HealthFuturesDigest

A monthly digest of news/commentary on innovation in medicine and health, brought to you by the Michael & Marian Ilitch Department of Surgery at WSUSOM

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Robotics: Probably heavily "doctored" but this video is a pointer to a near future: https://t.co/Cv0ONvfMzd

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EHR: FINALLY!!! The global EHR is on its way. Only about a decade late, but better late etc. Putting together this really BIG data with increasingly clever (and reliable) AI analytics is going to advance healthcare by orders of magnitude. https://t.co/uh1BEKsZJ5

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Cancer: Big step forward for head and neck cancer treatment. https://t.co/gVwiMxgdrg

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Computing; EHRs: Finally, someone has assessed the cost, security, and user friendliness of Apple v MS and discovered what any Mac-using former MS user knows. https://t.co/nHj2wmckMH

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World’s first successful bladder transplant. https://t.co/ITdj11DiCE

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Cancer: In a UK trial, women with early-stage breast cancer and BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations were given olaparib plus chemotherapy before surgery. They all remain cancer-free after 3 years. https://t.co/iQuEU1hKKn

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An AI tool grounded in evidence-based medicine outperforms other AI tools—and most doctors—on USMLE exams https://t.co/1MYWgmQwlA

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40% of nurses eye exit by 2029: 5 findings from NCSBN's new workforce report  - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis https://t.co/tsTE668efs

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RegenMed: Stem cell treatments can now be applied to patients on ECMO support. https://t.co/UFtsoKoqz3

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Therapeutics: Move over, GLP-1 drugs--there's a new game in town. https://t.co/ALHv3fnWeK

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BMI: Exciting progress in translating a paralyzed patient's brainwaves to speech. Telepathy is not far away. https://t.co/b80i1zONzQ via @medical_xpress

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Bionics: Wearable brain stimulation device to treat depression, stroke-related motor impairment, and other neuropsychiatric disorders is undergoing clinical trials in China. https://t.co/yJkyLRFQFf via @medical_xpress

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Molded: New class of antibiotics could solve the huge problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. https://t.co/rcReuEJLcc

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RegenMed: A new way to engineer neurons for cell therapy could help treat. e.g., ALS. Shows promise in mice but of course still much work to do. https://t.co/5JJNCPGE4u via @physorg_com

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Surgery: It seems that surgeons do somewhat better after the weekend. https://t.co/XYEOuno83M

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RegenMed: stem cell therapy repairs 'irreversible' corneal damage in clinical trial. https://t.co/U46TrIGqB8

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EHRs; AI: AI-infused EHRs will have a major beneficial impact on physician practice and patient care, and a battle royal between EPIC and Oracle/Cerner, to be the AI EHR of choice, has begun. https://t.co/0W5hHaNgE7

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Cancer; Proteomics: Good advance toward a treatment for a rare cancer, but one wonders if instead of a very expensive and exotic cyclotron, available AI-based protein-folding apps could have been used instead? https://t.co/dRk9L1sxcG

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Surgery: Bariatric surgery turns out to be very good for MASH (fatty liver disease) patients. https://t.co/hMTCs6FdqL

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Business; AI: Ditto (see previous tweet). https://t.co/vyz8V1CxQJ