Doctors Pair with Artificial Intelligence to Improve Pneumonia Diagnosis
While AI may have a lot of potential to transform the future of medicine, humans are still much better at most complex intellectual tasks. The only thing that can be smarter than a human is a group of humans and new software from Unanimous AI, a company based in San Francisco, hopes to harness groups of doctors to improve the precision of diagnostic decisions.
The software, called Swarm AI, presented separate radiologists with chest X-rays of potential cases of pneumonia. The doctors answered questions regarding their findings and the results went into the software that supposedly uses some soft of artificial intelligence...
Source: Medgadget - September 10, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Informatics Radiology Source Type: blogs
Double Trouble: Both-Bone Fractures
Both-bone forearm fractures may make you feel a little nervous. A completely crooked forearm is definitely a disturbing sight. Both-bone forearm fractures (especially of the midshaft) typically require surgical intervention, but relocation of bony injuries, regardless of site or complexity, is an important and necessary skill you need to know. Plus, you will be required to assist with sedation, reduction, and splinting when the orthopedic team is involved.Correcting and stabilizing two bones (instead of one) may seem tricky, but we are going to help you do it right. This complex procedure should be done with orthoped...
Source: The Procedural Pause - August 31, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Facebook and NYU Using AI to Speed Up MRIs
Facebook, under criticism for its business practices, seems to be branching off into other industries including medicine. Case in point is a partnership with NYU School of Medicine’s Department of Radiology to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve how fast MRIs can be performed.
Currently, a simple scan of a knee can take up to a half hour to perform. This is compared to only a few minutes, or even seconds, for X-rays and CT scanners. Part of the problem is the enormous amounts of data that MRI machines generate. The more data, the better the picture, but also more time is required to render this data...
Source: Medgadget - August 21, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Informatics Radiology Source Type: blogs
In Search of Intra-Aero-Bili-ty
By MATTHEW HOLT
Another one of my favorites, although this one is much more recent than those published so far–dating back to only March 2015. It was the written version of a talk I gave in September 2014 following the birth of my son Aero on August 26, 2014. So if we are discussing birthdays (and re-posting classics as, yes, it’s still THCB’s 15th birthday week!) we might as well have one that is literally about the confluence of a birthday and the state of health IT, health business, care for the underserved and much more!
Today is the kick-off of the vendor-fest that is HIMSS. Late last week on THCB, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 16, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health 2.0 Matthew Holt Tech Epic Interoperability Nadine Burke Sutter Source Type: blogs
This Device Helps Improve Accuracy of Dialysis Catheter Placement
Patients on hemodialysis have to undergo vascular access procedures, typically arteriovenous fistulas or arteriovenous grafts. Some, though, are limited to tunneled cuffed catheters due to heart failure or poor cardiac reserve. Properly placing tunneled cuffed catheters can be challenging and failures can lead to serious complications such as clots and central vein thrombosis, in addition to having to repeat the placements.
At the Okayama University in Japan, clinical researchers have developed a tool that helps to accurately place dialysis catheters and avoid repeat procedures. This can reduce the burden on patients, low...
Source: Medgadget - August 15, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Radiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Swallowed Button Batteries and Honey?!
Button battery ingestion is a big deal. So much so that The National Battery Ingestion Hotline (NBIH) was created in 1982 to study and advise best practices. They look at all types of batteries but swallowed button batteries account for 94% of batteries ingested.
Until recently the agreed-upon first aid guidelines for a swallowed button battery were to take nothing at all by mouth (no oral intake!) but to get to the ER as soon as possible for timely x-rays to find the position of the battery, before promptly removing the battery with an endoscope.
Who Swallows Button Batteries?
Kids swallow button batteries, particularly k...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 13, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Household Safety Toddler Health & Safety Source Type: blogs
Swallowed Button Batteries and Honey?!
Button battery ingestion is a big deal. So much so that The National Battery Ingestion Hotline (NBIH) was created in 1982 to study and advise best practices. They look at all types of batteries but swallowed button batteries account for 94% of batteries ingested.
Until recently the agreed-upon first aid guidelines for a swallowed button battery were to take nothing at all by mouth (no oral intake!) but to get to the ER as soon as possible for timely x-rays to find the position of the battery, before promptly removing the battery with an endoscope.
Who Swallows Button Batteries?
Kids swallow button batteries, particularly k...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 13, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Household Safety Toddler Health & Safety Source Type: blogs
The singularity
No doubt you have heard about the prediction of mad genius Ray Kurzweil ofthe singularity, when machines will be smarter than people and we ' ll connect our brains to the cloud.Well, that probably won ' t happen, for better or for worse. However, our unquestioning love of technological advances is a serious blind spot. It ' s trivially obvious that there are downsides to nuclear weapons, internal combustion engines, and hydrogenated vegetable oil, to name a few. And it ought to be just as obvious that if firearms were still muzzle-loading muskets we ' d have less of an argument about them and a lot less to fear.But I haven...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 1, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Light at the end of the tunnel
We brought Peekaboo home from the clinic almost a week ago, last Saturday evening to be exact. I thought that she’d slowly return to her usual self once she got home, but it has taken longer than expected. Reason: we ran into a few problems…
Problem number 1. Like most (all?) cats, Peekaboo was REALLY bothered by the Elizabethan collar, a cone-shaped torture device that prevents cats and dogs from licking or scratching or biting their wounds (Note: these three photos of Peekaboo are “post-Elizabethan-collar” photos. The white and red stuff around her neck is just a temporary bandage that doesn̵...
Source: Margaret's Corner - July 27, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll mandibulectomy in a cat Source Type: blogs
The ADHA Creates A Fanfare But Then Reveals It Is All Still A Work In Progress.
This appeared last week:https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/news/media-release-mhr-increases-path-di-connectionsMedia Release: My Health Record increases pathology and diagnostic imaging connections with Victorian and Queensland services11 July 2018Pathology and diagnostic imaging services such as blood tests, x-rays, ultrasounds, and MRIs help healthcare providers make diagnoses and monitor their patients ’ progress. An increasing number of healthcare providers and their patients are now benefiting from convenient, safe, and secure access to these reports via My Health Record where they may not have access to these report...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 20, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
" Despicable " GE Spins Off...Minion Healthcare?
I couldn ' t let an occasion as momentous asGeneral Electric spinning off its Healthcare division go without mention. As yet, the new division has no name other than GE Healthcare, which is what it used to be called before being spun. Off, that is. So I guess it ' s up to me to figure this out.We all know that Siemens performed a similar excision of its Healthcare Division back in March of this year, although this was announced back in November, 2017. You may know that Siemens had a sponsoringrelationship with Disney......until October of 2017, and I have to wonder if that had something to do with the unfortunate moniker "...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - July 7, 2018 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
Scientists Identify Individuals from Brain Scans While Doing Tasks
All humans are unique individuals, some of it due to the differences between our brains. Being able to identify the differences in the structure and activity of our brains may have enormous consequences for neurology and neurosurgery.
While CT and MRI scans can’t yet provide a level of detail to diagnose many neurological conditions, researchers at Purdue University are working on using computational methods to spot biomarkers within imaging data. The team is relying on brain imaging scans obtained from the Human Connectome Project, a research venture to map the human brain. The scans were performed while the indiv...
Source: Medgadget - July 5, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Informatics Neurology Radiology Source Type: blogs
3D-Printed Casts and Splints. Interview with Diana Hall, COO of ActivArmor
ActivArmor, based in Colorado, offers a range of 3D-printed casts and splints. The customized casts are breathable and water-proof, and can be made to either be fixed in place, or removable, as required. The company reports that patients wearing the new casts can complete a greater range of activities during their recovery, including swimming.
The casts are designed to be comfortable and can reduce the skin irritation associated with conventional casts by minimizing sweat build-up and allowing patients to wash the casted area. The production process involves a scan of the injured limb, resulting in a 3D map that ActivArmor...
Source: Medgadget - July 3, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Orthopedic Surgery Rehab Source Type: blogs
Button Battery Update
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Button battery ingestion is one of the leading causes of death in paediatric poisoning and this has sharply risen from 2016 despite manufacturing warnings and the addition of tape to cover the negative side (not very useful once you’ve removed that to place it in your device). See Poison.org for more statistics. What makes button battery ingestion more frightening is the fact that the ingestion may go unwitnessed, the child may have vague symptoms like ‘off...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 20, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Toxicology and Toxinology button battery tox library toxicology library Source Type: blogs
Can an " Annual Lab Screen " Serve as a Replacement for the Annual Physical Exam
During my career in pathology, there has been a constant litany of complaints from various quarters about excessive ordering of lab tests. And yet, all the while, a complete blood count (CBC) and other lab tests such as electrolytes, lipid panels, and renal panels have been routinely ordered as part of periodic physical exams as a means to screen for diseases that might not be recognized during the physical exam itself. However, the annual physical exam itself has been criticized by many as being unproductive (see: Is the Annual Physical Unnecessary?). The following arguments were marshaled in this article to undersc...
Source: Lab Soft News - June 9, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Lab Industry Trends Lab Processes and Procedures Medical Research Source Type: blogs
