embryos yet. We have no idea about the biological consequences, and we haven’t tackled the necessary legal and ethical issues.
Genes to become toys of the “Gods”?
Humanity has come a long way since Aldous Huxley pinned down how methods of genetic engineering, biological cond...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 15, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine Genomics designer babies designer baby Gene gene editing genes Genome genome sequencing Health Healthcare healthcare system Innovation technology Source Type: blogs
Mission-Hostile Hospital Management: Quieter, but Still Pernicious After All These Years
Hospitals exist to take care of sick people, with the goal of making them better. Hospitals employ and work with health care professionals, again who are sworn to put taking care of patients ahead of all other concerns.However, since we foundedHealth Care Renewal, we have noted striking examples of hospital leaders threatening their hospitals ' fundamental mission and/or health care professionals ' core values, which we dubbedmission-hostile management. We also saw mission-hostile management affecting the broader health care industry, particularly pharmaceutical and device companies. Most recently, the mo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 10, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: hospitals imperial CEO managerialism mission-hostile management perverse incentives Source Type: blogs
Facebook and NYU Collaborate to Release the Largest Open-Source MRI Dataset
The objective of the project is to expand AI resources for the medical imag ing field and create opportunities for research reproducibility.The knee images were generated from 10,000 scans and 1,600 scans with “raw measurement data.” Researchers are calling this the “largest public release of raw MRI data to date. ” The knee data is a part of the first phase of the project, but sequential phases will feature data from liver and brain scans. The dataset is fully compliant with HIPAA standards. No personal Facebook information was used, and all data is anonymized and there are no markers of individual patient s’ id...
Source: radRounds - December 8, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Psychology ’s favourite tool for measuring implicit bias is still mired in controversy
A new review aims to move on from past controversies surrounding the implicit association test, but experts can’t even agree on what they’re arguing about
By guest blogger Jesse Singal
It has been a long and bumpy road for the implicit association test (IAT), the reaction-time-based psychological instrument whose co-creators, Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald — among others in their orbit — claimed measures test-takers’ levels of unconscious social biases and their propensity to act in a biased and discriminatory manner, be that via racism, sexism, ageism, or some other category, depending on the con...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: guest blogger Methods Social Source Type: blogs
Free medical school isn ’t necessary a silver bullet
The New York University School of Medicine stunned the nation by announcing tuition for all current and future medical students will be free, irrespective of merit or financial need. Dr. Robert Grossman, dean at NYU, commented: “This decision recognizes a moral imperative that must be addressed, as institutions place an increasing debt burden on young […]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 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/niran-s-al-agba" rel="tag" > Niran S. Al-Agba, MD < /a > Tags: Education Medical school Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
The Future of Our Brains – Health in Black Mirror
Black Mirror, the iconic British anthology series asks what could happen to our identities, memories, social and personal selves, life and death after getting in touch with the digital. What could happen to the most complex and least understood human organ, the brain, being exposed to powerful, dimension-altering perception? We pondered on whether the current state of technology and research could ever take us on the dystopian, blind alley called future in Black Mirror. [SPOILER ALERT: the article contains a detailed description of episodes]
Waldo’s predictions of politics
On the day after the U.S. election, when everyo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients avatar BCI black mirror brain brain-computer interface death digital digital avatar digital health dystopia life memory sci-fi science fiction Source Type: blogs
Bloomberg/NYU Center Embeds Lawyers In AG Offices To Pursue Green Causes
When is it appropriate to privatize the work of public prosecutors? And does it make things better or worse when “cause” lawyering is at issue? As Jeff Patch reportsat Real Clear Investigations, a project called the State Energy& Environmental Impact Center at New York University supplies seasoned lawyers to the offices of nine state attorney general offices, plus D.C. They serve there in such roles as special assistant attorney general while being paid by the NYU project, which is funded by and closely identified with former New York City Mayor Mich ael Bloomberg. The catch, which explains why the program is not lik...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 19, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Growth mindset doesn ’t only apply to learning – it’s better to encourage your child to help, than to be “a helper”
Children primed to think of themselves as “helpers” were more discouraged when things didn’t go to plan
By Emma Young
According to the Mindset Theory, if you tell a child repeatedly that they’re smart, it makes them less willing to push themselves when they get stuck on an intellectual challenge, presumably because failure would threaten their self-image of being a “smart kid”. For this reason, effort-based praise – rewarding kids for “working hard” rather than “being smart” – is widely recommended (though it’s not the same for adults). But does a similar effect...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 15, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Source Type: blogs
How Autocracies Could Misuse Digital Health Innovations
How long do you think it will take for authoritarian governments, dictatorships or tyrannies until they realize the vast potential in digital health technologies and until they learn how to harness their powers? Twenty years? Ten years? We have to warn you, the era of 24/7 surveillance and intrusion into the innermost secrets of human life is even closer than that. Watch out! Dystopic worst case scenario-alert!
Digital technologies are double-edged swords: they promised social change…
On 17 December 2010, a Tunisian vegetable vendor set up his cart on the street in Sidi Bouzid to sell goods that he obtained the day befor...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine Security & Privacy AR artificial intelligence big data biotechnology black mirror dystopia genes genetics genomics Health health sensors Healthcare insurance MR Personalized medicine scifi Source Type: blogs
Do you worry too much? 4 Worrying Mistakes You Should Stop Making
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Do you worry too much?
According to the Anxiety and Depression American Association (ADAA) almost 40 million American adults --- one-fifth of the population--- suffer from chronic worrying and other anxiety disorders which makes them the most common mental illness in the U.S.
This has lots of reasons, too much technology, insomnia and sleep deprivation, loneliness and the lack of proper commu...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marwan Jamal Tags: featured happiness self improvement how to be less stressed how to stop worrying Source Type: blogs
Does free medical school decrease social justice?
BY ANISH KOKA MD
The hottest medical school in the country right now is the New York University School of Medicine thanks to the gift of a generous benefactor that promises to make medical school free for all current and future medical students. The news was met by elation from the medical community of physicians that groans frequently about student debt loads routinely north of $200,000 upon matriculation. Not surprisingly, the technocrat class of public health experts and economists did not share in the jubilation. The smarter-than-the-rest-of-us empiricists are, after all, trained to think in terms of social justi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Uncategorized @anish_koka Source Type: blogs
Facebook Wants to Speed Up Your MRI
New York University School of Medicine and Facebook ’s Artificial Intelligence Research group are joining forces to develop technology that will make MRI procedures take less time.MRIs are slow, and sometimes a patient can wait for up to an hour for their scan to finish. NYU ’s FastMRI project aims at significantly decreasing imaging processing wait time. Started in 2015, FastMRI generates a MRI scan that only features a portion of what was imaged, and uses machine learning systems to quickly fill in the unprocessed sections, so that the patient is only in the imaging room for half the amount of time. The expedited pro...
Source: radRounds - August 30, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Surprise Free Gift: Free Tuition at NYU Medical School
In a surprise movie, NYU School of medicine recently announced that it will cover the tuition of all its students going forward (see:Surprise Gift: Free Tuition for All N.Y.U. Medical Students).This sets a very high bar for the top-ranked medical schools in the country. Undoubtedly, this news will force many of them to follow suit although not all may be able to tap into a comparable philanthropic pool than what is available in New York City. Below is an excerpt from the article:The New York University School of Medicine announced...that it would cover the tuition of all its students, regardless of merit or need, cit...
Source: Lab Soft News - August 23, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Medical Education Source Type: blogs
The UN ’ s Extreme Poverty Report: Further Evidence US Healthcare Is Divorced From Reality
By DAVID INTROCASO, Ph.D.
In May Philip Alston, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, and John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University Law School released his, “Report of the Special Rapporteur On Extreme Poverty and Human Rights on His Mission to the United States.” The 20-page report was based, in part, on Alston’s visits this past December to California, Georgia, Puerto Rico, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. After reading the report and the response to it, one is again forced to question how legitimate is our concern for the health and well being of the poor, or ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 22, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients human rights laws Poverty United Nations Source Type: blogs
