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Fix the EHR!
By ROBERT WACHTER and JEFF GOLDSMITH After a blizzard of hype surrounding the electronic health record (EHR), health professionals are now in full backlash mode against this complex new tool. They are rightly seen as a major cause of professional burnout among physicians and nurses: Clinicians are spending almost half their professional time typing, clicking, and checking boxes on electronic records. They can and must be made into useful, easy-to-use tools that liberate, rather than oppress, clinicians. Performing several tasks, badly. The EHR is a lot more than merely an electronic version of the patient’s chart. It ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Making Electronic Health Records Great Again
By ROBERT WACHTER and JEFF GOLDSMITH After a blizzard of hype surrounding the electronic health record (EHR), health professionals are now in full backlash mode against this complex new tool. They are rightly seen as a major cause of professional burnout among physicians and nurses: Clinicians are spending almost half their professional time typing, clicking, and checking boxes on electronic records. They can and must be made into useful, easy-to-use tools that liberate, rather than oppress, clinicians. Performing several tasks, badly. The EHR is a lot more than merely an electronic version of the patient’s chart. It ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

A silent moment with a dying patient
I used to work as a nurse in a medical-surgical floor a few years ago during the night shift. I met a patient that changed the way I look at and treat patients. This patient was in her 50s, and she was just diagnosed with metastasized lung cancer that was likely terminal. She had just found out that same day, and she was flooded with a million emotions. I worked the night shift and came into the room to hand out that evening’s medications. Now that her family members left for the night and she was alone, she finally broke down in front of me and began to say everything that was on her mind. To be honest, it was difficult...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 2, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ramses-perez" rel="tag" > Ramses Perez < /a > Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs

Monarch Robotic Endoscopy for Spotting Small, Deep-Seated Lung Nodules Cleared by FDA
Auris Health, based in Redwood City, California, is showing off its brand new Monarch Platform for robotic, accurate endoscopic navigation through the lungs. The Monarch helps physicians to reach more places within the lungs and find smaller lesions,...
Source: Medgadget - March 29, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Radiology Thoracic Surgery Source Type: blogs

Which Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Test to Choose?
Due to the collapse of the price of genetic testing and the FDA’s gradual ease of the regulatory environment, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing companies are booming. You can inquire your deoxyribonucleic acid about your ancestry, health risks, metabolism, and some start-ups even promise you to find true love or your kids’ talents. As the jungle of DTC companies is getting denser, more and more people ask me which genetic tests are worth the try. They love the possibility of getting access to their DNA but don’t know where to start. Here’s the DTC genetic testing kick-starter package! Navigating through...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 20, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Genomics 23andme ancestry DNA DTC future genetic test Genetic testing genetics Genome genome sequencing Health 2.0 Source Type: blogs

When dying is a rebirth
Follow me on Twitter @1111linno My life is extraordinary. Such a hyperbolic-sounding statement and yet, in so many ways, so very true. Extraordinary because a decade ago I was told I had three to five months left to live. Diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) three years earlier, the removal of most of my left lung followed by chemotherapy had done little to slow down the cancer. Too diffuse for radiation, we had run out of options. And so, I did what the dying do. Grieving as preparations began. I bid adieu to friends and family, held my children even closer, and sought the help of a thoracic social worker. Th...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Linnea Olson Tags: Cancer Health Source Type: blogs

Clinicians May Have Used Advance Directive to Hide Malpractice
In August 2011, Cecilia Hoh was admitted to Glendale Adventist because of swelling in her right foot. Her family alleges that clinicians failed to perform the proper diagnostic tests, including an ultrasound, to rule out deep vein thrombosis.  The family further alleges that after learning Hoh had a “history of lung mass,” clinicians misrepresented  that she suffered from terminal lung cancer when they knew the mass was benign. Then,  when clinicians learned Ms. Hoh had an advance directive, they ceased providing any curative care, and assigned her to hospice care. Defendants misrepresented ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 8, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Nanomachines Create Clots Inside Vessels Feeding Cancer Tumors
Researchers from Arizona State University and National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a remarkable new way of killing tumors. They’ve developed robot-like nanoscale devices that cling to ...
Source: Medgadget - February 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs

The Skeptical Oncologist
By BISHAL GYAWALI, MD Why conduct post approval studies at all? Atezolizumab previously received accelerated approval in second-line metastatic or advanced urothelial cancer based on response rates from a single arm trial. The results of post approval confirmatory phase 3 are now published and demonstrate that atezolizumab did not improve survival versus chemotherapy (11.1 v 10.6 months, HR 0.87, p = 0.41). The concept of accelerated approval is to grant early and conditional approval and access to drugs in diseases of unmet need, and that the decision to fully approve or revoke be made based on results of confirmato...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

The Digital Health Manifesto
Conclusion No manifesto will by itself change a two-thousand-year-old system, any more than Martin Luther’s 95 theses did. Establishments die hard: 100 years ago, in 1918, Max Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, and in his Scientific Autobiography he talked about the adoption of change by any establishment: A new scientific truth does not win adoption by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but because its opponents eventually die. A manifesto can, though, kindle new thinking among those who do see the light. Planck continued: … and a new generation comes up that is familiar with it. ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Empowered Patients Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy digital digital health doctor empowerment future Health 2.0 Innovation manifesto patient empowerment Personalized medicine philosophy technology Source Type: blogs

Precision Medicine and Public Health (from Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease)
Excerpted fromPrecision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human DiseaseDespite having the most advanced healthcare technology on the planet, life expectancy in the United States is not particularly high. Citizens from most of the European countries and the highly industrialized Asian countries enjoy longer life expectancies than the United States. According to the World Health Organization, the United States ranks 31st among nations, trailing behind Greece, Chile, and Costa Rica, and barely edging out Cuba [42]. Similar rankings are reported by the US Central Intelligence Agency [43]. These findings lead us to infer that acc...
Source: Specified Life - February 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: cancer cancer vaccines precision medicine prevention public health Source Type: blogs

Insurers, Not Legislators, are the Gatekeepers to Care, and a Call to Deep Six the Term "Worried Well."
Over onPete Earley's blog, there is a post titled:Senators ’ Letter To SAMHSA Is Misguided: Dr. McCance-Katz Is Doing What Congress DemandedPete is on the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee,  a group operating under the Department of Health and Human Services. He is an extraordinary writer and a tremendous mental health advocate.  His post inspired me to rant at him (Me rant?  Shocking, I know...) and Pete and I are both posting my response.  I can't begin to capture the essence of his post on the controversy over the NREPP website, nor will you need to understand that to ...
Source: Shrink Rap - February 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Unknown Source Type: blogs

Insurers, Not Legislators, are the Gatekeepers to Care, and a Call to Deep Six the Term " Worried Well. "
Over onPete Earley ' s blog, there is a post titled:Senators ’ Letter To SAMHSA Is Misguided: Dr. McCance-Katz Is Doing What Congress DemandedPete is on the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee,  a group operating under the Department of Health and Human Services. He is an extraordinary writer and a tremendous mental health advocate.  His post inspired me to rant at him (Me rant?  Shocking, I know...) and Pete and I are both posting my response.  I can ' t begin to capture the essence of his post on the controversy over the NREPP website, nor will you need to understand that...
Source: Shrink Rap - February 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Unknown Source Type: blogs

Insurers, Not Legislators, are the Gatekeepers to Care, and a Call to Deep Six the Term "Worried Well."
Over onPete Earley's blog, there is a post titled:Senators ’ Letter To SAMHSA Is Misguided: Dr. McCance-Katz Is Doing What Congress DemandedPete is on the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee,  a group operating under the Department of Health and Human Services. He is an extraordinary writer and a tremendous mental health advocate.  His post inspired me to rant at him (Me rant?  Shocking, I know...) and Pete and I are both posting my response.  I can't begin to capture the essence of his post on the controversy over the NREPP website, nor will you need to understand that to ...
Source: Shrink Rap - February 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs