“This is where we think machine learning has the great opportunity to help us,” said Dr. Daniel Cantillon, a cardiologist who serves as medical director of the CMU. “The challenge is we have to be able to call our shots in advance, and that’s something we’re deeply invested in”
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‘Wired Into the Walls’March 4, 2019 |
Voice-recognition system promises to automate data entry during office visits. While alluring to doctors, the technology poses thorny questions, including whether patients will be comfortable inviting a third-party company with a camera and microphone into a conversation with their doctor
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Human History, In One ChartNovember 8, 2018 |
Almost all the gains in human wellbeing in history happened since the Industrial Revolution
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As a high schooler in 1940s Poland, when all her classmates dug out their rattiest, most proletarian clothes for the Communist Party meeting, she wore her fur coat. More recently, when she heard that doctors at the local hospital had lodged an official complaint about her, she drove over to find out their motives herself
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Doctors Unionize to Resist the Medical MachineJanuary 11, 2016 |
An Oregon medical center’s plan to increase efficiency by outsourcing doctors drove a group of its hospitalists to fight back by banding together
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Report: Organ Transplant Program May Favor WealthyNovember 11, 2015 |
Researchers at Columbia University studied transplant data from 2000 to 2013. There are a number of factors that play into how likely a candidate for an organ transplant is to join a second wait list, not just finances and education, said Jeffrey Kahn, professor of bioethics and public policy at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
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Bill To Boost Medical Research Comes With A CatchJuly 10, 2015 |
“That [goal] sounds pretty good,” Avorn says. But he says the bill is “loaded with a lot of provisions that were heavily influenced by pharmaceutical and biotech and medical device lobbyists that really do some pretty worrisome things.”
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Doctors call it defensive medicine. They order extra tests, perform extra procedures or push for more office visits because they think that without them, they’re at greater risk of being sued. But studies don’t support the notion that this reduces their risk. What might help physicians avoid being sued is getting along better with their patients. Or at least, they could become better communicators
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