‘CT in a truck’ fleet won’t be ready when national lung cancer screening starts
GPs will start screening patients for lung cancer in July but outback towns will not see the promised mobile CT scanners until at least November,…
Tag: Technology
Hospitals roll out software that tracks vital signs and ward notes to predict when patients will be discharged
Hospitals are rolling out doctor-made AI software that uses vital signs, ward notes and lab results to rank from 0-100 the likeliness that patients are…
Can doctors do anything about the deepfake medical misinformation threat?
Last December, endocrinologist Professor Jonathan Shaw discovered that an AI deepfake version of himself was calling doctors “idiots” for treating diabetes with metformin. He struggled…
Death by Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V? Copy–pasting of clinical notes ‘an epidemic’
Indiscriminate copy–pasting of clinical notes between records is causing “note bloat” and infecting records with errors, according to two papers in Internal Medicine Journal. A…
Musk, death threats and the tinfoil hats — should doctors quit Twitter for good?
For some, it is a seething malignancy of vitriolic hate laced with fake news and tinfoil conspiracy theories — a virtual reality fostering a new…
Is the PSR using AI to root out dodgy Medicare billing? We ask its boss
GP Dr Chin Ven Tan was found guilty last year of altering medical records on an “industrial scale” to conceal inappropriate Medicare claims. According to…
‘Like Tinder for doctors’: Registrar breaks up with agencies to start his own locum recruitment app
A surgical registrar who resorted to cold-calling hospitals to find locum jobs has built an app that he hopes will compete with locum agencies. With…
I never mastered the fetal trumpet but have always embraced new technology – with a healthy dose of scepticism
I must respond to Dr Sue Ieraci’s question, “Why does doctor technophobia persist?”, by stating that I have always been keen to adopt new technologies,…
Referral service halts plan to charge GP practices $1000 subscription fees after backlash
The country’s largest secure messaging service has put on hold its plan to charge practices up to $1000 a year to make digital referrals using its platforms. GPs were outraged by…
We once feared CT scans would destroy our clinical examination skills. Why does doctor technophobia persist?
It seems to be a human trait to suffer from cognitive dissonance. This phenomenon can be described as the discomfort that results from simultaneously holding…
