HealthFuturesDigest

Robotics: Probably heavily "doctored" but this video is a pointer to a near future: youtu.be/JLczBI_hpl8

EHR: FINALLY!!! The global EHR is on its way. Only about a decade late, but better late etc. Putting together this really BIG data with increasingly clever (and reliable) AI analytics is going to advance healthcare by orders of magnitude. beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-inf…

Cancer: Big step forward for head and neck cancer treatment. theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

Computing; EHRs: Finally, someone has assessed the cost, security, and user friendliness of Apple v MS and discovered what any Mac-using former MS user knows. beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-inf…

World’s first successful bladder transplant. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

Cancer: In a UK trial, women with early-stage breast cancer and BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations were given olaparib plus chemotherapy before surgery. They all remain cancer-free after 3 years. bbc.com/news/articles/…

An AI tool grounded in evidence-based medicine outperforms other AI tools—and most doctors—on USMLE exams medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-a…

40% of nurses eye exit by 2029: 5 findings from NCSBN's new workforce report  - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/40-o…

RegenMed: Stem cell treatments can now be applied to patients on ECMO support. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-m…

Therapeutics: Move over, GLP-1 drugs--there's a new game in town. wired.com/story/syntis-b…

BMI: Exciting progress in translating a paralyzed patient's brainwaves to speech. Telepathy is not far away. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-b… via @medical_xpress

Bionics: Wearable brain stimulation device to treat depression, stroke-related motor impairment, and other neuropsychiatric disorders is undergoing clinical trials in China. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-w… via @medical_xpress

Molded: New class of antibiotics could solve the huge problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. phys.org/news/2025-03-b…

RegenMed: A new way to engineer neurons for cell therapy could help treat. e.g., ALS. Shows promise in mice but of course still much work to do. phys.org/news/2025-03-s… via @physorg_com

Surgery: It seems that surgeons do somewhat better after the weekend. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-w…

RegenMed: stem cell therapy repairs 'irreversible' corneal damage in clinical trial. medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-s…

EHRs; AI: AI-infused EHRs will have a major beneficial impact on physician practice and patient care, and a battle royal between EPIC and Oracle/Cerner, to be the AI EHR of choice, has begun. beckershospitalreview.com/ehrs/ehrs-are-…

Cancer; Proteomics: Good advance toward a treatment for a rare cancer, but one wonders if instead of a very expensive and exotic cyclotron, available AI-based protein-folding apps could have been used instead? theguardian.com/science/2025/f…

Surgery: Bariatric surgery turns out to be very good for MASH (fatty liver disease) patients. nytimes.com/2025/02/11/wel…

Business; AI: Ditto (see previous tweet). beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-inf…