Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
Since the first U.S. deceased after circulatory death (DCD) heart transplant in late 2019, there has bee ongoing research to determine the best way to utilize this new source of donor hearts. Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine recently published a study in JAMA Network Open about their use of beating heart transplant procedures. It was found to be safe and had additional benefits. By avoiding additional warm and cold ischemic periods it eliminated need for ECMO.

AI enables much faster pathology for life-or-death interventions

After training deep neural networks on around 4,000 slide images from around 40 biopsied kidney patients, UCLA engineers have virtually re-stained tissue images for speedier high-accuracy diagnostics than a human histotechnologist could support.  

August 31, 2021
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Steps taken toward smartphone app for automatically detecting Parkinson’s

Researchers have achieved accuracies of 99.4% and 94.3% in two algorithmic methods for monitoring, diagnosing or ruling out Parkinson’s disease going only by individuals’ spoken words.

August 29, 2021
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has responded to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) recommendation that all infants and young children who receive iodinated contrast media (ICM) undergo thyroid testing. The group pushed back against this proposal, emphasizing that implementation would have “far-reaching consequences.”

Pediatric sepsis increasingly screenable by AI

Screening for sepsis in children and babies has grown quickly over the past several years. As methods and approaches multiply, machine learning continues looking like an eventual first-line diagnostic option. 

August 26, 2021
A renal failure patient receives dialysis. A new study shows a drop in death in kidney failure patients from heart attack, PE and stroke.

AI charts course of care for chronic kidney disease

Researchers have used machine learning to accurately predict when a patient with chronic kidney disease will need dialysis. The technique may facilitate personalized care and optimized treatment planning.

August 25, 2021
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5 ways AI stands to advance the state of burn care

AI has “remarkable potential” to improve diagnostic accuracy, care efficiency and workflow optimization in the surgical subspecialty of burn care.

August 25, 2021
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AI innovators lauded for sharing data, questioned for making it open-access

Along with a curated and annotated image dataset, the share includes code, network architecture and trained model weights.

August 20, 2021

Physician compensation rose as productivity fell in 2020

Physicians received higher pay in 2020, with a minor compensation increase, according to the annual AMGA Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey.

 

August 18, 2021
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AI nudges clinicians at triage decisionmaking

Going head-to-head against a small group of clinicians in 50 care episodes, an AI-based smartphone app has equaled or bested the humans at triaging patients to the most appropriate site of care.

August 18, 2021

Around the web

Half a year after President Biden officially directed federal agencies in the executive branch’s bailiwick to “seize the promise and manage the risks” of AI, the White House has posted a status report.

U.S. physicians often receive payments from medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. New research in JAMA found a connection between receiving such payments and using specific devices—should the industry be concerned? 

Five of the largest U.S. medical societies focused on cardiovascular health are one step closer to seeing their paradigm-shifting proposal become a reality.

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