What ’ s Special About AI Risks and Remedies in Health Care?
This article looks at what’s special about AI in health care, and some ways to address its needs. For this article, I spoke just to lawyers, because we’ve heard plenty from the technologists about AI’s potential and what they’re doing to minimize risk. The perspective of attorneys with an expertise in health care is illuminating.
An anthology from STAT also contains some relevant analyses and case studies.
Liability and Licensing
Are clinicians facing the risk of lawsuits if they heed the advice of AI engines? Where do the new systems differ from older forms of clinical decision support—or the s...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Security and Privacy Bard Berger Singerman LLP ChatGPT Erica Kraus FDA FDA AI Regulations Google Bard Healthcare AI Healthcare Source Type: blogs
A Speech For The Ages – 83 Years Ago This Christmas
By MIKE MAGEE
On the evening of December 29, 1940, with election to his 3rd term as President secured, FDR delivered these words as part of his sixteenth “Fireside Chat”: “There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness…No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”
Millions of Americans, and millions of Britains were tuned in that evening, as President Roosevelt made clear where he stood while carefully avoiding over-stepping his authority in a nation still in the grips of a combative and isolationist opposition party.
That very evening, the Germans Luftwaffe, launched their largest yet raid ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Non-Health Churchill Democracy FDR Hitler Mike Magee Trump Source Type: blogs
Four Unexpected Delights from the RSNA23 Exhibit Hall
The exhibit hall of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual conference is always a sight to behold. Not only is there a unique mixture of imaging equipment and software, but there are booths and attendees from numerous countries in Europe, Asia, and Australia. It is the most international conference on my calendar.
The 2023 RSNA annual conference (#RSNA23) did not disappoint and there were four unexpected delights from the exhibit hall:
Energy from attendees
The return of VR
A high-performance race car
Toys
Positive Attendee Energy
The most unexpected delight from the RSNA23 exhibit hall was the energy in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Agfa Canon Medical Imaging Datafirst GE Healthcare Virtual Reality Healthcare VR imaging solutions Luxsonic Imaging MediView Philips Radiology Radi Source Type: blogs
If You Have Yourself For Your Doctor, You Have A Fool For A Patient!
This saga reminded me forcefully of the above saying, which
has more that a grain of truth!
Patient speaks out after online
prescribing ‘ordeal’
One Australian
woman is warning about the dangers of bypassing a GP, after ineffective
medication for a UTI left her fighting for life in hospital.
Michelle Wisbey
03 Nov 2023
When Abbey Smith
developed a urinary tract infection (UTI), she (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Scam Bunkum-Fraud
Here ' s a description of Bunkum-Fraud ' s wet kleenex defense from Alex Kirshner at Slate. What Kirshner doesn ' t really try to explain is why Scammie thought he could go to trial, take the stand, and get acquitted when he is obviously guilty, all of his co-conspirators took the stand to say so, and there is nothing in the least complicated about it. He stole depositors ' money, and spent it on a lavish lifestyle, paying reporters to write hagiographies about him, and making political contributions to buy influence.* He did all this while adopting a carefully cultivated eccentric persona and spouting bullshit his p...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 3, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Alzheimer ’s Early Warning Sign Most People Don ’ t Know
Damage to the brain can occur 15 to 20 years before the clinical symptoms appear. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - November 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Dementia Source Type: blogs
Why Do Cells Die?
You might know that tiny individual units called cells make up your body. But did you know some of your cells die every day as a part of their normal life cycle? These deaths are balanced by other cells splitting into two identical cells, a process called mitosis.
A confocal microscope films two cells: The cell on the left undergoes a type of cell death called apoptosis, and the one on the right undergoes mitosis. Credit: Dr. Dylan Burnette, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Regulated Cell Death
For the most part, cells die in a controlled way in response to specific signals that tell them to. The cell ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Cellular Processes Common questions Source Type: blogs
The hypoglycemia fear syndrome
In this episode of BDI Briefs, we dive into causes, symptoms, and strategies for managing fear of hypoglycemia for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.Learn about the Be Safe and Feel Safe strategies, the importance of diabetes technology, and how to regain confidence in blood sugar management.Polonsky, W. H., Guzman, S. J., & Fisher, L. (2023). The Hypoglycemic Fear Syndrome: Understanding and Addressing This Common Clinical Problem in Adults With Diabetes. Clinical diabetes : a publication of the American Diabetes Association, 41(4), 502–509. https://doi.org/10.2337/cd22-0131
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Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - October 30, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Some Like It Hot! A Century-Old Disease on Our Southern Shores
By MIKE MAGEE
Naomi Orestes PhD, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, didn’t mince words as she placed our predicament in context when she said, “If you know your Greek tragedies you know power, hubris, and tragedy go hand in hand. If we don’t address the harmful aspects of human activities, most obviously disruptive climate change, we are headed for tragedy.”
At the time, as a member of the Anthropocene Workgroup, she and a group of international climate scientists were focused on defining and measuring nine “planetary boundaries,” environmental indicators of planetary health. At...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Avian Flu Climate Change Pandemic Sea level change Yellow Fever Source Type: blogs
Lifestyle Changes
I looked at my last blog post. It was from June 28, 2021.
I had just met my new primary care physician. Since then we had made slow changes to my health. I tried to eat better and exercise more. It has been a journey of trying to implement what I preach. The progress was slow.
Last year, to help my physical activity endeavors (and because I have a huge interest in martial arts), I decided to start training at a local Karate school. The school I attend teaches Enshin Karate a style that traces it’s roots back through Ashihara and Kyokushin. Shortly after that time I noticed my Apple Watch was notifying me abou...
Source: JeffreyMD.com - October 27, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dr. Jeff Tags: My Life Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Yet another blowhard
It seems that four endless yammerers isn ' t enough. Now we get a fifth. Elihu runs his mouth for the next six chapters and says approximately nothing. He spends the first chapter just blathering about how he is about to speak. Then he says that Job is wrong to claim he hasn ' t done anything to deserve his fate, but the other three Bozos are losers because they haven ' t been able to prove that he ' s wrong. But then Elihu spends the next four chapters equally failing to prove anything and just spewing more endless dreck about the greatness of God. This book could easily be one twentieth as long, probably a lot less, and ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 22, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sensor Monitors Transplanted Organs for Signs of Rejection
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a sensor that can monitor transplanted organs for signs of rejection. Patients who receive transplants require immunosuppressive medication to ensure that their body does not reject the transplanted tissue, but this can still happen, sometimes years after the initial transplant. Current methods to monitor for immune rejection involve taking biopsies or monitoring blood markers, but these techniques are invasive and blood markers may not show up until the rejection has already progressed somewhat. This new sensor is thin and flexible and is designed to sit on the surface...
Source: Medgadget - October 19, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Surgery northwestern transplant rejection Source Type: blogs
Four patients with chest pain and ‘normal’ ECG: can you trust the computer interpretation?
Conclusions are identical to those of Dr. McLaren, namely:It isnot safe toavoid interrupting emergency physicians— simply because prior to the QOH (Queen Of Hearts) AI application — no computer interpretation of " normal " from an ECG of a patient with new or recent CP symptoms could be relied on. Emergency physiciansmustbe interrupted to take a quick look atall ECGs of patients who present with new or recent CP.Emergency physicians should (and can!) be expected with training to be able to identify non-stemi OMIs that elude the computer. It is essential that they be ab...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 19, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
We ’re All In The Hot Seat Now.
BY MIKE MAGEE
It’s not that easy living in the “Big Easy” these days and co-existing with a world dominated by water concerns. When Times-Picayune gossip columnist Betty Guillaud (as the folklore goes) “coined New Orleans’ undisputed nickname” in the 1960’s, it was a lifestyle eponym meant to favorably contrast life in “The Big Easy” with hard living in “The Big Apple.”
That was well before August 23, 2004, when the levies failed to hold back the Gulf waters, and 1,392 souls perished leaving two names to last in infamy – Katrina and Brownie, of “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job”...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Cholera Mike Magee New York City Saltwater Source Type: blogs
