Ayble Health, a digital health company focused on chronic GI conditions, has launched a direct-to-consumer app with a program targeting nutrition. The initial offering is a precision nutrition program providing comprehensive, personalized dietary treatment plans and coaching from certified health experts to GI patients looking to manage their symptoms. Frustrated by the lack of access to GI-specialized dietary and psychological support he faced on his own care journey, Ayble Health CEO Sam Jactel founded the startup in 2020. The app makes evidence-based recommendations to help users find relief and demystify chronic GI issues. “These conditions are so pervasive, and if…
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While gastroenterologists, like many medical specialists, face daily frustrations, including low budgets, insufficient staffing and insurance fights, there are many perks to the job as well. Gastroenterology offers an ever-changing environment that keeps physicians on their toes as new technologies emerge. Gastroenterologist Linda Lee, MD, medical director of endoscopy at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at Boston’s Harvard Medical School, told Becker’s that she could not imagine working in any other specialty.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is important, as CRC is one of the most common causes of cancer death in the United States. Current recommendations for CRC screening include options for direct visualization such as screening colonoscopy, as well as stool-based tests such as high-sensitivity guaiac-based fecal occult blood testing (HSgFOBT). No studies have compared adherence to single screening colonoscopy versus sequential annual rounds of HSgFOBT.
Innovation in gastrointestinal endoscopy and clinical practice has progressed quite rapidly, especially in the last decade. Enhancements in device and equipment design, technology, and function have greatly expanded our ability to provide minimally invasive endoscopic procedures (and interventions) that were not possible in the past. In addition, there is a renewed emphasis on improving patient safety and infection control and reducing patient morbidity, while continuously making efforts to improve clinical outcomes. Gastroenterologists, gastrointestinal surgeons and other clinical providers in our specialty have partnered with our industry colleagues to identify unmet needs in clinical practice and deliver technological enhancements aimed at…
Elimination diet is an effective treatment for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and offers patients a drug-free alternative to controlling their disease. However implementing dietary therapy — including careful elimination and systematic reintroduction of potential trigger foods — can be challenging for both patients and clinicians. A new guide published in CGH aims to summarize the evidence in support of elimination diets and provides a 50-page dietary resource to help providers successfully implement dietary therapies for EoE.
In this video Naresh Gunaratnam, MD, discusses the gastroenterology fellowship program that Huron Gastroenterology developed with Trinity Health in Ann Arbor, Mich. Dr. Gunaratnam helped create the program because he and his colleagues felt that traditional fellowship programs don’t always provide information or guidance about non-academic career pathways in gastroenterology. Hear from Dr. Gunaratnam how the fellowship program at Huron Gastroenterology is training fellows to become excellent clinicians who care for patients in the community setting. He has no financial conflicts relative to the topics in this video.
“They all laughed when I spoke of greedy doctors.”Spoken by Dr Ralph Crawshaw at the Oregon Medical Association, as documented in the Western Journal of Medicine.Crawshaw continued: …the central clinical problem we physicians face in clinical practice is appetite control. Patients seem insatiably hungry for cigarettes, food, sex, money, love and pills. Are we so different from our patients? My good friend Ralph was a leader in the development of the Oregon Health Plan. He also proposed that the Impaired Physician Program of the Oregon Medical Association look into physicians who were “impaired by money.”
Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains the second most common cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Although the past several decades have seen significantly greater emphasis on screening and disease prevention for CRC, it has also become increasingly apparent that the age profile and associated risks for this cancer are rapidly changing. Evidence of this can be found in recently released CRC statistics from the American Cancer Society, which are updated every 3 years using population-based cancer registries. The incidence in CRC has shown a progressive decline over the past four decades. However, whereas in the 2000s there was an…
It’s been over 2 decades since 37-year-old Joshua Denton was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Controlling the physical symptoms of comorbidities, such as inflammatory bowel disease, have been possible, but he was surprised when depression and anxiety set in. “You’re dealing with what I call the anxiety of the unknown. What does this mean?” said Mr. Denton, who serves as a patient advocate with Color of Crohn’s & Chronic Illness, a nonprofit group aimed at improving quality of life for racial-ethnic minorities. “When you understand that it’s autoimmune that is chronic and incurable, you’re wondering, ‘Am I going to have a…
With shifting consumer demands for fast and convenient services, healthcare organizations are embracing digital transformation. In turn, the Big Tech companies are accelerating their pursuit of the healthcare market. They are leveraging their vast resources and data insights to develop innovative solutions that could change the game for both consumers and medical professionals alike. Below, I break down how these tech giants are working to reshape healthcare with new initiatives, products, and investments. Big tech companies are increasing their investments in healthcare. In 2021, Apple, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta collectively invested over $3.1 billion in the healthcare industry,…