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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. These systems will considerably reduce the workload of – but not replace- human healthcare professionals. AI used in the hospital.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Nadine: I would argue, insurance doesn’t agree, that anyone with diabetes should be on a CGM at least initially for behavior modification. This hasn’t floated into our hospital systems yet, but at least in the real world, people are using these to make insulin dosing decisions without needing to poke their fingers.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

The company works closely with a continuously growing number of insurance companies in Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK, in the Netherlands among others, as well as with companies offering this service to their employees. So far, this dermatology app has been used by 3.5 million instances globally by almost 2 million users.

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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? Is this our role?

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Zachary: So seeing a non-onc population at the VA and out-patient at Dana-Farber, and that when someone comes to me with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder, it is much easier you kind of have an idea of where you’re going to start. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. We got admitted to the hospital, our inpatient palliative team developed their skill set because they had a place to send patients when they got discharged. He’s now hospitalized to break up that methadone into three times a day dosing.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

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