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ChatGPT Misses the Mark in Healthcare – What It Needs to Succeed
The following is a guest article by Michael Blum, MD, Cardiologist, Co-founder and CEO at BeeKeeperAI and Former Chief Medical Information Officer at UCSF Medical Center
The advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT3 (GPT3) Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot sparked an unprecedented societal appreciation for the power of AI. While AI has been broadly deployed across industries for a decade, it remained mostly hidden from the typical user. The release of GPT3 in late 2022 changed all of that.
Suddenly, a user with minimal computer literacy and no programming or data science training whatsoever could ask an AI-based applicati...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy AI Hallucination BeeKeeperAI Chatbots ChatGPT ChatGPT4 Cyber Risks Generative AI Source Type: blogs
Cardiology update: Should mRNA vaccine myocarditis be a contraindication to future COVID-19 vaccinations ?
BY ANISH KOKA
Myopericarditis is a now a well reported complication associated with Sars-Cov-2 (COVID-19) vaccinations. This has been particularly common with the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines (BNT162b2 and mrna-1273), with a particular predilection for young males.
Current guidance by the Australian government “technical advisory groups” as well as the Australian Cardiology Society suggest patients who have experienced myocarditis after an mRNA vaccine may consider a non-mRNA vaccine once “symptom free for at least 6 weeks”.
A just published report of 2 cases from Australia that document myopericarditi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Anish Koka mRNA vaccine myocarditis Source Type: blogs
One family ’s disastrous experience with a growth-driven long-term care company
by “E-PATIENT” DAVE DEBRONKART
Continuing THCB’s occasional series on actual experiences with the health care system. This is the first in a short series about a patient and family experience from one of America’s leading ePatients.
I’ve been blogging recently about what happens in American healthcare when predatory investor-driven companies start moving into care industries because the money’s good and enforcement is lax. The first two posts were about recent articles in The New Yorker on companies that are more interested in sales and growth than caring. I now have permission ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care ePatient Dave Patient Experience Respite care Source Type: blogs
Fujifilm Announces Asset Purchase Agreement with Inspirata, Inc. to Acquire the Company ’s Digital Pathology Business
Company to expand robust Enterprise Imaging offering with addition of Inspirata’s Digital Pathology technology and team
FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO, Representative Director: Teiichi Goto) today announced the company has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the global digital pathology business of Tampa, Florida-based Inspirata, Inc. Upon completion of this agreement, Inspirata’s Dynamyx® digital pathology technology, employees and customers will become part of Fujifilm. The addition of digital pathology will expand Fujifilm’s robust Synapse® Enterprise Imaging offering to enable th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Cardiology PACS digital pathology Dynamyx FUJIFILM FUJIFILM Corporation FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation FUJIFILM Healthcare Europe FUJIFILM Medical Systems Europe Fujifilm’s Robust Synapse® E Source Type: blogs
Battery-Free Light-Powered Pacemaker Now a Reality
Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a battery-free light-powered pacemaker that uses optogenetic stimulation of cardiomyocytes to achieve heart pacing. With conventional pacemakers, the leads of the device are anchored into the wa...
Source: Medgadget - November 7, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Genetics uarizona Source Type: blogs
What is pacemaker syndrome? Cardiology Basics
Pacemaker syndrome is a group of symptoms which can occur in a person implanted with a single chamber ventricular pacemaker. In the normal heart, atria contract first to give a booster filling for the ventricles, followed by the contraction of the ventricles. This is known as atrioventricular (AV) synchrony. When a single chamber pacemaker paces the right ventricle, this AV synchrony is lost and may cause symptoms of pacemaker syndrome.
Persons with pacemaker syndrome may have exertional breathlessness, hypotension and syncope. Easy fatigability, sensation of fullness and pulsations in the head and neck are also features ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 28, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
What are ventricular ectopic beats (VPC)? Cardiology Basics
Ventricular ectopic beats are premature heart beats originating from the ventricles. Normal heart beats originate from the sinus node, situated in the upper part of right atrium. Sinus node is the natural pacemaker of the heart which gives out regular impulses to induce sequential contractions of atria and ventricles.
Ventricular ectopic beats (VEB) are also known by other names like ventricular premature beat (VPB), ventricular premature complex (VPC) and premature ventricular complex (PVC). Ventricular ectopic is the commonest form of cardiac arrhythmia.
In a ventricular ectopic beat, the sequence of activation is diffe...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 25, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
What is the difference between CRT-P and CRT-D? Cardiology Basics
In cardiology, CRT stands for cardiac resynchronization therapy. CRT is used in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. According to the Universal Definition and Classification of Heart Failure, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction has left ventricular ejection fraction of 40% or less. CRT is a type of pacemaker in which three chambers of the heart are paced, right atrium, right ventricle and left ventricle.
This picture illustrates what reduced ejection fraction means. Ejection fraction is the fraction of end diastolic volume which is pumped out from the left ventricle during systole. Normal ejection fracti...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 13, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
What is dobutamine stress echocardiography? Cardiology Basics
Usual stress test for the heart is exercise ECG in which serial ECG recordings are done during a graded exercise protocol, usually on a treadmill. There are certain conditions like left bundle branch block in which an exercise ECG becomes uninterpretable. Some persons are unable to exercise on a treadmill due to illness or disability. In such situations dobutamine infusion is given instead of exercise, to increase heart rate and myocardial contractility, thereby increasing the workload of myocardium. Echocardiograms are taken then to assess the response of the myocardium to stress. This is known as dobutamine stress echoc...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 11, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - October 11, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and any related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon, a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
What is Windkessel effect? Cardiology Basics
The term ‘Windkessel effect’ is used in the setting of large elastic arteries like aorta. Elastic arteries have elastic tissue much more than the muscular arteries and are located nearer to the heart. Elasticity helps these blood vessels to maintain a relatively constant pressure gradient and flow though, the heart is pumping only intermittently.
The original term ‘Windkessel’ means ‘air chamber’ in German language. It was an air chamber used in fire engines in the 18th century, to maintain continuous delivery of water for fire-fighting. In the case of aorta, the aortic elasticity causes expansion and te...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 7, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Does the Aortic root contract or relax during ventricular systole ?
Some time back I asked this question in one of my classes for the fellows and found no takers. Not even a guess? I realized later it was indeed a tough question. The heart is not the only dynamic organ as we generally believe. The entire aorta which is the extension of the left ventricle has to be dynamic according to the physics of ventricular-arterial coupling and the momentum of blood flow.
What happens to the aortic dimension with systole?
Even prior to systole, there is evidence, Aorta gets ready to receive the blood from the LV. So, the Aortic root is larger at the onset of systole. (Ref 2 It is been g...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - October 1, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Anatomy of heart Uncategorized aortic root dynamism cardiology research topic Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 8 August, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Really just a lot of bits and pieces this week. Not a great deal of inspirational stuff!Sadly we see lots of spurious emissions from the ADHA wanting to tell people living at the extremities of Australia how to tweak the privacy settings of the #myHR that they don ’t care about. Staggering that this is all we hear from such an a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Biosynthetic Trilayered Ventricle Pumps Blood
Biomedical engineers at the University of Toronto have developed a method to create a small-scale biosynthetic left ventricle that can pump blood within a bioreactor. While the construct is too small to act as replacement for a human heart, it could ...
Source: Medgadget - July 21, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Materials Medicine artificial heart UofT Source Type: blogs
Lab-Designed “Fish” Could Pave the Way for Artificial Hearts
Researchers at Harvard University have created a fish-like construct from human stem cell-derived cardiac muscle. The structure can beat and swim autonomously, and is inspired by zebrafish. So far, the researchers have shown that the fish can survive...
Source: Medgadget - February 15, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Materials Source Type: blogs
