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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Harbisson received a specialised electronic eye, his “eyeborg” to be able to render perceived colours as sounds on the musical scale. Learn more about the technological future of medical specialties from our latest e-book ! We have to be ready for that!

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. ” So instead of reading a book, we’ll just read it on an iPad. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 This is Eric Widera. Sei: I wonder if there’s a analogy between the internet 1.0

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

GeriPal

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? Or if you want to think of it personally, to keep a fatality out of the book of the surgeon. ” And we can by targeting these supportive care interventions. This is terrific. John: Right.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

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I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. These were EHR documents in the patient’s chart built within the Atrium Health’s electronic health record, where they document other things. Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Elderhood. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today?