AI healthcare agents, record pharmaceutical shortages, debate over the potato, and family medicine review, CME, and MOC options
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Well, when the robots start giving enemas, the patients are going to run screaming from the hospital…
Despite the lurid headline, what NVIDIA and Hippocratic AI are actually building has nothing to do with replacing nurses, nor performing nursing functions. What they are looking to build is in two parts, one is a patient monitoring system that can keep up with and understand incoming lab results or complaints, to assist with patient risk assessment and management in real time. The other part is building AI conversational agents to interact with patients on demand and in real-time with patients and caregivers in the hospital. That’s also the part that is likely to be introduced first, though there’s a lot of specialization and database work to be done yet.
NVIDIA to Create AI ‘agents’ that Outperform Human Nurses
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New Record in Pharmaceutical ShortagesYears and years of hearings, meetings, reports and articles, and we still hit a new record. Some of it is manufacturing complexity as biologicals grow, some is changes in disease prevalence (syphilis), and some is fad or prescribing related (like ADHD drugs, or fat-burning drugs). But probably the two areas that get the most attention are chemotherapy drugs, and generics - which are two different problems. In the generic world, there isn’t a price premium for quality or reliability. Without premiums and long-term contracts, there’s no reason to invest in manufacturing. U.S. Medical Drug Shortages Reach Record High - Physician's Weekly
It’s 2024 and We Still Don’t Know What a Vegetable IsPotatoes may become a non-vegetable. It all starts months ago with the USDA 2025 Dietary Guidelines committee. Their reasoning is that potatoes are used primarily in processed foods, and therefore are not to be considered a vegetable. ‘Big Potato’ (yes, those words have been used in articles) is arguing against the reclassification. At stake are billions of dollars a year. Reclassification would impact everything from Meals on Wheels to WIC payments to school lunch programs. Most nutritionists, while opposed to high consumption of fried potatoes (we’ve decided we don’t like nutritionists) take the position “it’s a vegetable, stop eating them loaded and processed with fats”. People fiddling with population diet guidelines think reclassification is the answer to getting people to eat fewer of them. We just think it’s interesting because of the absolute clarity of the intersection of money, bureaucracy, and science, and who’s rooting (heh) for what. The 2025 guidelines are coming out for comments soon, you’ll be hearing about spuds all summer. It’s starting to look like a Utilization Review. Lawmakers Concerned About Possible Reclassification of Potatoes as a Grain |
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