I Am Not Sure The Department Of Health Has Actually Ever Admitted To This Huge Cost.
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My Health Record: almost $2bn spent but half the 23m records created are empty
The Australian government has spent $1.97bn since the system was introduced as the e-health record in 2009
Josh Taylor and Amy Corderoy
Thu 23 Jan 2020 03.30 AEDT
A decade since it was first announced, the federal government has spent close to $2bn on its troubled My Health Record system, and half of the 23m records created lie empty almost a year after the government made the system opt-out.
The fo rmer Labor government first proposed the e-health record system in 2009 as a means for patients, doctors and special...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 28, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Artificial Intelligence vs. Tuberculosis – Part 2
By SAURABH JHA, MD
Clever Hans
Preetham Srinivas, the head of the
chest radiograph project in Qure.ai, summoned Bhargava Reddy, Manoj Tadepalli, and
Tarun Raj to the meeting room.
“Get ready for an all-nighter, boys,”
said Preetham.
Qure’s scientists began investigating
the algorithm’s mysteriously high performance on chest radiographs from a new
hospital. To recap, the algorithm had an area under the receiver operating
characteristic curve (AUC) of 1 – that’s 100 % on multiple-choice question
test.
“Someone leaked the paper to AI,”
laughed Manoj.
“It’s an engineering college joke,...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech Health Technology @roguerad AI Saurabh Jha TB tuberculosis Source Type: blogs
Deep Learning Method Developed to Aid Protein Docking, Speed Drug Research
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new deep learning algorithm, called DOVE, that can improve modelling of proteins and help create new drugs.
The human body contains over 20,000 different types of proteins, which interact with each other to enable life as we know it. Currently, protein docking models have been developed to estimate how two proteins will interact, yet it is challenging to score whether or not the predicted docking estimate is correct. The Purdue researchers developed a new computational method to address this challenge.
DOVE, short for Docking decoy selection with Voxel-based deep neu...
Source: Medgadget - January 13, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Siavash Parkhideh Tags: Informatics Medicine Source Type: blogs
11 Healthcare Innovation Trends To Watch In 2020
By ANDY MYCHKOVSKY
As we near the end of the year, rather than reflect on fond memories of 2019 (for which I’m grateful for my family, friends, readers, and Twitter followers), I’ve already started thinking about 2020. If you ever wanted to get inside my brain for 5-10 minutes (scary proposition I know) related to healthcare startups and innovation, here are some areas or trends that I will be following in the new decade.
1. Medicare-For-All Will Be Everywhere
As we move closer to the Democratic Presidential caucus, some of the top-polling candidates (Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Andre...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 31, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology 2020 Andy Mychkovsky health innovation Healthcare Pizza Source Type: blogs
A new look at steroid injections for knee and hip osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is a common and potentially debilitating condition. It’s a degenerative joint disease (often called the “wear-and-tear” type) in which the smooth lining of cartilage becomes thinned and uneven, exposing the bone beneath.
Although osteoarthritis is tightly linked with aging, we now know there is more to it than age alone: genetics, weight, physical activity, and a number of other factors can conspire to make it more likely that someone will develop osteoarthritis while someone else won’t. Osteoarthritis is the primary reason that more than a million joints (mostly hips and knees) are replaced each yea...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Arthritis Osteoarthritis Pain Management Source Type: blogs
A System that Fails Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers
Connie Chan
Brooke Warren
Phuoc Le
By PHUOC LE, MD, CONNIE CHAN, and BROOKE WARREN
I recently took care of Rosaria[1], a cheerful 60-year-old woman who came in for chronic joint pain. She grew up in rural Mexico, but came to the US thirty years ago to work in the strawberry fields of California. After examining her, I recommended a few blood tests and x-rays as next steps. “Lo siento pero no voy a tener seguro hasta el primavera — Sorry but I won’t have insurance again until the Spring.” Rosaria, who is a seasonal farmworker, told me she only gets access to health care during the strawberry season....
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Arc Health Brooke Warren Connie Chan migrant and seasonal agricultural workers Phuoc Le public health SDoH Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
Combat burnout one bite at a time
I can’t speak on behalf of all in my specialty, but I wager that there is a good percentage of radiologists out there who essentially work nonstop from the moment they walk in the door to the moment they leave, working through lunch hours, etc. Throw in a mandatory meeting every now and then and […]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 - December 17, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/xrayvsn" rel="tag" > Xrayvsn, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Explain yourself, machine. Producing simple text descriptions for AI interpretability
We describe a feature, give a location, and then synthesise a conclusion. For example:
There is an irregular mass with microcalcification in the upper outer quadrant of the breast. Findings are consistent with malignancy.
You don’t need to understand the words I used here, but the point is that the features (irregular mass, microcalcification) are consistent with the diagnosis (breast cancer, malignancy). A doctor reading this report already sees internal consistency, and that reassures them that the report isn’t wrong. An common example of a wrong report could be:
Irregular mass or microcalcification. No ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech AI Luke Oakden-Rayner machine learning Radiology Source Type: blogs
Macadamian, Radiobotics, and Bispebjerg Hospital Partner on AI Solution for Radiology: Interview
While the number of clinical data points available per patient continues to increase exponentially, the number of providers and specialists available to interpret that data fails to keep pace. As a result, technology-driven automation is becoming more important to quickly assess and triage patients as new information becomes available.
One clinical area where this disparity between available data and providers exists is radiology. Fast, accurate diagnosis is not always available, particularly in remote regions where specialists are not immediately accessible. To address this challenge, software design and development fi...
Source: Medgadget - December 9, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Exclusive Informatics Radiology Source Type: blogs
The Liability of Outside Provider Orders and What Could be Done About It
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD
As a family doctor I receive a lot of reports from emergency room visits, consultations and hospitalizations. Many such reports include a dozen or more blood tests, several x-rays and several prescriptions.
Ideally I would read all these reports in some detail and be more than casually familiar with what happens to my patients.
But how possible is it really to do a good job with that task?
How much time would I need to spend on this to do it well?
Is there any time at all set aside in the typical primary care provider’s schedule for this task?
I think the answers to these questions ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Hans Duvefelt primary care Source Type: blogs
Artificial Intelligence vs. Tuberculosis, Part 1
By SAURABH JHA, MD
Slumdog TB
No one knows who gave Rahul Roy
tuberculosis. Roy’s charmed life as a successful trader involved traveling in his
Mercedes C class between his apartment on the plush Nepean Sea Road in South
Mumbai and offices in Bombay Stock Exchange. He cared little for Mumbai’s weather.
He seldom rolled down his car windows – his ambient atmosphere, optimized for
his comfort, rarely changed.
Historically TB, or
“consumption” as it was known, was a Bohemian malady; the chronic suffering produced
a rhapsody which produced fine art. TB was fashionable in Victorian Britain, in
part, because c...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech Saurabh Jha TB tuberculosis Source Type: blogs
Maternal Mortality – Separating Signal from Noise
By AMEYA KULKARNI, MD
When Samuel Morse left his New Haven home to paint a portrait of the
Maquis du Lafayette in Washington DC, it was the last time he would see his
pregnant wife. Shortly after his arrival in Washington, his wife developed
complications during childbirth. A messenger took several days on horseback to
relay the message to Mr Morse. Because the trip back to New Haven took several
more, his wife had died by the time he arrived at their home. So moved was he by the tragedy of lost time
that he dedicated the majority of the rest of his life to make sure that this
would never happen to anyone again. H...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice Ameya Kulkarni Global Health Maternal mortality public health Source Type: blogs
Keeping Upbeat During Illness Is a Challenge
Do I still have a blog? You wouldn’t know it by how infrequently I’ve updated it lately. Sometimes life can overwhelm. When that happens, I like to believe that I will always be plucky enough to fend off the doldrums and shake my fist defiantly at the obstacles that beset me. However, when illness weakens your knees and keeps you motionless in bed, is there enough pluck to lift your fist, never mind keep your spirits up?I ’ve been incredibly sick this Fall. I started my journey on September 7th. I attended FanX in Salt Lake City, had a good time attending with my daughter, then came home and tried to fight of...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - December 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Journaling Somnambulating Source Type: blogs
Keeping Upbeat During Illness Is a Challenge
Do I still have a blog? You wouldn’t know it by how infrequently I’ve updated it lately. Sometimes life can overwhelm. When that happens, I like to believe that I will always be plucky enough to fend off the doldrums and shake my fist defiantly at the obstacles that beset me. However, when illness weakens your knees and keeps you motionless in bed, is there enough pluck to lift your fist, never mind keep your spirits up?I ’ve been incredibly sick this Fall. I started my journey on September 7th. I attended FanX in Salt Lake City, had a good time attending with my daughter, then came home and tried to fight of...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - December 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Journaling Somnambulating Source Type: blogs
Does the patient come last in health care?
In the service industry — which as physicians, we certainly are a part of — a popular saying is that the customer always comes first. The implication is that in order to thrive in an industry, you have to cater to the customers/patients as it is they who will ultimately decide where they take their […]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 - November 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/xrayvsn" rel="tag" > Xrayvsn, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Radiology Source Type: blogs
