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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

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. In 2016, Google developed an eye-scanning technique for looking at retinal images and detecting diabetic retinopathy as well as a trained ophthalmologist.

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Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives

Permanente Medicine

Kaiser Permanente is comprised of the Permanente Medical Groups and Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals. Improving access in adult and family medicine at TPMG by reducing appointment booking times by more than 33%. We are dedicated to the mission of improving the health of our patients and communities.

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

GeriPal

I’d been working with persons who had diabetes and also caregivers and so forth, trying to go at the direction and realize as I look more and more at hearing loss, that it was totally unrecognized in clinical practice. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss. Is that right?

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

” And Bing responded, I should ask about how AI can help identify patients who need palliative care and reduce hospitalizations, what are the benefits and challenges of using AI in decision-making, communication, palliative care, and how could AI support the quality of life and dignity of patients for those who are receiving palliative care?

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

GeriPal

Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression. And for some of them, the stays in hospitals are a month long. We can figure out how to keep them in the hospital for a month, or do all these other imaging tests, but we can’t do this one thing. Mazie: Yes.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. But I think the most important thing is just to, to recognize, to ask these types of questions. I think it’s.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Elderhood. He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. It was clear.