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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Invest in Person-Centered, Data-Informed Care Support the use of measurement-based care (MBC), which allows providers to track symptoms over time, improve quality, and avoid unnecessary treatments. Fund technology that supports behavioral health labs —routine assessments just like bloodwork—to inform care in real time and empower patients.

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Automatic Detection of Osteoporosis in Electronic Consultation (eConsult) Service Using Natural Language Processing [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures We used a combination of evaluation indices, such as accuracy, precision, recall, to decide the optimum feature engineering approach and model. Latent extracted terms and conceptual symptoms helped users gain confidence in AI, better informed diagnostics, PCPs understandings.

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Why do we remember emotional events better than non-emotional ones?

Medical Xpress

In a study published on January 16, 2023 in Nature Human Behaviour, Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, and his team identified a specific neural mechanism in the human brain that tags information with emotional associations for enhanced memory.

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Wearable skin patch monitors hemoglobin in deep tissues

Medical Xpress

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed an electronic patch that can monitor biomolecules in deep tissues, including hemoglobin.

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SA-HFIRE Spurs Dynamic, Immune-Linked Tumor Structure Shifts

Physician's Weekly

Sub-ablative high-frequency irreversible electroporation (SA-HFIRE) causes a dynamic shift in breast tumor lymphatic and blood microvascular structures, potentially enhancing the adaptive immune response, according to findings published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. Digital contact lenses sound like science fiction: the translucent layer on your eye transmitting special information about your body to an outside device.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

The Scorecard was developed in response to a call for an annual tracking tool to inform primary care policy issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in their 2021 report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care. For more information, visit www.milbank.org.