-
Mashup Score: 0How artificial intelligence will make my work easier - 3 day(s) ago
A recent article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette outlined the various ways that artificial intelligence (AI) is improving health care in Pennsylvania. For example, AI software can serve as a “virtual scribe,” listening to the doctor-patient conversation during an office visit and drafting a note, freeing the doctor to focus on the patient for 100% of the time. AI can “draft letters to health insurers on behalf of patients who need specialty medications, medical equipment or other care that’s not standard in their insurance benefits,” saving time for doctors and office staff. In the future, AI could respond to patient portal messages, triage phone calls, or even suggest diagnoses.
Source: commonsensemd.substack.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0Reducing harms associated with PSA screening - 6 day(s) ago
In the U.K. Cluster Randomized Trial for PSA Testing for Prostate Cancer (CAP), more than 400,000 men in primary care practices between 2001 and 2009 were either invited to receive a single PSA screening test or usual care. After a median follow-up of 10 years
Source: commonsensemd.substack.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0Some common sense on breast cancer screening - 11 day(s) ago
Originally posted on Common Sense Family Doctor on October 21, 2015. ** Yesterday, the American Cancer Society updated its guidelines on screening mammography for women at average risk, moving closer to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines by recommending that most women start screening at age 45 (rather than 40) and be screened every other year (instead of annually) starting at age 55. The ACS also cast doubt on the effectiveness of the clinical breast examination in women who are already undergoing mammography screening. Although I don’t agree with every aspect of the new guideline, it has the potential to make breast cancer screening more effective by preserving the benefits and reducing the harms.
Source: commonsensemd.substack.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0Should race be incorporated into weight management decisions? - 20 day(s) ago
I have a personal stake in the answer to this question. For most of my adult life, my body mass index (BMI) has ranged between 22 and 25 kg/m2, which is considered to be in the normal range (the threshold for overweight is a BMI of 25, and obesity a BMI of 30). But it turns out that I’ve been overweight for most of that time if one applies a race-specific definition of overweight (BMI greater than 23) for individuals of Asian descent. Where did this race-based cutpoint come from, and is it still relevant in an era when we generally frown on using race as a surrogate for social determinants of health in making clinical decisions?
Source: commonsensemd.substack.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 2
Since human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines were first added to the routine U.S. childhood immunization schedule nearly two decades ago, the evidence of their effectiveness has become stronger every year. In 2019, a Medicine by the Numbers in American Family Physician
Source: commonsensemd.substack.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0Family physicians are natural health system leaders - 2 month(s) ago
Originally posted on Common Sense Family Doctor on May 26, 2014. ** Last week, the subtitle of a JAMA editorial on accountable care caught my attention: “the paradox of primary care physician leadership.” The authors observed that although a typical family physician’s or general internist’s patient panel accounts for about $10 million in annual health care spending (of which only $500,000 is primary care revenue), primary care physicians have been “underused” as role players in health system reform. They further suggested that claiming leadership positions in accountable care organizations could be “a powerful opportunity [for family physicians] to retain their autonomy and make a positive difference for their patients – as well as their practices’ bottom lines.”
Source: commonsensemd.substack.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0Birthday blessings - 2 month(s) ago
The following is a guest post from my sister-in-law, Dr. Therese Duane, a trauma surgeon who is blogging about her medical mission in Uganda. You can read more about the essential work she and her colleagues have been doing at Mercy Trips Healthcare Outreach
Source: commonsensemd.substack.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0
In an earlier post about my frustrating experience serving on a District of Columbia grand jury that handled indictments for drug-related offenses, I wrote approvingly about Portugal’s novel approach to decriminalizing illicit drug use. In short, rather than receiving criminal sentences and jail time, people caught using small amounts of drugs in Portugal receive citations and are offered counseling and medical treatment. Since then, the city of San Francisco and the state of Oregon have both implemented versions of Portugal’s non-punitive approach, with mixed results.
Source: commonsensemd.substack.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0Common Sense Family Doctor - 3 month(s) ago
Common sense thoughts on public health and conservative medicine from Dr. Kenny Lin, a family doctor in Lancaster,
Source: commonsensemd.substack.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
-
Mashup Score: 0
A recent KFF Health News article highlighted misdiagnoses of type 2 diabetes in several Black female patients who actually had latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), a slowly progressive form of type 1 diabetes. Although the article suggested that the patients’ race may have played a role in delaying their LADA diagnoses, this condition commonly goes unrecognized in primary care. According to Dr. Jeff Unger in a 2010
Source: commonsensemd.substack.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
How artificial intelligence will make my work easier https://t.co/bSga7NIk0C