Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care plans to roll out its ChatGPT-like feature for physicians next week, CBS MarketWatch reported May 8. The health system will follow UC San Diego Health and Madison, Wis.-based UW Health, which started piloting the technology in April. The Microsoft generative artificial intelligence platform from OpenAI is integrated into Epic’s MyChart patient portal, where it drafts messages for clinicians. “Care teams don’t have the capacity to address the volume of patient messages they receive in a timely way,” Patricia Garcia, MD, associate chief medical information officer for ambulatory care at Stanford Health Care, told the news outlet. “Maybe large…
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Iterative Health, a pioneer in precision-medicine technologies for gastroenterology, announced today that it has partnered with Allied Digestive Health (ADH), a leading gastroenterology practice, to bring Clinical Trial Optimization to ADH’s research centers across New Jersey and New York to aid in the recruitment of patients for inflammatory bowel disease clinical trials. Allied Digestive Health is one of the largest integrated networks of gastroenterology care centers in the nation with over 200 providers and 60 locations throughout New Jersey and New York. Allied Digestive Health’s mission to empower gastroenterologists to deliver compassionate, high quality, and comprehensive care through an unparalleled…
DALLAS, May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — GI Alliance, the nation’s premier gastroenterology management organization, is pleased to announce a partnership with Specialists in Gastroenterology (SIG) located in St. Louis, Missouri. This group of ten providers includes six physicians and four advanced practice providers. Founded in 1942, SIG has a proven history of providing comprehensive and highly specialized gastroenterology care. SIG physicians include Leonard Weinstock, M.D., Aman Singh, M.D., Erik Thyssen, M.D., Nikhil Banerjee, M.D., Steven Fern, D.O., and Benjamin Root, M.D. In addition to the clinical practice, this partnership will include the Advanced Endoscopy Center, in-house infusion, and ASC anesthesia services.
Private practice is changing across specialties, and gastroenterology is no different. Stephen Amann, MD, a gastroenterologist at Digestive Health Specialists in Tupelo, Miss., connected with Becker’s to discuss what private practice may look like 10 years from now. Note: This response has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Dr. Stephen Amann: The landscape has changed significantly over the past number of years. I believe healthcare and patients need to have private practice GI physicians and advanced practice providers to deliver care. Physician autonomy allows practices to be responsive and resilient to rapid changes occurring in healthcare.
Transaction represents One GI’s continued expansion in the Virginia market Michael Kroin and PGP delivered a great outcome for us – one that put a smile on every partner’s face.” — Dr. Walid MakdisiVIRGINIA BEACH, VA, USA, May 9, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Physician Growth Partners (“PGP”) is pleased to have advised Gastroenterology Associates of Tidewater in its partnership with One GI, a portfolio company of Webster Equity Partners. This transaction represents One GI’s continued expansion in the Virginia market. Since the late 1970s, Gastroenterology Associates of Tidewater (“GATGI”) has provided comprehensive gastroenterology services from two offices in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach, with more than 10 providers.…
The explosion of artificial intelligence has permeated through basically all walks of life, including medicine. In an abstract presented during the 2023 Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in Chicago, a group of investigators focused on using artificial intelligence to help better detect a significantly higher number of adenomas following colonoscopies. In the study, investigators used the CAD-Eye system to detect polyps in patients aged 45 years and older. The results of the 1033 person study show the computer assisted colonoscopy resulted in a significantly higher adenoma per colonoscopy (APC) compared to the standard colonoscopy. In an interview with HCPLive®, Linda S. Lee, MD, Director of…
Certificate of Need (CON) regulations are in place for ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) in about 20 states. For most physicians, these regulations stop them from forming their own ASC due to the high cost and complexity of coming into compliance. We want to ask: are CON regulations protecting hospitals from lower-cost competitors (ASCs) and, in the process, contributing to higher health care costs? Unlocking Opportunities for Physicians: Office-Based Procedures as a Solution to High Healthcare Costs Health insurance companies in some CON states have realized that CON is working to the advantage of hospitals and to the detriment of patients and employers…
by Bill Snyder Raymond Burk Jr., MD, former director of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, died May 1 in Nashville. He was 80. Dr. Burk’s recruitment of “master clinicians, passionate educators and world-class investigators” in gastroenterology, nutrition and hepatology (diseases of the liver, pancreas and gall bladder) raised the division’s prominence, said long-time colleague and current division director Richard Peek Jr., MD, who holds the Mina Cobb Wallace Chair in Immunology. “Ray Burk was likely best known for his integrity, humility, compassion, sage insight, and vision,” Peek said.…
Recognizing the growing need for multidisciplinary medicine, the organizers of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract programming at DDW 2023 have put together several sessions that have crossover appeal for GI surgeons and gastroenterologists. Jordan Cloyd, MD, of The Ohio State University, and Yalini Vigneswaran, MD, of the University of Chicago, spoke to Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News about SSAT’s programming, which includes a session on diagnostics and therapeutics for benign esophageal conditions and another on endoscopic management of gastrointestinal surgical complications.
Guidelines that recommend stool-based screening for colorectal cancer should emphasize strict adherence and offer screening colonoscopy as an alternative option, researchers reported in Gastroenterology. “The reasoning for undertaking this investigation hinged on the decades-long belief that CRC was preceded by polyps; this was proven by our National Polyp Study, which demonstrated prevention of CRC by colonoscopic polypectomy. Screening colonoscopy was then incorporated into guidelines,” co-principal study investigators Sidney J. Winawer, MD, and Ann G. Zauber, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, told Healio. “However, studies needed to be initiated to observe its adherence and effectiveness.”