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Three Examples of Predictive Analytics in Clinical Practice
I have posted previous notes about predictive analytics, particularly with regard to their use in the clinical labs (see, for example:Successfully Screening for Lung Cancer Based on Predictive Analytics;Diagnostic and Predictive Analytics and Their Possible Link to the Future of the LIS). However, of at least of equal importance, will be the use of predictive analytics in hospitals to improve clinical care and reduce costs. Such projects are even more important in an era of value based case with emphasis on efficiency and effectiveness. I therefore thought that it would be useful to provide some example of projects i...
Source: Lab Soft News - November 23, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Business Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Innovations Medical Research Predictive Analytics Quality of Care Source Type: blogs
MAID in New Jersey – New Video Features 2 Nurses Disabled by Life-Shortening Diseases Urging Lawmakers to Act
Compassion & Choices today released its second video in a digital video ad campaign featuring passionate advocates of New Jersey’s Aid in Dying for Terminally Ill Act (A1504, S1072) urging the state Assembly and Senate to pass the bill before the end of year. Dec. 17 is the last scheduled voting day for the legislature.
The ads will continue until lawmakers enact the Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act into law. The new video features two sisters who are nurses disabled by life-shortening diseases. They urge New Jerseyans to write their lawmakers in support of the legislation and to bring it to the floor for ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 14, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
FDA to Announce Ban on Sale of Most Cigarettes in Convenience Stores Due to Addiction of Hundreds of Thousands of Youth to Cigarettes
Tomorrow, the FDA is expected to announce the strictest regulation of cigarettes sales in decades. Spurred by the data showing that nearly 8% of high school students are current cigarette smokers, the FDA will announce that from now on, with just a few exceptions, cigarettes may not be sold in any convenience store or gas station. Online sales of cigarettes will still be allowed, but it will be subject to advanced age verification procedures. The only stores that will be allowed to sell cigarettes without restriction will be those which are only open to adults (or which establish an area that is only open to adults).The FD...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - November 13, 2018 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Philips and Augusta University Partner to Improve Patient Care: Interview with Philips CMO
A few months ago, we heard about how Philips and Augusta University Health are working together in a long-term partnership for the co-development of clinical solutions such as a hybrid operating room. To learn more about the partnership as well as th...
Source: Medgadget - November 7, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Medicine Public Health Surgery Source Type: blogs
Where Does Blood Testing Stand Today?
The dream about a drop of blood signaling a wide range of diagnostic results was shattered with Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scam. The machination of the company has set back the innovation of blood testing and investment into the field for years. However, there’s always hope. The Medical Futurist looked around where blood testing stands today and what’s the future it is heading towards.
Dreaming about a home laboratory
Stephen just came home from walking his dog, Barney, an always smiling labrador. The 40-something got off his smart shoes, sat back on the yellow couch that he and her partner, Sara, were fighting ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 3, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Business Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Portable Diagnostics Researchers blood blood draw blood test blood testing digital health health market home Innovation laboratory theranos Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 29th 2018
This study shows that some genetic changes linked to cancer are present in surprisingly large numbers of normal cells. We still have a long way to go to fully understand the implications of these new findings, but as cancer researchers, we can't underestimate the importance of studying healthy tissue."
Early Onset of Menopause Correlates with Shorter Life Expectancy
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/10/early-onset-of-menopause-correlates-with-shorter-life-expectancy/
Aging is a phenomenon affecting all organs and systems throughout the body, driven by rising levels of molecular damage. The variat...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 28, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Assessing the Genetic Influence on Human Life Span
The falling cost of gene sequencing allows for genetic data to be incorporated into studies of ever larger populations. At least hundreds of thousands of entire human genomes have been sequenced, and more selective sequencing has been undertaken for millions more. This data is now beginning to show up in epidemiological studies that tackle questions of health, choice, aging, and longevity.
What should we expect to see emerge from this scientific analysis? It seems fairly clear from the extensive existing evidence, data that results from many association studies carried out in search of gene variants correlated with ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 24, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Microfluidic Chips to Diagnose and Characterize Cancer: Interview with Prof. Fatih Sarioglu, Georgia Tech
Research into microfluidic devices to aid in cancer diagnosis promises huge leaps in making diagnostics easier and faster. Much of this research is focused on chips that can trap circulating tumor cells (CTCs) which are present in blood samples. CTCs...
Source: Medgadget - October 24, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Oncology Source Type: blogs
Diagnostic and Predictive Analytics and Their Possible Link to the Future of the LIS
I have posted a number of previous notes about analytics (see, for example:Lab Analytics Emerges as Hot Area for Software Development;Relevance of Lifestyle Analytics for Healthcare Organizations;Much of the Future for Pathology and Lab Medicine Rests with Analytics;Successfully Screening for Lung Cancer Based on Predictive Analytics). I believe that the future of clinical pathology, which is to say the mission of hospital-based clinical labs, will be significantly intertwined with analytics. I had begun to categorize the various types of analytics in previous posts. However,Gartner has come up with a very good schema for ...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 23, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Lab Industry Trends Lab Processes and Procedures LIS Definitions and Strategy Preventive Medicine Source Type: blogs
Meet the Academic Medicine Editorial Board: What Was Your First Publication?
Do all medical educators start out by publishing advanced research? Or do some try their hand at something else first? We asked the members of the Academic Medicine editorial board about their first publication. This is what they said.
M. Brownell Anderson, National Board of Medical Examiners
Except for serving as editor of my high school newspaper, my first publication was: Soler NG, Mast TA, Anderson MB, Kienzler L. A logbook system for monitoring student skills and experiences. J Med Educ. 1981;56:775-777. My first publication as first author was: Anderson MB, Mast TA, Soler NG. A required internal medicine preceptorsh...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 23, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Editorial Board Q & A Featured Academic Medicine Anthony R. Artino Jr Brenessa Lindeman Bridget C. O’Brien Carrie L. Byington Christopher S. Candler Colin P. West Denice Cora-Bramble Grace Huang John P. Sánchez M. Brownell Ander Source Type: blogs
The Merchants of Death
It occurs to me that a cheap trick to get blog material is to tell you what I lectured about yesterday. Most weeks I lecture Monday Wednesday and Friday, although I have guest lecturers when I can because I ' m lazy and the students would get sick of me anyway. But Friday I talked about the tobacco industry.In 1953, British scientists Doll and Hill published the results of a cohort study that showed that smoking tobacco causes lung cancer. Evidence quickly piled up that it also caused heart disease. Tobacco company scientists got right away that this was all true, and told the executives. (I ' ll tell you how we know this ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 13, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Genomic Testing and Patients as " Perpetual " Lab and Hospital Clients
Dark Daily recently posted an article about how genetic testing results were being integrated into the EHRs of two major health systems and made more accessible for primary care (see: Genetic Testing as Part of Primary Care and Precision Medicine is Underway at NorthShore University HealthSystem and Geisinger Health). Below is an excerpt from the article:Clinical laboratories and pathology groups face a big challenge in how to get appropriate genetic and molecular data into electronic health record (EHR) systems in ways that are helpful for physicians.Precision medicine faces many barriers and this is one of the biggest. A...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 10, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Testing Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Lab Industry Trends Lab Processes and Procedures Medical Consumerism Medical Research Pathology Informatics Preventive Medicine Source Type: blogs
Body Vision Releases LungVision for Early-Stage Lung Cancer Diagnostics
Body Vision Medical out of Ramat Ha Sharon, Israel is releasing its LungVision platform for planning, navigating to, and targeting small pulmonary nodules within the peripheral regions of the lungs. The product integrates into bronchoscopy suites and...
Source: Medgadget - October 9, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Radiology Thoracic Surgery Source Type: blogs
On the Importance of Mental Health Check-Ups for Palliative Care Clinicians
by Polly ChesterAs silly as this may sound to people who have never experienced a mental health issue, when one is used to a dystopian inner world, feeling happy for a consistent period of time can be a bit of a worry. For those of us who ’ve had mental health concerns in the past and a baseline mental state that just allows us to lurch through life in a state of veritable chaos, calm and pleasant periods of time are a source of anxiety because we wonder if the next mental health calamity is just around the corner. One might consid er psychological temperature-taking should be done just like going to your general practit...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - October 3, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: chester grief mental health The profession Source Type: blogs
