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Recent articles and press reports from the MyGiHealth team

Pain Patients Use Twitter To Complain About Opioid Side Effects

Published in Forbes : Social media isn’t only being used by retail customers to complain about their latest experience with customer service. It’s also being used by patients questioning the benefits of narcotics medication prescribed for chronic pain. Led by the Cedars-Sinai Center...

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Researchers Harness Social Media to Explore Serious Side Effects of Pain Medication

Cedars-Sinai and UCLA Investigators Collect and Analyze Huge Trove of Tweets and Social Media Posts to Deepen Understanding of Major Public Health Problem Los Angeles - Nov. 18, 2015 ─ Harnessing the power of social media, medical researchers have sifted...

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Translating Digital Health Into Practice Is Hard--So Give Credit To Those Trying To Get It Right

Published in Forbes :  David Shaywitz , CONTRIBUTOR : I write about entrepreneurial innovation in medicine. Earlier this week, clinical investigator Brennan Spiegel, a gastroenterologist at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, shared some of his early experiences with digital health adoption, and illustrated...

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Connected Health brought together great tech, case studies, reality checks

As seen in MedCityNews By NEIL VERSEL In all my years of covering health IT, I had never made it to Partners HealthCare‘sConnected Health Symposium, even though this year’s event was the 12th annual. Now that I’m with MedCity News,...

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The challenges of successfully introducing digital health

Published by Clinical Innovation By Beth Walsh BOSTON—“We have to think of digital health as a public good,” said Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSc, director of health services research at Cedars-Sinai Health System, speaking at the Connected Health Symposium held by...

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Computer Algorithm Better Than Doctors at Documenting "Red Flag" Symptoms in Patients

Published by Cedars-Sinai : The Algorithm, Developed by Cedars-Sinai Physician Investigators, Reveals Vast Potential of Computer Technology to Improve Medical Care Contact: Duke Helfand | Email: duke.helfand@cshs.org Los Angeles - Aug. 13, 2015 – A computer algorithm did a better...

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‘Predictive Overbooking’ Can Maximize Endoscopy Scheduling

As seen in Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News : by Caroline Helwick Washington—The strategy of “ predictive overbooking” can optimize endoscopy scheduling and negate the effect of no-show patients, according to researchers who used it to streamline their clinic’s operation at...

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How to reduce the disparities in colon cancer outcomes

As seen on KCRW : Listen to the original story here. This week we’ve been looking at colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States for men and women, combined. It is expected to kill about...

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Why African-Americans are at a greater risk of colon cancer

As seen on KCRW : Listen to the original story here. Each year, about 140,000 Americans are diagnosed with colon cancer, and more than 50,000 die from it. That’s bad news, but for African-Americans, it’s even worse. > “African-Americans are...

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The stigma of colonoscopies and African-American risk of colon cancer

As seen on KCRW :  Listen to the original story here. Nearly 50,000 Americans are expected to die from colorectal cancer this year. It’s one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. African-Americans are more likely than any other...

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Cedars-Sinai's Brennan Spiegel: Digital health no easy feat

Published in FierceHealthIT Digital health is at its infancy, and even technical solutions that hold great potential to transform health outcomes can be waylaid when applied to everyday humans, Brennan Spiegel, director of health services research at Cedars-Sinai Health System,...

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MyGiHealth team finds that doctors’ lapse may explain some lag in colon cancer screening for African Americans

Published in Reuters Health : Racial minorities may be more likely to forego colon cancer screening than whites because their healthcare providers don’t recommend the potentially life-saving tests, a new study in California suggests. “It was interesting because this study suggests...

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Doctors no match for computers at accurately recording patient symptoms

As seen in the LA Times : A computer system was more effective than doctors at recording patient symptoms, highlighting the potential of computers to improve medical results, according to research by Cedars Sinai. The study evaluated the treatment of 75...

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The Science of Caring

Published in Cedars-Sinai’s Discoveries magazine : Clinical research is no longer limited to finding the next wonder drug, developing a new device, or discovering a genetic mutation. More than ever before, caregivers are engaged in the scientific study of healthcare itself:...

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Constipation and Fecal Incontinence During and After Pregnancy

Dr. William Chey discusses the prevalence and risk factors constipation and fecal incontinence during and after pregnancy.

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Physician-developed gastrointestinal disorders app company looks to expand

Published by Mobi Health News : Since 2010, doctors from UCLA and the University of Michigan have been working with Ironwood Pharmaceuticals on a project called MyGiHealth, which leverages computers and apps to improve doctor-patient communication around gastrointestinal disorders. At an...

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Seven Gastroenterologists on the Biggest Opportunities for GI Innovation

As seen in Beckers GI & Endoscopy : William D. Chey, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP, RFF, Director, GI Physiology Laboratory, Co-director, Michigan Bowel Control Program, University of Michigan Health System (Ann Arbor): My Total Health is a health information technology...

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Computer System More Effective Than Doctors at Producing Comprehensive Patient Reports

Published by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center : A computer system was more effective than doctors at collecting information about patient symptoms, producing reports that were more complete, organized and useful than narratives generated by physicians during office visits, according to a...

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MyGiHealth: Reimagining the Dialogue Between Patients and Physicians

As seen in Medical Marketing & Media Online : As pharmaceutical industry professionals and consumers of healthcare, we are well aware of the inefficiencies, limitations, and frustrations often associated with point-of-care interactions between patients and physicians. We've all experienced it firsthand:...

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