Myriad Genetics

MARCH 13, 2024

1 Besides harnessing technology, doctors and families have two other tools they can use much earlier in their journeys to help them diagnose a rare disease: Newborn screenings and genetic carrier screens. link] Accessed February 2023. References National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD).

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

At its core, the technology utilizes sophisticated speech recognition to transcribe a conversation in the exam room or at the bedside. By removing the need to constantly look at a screen or type notes, we can be more present and engaged, fostering stronger therapeutic relationships and improving patient satisfaction. MEDITECH News.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This nuclear medicine scan utilizes a radioactive tracer that is taken up by the gastric mucosa in Meckel’s diverticulum, thereby helping to identify its presence. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 26 Oct 2023) [link] Sagar J, Kumar V, Shah DK. Updated 2023 Jan 30]. ” An et. J R Soc Med. An J, Zabbo CP.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

And we do this even when we know from years of growing evidence that the yield of these routinely ordered screening tests is very poor? Clinical utility of screening laboratory tests in pediatric psychiatric patients presenting to the emergency department for medical clearance. Hosp Pediatr (2023) 13 (1): 66–71

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

High social risk burden in adults with IBD drives emergency care use and medication gaps—spotlighting the urgent need for social screening in clinical practice. A greater social risk burden was linked to increased odds of unplanned healthcare utilization (severe vs none: OR, 3.5 [1.2-10.2])

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PEMBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The majority of these are cardiac and so today we will review what to look for in your screening ECG. I recommend framing the ECG discussion as screening the electrical connections of the heart to ensure that the heart is not the reason for the scary syncopal episode that they experienced. Larkin, John, et al. Brugada Syndrome.”

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Updated 2023 Jul 17]. Now, newborn screening, or NBS, includes testing newly born infants for certain IEMs. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. It is a screening? And so then it would be nice to have those other than the chaplains, be aware of the spiritual component and then just ask some basic screening questions. I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

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FDA Law

JULY 9, 2024

The deadline for the Draft Guidance was December 29, 2023, so the draft, issued on June 26, 2024, is about 6 months late under FDORA’s mandate. Or maybe we will see an increased utilization of and reliance on registries and other real-world evidence to gather this information in the post-market setting.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Listen Gun Violence and Safety (2023) – Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd – featuring Kit Carney, MD & Kristen Humphrey, MD – PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast [link] Subscribe Advocacy and education resources Be SMART Campaign Be SMART emphasizes the importance of responsible gun ownership and secure gun storage.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Randy died February 26, 2023. What we ended up doing with this study was we used NLP to screen these 44,000 notes for 2,000 patients, 2,512. And we would screen it and then we would filter that down to sort of a select number of EHR passages that we thought were of high likelihood to have a goals of care discussion.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. And guess what?

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data. Go ahead Eric.

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