The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital. In 2016, Google developed an eye-scanning technique for looking at retinal images and detecting diabetic retinopathy as well as a trained ophthalmologist.

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Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Eric 04:26 So that 2016 study was in the ED, but it was getting specialty palliative care to see them when they were hospitalized, is that right? Primary outcome was quality of life.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. So what did this one show?

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Areej: I think it was 2016. Eric: 2016. Jennifer: I think it’s such a complicated question. Most people aren’t coming to UCSF or MGH for their healthcare. JAMA study just came out an electronic symptom monitoring for people with metastatic cancer showed improvement in their symptoms and quality of life.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

We wondered how given that HHS and the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) conducted eight-factor scheduling analyses in 2016, concluding that there was “no substantial evidence that marijuana should be removed from Schedule I.” 12, 2016) ; Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed. 12, 2016).

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Physicals Medical Clinic Emergency Room 69