Tech & Innovation
Deep learning in histopathology: the path to the clinic.
5 Jul, 2021 | 01:33h | UTCDeep learning in histopathology: the path to the clinic – Nature Medicine
Commentary on Twitter
What an outstanding new review of deep learning #AI for pathology, and what it will take to overcome the obstacles for clinical value @NatureMedicine https://t.co/frRbGExrsQ
by @DrJeroen @radboudumc @geertlitjens pic.twitter.com/lUo8a8YU7L— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 17, 2021
M-A: Decision-making authority during Tele-ICU care reduces mortality and length of stay.
5 Jul, 2021 | 01:18h | UTCDecision-Making Authority During Tele-ICU Care Reduces Mortality and Length of Stay—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Critical Care Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Widespread implementation of a low-cost telehealth service in the delivery of antenatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic enabled the reduction of in-person consultations by 50% without compromising pregnancy outcomes.
2 Jul, 2021 | 11:26h | UTCCommentary: Expanding the concept of safety in antenatal care provision – The Lancet
WHO issues first global report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and six guiding principles for its design and use.
29 Jun, 2021 | 09:56h | UTCGuidance: Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health – World Health Organization
Commentary: Artificial Intelligence ‘Very Promising’ for Health, Says WHO – Health Policy Watch
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
Artificial Intelligence (#AI) holds enormous potential for improving the health of millions of people around 🌎🌍🌏, but only if ethics & human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, & use.
More in WHO’s first global report on AI & Health👉https://t.co/fC7SX51YzY pic.twitter.com/1Jp0ASPDY3
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) June 28, 2021
Systematic review: the evidence behind robot-assisted abdominopelvic surgery – “there is currently no clear advantage with existing robotic platforms, which are costly and increase operative duration”.
29 Jun, 2021 | 09:55h | UTCThe Evidence Behind Robot-Assisted Abdominopelvic Surgery: A Systematic Review – Annals of Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Robotic Platforms Not Superior for Abdominopelvic Surgery – HealthDay
Cluster-randomized trial: Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti (less susceptible than wild-type A. aegypti to dengue virus infection) deployments reduced the incidence of symptomatic dengue and resulted in fewer hospitalizations.
10 Jun, 2021 | 09:40h | UTCCommentary: ‘Miraculous’ mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77% – BBC
Video Abstract: Efficacy of Wolbachia-infected Mosquito Deployments for the Control of Dengue
Moving from bytes to bedside: a systematic review on the use of artificial intelligence in the intensive care unit.
6 Jun, 2021 | 23:42h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Overview of current maturity of using #ArtificialIntelligence in #ICU, research methodologies, risk of bias: SR including 494 studies. To date, vast majority of published ICU #AI models remain in prototyping/development environment, not tested at bedside. https://t.co/kTpSy2Is7J https://t.co/oU11J3XYjA pic.twitter.com/tKIwQYqgRH
— Intensive Care Medicine (@yourICM) June 5, 2021
Doctors tell how to make the most of your telehealth visits.
3 Jun, 2021 | 10:39h | UTCDoctors Tell How to Make the Most of Your Telehealth Visits – Kaiser Health News
Google strikes a deal with hospital chain to use 32 million patient records to develop healthcare algorithms.
28 May, 2021 | 08:10h | UTCPress release: HCA Healthcare Partners With Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation
Commentaries: Doctor Google will see you now! Privacy fears as tech giant ‘strikes deal’ with hospital chain to use 32 MILLION patient records to create algorithms that will guide healthcare workers’ decisions – The Daily Mail AND Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms for hospital chain – The Verge
A deep learning algorithm can estimate malignancy risk of pulmonary nodules detected at low-dose screening CT.
24 May, 2021 | 08:21h | UTCCommentaries: AI predicts lung cancer risk – Radiological Society of North America AND AI Takes LDCT Further for Lung Cancer Prediction – Diagnostic Imaging
Commentary on Twitter
A deep learning algorithm can have a discriminative performance comparable to that of clinical experts on low-dose screening chest CTs. https://t.co/60U518u6eA pic.twitter.com/phZPFDpUpx
— Radiology (@radiology_rsna) May 20, 2021
New Google AI tool can help patients identify common skin conditions.
24 May, 2021 | 08:23h | UTCUsing AI to help find answers to common skin conditions – Google
Commentary: Google AI tool can help patients identify skin conditions – BBC
Perspective | Contact Tracing for Covid-19 — A Digital Inoculation against Future Pandemics.
21 May, 2021 | 08:45h | UTC
AI-based pathology predicts origins for cancers of unknown primary.
18 May, 2021 | 07:11h | UTCAI-based pathology predicts origins for cancers of unknown primary – Nature
Commentary on Twitter
A paper published in Nature presents a deep-learning algorithm for classification of cancers of unknown primary origin. https://t.co/IZQ13XWzJn pic.twitter.com/WjKW3kQz3N
— Nature Portfolio (@NaturePortfolio) May 15, 2021
RCT: An internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program followed by in-person CBT if necessary is noninferior to in-person CBT for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms in children and adolescents.
12 May, 2021 | 08:39h | UTCEffect of an Internet-Delivered Stepped-Care Program vs In-Person Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA (free for a limited period)
News release: Online CBT effective against OCD symptoms in the young – Karolinska Institutet
RCT: Artificial intelligence–enabled electrocardiograms can identify patients with low ejection fraction
11 May, 2021 | 09:00h | UTCCommentaries: AI-ECG Allows for Early Diagnosis of Low EF -TCTMD AND Trial demonstrates early AI-guided detection of heart disease in routine practice – Mayo Clinic
RCT: A web-based educational intervention can reduce the need for upper endoscopy (39% intervention vs. 82% control group) in patients with uninvestigated dyspepsia
11 May, 2021 | 09:02h | UTCWeb-Based Educational Intervention for Patients With Uninvestigated Dyspepsia Referred for Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Endoscopy: A Randomized Clinical Trial – JAMA Internal Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary on Twitter
A randomized clinical trial found that web-based education on the merits of endoscopy in uninvestigated dyspepsia avoids upper gastrointestinal endoscopies in patients with dyspepsia https://t.co/7PyWNwz2Pj
— JAMA Internal Medicine (@JAMAInternalMed) April 26, 2021
Smartphone science: apps test and track infectious diseases
11 May, 2021 | 08:58h | UTCSmartphone science: apps test and track infectious diseases – Nature
COVID has pushed medical research into remote trials, benefiting patients and scientists
5 May, 2021 | 08:38h | UTC
Malaria vaccine becomes first to achieve WHO-specified 75% efficacy goal
25 Apr, 2021 | 21:17h | UTCNews release: Malaria vaccine becomes first to achieve WHO-specified 75% efficacy goal – University of Oxford
Original study (preprint): High Efficacy of a Low Dose Candidate Malaria Vaccine, R21 in 1 Adjuvant Matrix-M™, with Seasonal Administration to Children in Burkina Faso – The Lancet
Commentaries: Malaria vaccine hailed as potential breakthrough – BBC AND Oxford Malaria vaccine proves highly effective in Burkina Faso trial – The Guardian
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
💡AMAZING—First high >75% efficacy vaccine for a disease with 229 million cases & 409,000 deaths worldwide in 2019 —#Malaria!
Created by Oxford, produced by Serum Institute of India, & supporting adjuvant by Novavax, SII expects to make 200 mil doses a year!
Science! #vaccine pic.twitter.com/gnPMvXxww6
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 23, 2021
Viewpoint | Implementing Measurement Science for Electronic Health Record Use – “Clinicians trained in patient care are locked into hours of screen time to complete mandatory clerical and documentation tasks, often unrelated to the quality of the care”
18 Apr, 2021 | 21:09h | UTCImplementing Measurement Science for Electronic Health Record Use – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Related: Opinion – “The EMR has changed the doctor-patient duet into a ménage-à-trois” (resources on the subject) AND Study: Association Between Perceived Electronic Health Record Usability and Professional Burnout (study and commentaries) AND The future of electronic health records – Nature
Commentaries on Twitter
To optimize #EHR design, implementation, and regulation, EHR use measures must be developed that are trustworthy, clinically important, scientifically sound, transparent, and feasible for implementation.
A recent paper by @JAMA_current @JAMANetwork https://t.co/IN3ZxcON9m pic.twitter.com/kOVQGI1OGl
— Eugenio Santoro (@eugeniosantoro) April 11, 2021
"Drawing attention to the EHR user experience with empirical measurements could add visibility and transparency to what is happening—the hours wasted and the risks incurred—that could stimulate usability improvements." https://t.co/WCzuo288Bp
— Janos Kalman (@kalman_jl) April 9, 2021
Study Commentary | What if the EHR Age-Adjusts D-dimer for You?
18 Apr, 2021 | 21:04h | UTCWhat if the EHR Age-Adjusts D-dimer for You? – Journal Feed
Original study: Multi-center implementation of automated age-adjusted D-dimer results reduces unnecessary PE imaging – The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Liabilities with artificial intelligence: 4 things future radiologists kneed to know
18 Apr, 2021 | 21:02h | UTCClinical applications of AI in MSK imaging: a liability perspective – Skeletal Radiology
Commentaries: 4 Must-Knows about Future Radiologist Liabilities with AI – Diagnostic Imaging AND Who will be liable in the coming AI age? 4 things for radiologists to know – HealthImaging
How mRNA Technology Could Change the World
5 Apr, 2021 | 01:36h | UTCHow mRNA Technology Could Change the World – The Atlantic (a few articles per month are free)
Opinion | AI-facilitated health care requires education of clinicians
2 Apr, 2021 | 09:13h | UTCAI-facilitated health care requires education of clinicians – The Lancet (free registration required)
Commentary on Twitter
In the new issue @TheLancet, @pearsekeane and I review the need, and that the time is ripe, for educating clinicians on deep learning #AI https://t.co/PRmrHVOQF2 pic.twitter.com/RrMV0XH6en
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) April 2, 2021
Editorial | Remote by default general practice: must we, should we, dare we?
28 Mar, 2021 | 22:18h | UTC
https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/1375408196303650818