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May 23, 2023

How Healthcare Caught FHIR

The exchange of patient information is a crucial aspect of healthcare delivery, enabling clinicians and other healthcare professionals to access critical information about a patient’s health status and medical history.


However, exchanging patient information between different electronic medical records (EMR) and healthcare information technology systems has traditionally been a complex and challenging process, often requiring extensive manual intervention and data conversion.

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$4 Trillion Spending Yet Drug Shortage

The critical shortage of cancer drugs forces patients to scramble for doses and skip treatments. Many of these are inexpensive generic medications. Congress is holding hearings while patients are waiting for life-saving care.

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Prepare for the Medical AI Wave

Google's recently updated LLM model PaLM 2 powers its Med PaLM 2, a medicine specific generative AI tool. Currently in beta, it is being tested "against multiple criteria — including scientific consensus, medical reasoning, knowledge recall, bias, and likelihood of possible harm — which were evaluated by clinicians and non-clinicians from a range of backgrounds and countries". 

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Using Real-Time Evidence to Drive Drive Best Practices

With only 4% of patient care driven by high-quality, evidence-based care guidelines, such care gaps force physicians to use only their intuition and experience to manage patients. EMRs offer a wealth of clinical experience - the decisions of their peers and resulting outcomes - to identify successful treatment strategies.

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NtC 11: You Say You Want a Revolution

NtC 11: You Say You Want a Revolution

When the Beatles released their song "Revolution", the radical political left severely criticized it. John Lennon, the song's author, sympathized with the need for change but rejected using violence to achieve those ends. Like Lennon, I want change, but not in a way that destroys the HIT systems we currently use.

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