News You Can Use – Tech Titans, MRI Tales, and EHR Woes: Unraveling May’s Healthcare Insights

This month’s episode of “News you can Use” on Healthcare NOW Radio features news from the month of May 2023.

As I did last month I am talking to Craig Joseph, MD (@CraigJoseph) Chief Medical Officer at Nordic Consulting Partners.

Trillion Dollar Chips

This month ChatGPT continues to be a focus and trending topic and we discuss the affirmation of this technology with the news of NVIDIA’s financial results almost catapulting them to the rarefied air of the Trillion Dollar Club. We dive into the GPU chips produced and a little of that history and context. Craig discusses in detail his experience explaining his own MRI taken as part of his challenge with back pain.

Craig dates himself as he details the book he wished he had bought which was offered as an index of the Internet (I have good news for him – an old copy of the New Rider’s Official Internet and World Wide Web Yellow Pages is available at AbeBooks).

Social Media Mayhem

We discuss the recent public Health Advisory by the Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy “Surgeon General Issues New Advisory About Effects Social Media Use Has on Youth Mental Health” and wonder if we need regulations to help manage these negative effects.

We touch upon an article in JAMA that discusses the impact of electronic health records (EHRs) on healthcare team communication and well-being, emphasizing the importance of reversing the trend of reduced personal interactions among clinicians. The article comes to the same conclusion most of us had already reached

The EHR has allowed or even promoted fewer person-to-person interactions among clinicians.

We should take action to reverse this trend.

Listen in to hear our take on the EpicResearch papers “Opioids Plus Gabapentin Associated with Increased Risk of Opioid Use Disorder Over Opioids Alone” and “Stroke and Blood Clotting Disorders Rare After Monovalent and Bivalent COVID Vaccination” and we close by saying farewell to “Simply the Best”.

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