The Hidden Inequity In Digital Health – This And More News In Digital Health This Week
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD
Director of The Medical Futurist Institute (Keynote Speaker, Researcher, Author & Futurist)
The nanoparticle sensors, designed by MIT scientists can distinguish between viral and bacterial pneumonia and will hopefully provide invaluable medical advice to doctors in the future, allowing them to only prescribe antibiotics when indeed necessary.?
If you are interested, where blood drawing robots, a favorite creepy pet peeve of the team stand at the moment, we are at your service with this article , while we also examined what is to be expected from digital health tools in terms of closing or widening the health inequity gap .
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MIT researchers have now designed a sensor that can distinguish between viral and bacterial pneumonia infections, which they hope will help doctors to avoid prescribing antibiotics in cases where they won’t be effective.
Viral and bacterial infections provoke distinctive types of immune responses, the research team decided to focus on measuring the host’s response to infection.
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33 of the top 100 hospitals in the United States were using a tracker called the Meta Pixel on their websites, that could include sensitive health information connected to a patient’s IP address.
On one hospital website, clicking the scheduling button sent Facebook a doctor’s name and the condition — “Alzheimer’s” — that the appointment was scheduled for.
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Another self-confident technology giant thinks it can solve healthcare's IT issue because it's a technical one and they have a good track record at solving those. All this after closing a $28 billion deal to acquire electronic health records company Cerner.
I expect they will soon discover that the electronic health record field has even more cultural challenges embedded into it than just purely technical ones.
Robots can draw blood – in difficult cases faster and even more effectively than a human. Tests showed that it can correctly identify the most accessible vein with an 83% accuracy.
Yet, people tend to have some aversion towards robots in a medical setting despite the fact that as patients, we already interact with plenty of technologies in modern medicine that we don’t understand.
A new clinical trial is running to find out whether an mRNA infusion could instruct the body to make the protein that is missing in people with a certain metabolic disease (GSD-Ia).
"GSD-Ia is caused by an enzyme deficiency where the liver fails to break down glycogen into glucose, causing the body’s blood sugar levels to drop."
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