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Hospitals of the future: Robots and super technology

September 06, 2016 The Mail Man 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">The hospital of the future, "a medical dream come true": That was how a reporter described the California Kaiser Permanente Hospital when it opened in 1953.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was fitted with a pneumatic tube system to post patient documents to doctors, "baby drawers" to send babies from the nurses' area to the mother's room, and waiting rooms for stressed fathers outside maternity units which were kitted out with extra large ashtrays.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the time it was considered revolutionary, and drew interest from around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But within a decade, a lot of the technology was already outdated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That is the challenge facing Christchurch as close to $1 billion is set to be spent rebuilding and redeveloping our hospitals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do it right, and we have an opportunity to lead the world and take advantage of amazing technology being developed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do it wrong, and we could spend millions on things that will quickly be outdated and a burden to maintain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was almost impossible to estimate what the hospitals of the future could look like, Canterbury University School of Health Sciences professor Ray Kirk said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Development of different treatments, as well as the ageing population, could mean the conditions people needed medical care for were very different in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was excited about the potential to develop things like robot-assisted surgery, with da Vinci surgical robots already in use in Christchurch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even simple things like paperwork could change, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Christchurch has accelerated progress in the digital health revolution, because after the earthquakes, paper records in some buildings were too dangerous to access or got wet. So Canterbury needed to go down that pathway perhaps more quickly than they might have otherwise," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Technology could also move people away from the hospital, allowing people both to diagnose more health problems at home, and spend less time having to be monitored in hospital after treatment, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Teams from across the world are currently competing to create a hand-held, non-invasive device which can diagnose anything from whooping cough to HIV, after $10 million in prize money was offered by the X Prize Foundation for the best design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Combined with video conferencing technology many hospitals are already using, that could mean people could have tests run, diagnose the problem and consult a doctor about it without leaving their home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"People usually prefer not to be in hospital, they prefer to be with their families. And that's also good for rural New Zealanders," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So how do we plan for these changes in our hospitals?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although a major part of the CDHB Design Lab's purpose is looking ahead, there is only so much stargazing they will do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Business development manager Richard Hamilton openly admits he has no idea what the hospitals of the future will look like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the one thing that will not change, no matter how much technology does, is people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You could be forgiven for assuming all hospitals were designed for patients, but traditionally that was not the case, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take the design of a ward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you left hospital design up to architects, the space was likely to flow beautifully but simple issues, like nurses not being able to see a bed from the corridor, could cause huge problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Leave it up to nurses, and patients would be grouped together in wards, which made it easy to treat them but meant they sacrificed patient privacy and their own space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even consulting patient's families wasn't the answer - many hospitals had switched to single bedroom models as it was what families wanted, forgetting that outside visiting hours the patient could be left feeling lonely and isolated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To find a solution, the Design Lab team went right back to basics, Mr Hamilton said - they built a "playpen".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Using foam, cardboard and PVC pipes, they built life-sized scale models of the new wards they imagined in a 3000 sq m warehouse in Middleton, then brought in literally thousands of staff members and former patients to test and discuss them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"We had a design challenge: How do you reinvent the Florence Nightingale-style barracks environment," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And when everything was tightly constrained by budgets, being open with your ideas wasn't easy, CDHB director of nursing Heather Gray said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Should you go for what you want and risk people's disappointment?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The design for wards they have come up with includes four beds - five would be too many to keep the nurses' line of sight across all of them. Each room is set up at an angle, so the patient can have privacy if they lie back in bed, or talk with their neighbour if they sit up. Glass doors and curtains can be shut for extra privacy, and every bed faces a large window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The large headboard they have designed, which they are currently in the process of patenting, incorporates two touch screens and has space to hide all kinds of medical equipment, with modular parts that can be swapped out if technology develops. The large hood over it is sound-deadening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And even the walls are built to adapt. The ceilings in the wards have been designed high enough that it could be adapted as an operating theatre in the future, space left in the floors to run cables, and the positioning of columns carefully thought out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ministry of Health critical projects delivery director Michael Hundleby said the buildings were designed to last up to 50 years. Even in the years between designing the new buildings and being able to open them, he believed some of the technology used would become outdated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But that was not necessarily a bad thing, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It is very difficult to predict where technology will go in that time, so what we have focused on is building hospitals more modular and generic, so a surgical ward can become a medical ward," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11703267&ref=rss</span></div>
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Not going to the hospital is better? Telehealth in Australia

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<span style="font-size: large;">The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) says telehealth technology could save Australia AU$3 billion a year in medical costs, and reduce the frequency and length of hospital visits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The health industry has been talking up the potential benefits of telehealth for some years now, and if it means not having to sit in a crowded waiting room getting coughed on by a stranger, we're on board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But new CSIRO research points to another major benefit of telehealth: It will save us AU$3 billion a year in medical costs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a simple enough concept. Patients with multiple chronic conditions, especially elderly Australians who might be juggling cardiovascular problems alongside diabetes or chronic lung disease, need regular check ups. But they often just need monitoring, rather than intensive one-on-one time in a doctor's surgery. And considering that aged patients with multiple conditions account for 70 percent of expenditure in Australia's health system, the potential savings are huge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The solution? Get a device into the patient's home to monitor vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, weight and blood sugar, and have a health professional working remotely to provide feedback on the patient's condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trialling this kind of system over 12 months, CSIRO found telehealth could save Australia significant time and resources. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In addition to a 24 percent savings of Medical Benefits Scheme expenditure over one year, the trial also showed a substantial 36 percent decrease in hospital admission and most importantly a 42 percent reduction in length of stay if admitted to hospital during the 12 month trial," said CSIRO lead researcher Dr Rajiv Jayasena.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"This is a huge saving when you consider the cost of a hospital bed per day is estimated to be about $2051 in Australia."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Source: http://www.cnet.com/au/news/not-going-to-the-doctor-could-actually-be-better-for-us-csiro-telehealth-3-billion/</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the trends in healthcare system, healthcare solutions and the convergence of global market and local services and serves as a venue for industry players, training institutions, vendors, other stakeholders, and the larger business community to identify key factors and programs that will contribute to positioning the Philippines as the leading destination for quality healthcare information management services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Various technology trends in the healthcare outsourcing space (digitalization, internet of things, artificial intelligence, cyber security, workforce management tools, robotics automation, etc.) will undoubtedly create a world of seamless collaboration in information gathering, collation, analytics and dissemination. How should companies leverage on these technology trends to adjust business models that create higher rate of return?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the third-floor ICU of SL Raheja Hospital in Mahim, 15-year-old Sagar (name changed) wants to play on his mobile phone, but is unable to speak because a cancerous growth was removed from his lower jaw recently. So, he uses a special app on iPad to ping the nurse station: "I want to meet my mother." When his mother is called in, he pings again: "I need my mobile phone." A few minutes later, he gets a mobile phone without a SIM card to play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simple tech solutions that are now making ICUs friendlier places—and helping patients communicate with their families as well as the medical staff—worldwide have just reached the city's shores.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Vocalizer for Patients app that Sagar uses is the brainchild of cancer surgeon Dr P Jagannath. It has visuals with voiceovers for around 60 situations in ICU. "Many patients here have an endotracheal tube that takes away their ability to speak even though they are conscious. Many surgery patients too cannot talk on the first day after surgery,'' said Dr Jagannath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Some patients feel very cold but are unable to indicate so. Some others want to turned over or their back is itchy,'' he said. It is to help these patients that Dr Jagannath's NGO, Crusade Against Cancer Foundation, funded the project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is well-established that ICU patients suffer from ICU psychosis, said intensivist Dr Khusrav Bajan from Hinduja Hospital, Mahim. "Every effort must be made to help them communicate," he said, adding that many hospitals have devised methods such as pre-written notes to help patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr Sanjith Saseedharan, who heads the ICU at SL Raheja Hospital and has worked on the Vocaliser for Patients app with Dr Jagannath, said he plans to use four more iPads in his unit soon. "We began our trials six months ago with a 21-year-old patient, Sunil (name changed), who was diagnosed with Guillain Barre syndrome,'' said Dr Saseedharan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunil, who was studying for his MPSC exams, suffered such an intense attack that he couldn't talk or walk. "I was in hospital for 75 days, of which 45 days was in the ICU with ventilator support. I could only move my fingers and my eyes,'' he told TOI. He became the first to use the app, communicating with his parents on the need to change sides or feeling cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"As the app is available for free download, families can use it on their own tablets (both iOS and Android) to communicate with their ICU patient,'' said Dr Jagannath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Mumbai-doctor-develops-app-to-help-ICU-patients-communicate/articleshow/53801866.cms</span></div>
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Clinical computing using a Supercomputer

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<span style="font-size: large;">Doctors at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Thailand have been using the IBM Watson Supercomputer system for about a year now, and oncologists at six hospitals in India started using Watson a few weeks back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of those oncologists is Dr. Amit Rauthan, who practices at Manipal Hospital in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. Watson is fully integrated into the computer system at the hospital, so soliciting Watson’s opinion takes a few seconds and a few clicks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In an interview with STAT, he said he has used Watson for about two dozen patients. Most of the time, he said, Watson affirms that the decisions he had already come to were correct, such as one breast cancer patient who needed aggressive chemotherapy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Other times, Watson disagrees, and the doctors change their mind. One of Rauthan’s patients had stage 2 colon cancer, and Rauthan thought that it would need chemotherapy. Watson recommended skipping the radiation and observing the patient — and its opinion won the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rauthan emphasized that Watson itself didn’t make the decision. In the case of the colon cancer patient, Watson provided Rauthan with evidence about why chemotherapy might not be so beneficial, which he was able to share with the patient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However the information about what happened to Rauthan’s patients — whether the chemotherapy helped the breast cancer patient, for instance — isn’t presently used to help Watson improve going forward, Kris said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“That’s the ultimate goal — that it will learn from that experience,” Kris said. But that goal is years away, and one of the hurdles to achieving it is making sure that Watson can access and understand all of the information it needs about the patient — the complete medical record.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">IBM announced last week that it was expanding the program to China, with clinical use projected to start next month. Part of the utility of Watson is to “democratize access to cancer care,” said Dr. Kyu Rhee, chief health officer for IBM Watson Health, reaching areas that don’t have easy access to information. Cancer is the leading cause of death in China, killing an estimated 2.8 million people in 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Qunwei Chen, an oncologist in eastern China whose hospital is adopting the system, said he anticipated that Watson for Oncology will be useful, especially for doctors in small hospitals, where oncologists have less access to conferences at which they might learn about new treatment guidelines and procedures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">IBM declined to say how much money who was paying whom for the use of Watson in China.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because Watson for Oncology is a machine learning system, its outputs are only as good as its inputs. If it can’t read the doctor’s handwriting, it doesn’t know what the doctor tried to do. So a key next step is making sure that the data feeding into Watson is really good, which may prove a challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The vast majority of patient data gathered and stored in electronic health records is totally unstructured,” said Zach Weinberg, president of Flatiron Health, a medical software company. One of the things his company is doing is trying to organize this data in a more useful way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Weinberg said that IBM is tackling “one interesting piece of the problem” — helping physicians make treatment decisions — but that machine learning algorithms are never going to be good enough to know everything a physician would know. (Weinberg’s company has been in touch with IBM, but has no formal collaboration.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Machine learning is a piece of the puzzle that doesn’t solve everything,” Weinberg said. “Sometimes it can be presented as a cure-all solution to all of our problems. That’s not exactly true.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">IBM’s Rhee concurs that doctors aren’t going anywhere. Watson, he said, serves as “a trusted advisor.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There’s no published research yet on how Watson’s advice impacts patients’ health, and oncologists in India say that it’s too early to tell how it is even impacting their decision-making process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That hasn’t stopped hospitals from promoting Watson. Manipal Hospital has even taken the system one step further, allowing patients to seek a Watson consultation remotely. The person can upload their medical records, pay 9,500 rupees (about $140) and then receive a PDF report of Watson’s analysis of their case, verified by Manipal physicians, along with an e-consultation with a Manipal doctor. The report does not come directly from Watson, an IBM spokesperson said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Source: <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/19/ibm-watson-cancer-asia/">https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/19/ibm-watson-cancer-asia/</a></span></div>
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Supercomputer for Cancer Treatment

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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2011, a supercomputer won $1 million on Jeopardy! In 2016, that same supercomputer is tackling a challenge quantified not in millions of dollars but in millions of cancer patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The goal is to use Watson’s natural language processing to mine the medical literature and a patient’s records to provide treatment advice. And this month the Watson computer system is drastically expanding its reach — from one hospital in Thailand to six in India and a planned 21 more in China.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This instantiation of Watson, dubbed Watson for Oncology, is an artificial intelligence system that has access to millions of pages of medical textbooks and journal articles. Oncologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center trained the system to provide appropriate treatment recommendations by giving it descriptions of patients and then telling Watson the correct treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“[It’s] the same way we would train a young doctor by showing how our specialists would treat a certain cancer in a certain person,” said Dr. Mark Kris, a Memorial Sloan Kettering lung cancer specialist who’s leading the hospital’s collaboration with IBM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Watson looks at records from a patient, like doctors’ notes and lab test results, and gives opinions about what treatment to pursue. Those opinions are backed up by easily accessible evidence — doctors can click on the recommended treatment and see which medical studies support it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Preliminary studies show Watson is fairly good at recommending treatment. When examining different patients, Watson agreed with Memorial Sloan Kettering doctors over 90 percent of the time in one study, and 50 percent of the time in another. These studies were presented at a 2015 oncology meeting, and the abstracts were published, but the studies themselves are not. Authors include IBM-affiliated scientists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Source :<a href="https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/19/ibm-watson-cancer-asia/">https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/19/ibm-watson-cancer-asia/</a></span></div>
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Medix PH Dials In An Advertising Professional for Interim COO Duties

August 20, 2016 Tech Support • 0

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<span style="font-size: large;">MAKATI, Philippines - Health tech startup Medix.ph has called in advertising executive, Lloyd Tronco, to pick up COO duties as the company forges into new prospects in the latter half of 2016.<br /><br />Best known as the company which provides electronic medical records for dentists, Medix.PH goes beyond its comfort zone of serving only dentists by launching out into other medical practices.  <br /><br />Tronco, whose career started out in various brick-and-mortar businesses including outdoor advertising, signage and billboards, and later on being employed as a Media Strategist at McCann-Erickson Philippines, has taken on the duties for operations in Medix beginning the second half of June 2016.  This will be an interim role as Medix seeks for a permanent operations head.<br /><br />"Now is a really good time to step in and steer Medix through uncharted waters", said Tronco.  "There are a lot of similar tech companies who are also involved with electronic medical records and each one of us are finding our respective space within the health tech ecosystem.  What I bring to the table to complement Medix's foray into additional practices apart from dental is the insight of what doctors and medical professionals really want out of their EMR", continued Tronco.  In this endeavor, his previous experience as an ad professional comes in handy.<br /><br />Medix is known as the company which provides the electronic record keeping for expansive multi-dentist clinics such as Gan Advanced Osseointegation Center (GAOC).  Last year, Medix also engineered the IT backbone of Ayala Health's Family Doc brand of community clinics.</span><br />
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