The Truth about Healthcare AI and Why It has Failed So Far
The History of AI: The history of AI in healthcare dates back to the 1950s when researchers began exploring the use of computers to diagnose medical conditions. In the decades that followed, AI technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing were developed, and these technologies have been applied to a variety of healthcare tasks, including radiology. 1940-1960: Birth of AI in the wake of cybernetics 1980-1990: Expert systems Since 2010: a new bloom based on massive data and new computing power Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry. By automating certain tasks and providing doctors with more accurate and timely information, AI can help improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. However, despite its potential ...
Oatmeal Health To Bring Innovation, Tech-Enabled Lung Cancer Screening to The Clinic in Oklahoma
SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA & ADA OKLAHOMA Oatmeal Health, a Patient Success Service supported by AI-Enabled Imaging for Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries, announced today a new partnership with the Central Oklahoma Family Medical Center FQHC (The Clinic) to bring tech-enabled lung cancer screenings to their patients. “We founded Oatmeal Health in May 2022 and in just a few months are in partnership conversations with FQHCs in 5 states and counting,” said Jonathan Govette, Oatmeal Health’s CEO, and co-founder. “We are excited to work alongside Central Oklahoma Family Medical Center at 10 locations in Ada, Konawa, Stratford, and Seminole to meet their patients' most pressing lung cancer screening needs, and the response from their staff has been overwhelmingly positive." Currently, lung ...
Why is Lung Cancer Screening Failing in 2022
Every lung cancer screening system is perfectly designed for the results it achieves. Good or Bad. What if you don't have a system? Per the team at the Medical University of South Carolina, a centralized approach to LCS is the way to go: "Emerging data suggest that annual adherence is poor and that a centralized approach to screening improves adherence. [Within their study] Overall adherence was 56%; however, adherence in the centralized program was 70%, compared with 41% with the decentralized approach (P < .001)." Pubmed link: https://lnkd.in/g9StVnKR A centralized approach has another critical benefit per Anil Vachani and the team at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System. They share that we can begin to address equity with a centralized ...
What are Imaging RADS and Why is it Important to Primary Care and your Patient’s Health
At some point, it won’t be realistic to expect primary care providers to do ‘one more thing.’ due to limited time in their already packed schedule, as noted in an article Jonathan Govette wrote called "The Battle Between Primary Care and Time: The Doctors are Losing" In the early 90s, radiology created an important system to improve breast cancer screening and reporting called BI-RADS. New areas have been added and the list is now up to 9, including liver, thyroid, and lung. And there are 6 more in the works. These are critical to systematizing the valuable data extracted from imaging. What is RADS, and why is it important? "Imaging RADS" refer to the Radiology Reporting and Data System, ...
State-by-state prevalence of the 5 most common types of cancer
Cancer has destroyed so many lives around the world and it is only getting worse. My father's prostate cancer just came back a 2nd time and he is undergoing radiation treatment now for the next 8 weeks. For anyone that is dealing with this firsthand or has family members, it is one of the hardest things to go through, and sadly most of the worst effects of cancer can be mitigated if caught early enough. So why are people not getting screened 100 percent? That is a question for another day. What Cancers Are More Prevalent? Certain forms of cancer are more common than others, notably in late-stage development. Stacker analyzed cancer incidence data from the National Cancer Institute and CDC to look ...
The Sad Truth About the American Healthcare System and the Health of Our Patients
I decided that after interviewing hundreds of health systems and health professionals over the last decade I needed to say something again about the "health" of our healthcare system. While it is not my intent in publishing this article to call out specific companies in this article, I will provide a few examples of why some things are not doing so well. One of my earliest articles about this topic was in 2013 when I wrote "11 reasons why our healthcare system is so messed up", detailing some pretty damning statistics that have not gotten better in the last 10 years. There is a multitude of reasons why the system is broken and I will go over a few here ...
25 Shocking Statistics That Keep Healthcare Executives Up at Night
History has shown that while healthcare is more open to adopting technology to improve outcomes, bureaucracy, ego, money, or indifference to change still tend to get in the way. Technology is not our only problem unfortunately, healthcare has so many more. In this article, I put together some statistics that show we still have a long way to go to make healthcare more accessible to everyone. Here are the 25 shocking statistics that keep healthcare executives up at night. 1. Medicare reimbursements declined by 9% The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission found that hospitals experienced a -8.5% margin on Medicare services in 2020, and it projects that margin will fall to -9% in 2022. Combined underpayments from Medicare and ...
The Battle Between Primary Care and Time: The Doctors are Losing
The classic battle between time and the best interest of the patient is real in primary care. The average primary care doctor has between 1200 to 1900 patients, with Kaiser Permanente reporting a mean per-physical panel size of 1751. This most likely is not accurate nowadays, with some reports saying 2500 to 4000 is the new norm, as stated brilliantly by a LinkedIn comment by Sharon Ng M.D. I asked my followers to share their thoughts on how they can make the healthcare system better, and they posted some great comments on this Linkedin Thread - 70 comments and counting. What Does This Mean? Primary care physicians often have limited time to provide comprehensive care to patients, with a ...