Can AI diagnose COVID-19 on CT scans? Can humans?
Vidur Mahajan
Vasanth Venugopal
By VASANTH VENUGOPAL MD and VIDUR MAHAJAN MBBS, MBA
What can Artificial
Intelligence (AI) do?
AI can,
simply put, do two things – one, it can do what humans can do. These are tasks
like looking at CCTV cameras, detecting faces of people, or in this case, read
CT scans and identify ‘findings’ of pneumonia that radiologists can otherwise
also find – just that this happens automatically and fast. Two, AI can do
things that humans can’t do – like telling you the exact time it would take you
to go from point A to point B (i.e. Google maps), or like in this case,
diagnose C...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence COVID-19 Health Tech AI coronavirus CT scans Pandemic Radiology Vasanth Venugopal Vidur Mahajan Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Sanctuary and COVID Planning
You might think a farm sanctuary doesn ' t need cyber-liability insurance (we do because we track social security numbers associated with donations). You may not think that a Farm Sanctuary needs a comprehensive COVID plan.We need a plan for five reasons1. We are a community gathering point for over 100 volunteers and hundreds of people taking enrichment classes including Yoga, Tai Chi, Meditation, Beekeeping, and Council on Aging activities.2. We are an employer with full time and part time workers3. We are accountable for the health of more than 250 creatures. Without humans, these crea...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - March 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
What We Can Learn About Coronavirus from Images of SARS and MERS?
A paperrecently published in theAmerican Journal of Roentgenologyhas found that scans of patients with COVID-19 share many similarities with imaging studies of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the pandemichas so far (as of the date of this article) resulted in over 191,000 cases and more than 7,800 deaths. Although most of those infected only have cold-like symptoms, about 16 percent are serious cases where patients suffer from pneumonia and breathing difficulties. Coronavirusesare responsible for both the 2003 SARS...
Source: radRounds - March 21, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
A letter to politicians: Doctors without PPE is deplorable and must be fixed
I am a pediatrician. Daily I see kids with fevers and coughs who test negative for influenza. Some have pneumonia. I am not able to test them for SARS-CoV2, so I encourage them to self-quarantine. If I find nothing else, I tell them they have a viral illness. They ask me if it ’s “the coronavirus,” […]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 - March 20, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/romita-almonte" rel="tag" > Romita Almonte, MD, MPH < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
The Stun Setting
Lately I’ve been feeling like we’re living through a particular Star Trek: The Next Generation episode.
No, not “Contagion” – that’s about a computer virus.
Not “Thine Own Self” either, but that’s a good guess.
I’m thinking of “The Ensigns of Command.”
That’s the episode where Data, the android character, must convince a bunch of stubborn colonists that they need to immediately pack up and leave the colony they worked so hard to build. The human colonists must leave because thanks to a treaty, the planet where they’ve built their co...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Emotions Health Values Source Type: blogs
Some unconventional thoughts on coronavirus (COVID-19)
Public health authorities are advising frequent hand washing and social distancing, especially in the absence of confirmatory testing for COVID-19. I don’t have any wisdom to add to these practices. Vaccines are in the works, as are anti-viral drugs—nothing to add here, either.
But let me reiterate what we do in the Wheat Belly and Undoctored lifestyles. In general, we do not treat diseases; we correct the factors that allow disease to emerge in the first place—a big difference.
Take rheumatoid arthritis, for example. In conventional healthcare, the joint pain and swelling of rheumatoid arthritis are sup...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 18, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open probiotic undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Respirix for Non-Invasive Cardiopulmonary Monitoring: Interview with CEO Eric Kriegstein
For patients with cardiopulmonary illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD or congestive heart failure (CHF), few technologies exist to effectively monitor and manage their conditions in a convenient way. Pulmonary artery catheters and implants, that can help with monitoring, have successfully reduced heart failure hospitalizations, but these implants are highly invasive and costly.
Respirix is developing a non-invasive device that aims to detect CHF decompensation and COPD exacerbation before patients experience symptoms. Cardiospire works by mining non-invasive physiological data gathered from wh...
Source: Medgadget - March 17, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Exclusive Medicine Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
The Dizzying Experience of Healthcare in the Time of a Pandemic
By Lyle Fettig@fettiglyleCheck out the Pallimed COVID-19 Resource page here. - Ed.I love theletter co-published by Pallimed and Geripal about COVID,and you should read that too. As an erstwhile (for now) Pallimed contributor, I thought I ' d toss in my two cents with some additional thoughts/reflections based on week 1 of preparing for the COVID pandemic as a palliative care physician.Over the last week, I ' ve operated mentally in most of these lanes:1. Primary prevention and public health:Through extensive advocacy for social distancing and widespread testing. I have talked about it with my patients and my own family and...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 17, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Tags: covid emergency preparedness fettig Source Type: blogs
The coronavirus cost that no one can count
On December 31, 2019, the world changed as we knew it, but the future implications for the United States were not apparent at the time. On that day, the World Health Organization (WHO) China Country Office was informed of new cases of“pneumonia of unknown etiology” originating from Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. The […]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 - March 14, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/chiduzie-madubata" rel="tag" > Chiduzie Madubata, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
There Is No Time for That
By ROMAN ZAMISHKA, MPA
Some of the most important engineering lessons were demonstrated on the tank battlefields of World War II when German Tigers faced off against Soviet T-34s.
The Tiger tank was a technical masterpiece of for its time with many features that did not appear in allied tanks until after the war. Despite its much heavier armor it was able to match the speed of lighter enemy tanks and keep up with its own light tank scouts. The armor featured almost artisanally welded interlocking plates. The ammunition featured innovative electric trigger primers and high penetration tungsten shells. The double diff...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: CORVID-19 Health Policy coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic Roman Zamishka Source Type: blogs
AI Platform to Assist Hospital Physicians in Lab Test Ordering
I have blogged extensively about the deployment of AI in healthcare (see, for example:CMS Offers $1M Reward for AI to Predict Unplanned Hospitalizations). I have learned that the simplest AI applications may sometimes have the largest beneficial effects (see:Medical Community Braces for Algorithm to Reduce Unnecessary Imaging Orders). That was my reaction when I read a recentDark Daily article (see:Florida Hospital Utilizes Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Platform to Reduce Clinical Variation in Its Healthcare...). Below is an excerpt from it:Variation in how individual physicians order, interpret, and act u...
Source: Lab Soft News - March 13, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: AI Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Diagnostics Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Information Technology Lab Processes and Procedures Medical Research Predictive Analytics Source Type: blogs
Pandemic Fears: What the AIDS Battle Should Teach Us About COVID-19
By ANISH KOKA, MD
As the globe faces a novel, highly transmissible,
lethal virus, I am most struck by a medicine cabinet that is embarrassingly
empty for doctors in this battle. This
means much of the debate centers on mitigation of spread of the virus. Tempers flare over discussions on travel
bans, social distancing, and self quarantines, yet the inescapable fact remains
that the medical community can do little more than support the varying
fractions of patients who progress from mild to severe and life threatening
disease. This isn’t meant to minimize the
massive efforts brought to bear to keep pat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: CORVID-19 Health Policy Patients Physicians AIDS Anish Koka AZT coronavirus COVID-19 FDA novel coronavirus Pandemic Source Type: blogs
E-luminations: Racing Cars Helps Me Live With Degenerative Swallowing Disorder
It’s not often that a person growing up among the cotton fields of southwest Oklahoma goes on to become a successful manager of global technology companies, but Leland White is not your average person. During his career, he built and managed semiconductor manufacturing plants around the world and provided management consulting services to large corporations and federal agencies. After a successful business career, he retired in Colorado to pursue two passions: downhill skiing and high-performance driving.
Referred to by family and friends as “Lee,” he turned 78 last spring. I talked to Lee about the challenges he...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 11, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Sharon Baker Tags: Health Care Slider Speech-Language Pathology Dysphagia Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
TWiV 590: COVID-19 and coronavirus – we have mail
The TWiV trio continues in-depth coverage of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, including discussion on genome mutation and circulating lineages, handwashing, facemasks, cruise ship outbreaks, the South Korean situation, and much more. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 590 (76 MB .mp3, 127 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 8, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus CoV COVID-19 cruise ship genome mutation pneumonia SARS-CoV-2 vaccine viruses Wuhan Source Type: blogs
