Doctors Discuss Future of Medicine on eMedicoz: India's First Medical Education Centric Mobile app
Note by Dr Sumer Sethi Recently we launched our unique medical education centric app for young Doctors calledeMedicoz. On this in addition to routine discussions Doctors also discuss various aspects of the profession. In a recent discussion series young Doctors brainstormed and tried crystal balling the future of the medicine and technology. It is wonderful to hear their thoughts on future. It is for certain future looks really happening for medical profession, computers and machine learning will re- invent the way we practice medicine. Targeted therapy is another important area, 3D printing , understanding the value ...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - April 2, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
A clear case of suspected child abuse turns out to be something else
The emergency room staff was immediately suspicious. His father said that Peter, just over six months old, was pulling himself up to a standing position by grasping his pant leg. Peter fell back, screaming. The extreme distress, entirely unusual for Peter, continued until some Tylenol helped him fall asleep. The next morning Peter was screaming again, and his mother took him to the emergency room.
X-rays showed a fractured leg. The parents were accused of child abuse, and Child Protection Services (CPS) was summoned, which is the law. The father, a self-described “raging alcoholic” at the time, was the prime suspect. A...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 31, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/roy-a-meals" rel="tag" > Roy A. Meals, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Orthopedics Source Type: blogs
New generation X-ray chest : Adding an “ echo vision ” to a blind PA view !
Reading X -ray chest can be as blind as a bat flying in the dark . It needs lots of Imagination . (Many times the blindness continues to cath lab as well during structural interventions is a different story !)
Yes ,its true any one can recognise a cardiomegaly in X-ray . . . but Which chamber is responsible for cardiomegaly ? and quantifying each ones contribution to the increased CTR is the critical question.
We know the 4 chambers in the heart are arranged in a complex pre-specified (Antero -superior and right to left orientation ) still , the CT ratio in X-RAY chest is based on the diameter formed by two ch...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - March 25, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiac X ray Cardiology - Animations Cardiology - Clinical basics of chest x ray ct ratio how to measure ct ratio in ra lv rv la enlargment xray chest pa view xray chest pa vs ap view xray echo fusion Images Source Type: blogs
Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning For the Extremely Confused
By STEPHEN BORSTELMANN, MD
Artificial Intelligence is at peak buzzword: it elicits either the euphoria of a technological paradise with anthropomorphic robots to tidy up after us, or fears of hostile machines breaking the human spirit in a world without hope. Both are fiction.
The Artificial Intelligences of our reality are those of Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Let’s make it simple: both are AI – but not the AI of fiction. Instead, these are limited intelligences capable of only the task they are created for: “weak” or “narrow” AI. Machine Learning is essentially applied Statistics, excellently explaine...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Trump Administration, Patient Data Rights + Value Based Care
By SEEMA VERMA
Following is the full text of CMS administrator Seema Verma’s remarks at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas.
It is a privilege to be with you here today and speak about the amazing advancements happening all across the nation in healthcare. One of the most exciting parts about being the CMS Administrator is the opportunity to see the cutting-edge breakthroughs that are happening every day. As we walk the exhibit hall of this conference, it is easy to be struck by how innovation is accelerating in healthcare.
We have procedures that we couldn’t have imagined a generation ago that are saving thousands of lives.
Pre...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
In tragedy, practicing medicine both an honor and a privilege
For the past four years, this is James Beck’s routine: After a morning spent guzzling $5 vodka, he stumbles into a Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot, lying on the cement with his dusty oversized coat splayed open to reveal a cachectic chest. A concerned patron (cigarette and coffee in hand) will call 911 and, in accordance with protocol, an ambulance will deliver him to our emergency room.
Upon his arrival, we unpredictably greet our guest, sometimes with a jovial, “Hey Jimbo!,” other times with rolled eyes and a reluctance to approach the stench of his urine-soaked khakis. James, too, is unpredictable: occasionally flash...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 23, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/molly-m-murray" rel="tag" > Molly M. Murray, PA-C < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Radiology Centers Poised To Adopt Machine Learning
As with most other sectors of the healthcare industry, it seems likely that radiology will be transformed by the application of AI technologies. Of course, given the euphoric buzz around AI it’s hard to separate talk from concrete results. Also, it’s not clear who’s going to pay for AI adoption in radiology and where it is best used. But clearly, AI use in healthcare isn’t going away.
This notion is underscored by a new study by Reaction Data suggesting that both technology vendors and radiology leaders believe that widespread use of AI in radiology is imminent. The researchers argue that radiology AI applicati...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 9, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Digital Health EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Health Care Healthcare Healthcare AI HealthCare IT Hospitals Radiology Chief of Radiology Director of Radiology Freestanding Radiology Center Hospital Ra Source Type: blogs
To Err is Homicide in Britain – the case of Dr. Hadiza Bawa-Garba
By, SAURABH JHA
The good that doctors do is oft interred by a single error. The case of Dr. Hadiza Bawa-Garba, a trainee pediatrician in the NHS, convicted for homicide for the death of a child from sepsis, and hounded by the General Medical Council, is every junior doctor’s primal fear.
An atypical Friday
Though far from usual, Friday February 18th, 2011 was not a typically unusual day in a British hospital. Dr. Bawa-Garba had just returned from a thirteen-month maternity break. She was the on-call pediatric registrar – the second in command for the care of sick children at Leicester Royal Infirmary. As a “r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Patients Physicians The Business of Health Care Source Type: blogs
How to Cope with a Scary Medical or Mental Health Diagnosis
Most of us are sanguine about the fact that some things are out of our control. We know, for example, that we can’t avoid death or taxes or do much about how tall we’ll grow. For much of everything else, we figure out a way to deal with what happens in life — until we can’t, for one reason or another. A prime example is the emotional upheaval caused by receiving an unexpected and scary medical or mental health diagnosis. Having gone through this myself recently, here are some ways to help you cope.
Get all the facts.
After the initial shock, take a few deep breaths and resolve to learn as much as you can about ...
Source: World of Psychology - January 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Anxiety and Panic Grief and Loss Health-related Inspiration & Hope Motivation and Inspiration Cancer Chronic Illness Coping Skills health scare Medical Care Mental Illness Resilience Source Type: blogs
X-Ray Pill for Colon Cancer Screening: C-Scan System Cleared in Europe
Traditional colonoscopies that are used to screen patients for presence of colon cancer can be physically unpleasant, much too invasive, and require diets and laxatives that leave patients feeling empty and exhausted. A new option, in the form of a pill that emits X-rays to image the colon, has just been cleared by European regulators via a CE Mark.
The C-Scan System from Check-Cap, an Israeli firm, features a swallowable pill that has an X-ray source, a positioning system, computing components, and a battery. The patient first swallows a contrast agent and then wears special sensors attached to the skin over where the co...
Source: Medgadget - January 18, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: GI Radiology Surgery Source Type: blogs
Separating the Art of Medicine From Artificial Intelligence
By HUGH HARVEY, MD
Artificial intelligence requires data. Ideally that data should be clean, trustworthy and above all, accurate. Unfortunately, medical data is far from it. In fact medical data is sometimes so far removed from being clean, it’s positively dirty.
Consider the simple chest X-ray, the good old-fashioned posterior-anterior radiograph of the thorax. One of the longest standing radiological techniques in the medical diagnostic armoury, performed across the world by the billions. So many in fact, that radiologists struggle to keep up with the sheer volume, and sometimes forget to read the odd 23,000 of them. O...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized AI Data Hugh Harvey Radiology Source Type: blogs
The Price of Progress
By ANISH KOKA, MD
No one knows who Bennie Solis is anymore.
He had the misfortune of being born in the early 1960s marked for death. He had a rare peculiar condition called biliary atresia – a disease defined by the absence of a conduit for bile to travel from his liver to his intestinal tract. Bile acid produced in the liver normally travels to the intestines much like water from a spring travels via ever larger channels to eventually empty into the ocean. Bile produced in the liver with no where to go dams up in the liver and starts to destroy it.
That the liver is a hardy organ was a fact known to the ancient Gree...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Can This Machine Learning Tool Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than a Radiologist?
Pneumonia is one of the most common causes of infections that lead to hospitalization, and depending on thepopulation, there are often variations in imaging diagnosis accuracy. A group of Stanford University researchers are working to minimize the risk of misdiagnosis with CheXNet, a machine learning algorithm that can detect pneumonia from chest x-rays better than a radiologist, according to a non-peer-reviewed paper. The radiology community is embarking upon an exciting era of AI-driven diagnosis. Back in August, researchers at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitaldeveloped a way to use deep learning to identify TB on...
Source: radRounds - December 22, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Philips IQon Elite Spectral CT Scanner with Unique Dual Energy Detector
Philips has launched a brand new true spectral CT scanner, the IQon Elite Spectral CT. Spectral CT provides a more nuanced look at body tissues, which reveals some information about the composition of anatomy and not only its structure. The different frequencies of X-rays in a spectral CT can be compared to different colors of light, which are produced by different frequencies of visible radiation. In a spectral CT, things like iodine show up at lower energies, while the visual impact of metal can be reduced when viewing the higher energy data.
The new device, developed in a partnership with radiologists at Hadassah Hebre...
Source: Medgadget - December 14, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Critical Care Emergency Medicine Radiology Surgery Source Type: blogs
One way of using a biopsychosocial framework in pain management – i
While a biopsychosocial ‘model’ (or sociopsychobiological framework) has been widely adopted when attempting to understand pain, many critics argue that it just doesn’t give clinicians a clear way to integrate or prioritise clinical information and generate treatments. The ‘model’ itself has been challenged from many angles – it’s too complex, too simplistic, relies on Bertalanffy’s “general systems theory” which has itself been challenged, it’s too “fuzzy”, and of course there are many who think that psychological and sociocultural aspects of hu...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - December 10, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Professional topics Research Science in practice biopsychosocial treatment Source Type: blogs
