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IBM Watson partners with Modernizing Medicine of Boca Raton

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Modernizing Medicine is partnering with IBM Watson of Jeopardy! fame to expand its electronic medical assistant.

With the help of the supercomputer, physicians will soon be able to ask a question of Watson about treatment research and get an immediate response as they're caring for a patient.

The interaction would take place via Modernizing Medicine's iPad tablet customized for specialty physicians such as dermatologists.

"The next decade forward will be the most exciting we've ever seen in computing as we begin to ask the computer questions and get direct answers," said Dan Cane, co-founder and CEO of Modernizing Medicine, based in Boca Raton.

IBM announced Friday that Modernizing Medicine was among three companies chosen for the IBM Watson Ecosystem program designed to develop a new generation of apps.

"The power of Watson is a game-changing proposition. Since we established a Watson developer ecosystem, we've seen the creativity flow from entrepreneurs around the world with business-changing ideas for the Watson technology," said Michael Rhodin, senior vice president for IBM Watson Group.

Watson may be best known for the 2011 stunt when the supercomputer was pitted against the best players on the TV quiz show Jeopardy! The computer won.

Cane said Watson represents a new era in which a computer can understand natural language while Modernizing Medicine collects data to help doctors learn from treatment outcomes.

With Watson, doctors will be able to instantly access research and information about clinical trials in hundreds of medical journals to better assess a treatment for a patient.

"Watson allows us to combine both worlds," Cane said. "It's a phenomenal collaboration."

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Willetts warns over surge in demand for medicine degrees

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Girls were more likely to be left without a place than boys amid a surge in the number of females notably from leading private schools applying for courses in recent years.

In all, medical schools in Britain received more than 11 applications for every place last year, up from fewer than nine in 2008.

It is believed that the surge in interest for medicine is linked to rising parental pressure to secure well-paid jobs during the economic downturn particularly following a hike in tuition fees.

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) said the vast majority of unplaced students were successful when they reapplied a year later.

But Mr Willetts said head teachers had a responsibility to explain the risks associated with medicine and ensure teenagers had a back-up plan.

He criticised the trend of allowing students to drop physics which is not required for medicine degrees at the age of 16 in a move that leaves many students struggling to get on to many other courses at a later date.

But the comments were attacked by private schools heads who warned that the NHS was failing to fund enough places on medical courses despite repeated complaints over a shortage of highly-trained doctors.

Mr Willetts said: There are every summer several thousand very unhappy 18-year-olds, predominately but not exclusively female, who think they will become medics who, sadly, do not get a place despite being very smart and well-qualified. And this is one of the most dysfunctional features of the English school leaving A-level system.

He added: The truth is that the number of young people - and it does tend to me more girls than boys - with an aspiration to do medicine way exceeds any number of places that the NHS is likely to have.

Previously, the number of students winning places on every degree course was closely capped by the government.

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Anatomy 101: UC Irvine Medical Students Adopt Google Glass

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Future doctors studying medicine at the University of California, Irvine will be getting a high-tech immersion into their field with the help of Google Glass.

From the anatomy lab to the operating room to the lecture hall, the head-mounted wearable computers are being integrated into the four-year curriculum at the UC Irvine School of Medicine.

Third- and fourth-year students will share access to 10 pairs of the head-mounted wearable computers when the academic year starts this month. An additional 20 to 30 pairs of will be available in August, when first- and second-year students begin course work. The medical school has 416 students now.

Dr. Warren Wiechmann will oversee implementation of the Google Glass four-year program at UC Irvine School of Medicine.

I believe digital technology will let us bring a more impactful and relevant clinical learning experience to our students, Dr. Ralph V. Clayman, dean of medicine, said in a university press release.

Clayman said it's a far cry from when he was a med student learning surgical techniques in the 1970s. Back then, students stood on a step stool and looked over the surgeons shoulder. Now, students don't even have to be in the same room to see what a Glass-wearing surgeon is doing.

While other medical schools have been testing Glass in medical practice and education, UC Irvine School of Medicine says it is the first institution to fully incorporate Glass into its four-year curriculum.

Dr. Warren Wiechmann, assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine and associate dean of instructional technologies, said Glass can enable students to see exactly what a surgeon sees in the operating room, instead of looking over a shoulder.

"We also have plans to place Glass on standardized patients (patient actors) to give our students the opportunity to see themselves 'through the patients eyes,'" Wiechmann told NBC News via email.

"While our students are learning how to interact as a physician and learn the art of patient engagement and interaction, Glass can record the encounter and allow them to see how well they appear to empathize, listen, and build that patient relationship."

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NIH alternative-medicine centre proposes name change

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The US National Institutes of HealthsCenter for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), a perennial punching bag, no longer wants to be alternative. Director Josephine Briggs announced today that NCCAM is accepting public comments on a proposal to rename itself the National Center for Research on Complementary and Integrative Health.

The decision, Briggs says, is a reflection of NCCAMs changing mission. When the centre was founded in 1998, it funded studies of questionable therapies such as homeopathy and remote healing. Over the years, such trials have become less common; NCCAMs current research focuses more on holistic health such as the role of yoga in pain management, as a complement to medication. Were seeing a progression in our research agenda and an increased integration of the types of practices we study into conventional care, Briggs says.

She emphasizes a distinction between this complementary approach, which she says is increasingly used by institutions such as veterans hospitals, and alternative medicine that patients may choose over evidence-based medicine. I worry a lot about people who choose something thats completely unproven when good medical care involves something we know will help, Briggs adds.

But NCCAMs name change may not be enough to convince some critics that the centre has integrated itself into the National Institutes of Healths research mission. Donald Marcus, an immunologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, says that the centres research programmes and attempts to include complementary medicine in medical education continue to be a waste of time. While he agrees that NCCAMs research portfolio has improved it has discontinued funding clinical trials of herbal therapies, for instance Marcus see the change as cosmetic. So-called integrative care, which includes therapies such as acupuncture, includes therapies not supported by scientific evidence, he says.

Arthur Grollman, a pharmacologist at theState University of New York in Stony Brook, questions the motives of the name change. I think they do understand these names are extremely important, he says, now that criticism of alternative medicine is beginning to register and hurt. He adds that integrative health has a fuzzy definition.

Briggs says she does not know whether the new name will eventually alleviate the criticism. We are trying to make the very strong case that we are about research, she says. It has research in the name.

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