Podcast: Author hour with Praveen Suthrum (NextServices)
“There is disruption coming. It is not going to stop based on how we feel about it. If I end up getting worried about disruption, then I am not going to inspire action, neither in myself nor in my business or organization – let alone the industry.”
AMA Releases 2021 Overhaul of E/M Services Codes (Medscape)
The American Medical Association says 2021 CPT changes include steps intended to reduce “irrelevant administrative burdens that led to time-wasting note bloat and box checking.”
The future of telehealth: When are regulations returning? (Medical Economics)
Joseph Kvedar, MD, president of the American Telemedicine Association, breaks down what physicians can expect for future telehealth payments and regulations.
Moneyball for Health Care: Why Hasn’t It Happened? (Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News)
If you can measure something, it can be improved. But if something is not being measured, it can’t be improved—and we’re not measuring the value of care in health care, in any organization, in any health care system in the world.
Asymptomatic CRC screening population has findings of IBD (Becker’s GI & Endoscopy)
Researchers examined 4,640 patients who underwent a colonoscopy between Sept. 1, 2013, and Aug. 31, 2019. They looked for endoscopic findings suggestive of IBD.
Machine learning outperforms noninvasive tests in NAFLD (Healio) Machine learning may be a reasonable solution for screening for fatty liver in the general population in areas where more niche noninvasive tests are unavailable, according to a presenter at the Digital International Liver Congress.
Mayo Clinic, NASA testing CRC-detecting AI algorithm (Becker’s GI & Endoscopy)
Mayo Clinic researchers and NASA Frontier Development Lab scientists are working to fine-tune an artificial intelligence algorithm that detects spatio-temporal patterns related to colorectal cancer progression.
Medscape Residents Lifestyle & Happiness Report 2020 (Medscape)
More than 1600 residents in 30-plus specialties were surveyed by Medscape to understand their physical and mental well-being and the impact of covid-19 on the learning environment.
Video: Younger people with NAFLD, COVID-19 at double risk for mortality (Healio)
In this video, Thomas Berg, MD, discusses data presented at The Digital International Liver Congress on the role of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in COVID-19 mortality risk.
