UCLA researchers have developed a software program that simulates the response of the human thyroid hormone regulation system to a variety of treatments and diseases. The open-source program, Thyrosim, can be used by clinicians, researchers and educators to accurately gauge the impacts of thyroid treatments and to develop more effective remedies for thyroid problems. The research appears on the cover of the peer-reviewed journal Thyroid.
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Popular Mobile Health Apps Fail to Serve Vulnerable Populations
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University of California San Francisco |
July 14, 2016
A new UC San Francisco study of top-rated mobile health apps showed that they offer little help to vulnerable patients – those who might benefit the most from these tools. The new study, published in the July 14, 2016 online issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, was conducted with 26 patients at The Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG), a UCSF partner hospital that treats many low-income patients. Although participant income was not directly queried, a majority of patients at ZSFG qualify for publically funded insurance, or do not have insurance.
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Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Examine the Impact of OpenNotes on Patient Safety
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BIDMC |
August 12, 2015
Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) are homing in on the potential benefits of allowing patients access to the notes their clinicians write after a visit. An article published in the August edition of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety suggests that this kind of patient engagement has the power to improve safety and quality of care. The practice of sharing visit notes more readily began with the OpenNotes study in 2010. More than 100 primary care doctors at three hospitals invited 20,000 of their patients to read their visit notes through a secure, patient website.
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Sequencing, cloud computing, and analytics meet around genetics and pharma Bio-IT World Shows What is Possible and What Is Being Accomplished
By Andy Oram | May 15, 2014
Bio-IT World shows what is possible and what is being accomplished...last week I took the subway downtown and crossed the two wind- and rain-whipped bridges that the city of Boston built to connect to the World Trade Center. I mingled for a day with attendees and exhibitors to find what data-related challenges they’re facing and what the latest solutions are. Here are some of the major themes I turned up...
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Strengthening Protection of Patient Medical Data
Adam Tanner | The Century Foundation | January 10, 2017
Americans seeking medical care expect a certain level of privacy. Indeed, the need for patient privacy is a principle dating back to antiquity, and is codified in U.S. law, most notably the Privacy Rule of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which establishes standards that work toward protecting patient health information. But the world of information is rapidly changing, and in this environment, U.S. rules fall precariously short in protecting our medical data...
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The $100,000-Per-Year Pill: How US Health Agencies Choose Pharma Over Patients
Fran Quigley | TruthOut | August 5, 2016
Don Reichmuth survived prostate cancer once before, back in 2007, so his physician was concerned when tests recently revealed the cancer had returned. Reichmuth's physician prescribed a drug called enzalutamide, marketed by the Japanese company Astellas Pharma, Inc. under the brand name Xtandi. But when the physician sent the prescription to the pharmacy, the managers of Reichmuth's insurance plan sent back an immediate refusal to approve it. Reichmuth, a retired teacher who lives in Washington State, was puzzled by the logic. Then he learned the price of the Xtandi prescription: over $9,700 each month...
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tranSMART Foundation i2b2 Symposium Announced for June 23 at Harvard Medical School
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tranSMART Foundation |
May 31, 2016
The tranSMART Foundation...today announced that it has joined forces with the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) to host the tranSMART Foundation i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) Symposium on June 23, 2016 at HMS. The all-day meeting, beginning at 8:00 a.m. with registration and the program running from 8:30 a.m. -5:30 p.m., will focus on the integration between and use of the tranSMART platform for translational medicine and the i2b2 platform.
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UCLA Researchers Develop Sophisticated Open Source Program For Analyzing Thyroid Health
Press Release |
UCLA |
March 28, 2016
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What Are We Prepared to Do in the United States to Save Primary Care?
By Kim Bellard | December 29, 2019
I propose two significant changes to help make primary care relevant in the 21st century...I wrote a longer piece on [Virtual Care] earlier in the year. In short, it's a disgrace that we've put so many hurdles on telemedicine, and that it continues to be so underused. It is widely available in health plans, but rarely practiced by physicians nor by patients. Instead, we still mostly go to our doctors offices, to ERs, or perhaps now to drugstores.A televisit should be the first course of action for non-emergencies. We must remove regulatory and reimbursement barriers, and incent patients to take advantage of the speed and convenience of the option. Moreover, as AI options for diagnoses and advice quickly become more viable, we can use them to triage our needs, help assure continuity with physicians, and eventually reduce the need to talk to a human...
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When Artificial Intelligence Robots Start Replacing Physicians, Will We Notice -- Or Care?
By Kim Bellard | October 11, 2016
There's an interesting verbal battle going on between two prominent tech venture capitalists over the future of AI in health care. In an interview in Vox, Marc Andreessen asserted that Vinod Khosla "has written all these stories about how doctors are going to go away...And I think he is completely wrong." Mr. Khosla was quick to respond via Twitter: "Maybe @pmarca [Mr. Andreessen] should read what I think before assuming what I said about doctors going away." He included a link to his detailed "speculations and musings" on the topic. It turns out that Mr. Khosla believes that AI will take away 80% of physicians' work, but not necessarily 80% of their jobs, leaving them more time to focus on the "human aspects of medical practice such as empathy and ethical choices"...
Where Are STDs Rampant? Google Wants To Help Researchers Find Out
Mary Chris Jaklevic | Kaiser Health News | December 10, 2015
With sexually transmitted diseases on the rise, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago think they might have a powerful new weapon to fight their spread: Google searches. Search trends can be broken down by city and state, weighted according to their significance and combined with other data sources to give a snapshot of where disease is spreading well before public health agencies report the number of verified cases...
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tranSMART Foundation i2b2 Symposium
The tranSMART Foundation has joined forces with the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) to host the tranSMART Foundation i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) Symposium on June 23, 2016 at HMS. The all-day meeting, beginning at 8:00 a.m. with registration and the program running from 8:30 a.m. -5:30 p.m., will focus on the integration between and use of the tranSMART platform for translational medicine and the i2b2 platform. The sessions will cover the use of tranSMART and i2b2 in research programs, as well as presentations by scientists and clinicians who are using both platforms in their research studies. Confirmed speakers include...
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2019 International Conference On Disaster Medicine & Hurricane Resiliency
The devastation wrought by powerful hurricanes over the last two years attests to the need to prepare healthcare professionals for emerging crises associated with natural disasters. The International Conference on Disaster Medicine & Hurricane Resiliency brings together physicians, nurses, educators, and other professionals focused on patient care to explore disaster medicine in the context of hurricanes and other severe weather events. Through workshops, plenaries, and panel discussions, attendees will gain essential emergency planning and preparation skills to better understand the role of disaster medicine in effective healthcare management.
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