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Why Aren’t More Academic Medical Settings Using Generative AI Avatars to Train Future Doctors on Sensitivity?

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The post Why Arent More Academic Medical Settings Using Generative AI Avatars to Train Future Doctors on Sensitivity? AI-generated simulations can standardize diversity in exposure by creating virtual patients from varied backgrounds, each with unique risk factors and life experiences. appeared first on MedCity News.

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Medicare Reimbursement for Doctors is in Critical Condition

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Doctor’s offices are the front door of the American healthcare system. The post Medicare Reimbursement for Doctors is in Critical Condition appeared first on MedCity News. We owe it to them to support H.R. 2474 and put an end to annual Congressional stop-gap spending bills.

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Healthcare Docket: Help Wanted — Doctor Expert Witnesses

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The post Healthcare Docket: Help Wanted — Doctor Expert Witnesses appeared first on MedCity News. Major malpractice verdicts have spiked in recent years.

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The Battle Between Primary Care and Time: The Doctors are Losing

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With most doctors spending less than 15 to 20 minutes with their patients per visit, there is not much time for fact-finding, let alone education for the doctor to learn what preventive screening resources are available for their patients, even if that care is reimbursable by Medicare/Medicaid, such as a lung cancer screening.

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ChatGPT Outperforms Doctors In Answering Patient Messages, Study Shows

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A new study found that ChatGPT might actually be quite successful in providing high-quality answers to patient questions during an era in which doctors and nurses are too busy to do so. The research evaluated two sets of answers to patient inquiries — one written by physicians, the other by ChatGPT.

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When It Comes to AI, Rural Doctors Have FOMO — Meditech & Suki Are Teaming Up to Address This

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The post When It Comes to AI, Rural Doctors Have FOMO — Meditech & Suki Are Teaming Up to Address This appeared first on MedCity News. Meditech is integrating Suki’s AI assistant into more than a dozen rural health systems, including St. Mary’s Healthcare in New York and Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Indiana.

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Star Ratings are Great for Finding a Good Restaurant; They Can Be Deadly if You Are Shopping for a Doctor

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Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROM) scores should be the gold standard for how patients find their doctors, not viewing subjective online reviews of doctors’ ability to satisfy their patients.

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