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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. The latest – and perhaps biggest – hit was the announcement of ChatGPT-4o from OpenAI. However, medicine, by nature, is multimodal as are humans.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

How far can you see and hear? When it comes to vision, it’s around 50 miles, talking about hearing, it’s only 1-2 miles at best! What about the smell of the flowers? Without the wind blowing, only 10-20 metres. How about touching or tasting? Well, it depends on your arm’s length, but obviously not further than that. Globally 1.1

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

We have seen explosive growth and become a cornerstone of modern health care systems. Yet this expansion has come with a significant administrative burden, particularly that of clinical documentation. Documentation isn’t just time-consuming; it also contributes to pervasive physician burnout. It’s about augmenting your capabilities.

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Working Out – Dan Minter

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Much has changed in the clinical work environment since these master clinicians were in training – work hour restrictions, the internet, electronic medical records, and the increasing medical complexity of our patients, just to name a few. “How do they do it?!!”

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

In analyzing electronic health records for almost 800,000 patients, the researchers found the vaccines to be 75% effective against acute infection, meaning illness that was serious enough to send a patient to a health care provider. So, in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS.

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Presence of Cardiomyopathy in DLBCL Drives Treatment Decisions

Physician's Weekly

Upshaw, MD , and colleagues developed an anonymous electronic survey they emailed to 12 academic medical systems, three US lymphoma cooperative groups, and two community hospitals, and distributed at one international lymphoma meeting. She has no cardiopulmonary symptoms, ECOG PS 0, and no other comorbidities.”

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

On October 10th, based on ability to pay, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas imposed a $275,000 civil penalty on Zarzamora Healthcare LLC, in San Antonio, and its pharmacist-owner. Federal Court Orders San Antonio-Area Pharmacy and Pharmacist to Pay $275,000 Civil Penalty in Case Alleging Unlawful Opioid Distribution, Oct.