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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. Another company’s algorithm works with the hospital’s electronic medical records, and yet another third-party suplier creates AI to compile insurance reports.

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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. It greatly helps physicians in remote areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa diagnose and treat patients. That must have been truly amazing!

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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Prevalence of long-COVID symptoms among non-hospitalized patients in primary care - Part 1 of 3 [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Current research on post-COVID-19 conditions, or "long-COVID", has focused on hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and often lacks a comparison group. Research about PCC among non-hospitalized patients is emerging. Population Studied: Primary care patients never hospitalized for COVID-19 infection.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. By diagnosis? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. They were at the VA, but not so much at our main hub hospital where I trained. I do tend to focus in the hospital setting. By prognosis?

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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

GeriPal

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Emmy: Yeah.

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