Patient intake, and the associated manual tasks that come upfront before a medical visit, represents a key component of a health system’s operational efficiency and clinical quality. As a result, some hospitals and primary care clinics are experimenting with artificial intelligence and large language models to focus on note-taking and scribe work. With physicians burnt … Read more
Who doesn’t like to relax in a pool for hours during extended summers? Or take frequent showers on a hot and humid day? But here’s a catch. One must be mindful of water seepage into the ears to ward off infections like the swimmer’s ear. It is a condition wherein the external ear canal gets … Read more
A day after presenting the Union Budget for 2024-25, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman spoke to Shrimi Choudhary, Ruchika Chitravanshi, Asit Ranjan Mishra & Nivedita Mookerji on issues ranging from the private sector’s role in job creation to coalition needs in making Budgets, at her North Block office. Edited excerpts: Was the seventh Budget … Read more
The European Commission has raised the alarm about the independence of Italy’s public service media and Rome’s failure to reform the country’s strict defamation law, which is widely seen as silencing government critics. In a report issued on Wednesday EU officials identified “persisting challenges related to the effectiveness of [the] governance and funding” of Italy’s … Read more
Emory Healthcare constantly is evolving and innovating the care it provides. With regard to at-home physical therapy providers, the health system was intrigued to understand how it could expand its service offerings for outpatient care. THE PROBLEM Especially in the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the way Emory thinks about off-site care and … Read more
Over 2000 years ago, Hippocrates proposed that all disease begins in the gut, a concept we now recognise more than ever. The human body contains a varied ecosystem of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi, known as the microbiota. Researchers are increasingly focusing on the potential link between the microbiome and neuropsychiatric diseases. The microbiota … Read more
Ajay Seth, Economic Affairs Secretary 5 min read Last Updated : Jul 24 2024 | 11:32 PM IST Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth, in a conversation with Ruchika Chitravanshi and Asit Ranjan Mishra, goes into the details of the Budget fine print. Edited excerpts: From the Reserve Bank of India’s extra dividend, you … Read more
The “incredibly alarming” discovery of the poliovirus in Gaza only adds to the besieged territory’s status as one of “the most dangerous places to be a child right now”, the head of the UN children’s agency has warned. The executive director of Unicef, Catherine Russell, said during a visit to Australia that Gaza was increasingly … Read more
When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this past week issued its final rule codifying the financial disincentives to be levied by its Office for Civil Rights against provider organizations found to have committed information blocking, reaction was swift and mostly dissatisfied from industry groups. The point of such penalties, which could be … Read more
Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Moscow, when Washington’s man in Delhi, Eric M. Garcetti, made a highly uncharacteristic and undiplomatic outburst targeting his host country, questioning whether India was taking its now-close partner, the United States, for granted while it pursued “strategic autonomy” in its relations with Russia, what kind of … Read more