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Telehealth coverage by Medicare is scheduled to expire at the end of 2024; experts told Senators what they think should happen to preserve it.
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A physician invents a creative approach for medical students in diabetic care.
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The tool, which is free to use, includes photography, videography and virtual reality learning resources from anatomical donors, along with comprehensive lab manuals and interactive files with click-to-reveal testing capabilities.
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Michigan Medicine has developed a new technique that provides a non-invasive alternative to surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer.
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A Michigan Medicine report shows that adding a mobile health application to such devices yields mixed results. Tailored text messages to encourage high-risk people to move more may improve some short-term outcomes but doesn’t always improve physical activity levels for everyone.
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AI can predict certain forms of esophageal and stomach cancer Michigan Medicine study says.
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Needs related to housing, transportation, food, social support and more can be identified through AI/ML techniques
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Doctors try to improve one four-year-old’s life and other patients like her
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Using these wearable devices, a study led by Michigan Medicine and the University of Missouri with Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute finds that taking more daily steps is associated improved health, including fewer symptoms and physical limitations, for people with heart failure.
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The rapid rise in telehealth and telemedicine use during the pandemic helped increase access to care for people in rural areas especially those with mental health provider shortages.
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The Mobile Monitoring Transformation Project, supported by the Sickbay Clinical Platform will allow care team members to access data from cardiac monitors and all connected bedside devices on workstations, PCs, phones and tablets. The new web-based technology will transform bedside care and greatly enhance collaboration among care team members. A pilot was run last year, and units in different buildings will begin using the new technology this week, with a larger rollout planned.
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As the number of heart transplants performed across the United States continues to grow, surgeons at the U-M Health are taking advantage of technology that could increase its transplant yield by as much as 30%. Transplant surgeons in Ann Arbor completed the health system’s first heart transplant using an organ from a donor who had recently died — a process called donation after circulatory death, or DCD.
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Use and confidence are lower in those with lower incomes or lower levels of physical or mental health
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Epic sepsis model’s ability to predict depends on certain hospital factors
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A new study finds AI-based diagnostic screening system, DeepGlioma, detects genetic mutations in brain tumors in under 90 seconds. Streamlining glioma diagnosis and treatment.