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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Their research showed promising results for lab rats, and they plan to carry out the first human trials in the second half of 2017 and gather preliminary results during 2018. Harbisson received a specialised electronic eye, his “eyeborg” to be able to render perceived colours as sounds on the musical scale.

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Pregnancy outcomes and complications in refugees and other newcomers at a Family Medicine practice in Philadelphia, PA [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting/Dataset Data were extracted from the electronic health records at a Family Medicine practice in Philadelphia, PA. Population Studied Inclusion criteria were ages 16-45 with a DME performed between 2018 and 2023.

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Mastering Responses to FDA 510(k) AI Letters: A Strategic Approach

FDA Law Blog

Performance Metric FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 Average Number of FDA Days to MDUFA IV Decision 72.62 These AI requests often address complicated scientific scenarios in which a submitter has already provided some information, but FDA is not completely satisfied. Average Number of Industry Days to MDUFA IV Decision 54.69

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

William: So ASCO decided to make a high priority this year to redo the guidelines, which were originally released in 2018. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. Or electronically, to fill out, right? ” And we can by targeting these supportive care interventions.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Or have electronic health record prompts so people remember to ask it?

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records. What’s in the electronic health record?

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. We see how hard it is. Eric: On EHR?

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