Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Maybe, it would be relatively easy to adapt it to all adults. 110 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Vilja Goals of Care have gotten very good feedback, seldom you see both such an improvement of care and a substantial reduction of costs. Symtom support connected to this is not yet is use. 110 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 13/08/2025We also have a tool that helps making Goals of care decisions for home care and senior home patients, this was an add on, what to do thereafter (the not for public side contains info on urgency and treatments). But since symptoms not really vary that much for 65+, we made Oired for all seniors. 100 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Symptom support, unbiased and pure. Taking on the toughest cases: elderly patients. Get diagnoses and suggested investigations. Powered by our own AI (not Big Tech), but we use LLM as a sidekick. Easy, no login, free to use: Oired.comoired.comOiredIntroducing Oired, a symptom checker designed with the elderly in mind 351 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This is so true, because innovation thrives on the number of smart people exchanging ideas. Now that China’s population is highly educated, progress is accelerating. Meanwhile, Europe stagnates under excessive regulations, and the US is stuck admiring itself in the mirror and avoiding any exchange.nytimes.comOpinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.Beijing’s message to America: We’re not afraid of you. You aren’t who you think you are — and we aren’t who you think we are. 020 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 30/03/2025What if the real text below is: ”companies” => ”computers” ”capitalism” => ”the future” 130 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 23/03/2025A curse for the children and a blessing for the elderly? 010 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 18/03/2025If we can get this down to 1 hour, it would just take 3 years to build enough solar capacity to provide all the electricity the world currently uses. Or more probable 6 fold increase of current buildout (around 2030?) and it takes around 12 years. Some ⚡️-storage will also be needed😉. 040 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Highly developed: <10% below $30 (PPP) Developed: <10% below $20 Moderately developed: <10% below $10 Slightly developed: <10% below $2.15 but >10% below $10 Underdeveloped: >10% below $2.15 Very underdeveloped: >25% below $2.15 This would redefine development as broad economic inclusion. 010 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Its true that the poverty line has been a useful strategy and helped countries focus and decide where they/donors should invest. Hard to see $30 (PPP) as true poverty - which for me borders to starvation - but maybe we should apply a similar approach across all development stages. For example: 100 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 11/03/2025With the possible exception of good hygiene, nothing has contributed more to human health than vaccines! If anything, we’ve underinvested in them relative to the results. 44018 0
Reposted by Mikael EhrnströmEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/03/202599% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...jamanetwork.comComparison of Research Spending on New Drug Approvals by the NIH vs the Pharmaceutical IndustryThis cross-sectional study examines National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry investments in recent drug approvals. 18883436 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Europe should thank Germany’s debt rules, without them Germany would probably be just as in indebted as other European countries. And if this would have been true there would not be enough financial fire power for what now is need to save Europe (=create actual fire power!). 000 0
Reposted by Mikael EhrnströmJAMA @jama.com · 05/03/2025"There’s no doubt in my mind that these models are going to transform health care very, very quickly." Eleni Linos of Stanford discusses the future of patient-clinician messaging with JAMA+AI Editor in Chief Roy Perlis. ja.ma/3Dl9NgPja.maHow Do Patients Perceive AI vs Clinician Responses to EHR Questions?This Medical News article is an interview with Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH, who coauthored a study on artificial intelligence’s potential to improve patient-clinician communications. 2135 0
Mikael Ehrnström @mickeehrnstrom.bsky.social · 07/03/2025This is a really important article about what is suffocating democracy. Trump and Musk are killing freedom of speech!nytimes.comFearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle ThemselvesPeople say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families. 032 0