Whoops! AI might have invented 40000 new toxic nerve agents … but probably not
TL:DR – Software used to predict which chemicals in a database have potential as new medicines has been flipped as a warning demonstrating that the same system could be used to predict whether they are highly toxic.
Artificial intelligence, AI, machine learning, language models, neural networks, generative models, algorithms trained on big data. A lovely collection of buzzwords that have been littering grant proposals for years and are now emerging into the real world as apps and websites and citizen science projects. For chemists and pharmaceutical scientists, AI has been a tool to experiment with for a long time. ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Chemistry Source Type: blogs
Educating health care professionals on effective communication in rare disease diagnoses is crucial to improving the rare disease patient narrative
For over 14 years, the last day of February, a month known for its rare number of days, has been recognized by organizations across the globe as Rare Disease Day. With over 300 million patients worldwide impacted by 7,000+ rare diseases, the day serves as an international campaign to raise awareness around rare diseases and
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Educating health care professionals on effective communication in rare disease diagnoses is crucial to improving the rare disease patient narrative originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Shvetali Thatte Tags: Conditions Primary Care Source Type: blogs
England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2023: main report
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) - This is England ’s second Rare Diseases Action Plan, following the DHSC's commitment to publish action plans annually during the lifetime of theUK Rare Diseases Framework. This action plan has been developed in close collaboration with delivery partners across the health system and the rare disease community. It reports on progress against the sixteen actions set out in the first Rare Diseases Action Plan and announces thirteen new specific, measurable actions for the next year under the framework ’s priority areas and underpinning themes.Policy paperMore detail (...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 28, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Commissioning Source Type: blogs
Propelling Rare Disease Research for More Than 50 Years
Vials of samples from the NIGMS HGCR. Credit: Coriell Institute for Medical Research.
The year 2022 marked 50 years since the creation of the NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository (HGCR) at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research in Camden, New Jersey. The NIGMS HGCR consists of cell lines and DNA samples with a focus on those from people with rare, heritable diseases. “Many rare diseases now have treatments because of the samples in the NIGMS HGCR,” says Nahid Turan, Ph.D., Coriell’s chief biobanking officer and co-principal investigator of the NIGMS HGCR. She gives the example of a rare disease advocacy group wh...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Genes Injury and Illness Diseases Genomics Scientific Process Source Type: blogs
Netflix for Drugs?
By KIM BELLARD
A relative — obviously overestimating my healthcare expertise — asked my thoughts on The New York Times article Can a Federally Funded ‘Netflix Model’ Fix the Broken Market for Antibiotics? I had previously skimmed the article and was vaguely aware of the Pasteur Act that it discusses, but, honestly, my immediate reaction to the article was, gosh, that may not be a great analogy: do people realize what a tough year Netflix has had?
I have to admit that I tend to stay away from writing about Big Pharma and prescription drugs, mainly because, in a US healthcare system that seems to pride i...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care Congress Kim Bellard Netflix Pharma Pharmaceutical industry Source Type: blogs
Bayes Theorem: Let's do it
I was briefly conflicted thinking I should do something Thanksgiving-related, but nah, I ' ve been there and done that. It can mean whatever it means to you today, the unpleasant truth about that Pilgrim feast can be considered at another time.Anyway, Thomas Bayes was an English minister, mathematician and philosopher who died in 1761. A lot of educated Englishmen in those days trained for the clergy so it wasn ' t at all unusual for clergymen to make secular intellectual contributions. Anyway here ' s the theorem: This means that the probability of some proposition or event called " A " , given that we know tha...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 24, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 7th 2022
In conclusion, the national prevalence of dementia and MCI in 2016 found in this cross-sectional study was similar to that of other US-based studies.
Clearing Microglia Reverses Age-Related Disruption of Sleeping Patterns in Mice
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/11/clearing-microglia-reverses-age-related-disruption-of-sleeping-patterns-in-mice/
Microglia are innate immune cells of the central nervous system. They are analogous to macrophages in the rest of the body, but undertake additional duties relating to the function of neurons and in brain tissue. Microglia become overly active and inflamm...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 6, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Reviewing Approaches to Treating Transthyretin Amyloidosis
Transthyretin amyloidosis may be a primary component of the present limit on human longevity. Transthyretin is one of the few proteins in the human body that can misfold in ways that encourage other molecules of the same protein to misfold in the same way, joining together form solid aggregates that disrupt cell and tissue function. This is particularly an issue in the cardiovascular system, and while it is presently thought that transthyretin amyloidosis only contributes to a minority of fatal cardiovascular disease in younger old age, autopsies of supercentenarians suggested that it is the major cause of death in the old...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 3, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 29th October, 2022.
This report presents CDC findings on telehealth use trends in 2021. It includes data from the National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative household survey conducted throughout the year by the National Center for Health Statistics. -----https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-13/women-older-adults-more-likely-to-use-telemedicine-in-2021Who Used Telemedicine in 2021?New data shows which groups have been most likely to use a health care option popular during the pandemic.By Christopher WolfOct. 13, 2022, at 12:01 a.m.More than 1 in 3 adults used telemedicine in the past year in 2021, ac...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
A Look at the Fall Health IT Conference Season
As most regular readers know, at Healthcare IT Today we go to far too many healthcare IT conferences. Plus, the fall conference season is the busiest time of year for health IT conferences. Just to give you a feel, Colin Hung and myself covered the following conferences:
Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit
SHSMD Connections 2022
RARE Disease Patient Advocacy Summit
Stericycle Communication Solution’s User Conference
eClinicalWorks National Conference
MGMA
Health Connect Partners
Plus, on tap next month we’ll be going to PointClickCare User Confer...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Health IT Conferences Healthcare Conferences Healthcare IT Conferences HLTH22 Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 22, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
GIS Technology Supports Healthcare Workers on the Ground. Geographic Information System (GIS) technology helps track and manage the spread of diseases in remote areas. Colin Hung recently chatted with Sightsavers’ Andy Tate to discuss the benefits of GIS to control and eliminate trachoma, an infectious cause of blindness easily treated with antibio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 22nd October, 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment-----https://mhealthintelligence.com/news/partnership-to-add-virtual-primary-care-feature-to-smart-tvsPartnership to Add Virtual Primary Care Feature to Smart TVsTelehealth provider HealthTap has partnered with Samsung to add a virtual healthcare feature to the tech giant ' s Smart TVs to expand access to primary care.ByMark MelchionnaOctober 14, 2022 - Aiming to ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Scientists Studying Health – “ Evidence Based Medicine ”
When someone new comes to healthcare, it’s always amazing to see how many things they think happen that just don’t. For patients, that’s the realization that doctors often don’t collaborate together on their care and they often don’t share information. That’s on the patient and their caregiver to ensure the records get where they need to go and care is coordinated. If you think that’s an exaggeration, check out two of the three apps I featured here to see how big of a problem this is for rare disease patients.
There are a lot more. Jay Parkinson, MD shared one he discovered when he...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Clinical Healthcare IT Evidence Based Medicine Jay Parkinson Scientists Source Type: blogs
A Look at 3 Entrepreneurial Efforts in the Rare Disease Space
I previously shared about the amazing time I had listening to patients and caregivers at the RARE Patient Advocacy Summit that is hosted by Global Genes. One of the sessions at the event was a number of organizations that have created health IT applications specific to rare disease. It was incredible to see how something like a rare disease could drive people to create solutions for themselves and their loved ones. Their passion for the topic and first person understanding of the challenges was amazing to see.
Given their commitment to solve important problems for rare disease patients and their caregivers, I thought...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Caregivers Chronic Patients Chronically Simple Costello Syndrome Global Genes Healthcare IT Video In Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 1, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Why eClinicalWorks Invested $100 Million in Microsoft Cloud Services. Company co-founder Sam Bhat told John Lynn that eClinicalWorks “never regretted” its decision to transition to Microsoft Azure. Bhat addressed how the move to the cloud benefits eCW as well as its clients – and why the transition wasn’t as difficult as it may se...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
