What if you are one of the 2 percent?
I ’m a member of the ACR (American College of Radiology). One of their recent online postings is entitled: Choosing Wisely. Number three (of ten things physicians and patients should question) is:“Avoid admission or preoperative chest X-rays for ambulatory patients with unremarkable history and physical exam.” In only 2 percent of cases, will it make a […]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 6, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/samuel-m-chen" rel="tag" > Samuel M. Chen, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Endocrinology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Interview with a Father of Modern Surgical Robotics, Dr. Yulun Wang
Founder of both InTouch Health and Computer Motion, Dr. Yulun Wang is considered one of the fathers of modern surgical robotics. Originally a graduate of University of California, Santa Barbara, Dr. Wang developed AESOP (Automated Endoscopic System for Optimal Positioning), the first FDA approved surgical robot, and the ZEUS Robotic Surgical System. ZEUS was used in the world’s first telesurgery procedure, known as the Lindbergh Operation, back in 2001. Both AESOP and ZEUS systems predate the well-known da Vinci surgical system developed by Intuitive Surgical following its merger with Computer Motion in 2003.
A ...
Source: Medgadget - October 17, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Exclusive Surgery Source Type: blogs
How To Play Tricks On Artificial Intelligence?
While in the last years, sci-fi stories, experts and even some opinion-leader public figures frequently spelled the end of mankind through artificial intelligence, lately, it turned out just how easy it is to play tricks on smart algorithms and fool them into making errors. We looked around how researchers can hack A.I. and what that means for medicine and healthcare, mainly from a security perspective.
Does A.I.
have an Achilles heel?
As the saying goes, a chain is as strong as its
weakest link – and the ancient Greeks knew it. No matter that Achilles had
extraordinary strength, courage, and loyalty, that he fough...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Medicine Security & Privacy adversarial adversarial example AI autonomous data security digital digital health hack Healthcare self-driving technology Source Type: blogs
Part 6 - Why Is Cancer Pain So Special?
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)A Series of Observations on Opioids By a Palliative Doc Who Prescribes A Lot of Opioids But Also Has Questions.This is the 5th post in a series about opioids, with a focus on how my thinking about opioids has changed over the years. See also:Part 1 – Introduction, General Disclaimers, Hand-Wringing, and a Hand-Crafted Graph.Part 2 – We Were Wrong 20 years Ago, Our Current Response to the Opioid Crisis is Wrong, But We Should Still Be Helping Most of our Long-Term Patients Reduce Their Opioid DosesPart 3 – Opioids Have Ceiling Effects, High-Doses are Rarely Therapeutic, and Another Hand-Cr...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - October 6, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: cancer opioids pain rosielle The profession Source Type: blogs
AI Chest X-Ray Reads Approved by FDA
A couple weeks ago, we got the exciting news that the FDA had approved an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that does reads on images from a portable X-ray in order to screen for collapsed lung. The teams at GE Healthcare and UC San Francisco are behind this technology and research. This is really exciting news […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 3, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Chest X-rays FDA FDA Cleared AI GE Healthcare Healthcare AI Radiology UCSF Source Type: blogs
Walmart Expands the Range of Services of Walmart Health
I have posted a number of recent notes about CVS' initiatives in primary care (see, for example:Push-Pull at Work in the Expansion of CVS Health into Primary Healthcare). Its major competitor in this space (i.e., healthcare offered in big-box and retail drug stores) is Walmart and a recent article discussed how the company is greatly expanding its range of services (see:Walmart tests dentistry and mental care as it moves deeper into primary health), Below is an excerpt from it:Walmart is opening up a new health clinic, calledWalmart Health, in Georgia....At the new clinic, the company will offer hearing tests, 60-minut...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 3, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Testing Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Innovations Hospital Financial Medical Consumerism Public Health Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Keep Digging to Find Source of Mother's Pain
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Dear Carol: My mom was recently diagnosed with vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s. She’s become increasingly confused when she tries to explain something, so we don’t know what to think about this. She had a root canal two years ago and did fine, but now she’s having pain that she says is coming from that location. The dentist who did the surgery took X-rays and sees no reason for the pain. A second dentist agreed, but my mother continues to hurt. Two weeks ago, we took her to the emergency room. They found...
Read the full question and answer on Inforum to learn more about digging...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 30, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
New Chip for Microwave Imaging of Body
Today’s clinicians are limited to a few imaging modalities, primarily X-ray, CT, MRI, and ultrasound. Microwaves, in principle, can also be used as a useful way to look inside the body. Microwave radiation is non-ionizing, so should be safer than X-rays, but in practice microwave imagers, because of the electronics inside, have remained bulky tabletop devices. Not only have they been impractical for imaging the body, the electronics inside conventional microwave imagers have suffered from interference.
Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a microwave imaging chip that replaces critical...
Source: Medgadget - September 30, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Materials Neurology Oncology Pathology Radiology Source Type: blogs
AI competitions don ’t produce useful models
By LUKE OAKDEN-RAYNER
A huge new CT brain dataset was released the other day, with the goal of training models to detect intracranial haemorrhage. So far, it looks pretty good, although I haven’t dug into it in detail yet (and the devil is often in the detail).
The dataset has been released for a competition, which obviously lead to the usual friendly rivalry on Twitter:
Of course, this lead to cynicism from the usual suspects as well.
And the conversation continued from there, with thoughts ranging from “but since there is a hold out test set, how can you overfit?” to “the proposed so...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 27, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech AI Luke Oakden-Rayner Source Type: blogs
Breathtaking: The Future Of Respiratory Care And Pulmonology
Smoke-measuring smart shirts, breath sound analyzing
algorithms, and smart inhalers pave the way of pulmonology and respiratory care
into the future. As the number of patients suffering from asthma, COPD, or lung
cancer due to rising air pollution and steady smoker-levels will unfortunately
not decrease any time soon, we looked around what technology can do to help
both patients and caregivers. The results are breathtaking.
Attacks of
breathlessness are too common
The diseases which pulmonologists and respiratory care
specialists attempt to fight are among the most common conditions in the modern
world – and the n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers AI asthma cancer cancer treatment care COPD diagnostics inhaler lung lung cancer management medical specialty pulmonology respiratory respiratory care Source Type: blogs
Life – Over The Past Month
I was out of work for 31 days, from August 16 until September 17. The reason is because I had surgery on my left knee, an arthroscopy of the medial meniscus. It got damaged somehow; the cause is unknown to me. It started becoming problematic sometime around Christmas 2018, but I didn’t really pay much attention to it. I figured it had to be something fairly minor which would resolve itself. However, it didn’t. And ultimately it led to my being evaluated by an orthopedic surgeon, having to get X-Rays and Magnetic Resonance Imaging on my knee, and finally having the surgical procedure performed to fix the problem...
Source: Qui Interrogat - September 21, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Walt Trachim Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
When Is It Okay to Lie About Death?
This week, I sat, enthralled in a darkened movie theater watching a story unfold. Before the first scene, the line, “Based on an actual lie,” ran across the screen. The film is called The Farewell and is the story of the lung cancer diagnosis of the filmmaker’s grandmother. Lulu Wang is the director for whom art imitates life. Her alter ego is Billi, played by the actress and rapper Akwafina. Billi adores her Nai Nai (Chinese for grandmother), who assisted in raising her when her parents immigrated to the U.S. when she was a child. She discovers that her grandmother was diagnosed with end stage lung cancer and the fa...
Source: World of Psychology - September 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Grief and Loss Health-related Bereavement grieving Source Type: blogs
Clavicle Metastases: Case Report
Presenting a brief discussion video on bronchogenic cancer presenting with metastases in clavicle diagnosed on Xray and MRI in DAMS Medicine Unplugged series.Famous Radiology Blog http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com
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Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - September 9, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Leg pain when you walk? Don ’t ignore it
Walking is often touted as a perfect exercise to improve multiple aspects of health. But what if walking causes leg pain? Many people shrug off leg pain when they walk as a normal part of aging. In some cases, though, it’s the sign of peripheral artery disease (PAD), which can put heart and brain health at risk. While PAD doesn’t usually run in families, it’s more likely to occur as people age, or among people who smoke or have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes.
What causes leg pain if you have PAD?
People with PAD have fatty deposits in arteries outside the heart — most often in their legs. Pain o...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kelly Bilodeau Tags: Exercise and Fitness Healthy Aging Heart Health Hypertension and Stroke Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Are Radiologists Prepared for The Future?
This article originally appeared on Medium here. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Technology Medical Practice Physicians AI Alex Logsdon Artificial intelligence Radiology Source Type: blogs
