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From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

We have seen a number of examples, Canada experimenting with robot-comrades since the 2016 introduction of Ludwig , and some elderly care facilities in Ireland introducing Stevie to their residents. Robotic medical dispenser systems, medication management solutions help any given facility “right-size” its system for its volume.

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Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

Physician's Weekly

Despite the emphasis on U=U as a key HIV prevention strategy since 2016, none of the included studies explicitly described U=U or U=U messaging as an intervention component,” the researchers wrote. Of the 669 participants, the mean age from studies was 45.4 years, and 91% of the participants were Black women with HIV.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Eric 10:03 So you’re worried that maybe if you’re doing telemedicine, you wouldn’t be able to accurately engage functional status. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. I don’t know how our patients manage that. Kara 10:08 Yep. Eric 10:09 So you’re reassured on that concern there. Kara 10:12 Yep.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Makary published a controversial study in 2016 hypothesizing that errors killed 250,000 people a year in the U.S. Singh devises ways to integrate technologies like telemedicine and artificial intelligence into electronic health records to alert doctors to potential prescribing errors or misdiagnoses. million, he said.