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Medgadget ’s Best of CES 2018
CES 2018 is over. We assessed the many health-related gadgets that were shown off by a myriad of companies, concluded our deliberations, and now is the time to present the winners of Medgadget’s Best of CES 2018. We extend our congratulations ...
Source: Medgadget - January 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Medicine Rehab Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
The ghost in the basement
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We are fortunate to have a country home in the Catskills where we can escape city life. An eight-year-old neighbor often crosses our meadow or bikes over to stop by for a visit. While I’d like to think I’m the featured attraction, his visits are not just to see me; of much greater interest is our basement with its shelves of toys and games. Particularly appealing to this lad is the sports equipment: hockey sticks, goalie pads, a goal to shoot on, baseball mitts, a batting helmet, a catcher’s mask, soccer balls, and more. Name the sport and it is most likely we have equipment for i...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 12, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bill Williams Tags: Addiction Health Source Type: blogs
The Greatest and Weirdest Digital Health Innovations at CES 2018
With more than a hundred exhibitors, countless new ideas and exciting innovations digital health truly conquered Las Vegas and CES 2018. Just as last year, we decided to show you the most and least impressive healthcare-related gadgets, sensors, trackers, and more importantly, the discernible trends.
2018 – The year when digital health arrived at CES
Would you like to play ping-pong with a robot? Do you want to try an air taxi? If you responded to both questions with “hell yes!” (how else, really), then your place is in the venues hosting CES. Innovators and tech fanatics flock to Las Vegas every January to k...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 11, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine AI ces CES 2018 digital digital health Health 2.0 Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine robotics technology trackers wearables Source Type: blogs
Doctors, Data, Diagnoses, and Discussions: Achieving Successful and Sustainable Personalized/Precision Medicine
The following is a guest blog post by Drew Furst, M.D., Vice President Clinical Consultants at Elsevier Clinical Solutions.
Personalized/precision medicine is a growing field and that trend shows no sign of slowing down.
In fact, a 2016 Grand View Research report estimated the global personalized medicine market was worth $1,007.88 billion in 2014, with projected growth to reach $2,452.50 billion by 2022.
As these areas of medicine become more commonplace, understanding the interactions between biological factors with a range of personal, environmental and social impacts on health is a vital step towards achieving sustaina...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Clinical Decision Support Genomics Healthcare HealthCare IT Personalized Medicine Drew Furst Elsevier Elsevier Clinical Solutions Precision Medicine Source Type: blogs
Plastic surgeon quits and couldn ’t get a job at Chick-fil-A
I just got off the phone with Paul, a highly-sought-after plastic surgeon in New York.
“I don’t want to be a doctor anymore,” Paul says. “What else can I do? I have lots of restaurant experience. I’ve worked in 15 restaurants during my life. It’s not easy, but I could do it. I did research on chains and franchises, and I chose Chick-fil-A. Three months ago I applied to be an owner/operator. I got through the first application and got declined the second round of applications. They are extremely picky. Nearly 20,000 apply, and only a few are chosen.”
I’m shocked he was declined.
“It wasn’t a crushing blo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 4, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/pamela-wible" rel="tag" > Pamela Wible, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
Life Inside the Bomb Cyclone
All of a sudden the meteorologists are giving us their fancy vocabulary instead of allowing the media to create terms like ' snowmageddon ' . So instead of living inside a blizzard (or a snow globe), we are inside the bomb cyclone.What is it like? Today when I woke up it was not snowing. By 8am it was snowing. The black cat (Evil Kitty) came in with snowflakes on him. I am also watching the barometer (because we have one finally). It was at 29.8 last night, 29.4 this morning, and is already down to 29.3. I am being such a geek.I did some planning yesterday afternoon. We have been home for days on end. We went out to dinner...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - January 4, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: planning snow storm Source Type: blogs
What Are the Consequences of Big Tech Entering the Healthcare Market?
For about the past decade, an open question about Big Tech has been their possible entry strategy into healthcare and whether they would be successful. Healthcare constitutes a very large portion of the U.S. economy so it won't be ignored by tech giants such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and even Facebook. A recent article addressed this specific question (see:How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care). It's long so read the whole article if interested. Below is an excerpt from it:Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants have transformed the way billions of us communicate, shop, socialize and work. No...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 3, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Lab Information Medical Consumerism Source Type: blogs
In Depth Review of CMS MACRA QPP Regulations
As we continue our coverage of the MACRA Quality Payment Program (QPP) rule, the following article provides a more in-depth look at the regulations promulgated by CMS. We drafted an initial summary when the rule was released in early November.
Biggest surprise: cost category of MIPS
In its proposed rule in July 2017, CMS proposed completely removing the cost domain from MIPS for 2018, despite the underlying statute requiring that cost account for 30% of the overall MIPS score by 2019. However, in the final rule, CMS shocked many when it reversed its position and finalized a cost domain weight of 10 percent for the 2018 p...
Source: Policy and Medicine - December 28, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Recommendations vs. Medical Standards vs Patient Preferences
How often do you get your teeth cleaned? Every six months, just like the ADA reccomends of course. Unless you have bad teeth like me and go every three months (and I hate having my teeth cleaned). There are guidelines that tell us all sorts of things - get the oil changed on your car, get a flu shot, get a colonoscopy, and get a mammogram.We usually follow these guidelines because they give us structure and a sense of how often we need to do these things. We listen to them because they are all in the ' preventive ' category - they help make us more likely to live longer and healthier. We may not understand all the reasons ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 24, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer screening changes education Source Type: blogs
What Know and What We Think
ROBERT McNUTT, MD
What matters is what we know, not what we think
In the late 1980’s I cared for a pregnant woman with breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in pregnancy, but uncommon in number, occurring in about 1 in 3000 pregnancies. It is a compounded emotional treating experience for sure, and at that time uncertainty in how to treat was the norm. The woman had a mastectomy but did not take chemotherapy based on concern for her baby.
Three months after her delivery, now getting chemotherapy for her aggressive breast cancer, the woman asked me to consider treating her newborn child with “mild” ch...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
What We Know and What We Think
ROBERT McNUTT, MD
What matters is what we know, not what we think
In the late 1980’s I cared for a pregnant woman with breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in pregnancy, but uncommon in number, occurring in about 1 in 3000 pregnancies. It is a compounded emotional treating experience for sure, and at that time uncertainty in how to treat was the norm. The woman had a mastectomy but did not take chemotherapy based on concern for her baby.
Three months after her delivery, now getting chemotherapy for her aggressive breast cancer, the woman asked me to consider treating her newborn child with “mild” ch...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Can technology and the art of medicine coexist?
While on the way to a national meeting on health and public policy, I ponder on what the practice of medicine has become and whether this meeting will provide any hope for improvement. It hasn’t been clear to me that those most responsible for public health policy are listening to doctors. Politicians have been leading this charge, sometimes solo, sometimes in a group but rarely in a collaborative fashion — and mostly without the requisite experience or knowledge that appropriate collaboration can provide.
I think back to one of the seemingly endless coding and quality meetings in modern medicine as I talk with my pati...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 22, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lianne-marks" rel="tag" > Lianne Marks, MD < /a > Tags: Policy Primary Care Public Health & Source Type: blogs
The Boys From Silicon Valley
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE
A few weeks ago one man, named @jack, decided that millions of people will be allowed to use up to 280 characters when expressing themselves on Jack’s public square platform. One man decides how many letters each and every one of us, including the “leader of the free world”, can use when we talk to each other. Just like that. Nobody seemed the least bit perturbed by this notion. Another dude, named Mark, decided to ask people for nude pictures of themselves, so he can better protect them from the bad guys. We shrugged that off too. Then, in a most embarrassing exercise in public humiliation, our ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Dopamine Labs Keytruda Mark Zuckerberg Sean Parker Techno-drugs Source Type: blogs
The 10 Most Exciting Digital Health Stories of 2017
Gene-edited human embryo. Self-driving trucks. Practical quantum computers. 2017 has been an exciting year for science, technology – and digital health! It’s that time of the year again when it’s worth looking back at the past months; and list the inventions, methods and milestone events in healthcare to get a clearer picture what will shape medicine for the years to come.
2017 – Amazing year for science and healthcare
Scientists, researchers, and innovators come up with amazing breakthroughs every year, and that was no different in 2017 either. No matter whether we look at physics (proving the existence of gra...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 13, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing artificial intelligence digital health genetics genomics Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine robotics technology wearables Source Type: blogs
Personalizing Personalized Medicine
What is personalization? Its making things for the individual. This is seen all the time online. If you visit Amazon ' s website and search for toothpicks, you will start seeing ads for toothpicks popping up all the time. Until you search for something else.... Amazon ' s site is responding to your needs by reminding you about your recent search - meeting your needs.Personalizing personalized medicine means not doing the same thing over and over again, and taking into account patient ' s individual needs. However, we talk about personalized medicine and then discuss starting mammogram screening for all women at age 40. Whe...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 10, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer cancer diagnosis mammogram personalized medicine Source Type: blogs
