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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. These systems will considerably reduce the workload of – but not replace- human healthcare professionals. ” Patient points to lower abdomen.

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Discover Direct Primary Care: An Excellent Choice for Uninsured, Underinsured, and High Deductible Health Plan Holders - Detroit and Royal Oak

Plum Health

Convenience and Accessibility: Located centrally in Detroit and easily reachable for Royal Oak residents, we offer extended office hours and same-day or next-day appointments. Transparent Pricing: With DPC, you know exactly what you're paying for - no hidden costs, no complicated insurance bills.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Searchable by symptoms, signs, and patient factors, it represents the fastest path to a customised differential diagnosis.

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

GeriPal

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. Is this our role?

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

My typical approach with somebody who’s in a methadone clinic, say, a recent cancer diagnosis, and they’re relatively healthy, they can still get to the methadone clinic, although they might not like it, is to. They’re only allowed to prescribe it for opioid use disorder, opioid cravings and Sach.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company. The thing just wrote this beautiful, absolutely beautiful, well-constructed prior authorization request to the insurance company. AI has a long and not storied history in healthcare. ” Now, that of course is wacky.

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