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NtC 28: How to Get Things Done
https://vimeo.com/876714071 Excerpts from Navigating the Code: How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey In 1997, Clayton Christensen published a book titled The Innovator’s Dilemma in which he introduced the concept of disruptive...
The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Healthcare: A Call for Vigilance Against Misinformation
https://vimeo.com/953512484 Subscribe to my Dr. Barry Speaks YouTube Channel Healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) stands as a beacon of innovation and efficiency for patient care. However, a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine casts a shadow on this...
NtC 27: Working Groups vs. Skunk Works
https://vimeo.com/876747008 From Navigating the Code: How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey In NtC 23, I explained the concept of skunk works, which grew out of work that started during World War II at Lockheed during the...
Revolutionizing Clinical Trials: The Emergence of AI and NLP
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the landscape of clinical research, offering promising avenues to overcome longstanding challenges in clinical trials. A recent article in JAMA Cardiology, highlighted in an editorial in JAMA, delves into the...
Prompt Engineering = Job Security
https://vimeo.com/876750564 Perspectives: Prompt Engineering = Job Security - Barry Chaiken, MD You may be wondering if artificial intelligence will take your job. Factory workers over the past 30 years thought the same about robots. And yes, many lost their jobs. But...
U.S. Infant Mortality Trends Unacceptable
The Centers for Disease Control reports a 3 percent increase in infant mortality in the U.S., reaching 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births. This uptick represents a trend that had a nearly continuous decline since 1995. Infant mortality, defined as the death of a child...
NtC 26: How Are Medical Decisions Really Made?
https://vimeo.com/876730307 From Navigating the Code: How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey When you walk into your physician's office for treatment, what do you expect from your doctor? You assume she is current on the latest...
Our Duty of Care
https://vimeo.com/876706408 Excerpts from Following Our Duty of Care When I see my healthcare provider, I trust that they have my best interests at heart. I bet you do, too. But what is the basis for our trust in them? "Duty of Care" is a framework that governs the...
Let’s Get the Data to Deliver Healthcare Safely
After numerous accidents and deaths, in 1976, the Federal Aviation Administration launched the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) to collect data on all errors, mishaps, and mistakes in commercial and private aviation. From pilot captains to flight attendants to...
Drug Development Accelerated by AI
Under constant pressure to develop new drugs and treatments, the pharmaceutical industry struggles to manage development costs. Drug development is notoriously slow, costly, and fraught with risk. The process involves: Identifying a drug target. Developing a compound...
Predictive Models to Drive Treatments
https://vimeo.com/876734028 Perspectives: Predictive Models Drive Treatment Google's DeepMind developed AlphaFold, the first AI-driven system that predicts the structure of proteins. Why is that important? The interaction of molecules forms the basis of biology. The...
Healthcare AI Opportunities Available Now
https://vimeo.com/947145942 Access my Dr. Barry Speaks Channel on YouTube Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in healthcare lags behind other sectors like finance and retail, generally paralleling the overall use of information technology. Challenges to using AI...
Middlemen Win Big From Healthcare Spending
For 17% of GDP, we receive shorter lifespans and higher infant mortality. While most ire is directed at hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, middlemen or intermediaries – insurers, pharmacies, drug distributors, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) – sit between...
Take Care of Them So They Can Take Care of Us
https://vimeo.com/788108816 Perspectives: Not Enough of Them to Take Care of Us For almost three years, they have been there. Our doctors and nurses and therapists and administrative staff, accepting the unknown personal risk to their health to be sure we got the care...
Free Markets: Cause and Solution for Drug Shortages
A recent Duke University study identifies the cause of drug shortages and proposes potential solutions. Free markets, which limit profits from generic medications, weaken the supply pipeline. Adjustment in those incentives through regulation can boost production and...
NtC 25: What the World Needs Now
https://vimeo.com/862516822 From Navigating the Code: How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey From one continent to another, we are on an unsustainable healthcare cost curve that threatens our ability to address problems such as...
Following our Duty of Care
(Download a PDF Copy of this Document) The principle of "Duty of Care" is a pivotal framework that governs the conduct and responsibilities of healthcare providers. This obligation extends beyond ethics, constituting a legal mandate that obliges healthcare...
NtC 24: Healthcare: A Business Like No Other
https://vimeo.com/862447547 From Navigating the Code: How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey In 2006, Michael Porter, the well-known Harvard economist and business guru, wrote Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition...