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Food: The Main Course to Wellness and Illness in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome
William D. Chey , MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP, RFF 1 Food sits at the intersection between gastrointestinal (GI) physiology and symptoms in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). It is now clear that the majority of IBS sufferers associate eating...
Social Media 101: Who’s Who in GI on Twitter
Published by the ACG : Feb 5th, 2016 – by Jordan Karlitz, MD, FACGC Physicians Active on Twitter Compiled by Dr. Austin Chiang and Dr. Allison Yang Some physicians are engaging actively via Twitter. As members of the ACG Public...
22 Foods You Should Never Eat Before Sex
As originally seen in Cosmopolitan : Avoid these menu items to beat bloat (and every other bodily function that makes you feel unsexy) on your next date. When there are so many foods that make you feel bloated and unsexy, it's shit luck that...
Top 10 Reasons Doctors Fear Digital Health
“Digital health? Is that like a rectal examination?” This was the first comment I heard from an audience member after recently delivering a lecture about digital health to a group of doctors at an esteemed academic medical center. To a...
Are There Really More Sensors in a Car Than in a Patient?
A notable speaker at a recent digital health conference presented a TED-style PowerPoint talk with provocative infographics about how healthcare has fallen behind every other industry on the planet. One of the slides said this: “Your car has 100 sensors....
I’ve Never Heard a Patient Asked to Be “Empowered” by Technology
Lately there has been considerable discussion about how digital health can “empower” patients. Although it seems fine if a patient wants to use that term, I am concerned when non-patient technophiles speak of empowering patients. I’ve even noticed it in...
GI Logic gets FDA clearance for connected wearable stethoscope
Published by Mobi Health News : By Jonah Comstock GI Logic has received FDA 510(k) clearance for a novel device that noninvasively monitors the digestive system after patients have surgery. The device, called AbStats, consists of two disposable sensors, a...
Preventing patient absenteeism: validation of a predictive overbooking model
Published in NCBI : Reid M, Cohen S, Wang H, Kaung A, Patel A, Tashjian V, Williams DL Jr, Martinez B, Spiegel BM1. Abstract OBJECTIVES: To develop a model that identifies patients at high risk for missing scheduled appointments ("no-shows"...
Biosensor Predicts Which Abdominal Surgery Patients Will Have Postoperative Complications
Published by Cedars-Sinai FDA Clearance Received for Wearable Biosensor that Enables Physicians to Monitor Digestion and Determine When Patients Can Safely Eat After Surgery Los Angeles – Dec. 18, 2015 – A disposable biosensor, developed by a Cedars-Sinai physician to...
Health-e: A Framework for Making Smarter Decisions in the Age of Digital Medicine
Brennan Spiegel, MD, MPH My father was 67 years old when he reported to the UCLA Medical Center for a CT scan to investigate a nagging complaint. As a physician, I always pause before ordering CT scans. Sometimes a scan...
As seen at the International FODMAP meeting in Prato. Watch Dr. William Chey and other thought leaders discuss the effects of a low FODMAP diet.
FDA's scope reprocessing guidelines most cost-effective for infection prevention
As seen on Healio Gastroenterology : A cost-utility analysis of four different endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography duodenoscope reprocessing strategies for preventing patient transmission of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae showed the approach recommended by the FDA is the most cost-effective. “Contaminated endoscopes cause more...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Expert discusses how health information technology will 'transform' gastroenterology
As seen in Healio Gastroenterology Watch Brennan Spiegel, MD, MHSH, discuss how health information technology will transform gastroenterology and medicine in general. “I talked about three different digital health platforms today,” Spiegel said. “I talked about social media, and how we...
Expert discusses diet as emerging cause, management strategy for GI disease
As seen in Healio Gastroenterology : HONOLULU — Watch William D. Chey, MD, FACG, professor of medicine at the University of Michigan health system, and director of the GI Nutrition and Behavioral Wellness Program at the University of Michigan, discuss the...
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...