The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 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. Globally 1.1 That must have been truly amazing!
BMJ
AUGUST 20, 2021
doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845 The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has fueled numerous massive global health initiatives. Digital uptake is more prevalent in high-volume and urban hospital networks.
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FDA Law
JUNE 22, 2023
Regarding COVID-19, Tim Stenzel, Director of CDRH’s Office of In Vitro Diagnostics, has stated that “in-home testing and home collections is a top priority” ( June 2020 FDA Virtual Town Hall ); “obviously home over-the-counter tests including rapid antigen tests are a high priority” ( February 2021 FDA Virtual Town Hall ).
GeriPal
JUNE 8, 2023
This hasn’t floated into our hospital systems yet, but at least in the real world, people are using these to make insulin dosing decisions without needing to poke their fingers. So say you have somebody new diagnosis, you’ve just put them on Metformin and something else, and you slap a CGM on them and they can see it.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
A 2020 RCT of coaching for primary care physicians shows that coaching improves burnout well-being during the intervention and has a sustained duration at 6 months of follow up. We make a diagnosis. When somebody is not able to function, they need deep therapy, and probably maybe even hospitalization. Beth: Yeah. Greg: Hmm.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!
GeriPal
JANUARY 30, 2025
But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources.
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