Kieran Walsh: Supporting shared decision making
Shared decision making is a process in which patients and healthcare professionals make decisions together. It is now widely accepted that all decisions related to an individual’s healthcare should be...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Seeing a gatekeeper to see a gatekeeper
Could a robot do the job of a GP? At present, most people would say no or not completely. But some say that a robot could take simple tasks away from a GP and so reduce their workload and save costs....
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Health systems strengthening: is task shifting the answer to...
There is a global shortage of doctors and little optimism that this shortage will be made up any time soon. Those responsible for human resources for health have come up with a variety of solutions to...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: WHO recommendations on digital clinical decision support for...
The WHO has recently published recommendations on the use of digital clinical decision support for health system strengthening. Clinical decision support is a recognised tool to improve the performance...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Too much medicine—practical tools that could help
Doctors are constantly being told that they overdiagnose and overtreat their patients. They are told that they overdiagnose and overtreat a range of conditions—but one simple example is the...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Contextualised and evidence based health systems strengthening
The principles of evidence-based medicine demonstrate shortcomings in the current research around health systems strengthening, says Kieran Walsh EBM Live is a conference that aims to make evidence...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Artificial intelligence in healthcare: are systems and...
Artificial intelligence isn’t inherently opaque, deliberate obfuscation is practised to maintain hierarchies of power to the detriment of healthcare providers and patients, says Kieran Walsh When I was...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Should I read this article about safe care, distraction, and...
Medical knowledge is continually expanding and changing. So it is impossible for individual doctors to remember all that they need to practise safe care. As a result, doctors need access to...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: What happens when the robot makes a mistake?
Clinical decision support resources can reduce the risk of medical error. As a result, we encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to use clinical decision support (CDS) when making...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Could blockchain be applied to healthcare professional education?
Blockchain is “an open, public, distributed, and secure digital registry where information transactions are secured and have a clear origin, explicit pathways, and concrete value.” [1] It is a...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Dementia—new approaches to care and cure
Dementia is a growing public health challenge around the world. It is already a major problem in developed countries, but incidence and prevalence are set to increase rapidly in developing countries in...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Pharmacogenetics—the future is networks
Pharmacogenetics is an area of rapid growth in the UK and internationally. It offers enormous opportunities and challenges to healthcare professionals and healthcare systems. Just one single...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Your new interdisciplinary team member—the robot
Interdisciplinary team learning and working have been in vogue for several years now. Both are based on the fact that healthcare is a team activity. For example, we cannot function as doctors in any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kieran Walsh: Taking my own medicine
Influenza is a serious illness and so we need to do all that we can to treat and prevent it. Until recently, prevention has largely evolved around vaccination. But now there is growing interest in the...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Why do we learn?
The current Olympic weight-lifting champion is Lasha Talakhadze. He can lift over 250 kg. This is an impressive feat for a human being—but a forklift truck can do considerably better. A forklift truck...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: E-learning—do directors of education need an upgrade?
E-learning in medical education has been around for twenty years. Some studies have shown it to be as effective as traditional forms of education—at least for selected learning outcomes. [1] It may...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: Clinical decision support—only works when used
Clinical decision support can improve health outcomes and reduce the risk of medical error. But it isn’t always used. And a bit like a wondrously effective drug—when it’s not used, it doesn’t work. So...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: One health, one love, one curriculum
One health is “the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines—working locally, nationally, and globally—to attain optimal health for people, animals, and the environment.” The One Health Congress is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kieran Walsh: Learning on the ward
The ward round is an excellent opportunity for medical education. It is an opportunity to learn about taking a history, examining patients, ordering tests, and making decisions about management. If the...
View ArticleKieran Walsh: The case against medical education
Bryan Caplan is an American economist and author of a popular new book—The Case against Education. He thinks that much of our education system is a waste of time and money. He says that students spend...
View Article
![[-100%] Commodity Intelligence – (Android Apps)](http://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/j67-qJvmnn4xnVlYVZ9ZhtZUJIgwjKekJGoKQT6D1KHcWGZxtQaFroummEvwV17na7tyh1pGbbeWCRdWtTKqeg=w950-h950)
