Pay attention to the media coverage around artificial intelligence, and it’s easy to get the sense that technologies such as chatbots pose an “existential crisis” to everything from the economy to democracy. These threats are real, and proactive regulation is crucial. But it’s also important to highlight AI’s many positive applications, especially in health care. Consider the Mayo Clinic, the largest integrated, nonprofit medical practice in the world, which has created more than 160 AI algorithms in cardiology, neurology, radiology and other specialties. Forty of those have already been deployed in patient care
Author: Abhay Panchal
Concerns about potential malpractice liability are top of mind for many physicians of all specialties. This is not surprising given recent verdicts in medical malpractice actions that have awarded millions of dollars in damages to plaintiffs. Even outside of high-profile malpractice cases, most physicians are aware that the nature of their work puts them at higher risk for liability than those in other professions. Most also know that their physician colleagues across the United States can and do face judgments that can put their personal assets in jeopardy and would like to take steps to protect themselves and their families.
I realized I had gut health issues around five years ago, when I started noticing symptoms like bloating becoming way more common in my day-to-day life. It got especially bad after eating certain foods (looking at you, pizza), but I had no idea how to narrow down what my sensitivities were at the time. Eventually, I did what most people do: Struggle to book an appointment with a gastroenterologist, take several unrelated blood tests, and pay for multiple follow-up appointments before I finally met the low FODMAP diet, a plan that limits consumption of naturally occurring fermentable sugars, and which…
Dr. K attends Digestive Disease Week and has the opportunity to interview numerous members of AGA leadership as well as the GI Opportunity Fund.
New data show that sleeve gastrectomy, but not Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, is linked with better disease-specific outcomes in morbidly obese patients who have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Previous studies have shown that bariatric surgery is safe for people with IBD, but there have been few long-term data on whether the weight loss improves disease outcomes for that population, said lead author Aakash Desai, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in an interview with Medscape Medical News. Gastroenterologists are often hesitant to pursue bariatric surgery in patients with IBD because of…
In the past five years, private equity (PE) firms, physician groups, and health insurers were responsible for 90% of physician practice acquisitions, while hospitals and health systems were responsible for just 6%, according to an American Hospital Association (AHA) analysis. Advisory Board’s Eliza Dailey and Sarah Hostetter outline what this means for shifting physician employment landscape — and those who work with doctors and medical groups.
In recent years, private equity firms have been gobbling up physician practices to form powerful medical groups across the country, according to a new report released Monday. In more than a quarter of local markets — in places like Tucson, Ariz.; Columbus, Ohio; and Providence, R.I. — a single private equity firm owned more than 30 percent of practices in a given specialty in 2021. In 13 percent of the markets, the firms owned groups employing more than half the local specialists.
The expanding therapeutic use of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, coupled with its technical demands and potential for adverse events, has spurred increased emphasis on adequate training and development of quality standards for ERCP procedures. Bret Petersen, MD, a consultant in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., presented 10 tips for high-quality ERCP at the New York Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy’s 2022 Annual New York Course. Noting that an update to the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy/American College of Gastroenterology quality indicators for ERCP is imminent (Gastrointest Endosc 2015;81[1]:54-66), Dr. Petersen focused on individual endoscopist-level…
Looking back on her career as a gastroenterologist, Mariam Naveed, MD, sees the gastroenterology fellowship program she created at AdventHealth in Orlando, Fla., as a pinnacle moment. Her first faculty position as assistant program director for the gastroenterology fellowship program at the University of Iowa offered some inspiration. “I loved teaching and working with trainees and knew I always wanted to remain in this realm,” Dr. Naveed said.
LAVAL, QC / ACCESSWIRE / July 11, 2023 / Bausch Health Companies Inc. (NYSE/TSX:BHC) and its gastroenterology business, Salix Pharmaceuticals, today announced the winners of its 2023 Salix Gastrointestinal Health Scholars Program. For the fourth consecutive year, Salix will be awarding $10,000 each to 10 students living with a GI disease. “At Salix, we understand it can be incredibly difficult to balance both the pursuit of higher education and the challenges associated with living with a gastrointestinal condition,” said Nicola Kayel, vice president, Marketing, Salix. “That is why Salix is dedicated to reducing the stress and financial burden for these…