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From Neural Networks to Human Brains: The Next Tech Leap Has Begun

Physicians News Digest

For example, companies like LVIS Corporation are developing hospital-grade technologies that give researchers and clinicians deeper, real-time insights into brain activity, accelerating the path to earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment. The human brain, by contrast, performs complex tasks with a fraction of the energy.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. Here, I outlined the way technology delineates the future of eye care and vision.

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

GeriPal

We learned this and much more, and I had a great time making engine noises singing the Woody Guthrie song “driving in my car.” . Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Emmy: I would say one big thing, though, is I try to not just make any decision based on a diagnosis, perhaps obviously. OT programs).

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. And there are these issues around, well when is the machine just summarizing what happened versus actually doing some interpretation? Eric: Yeah.

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

GeriPal

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. I started on YouTube specifically because, Julie probably knows this, but YouTube is actually the second-largest search engine after Google. He was also the one who we have to thank for suggesting this podcast!

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. Eric: Yeah. What did you find in the JAGS paper, Samir?