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Thinklabs One Electronic Stethoscope Helps Physicians Stop Spread of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the implementation and use of telemedicine and telehealth platforms and devices as part of current day-to-day standards of care in many hospital and healthcare systems. In this era of social distancing, doctors on our...
Source: Medgadget - July 13, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Education Emergency Medicine Exclusive Geriatrics Informatics Pediatrics Public Health Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: Physicians in Shackles
By ANISH KOKA, MD
A number of politically tinged narratives have
divided physicians during the pandemic. It would be unfortunate if politics
obscured the major problem brought into stark relief by the pandemic: a system
that marginalizes physicians and strips them of agency.
In practices big and small, hospital-employed
or private practice, nursing homes or hospitals, there are serious issues
raising their heads for doctors and their patients.
No masks for you
When I walked into my office Thursday, March 12th, I assembled the office staff for the first time to talk about COVID. The prior weekend had been awa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Medical Practice Physicians Anish Koka medical autonomy Pandemic Source Type: blogs
The COVID Pandemic: WHO Dunnit?
By ANISH KOKA, MD
COVID is here. A little strand of RNA that
used to live in bats has a new host. And
that strand is clearly not the flu. New
York is overrun, with more than half of the nation’s new cases per day, and
refrigerated 18-wheelers parked outside hospitals serve as makeshift
morgues. Detroit, New Orleans, Miami,
and Philadelphia await an inevitable surge of their own with bated breath. America’s health care workers are scrambling
to hold the line against a deluge of sick patients arriving hourly at a rate
that’s hard to fathom.
I pause here to attest to the heroic r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zoya Khan Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka coronavirus Pandemic Sars-CoV-2 WHO World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
EDs in Different Parts of the World but the Same Stories
BY TIM DEPP, MDI spent two weeks in India and another two weeks at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Minnesota during my global health elective month. It was a great time to reflect on sustainability in developing world medicine and on my medical education and career goals.Emergency medicine in India is still in its infancy. Some might say it's only just been conceived, still waiting to be born. India is growing incredibly in numerous sectors, and several universities, including George Washington University (GWU), have partnered with established hospitals there to grow the specialty. After completi...
Source: Going Global - December 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
What Is The ‘Relative Value’ Of An Infectious Disease Physician?
Infectious diseases (ID) physicians may be disappearing. In the 2016 internal medicine fellowship match, in which residents were matched with sub-specialty training programs, 35 percent of available ID training positions nationwide were left unfilled. By comparison, just 0.9 percent of gastroenterology and cardiology positions were not filled that year (Figure 1). Although trainees’ career choices are influenced by many complex factors, the driving force behind residents’ aversion to ID is likely quite simple: money.
ID specialists are among the lowest paid physicians in the United States. According to the 2016 Medscap...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 3, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Sullivan Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Health Professionals Payment Policy Quality Alternative Payment Models infectious disease Physicians RVU targets 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
Artificial Intelligence Will Redesign Healthcare
Artificial intelligence has an unimaginable potential. Within the next couple of years, it will revolutionize every area of our life, including medicine. I am fully convinced that it will redesign healthcare completely – and for the better. Let’s take a look at the promising solutions it offers.
There are various thought leaders who believe that we are experiencing the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be hum...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 4, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine AI big data GC1 google deepmind Healthcare Hospital ibm watson Innovation Source Type: blogs
The 5 Stages of EMR Acceptance (With Apologies to Kubler-Ross)
By FRANK MEISSNER
DENIAL
I can’t believe they are making me use this system!
ANGER
I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY ARE MAKING ME USE WHAT
THEY LAUGHINGLY CALL A SYSTEM!
BARGAINING
‘Look if I agree too willingly and cheerfully use this system, can you ask for and fund these change orders, add these features, re...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Featured THCB Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
People are not units — US healthcare policy obstructs good doctoring
There is a lot of talk about rewarding value in US healthcare. Don’t believe any of it. It’s not happening. Not even close. This is a post about the real world–where I practice medicine.
In a comment on yesterday’s post, Lisa wondered how I connected the current model of employing doctors and paying them on productivity to the three trends I wrote about on Medscape Cardiology–fear-mongering, lack of communication, and treating diseases not people.
I started to explain in the comments section but then realized the topic was big enough to warrant a new post.
To be blunt again: the current model ...
Source: Dr John M - November 2, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 052
This study looked at compliance with discharge instructions. Surprisingly (or maybe not so), 39% of pediatric patients returned to play (RTP) on the day of the injury. RTP is widely recognized as a risk for recurrent and more severe concussions as well as significant morbidity. It is the duty of the Emergency Physician to stress the importance of discharge instructions as well as the importance of appropriate follow up.
Recommended by: Anand Swaminathan
PediatricsSingleton T et al. Emergency department care for patients with hemophilia and von Willebrand disease. J Emerg Med. 2010; 39(2): 158-65. PMID: 18757163
Bleeding...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 9, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nudrat Rashid Tags: Administration Anaesthetics Cardiology Clinical Research Education Emergency Medicine Haematology Infectious Disease Intensive Care International Emergency Medicine Microbiology Neurosurgery Obstetrics / Gynecology Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Missing the first US Ebola case – A learning opportunity in patient safety and caregiver distraction
It was a mistake to send the Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan home from a Dallas emergency room after he presented with fever and pain, which were early signs of Ebola infection.
It would be a larger mistake to miss an important learning opportunity. This case demonstrates what I believe to be a major threat to patient safety—caregiver distraction.
Doctors and nurses are increasingly prevented from giving full attention to the important things in patient care. The degree of value-added nonsense has reached the point where delivering basic care has gown dangerous. This morning, in Canada, news of a case of deadly drug...
Source: Dr John M - October 6, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
