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Clayton Yeutter, RIP
After a long battle with cancer, Ambassador Clayton Yeutter passed away on Saturday at the age of 86 at his home in Potomac, Maryland. With his passing, the world parts not only with a brilliant, effective, accomplished leader, but an extraordinarily generous, decent man whose enduring kindness and humble demeanor made politics and policymaking in Washington more tolerable for all involved.Clayton Yeutter had a long an illustrious career spent in both the private and public sectors, as well as in academia, but he is probably best known for his service during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.As Reagan ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 6, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs

The End of Big Data?
By THCBist Last week’s news that MD Anderson Cancer Center has pulled the plug on its two year partnership with IBM-Watson led many critics to wonder out loud if the machine-learning revolution is in trouble, and if Big Data could be about to become the latest tech industry buzzword to die a well-deserved death. It’s a little more complicated than that, argues HealthCatalyst’s Dale Sanders in this can’t-miss presentation. The problems with the MD Anderson-Watson partnership probably say more about the “Big Data Industry” and the goings-on at IBM as they do about the technology. Still,...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

What the IBM Watson – MD Anderson Split Means. And What It Doesn ’ t Mean.
By THCBist Last week’s news that MD Anderson Cancer Center has pulled the plug on its two year partnership with IBM-Watson led many critics to wonder out loud if the machine-learning revolution is in trouble, and if Big Data could be about to become the latest tech industry buzzword to die a well-deserved death. It’s a little more complicated than that, argues HealthCatalyst’s Dale Sanders in this can’t-miss presentation. The problems with the MD Anderson-Watson partnership probably say more about the “Big Data Industry” and the goings-on at IBM as they do about the technology. Still,...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Tech Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Reading The Fine Print: Do ACA Replacement Proposals Give States More Flexibility And Authority?
State officials have been heartened by statements from incoming Congressional leadership and the new President that states will gain greater authority and autonomy over their health insurance markets than they have had under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). For example, President Trump’s executive order on the ACA called for giving states “more flexibility and control to create a more free and open health care market.” Similarly, leading members of Congress have said, for example: “States, not the federal government, should have the primary responsibility for health policy,” and suggested that their replacement pla...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Sabrina Corlette and Kevin Lucia Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage interstate insurance States Source Type: blogs

What It Means to Be Your Own Patient Advocate
I learned what it means to be a patient advocate many years ago, when my dad was sick. We knew something was terribly wrong with this tall, strapping man when he started to lose weight and was continually fatigued. Our frustration grew as each time he went to the doctor, he came home with instructions to quit smoking. Fighting for My Father Patient advocacy often means working around the doctor, so I found a clinic in Toronto that would perform every test known to man to determine my dad’s illness. Thanks to the Canadian healthcare system, it wasn’t going to cost my dad anything. We quickly learned that he had non-Ho...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - January 23, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs

The Technological Future of Surgery
The future of surgery offers an amazing cooperation between humans and technology, which could elevate the level of precision and efficiency of surgeries so high we have never seen before. Will we have Matrix-like small surgical robots? Will they pull in and out organs from patients’ bodies? The scene is not impossible. It looks like we have come a long way from ancient Egypt, where doctors performed invasive surgeries as far back as 3,500 years ago. Only two years ago, Nasa teamed up with American medical company Virtual Incision to develop a robot that can be placed inside a patient’s body and then controlled rem...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 17, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Medical Augmented Reality Medical Robotics Virtual Reality in Medicine 3d printing AI artificial intelligence diagnostics gc4 Surgery surgical robot technology Source Type: blogs

Bishop Tutu ’s Plea Prompts Personal Meditation on Assisted Suicide
By Myra ChristopherI worked late Tuesday night and was listening to NPR as I always do during my short commute home when I heard that, in celebration of his 85th birthday, Bishop Desmond Tutu announced that he supports physician-assisted suicide and “prays that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices that terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.” I was stunned.At age 30, I decided to spend my life working to improve end-of-life care and that the way that I would do that would be by “doing ethics.” I would spend my life...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 11, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care advance care planning assisted suicide end of life planning medical ethics physician assisted suicide syndicated Source Type: blogs

MKSAP: 29-year-old man with ulcerative colitis
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 29-year-old man is evaluated during a routine examination. His medical history is significant for ulcerative colitis involving the entire colon, which was diagnosed 4 years ago. His symptoms responded to therapy with mesalamine and have remained in remission on this medication. His family history is significant for a maternal uncle who died of colon cancer at the age of 50 years. Physical examination is unremarkable. Serum alkaline phosphatase, alanine aminotransferase, and aspartate aminotransferase levels ar...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 7, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions GI Source Type: blogs

Analysis Shows Health Care Cost Predictions Grossly Incorrect
This study, once again disproves the misleading claims that pharmacy benefit managers and insurers (among others) make about spending on new innovative medicines. The report found that predictions of health care costs made prior to the introduction of new medicines were often dramatically overstated. The study points to the example of new cholesterol-lowering medicines, also known as PCSK9 inhibitors. The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) predicted that the one-year cost of the two PCSK9 inhibitors would be $7.2 billion. However, in reality, based on reported sales, the actual cost will be approximately $8...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 5, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

The Most Exciting Medical Technologies of 2017
It is almost a tradition for me to publish predictions for the coming year. I do not mean to disappoint you this year either, so here you find some thoughts about the top medical technologies of 2017. 2016 was a rich year for medical technology. Virtual Reality. Augmented Reality. Smart algorithms analysing wearable data. Amazing technologies arrived in our lives and on the market almost every day. And it will not stop in the coming year. The role of a futurist is certainly not making bold predictions about the future. No such big bet has taken humanity forward. Instead, our job is constantly analysing the trends shaping t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 15, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing AI artificial intelligence diabetes GC1 genetics Healthcare Innovation nutrigenomics Personalized medicine robotics wearables Source Type: blogs

MKSAP: 32-year-old woman with a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 32-year-old woman is evaluated at a well-patient visit. Both her parents have a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer within the past year, and she is seeking counseling regarding skin cancer prevention. She has a history of remote sunburns and had previously tanned as a teenager. She requests advice on how to approach sun protection to limit both future skin cancer risk as well as to prevent wrinkles and cosmetic photodamage. The patient has no other significant medical history and takes no medications. On physi...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 10, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Dermatology Source Type: blogs

What ’s The Story With Obamacare?
States, patients, and voters are wrestling with the pros and cons of dramatic changes in public health insurance coverage, including extending, maintaining, or rolling back Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) — an often emotional topic of debate. The stories that are told about the effectiveness—or lack thereof—of coverage in improving health and health care usually relate compelling personal experiences, putting a human face on an otherwise abstract argument. Policies are not enacted in the abstract; they affect real people’s lives, and we should all be concerned with how polic...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 9, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Katherine Baicker and Amy Finkelstein Tags: Featured Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Medicaid expansion Oregon Source Type: blogs

Moonshots, Opioids and Incentives
By MARSHALL CHIN, MD Major disparities in health outcomes have stubbornly persisted throughout both democratic and republican administrations.  If you have diabetes and you live in a predominantly African-American neighborhood of Chicago, you have a two-to-five times higher risk of having your leg amputated than if you live in one of the city’s white neighborhoods.  If you are a Hispanic child with asthma, you are 50% more likely to be admitted to the hospital than if you are white. And if you are a Vietnamese woman, you are five times more likely to develop cervical cancer than your white counterpart. The incoming T...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

iBreastExam: Low Cost, Point-of-Care Breast Health Test
UE Lifesciences, a company with offices in the U.S. and India, has developed the iBreastExam, a low-cost point-of-care breast health test for use by community workers in low resource settings. This device is designed to address the rising incidence o...
Source: Medgadget - December 2, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Ob/Gyn Surgery Source Type: blogs

The Uncertainty Bomb
By PAUL KECKLEY I like certainty and routine. I like my daily Tall Dark Roast with no room for cream at 5 am at Starbucks. I like the same restaurants, the same suits and ties and the same TV shows. Holidays throw me off and I get bored quickly when I have down time. For six years, the healthcare industry in the U.S. has been adjusting to its new normal based on the regulatory framework of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It became routine to discuss the volume to value, accountable care organizations, bundled payments, Medicaid expansion and Healthcare.gov. We were certain they’d be around for years to come. Then came th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs