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November 21 · Issue #34 · View online |
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A “biohack’ by a hospital, #nurseincluded & #entrepreNURSEship, zero peer-reviewed studies for AI in radiology and a cardiac arrest in 5 minutes.
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Hospital BioHacks Patient For The First Time
This week for the first time, a hospital edited the genes of a patient, hopefully to cure him. 44-year-old Brian Madeux of Pheonix, AZ got an infusion of gene editing liquid at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland this week, as reported by AP.
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[TOMORROW IS GOOD] The Useless Class
Others say that as soon as robots finally free us from the slave yoke of salaried labor, we have time to let go of our creativity completely. I see a shortage of audiences to go to all those performances and not enough walls for all the paintings that will be made.
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Immunization needs a technology boost
Today, about 80% of infants living in the world’s 73 poorest countries receive routine immunizations, a measure currently assessed by whether they have been given a full course of a vaccine regime to prevent diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus. In 2000, only about 60% received such protection.
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NURSEincluded & EntrepreNURSES
We often take it for granted: nurses working fiercely to make things happen, making sure the patient and family are well informed taken care of and assuring everything that can help a solid recovery, or an unavoidable palliative process as humane as possible.
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Community Hospitals Should Use Engagement Tools to Keep Patients In-Network, Drive Down Costs
Some patients prefer community hospitals to larger health systems when it comes to seeking medical care because a local organization can offer a personal touch that is hard to come by in large systems. For some, large systems seem impersonal and hard to navigate.
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Shawn Nason on Twitter
TUESDAY TRUTH: #Healthcare, when will people just be people? @lucienengelen @ZaynaKhayat @ilnmuse #innov #designforhealth #patientsincluded
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Bayer hires new blood to stem 'Amazon effect' in consumer health
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German drugmaker Bayer has hired the head of Nestle’s baby food business to help it reverse a drop in revenue from consumer health brands, which often fail to appeal to buyers on Amazon and other online platforms.
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Eric Topol on Twitter
There’s been a lot of talk about radiologists being replaced by machines. So I looked up the peer-reviewed publications of #AI companies @enlitic @ZebraMedVision @baylabsinc @ArterysInc @radlogics @IBMWatsonHealth
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"You will have a cardiac arrest in 5 minutes from now, sir"
It’s 7:15 PM, the doorbell rings. Opening the front door I see an ambulance on the front lawn and a crew at my front-door. “Hi sir, we’re here for the cardiac arrest” …me : “there is no cardiac arrest right here!”.
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