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Posted: 06 august 2021

To Fix Healthcare After Covid-19, Doctors Must Have The Courage To Change

Long before doctors were fighting the coronavirus, their professional ancestors were risking their lives to battle the Black Death. Throughout history, physicians have demonstrated courage: the ability to act regardless of the risks or fear involved. Consider the act of sawing off a gangrenous limb or performing brain surgery or treating a disease like Ebola, which kills as many as 90% of the people it infects. In these harrowing situations, courage alone isn’t enough. Doctors must also—to a certain extent—deny objective reality. They must repress the very existence of fear, detach themselves from their emotions, admit no weaknesses, deny all pain, show a single-minded attentiveness to the task at hand and snuff out any feelings that try to escape in the process. Until recently, no one ever questioned whether such extreme denial was mentally healthy. Doctors just assumed it was necessary. Courage and denial remain cultural imperatives in the profession today. These traits are taught to every medical student and hardwired into every doctor. And they come with some unfortunate, and tragic, side effects. I remember a talented doctor who returned to work the day after she, herself, received a terminal diagnosis. None of her colleagues, friends or patients were aware of her illness until after she died. In medical culture, this kind of emotional detachment is the rule, not the exception. As a nation, we owe a debt of gratitude for the courage and denial of our doctors. Without their bravery and sacrifices over the past year and a half, Covid-19 would have killed many more of our friends and loved ones.

Registration is now open for the 2021 Open Meeting of UK Pharmacogenetics & Stratified Medicine Network

Registration is now open for the 2021 Open Meeting of UK Pharmacogenetics & Stratified Medicine Network, which will take place as a hybrid event on October 20th. Join them in-person at the Royal College of Physicians or online as a…

Extended Reality In Healthcare: 3 Reasons The Industry Must Get Ready For AR And VR

There is huge potential to apply extended reality (XR) technologies – namely, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) – to healthcare. From self-care and wellbeing to treatment and even surgical procedures, XR is already helping to improve many aspects of healthcare. Sure, it’s early days, but the transformation is underway. And that means the healthcare industry must get ready.

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TRANSVAC2 project offers high-quality technical services to support the development of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for both human and animal use. They cover the entire R&D pipeline from different expression systems and pre-clinical GLP production of your antigen to clinical…

Putting CARE Back In Healthcare

Vince Tien is the co-founder and CEO of 360 Clinic, a multi-specialty medical group focused on telehealth services.

Meet investors and get the feedback you need to boost your project!

On October 13 and 14, 2021, Biocat and Barcelona Health Hub are holding The Investment Readiness Series (Medtech Edition) with the aim of increasing the deal flow or the number of projects ready for investment in the BioRegion. Click here to register before October 8.…

Transparency Is Vital For Digital Marketing To Evolve In The Healthcare And Pharmaceutical Industry

Harshit Jain MD is the founder and Global CEO of Doceree, the first global network of physician-only platforms for programmatic marketing.

The #BHHSummit returns for its 3rd edition in a hybrid format!

Celebrated and recorded online from Barcelona Health Hub, on Thursday October 28th! This year they'll dive into the topic of The Patient Journey of the Future. Reserve your seat here.

Young, Black, Healthcare Heroes Are Tackling Disparities During Dueling Pandemics

Wearing an N-95 mask, a full-body yellow gown, and latex gloves, Rebecca Hamilton, a newly registered nurse, was ready for her fourth shift on the medical surgery floor at a local South Florida hospital. Full of nerves and grateful for the opportunities afforded to her, Rebecca's career as a Black registered nurse is beginning at a time when the United States is encountering the dueling pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice. Like so many others entering professions in healthcare, Rebecca is treating patients during a pandemic which has disproportionately claimed the lives of Black, Brown and vulnerable citizens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Harnessing Healthcare’s Data Explosion With AI-Based Natural Language Processing

In 2020, the amount of healthcare data created globally was an estimated 2,314 exabytes — which is an unfathomable amount when you consider a single exabyte is equivalent to one billion gigabytes. While it may be hard to wrap one’s head around such a figure, this much is clear: To make sense of such healthcare’s ever-growing volumes of data, we need advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to enhance user productivity and minimize burdensome searches. One of the most promising AI technologies to help manage huge volumes of data is natural language processing (NLP). NLP is a branch of linguistics, computer science and AI that enables computers to read, understand and structure large volumes of human prose (i.e., natural language). Though NLP has been around for decades, the explosion of healthcare data in recent years has made it an increasingly valuable tool for interpreting and filtering all types of medical text to make the data more useful to clinicians, researchers, payers and other stakeholders.

British healthtech company, MediMusic, utilizes music as a form of relief and medicine to help those with anxiety and pain

Within a few clicks a handful of personalised playlists are auto-generated and curated specifically to you. As the playlist runs, your heart rate is monitored and tracks are swapped out to help bring your heart rate down faster or slower…

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