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Challenges and Gains of AI in Primary Health Systems

Physician's Weekly

Study quality was estimated by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal tools. The results showed that 109 articles were reviewed, mainly from North America (n = 49, 44%) and Europe (n = 36, 33%), using varied study designs. Based on the PCET, AI opportunities, challenges, and requirements were grouped under 4 major dimensions.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Six years ago, I wrote the essay below about an article I read in the New England Journal of Medicine. This week’s Journal has a very profound article about why healthcare has not evolved through its technology the way other sectors of society have. We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

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Screening of osteoporosis lags behind other diseases

Medical Xpress

A new perspective article published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology has highlighted that screening and treatment of osteoporosis lags behind other diseases, resulting in significant morbidity, mortality, and economic costs.

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What Pharma Executives Secretly Think About the Future (But Won’t Admit Publicly)

The Medical Futurist

Sometimes, their private visions diverge from their public ones, and this article shares what they won’t admit publicly through four lenses. For example, the generative AI model developed in collaboration between NVIDIA and Recursion Pharmaceuticals demonstrated its unique screening prowess. It can screen more than 2.8

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening.

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Multifactorial Drivers of Cognitive Decline in Diabetes

Physician's Weekly

Screening was done using predefined criteria, and 2 researchers independently extracted the data. Significant associations were observed with age (OR = 1.06, P = 0.01), female sex (OR = 1.23, P = 0.05), and diabetes duration (OR = 1.07, P = 0.03). Source: frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/10.3389/fendo.2025.1617248/full