Happenings last week

[Dr S B Gogia]

Dear friends

The happenings of note in the health Informatics Sapce this week include

AI is being used to mass detect Tuberculosis from chest radiographs 

A. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/health/tuberculosis-ai-apps.html 

The Medical Students Network of Gujarat launched a Students magazine yesterday. All the articles are available at themedjuncture.in  The first issue was devoted to Telehealth and CoVID.
The plan is to branch out into a formal scientific journal soon. Look forward for encouragement and support as the publishing culture in India needs serious help

Dr Oommen John has this article published regarding the relationship of CKD with Ground water quality

We have looked at environmental factors, here is our paper on water in Uddhanam and rest of AP. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352801X20301259?via%3Dihub

Another paper on population based screening for NCDs including CKD...

https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(20)31642-9/fulltext

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Warm Regards

Shashi Gogia

Consultant Surgeon 

President SATHI 

Director Virtual SATHI Private Limited

Founding Fellow IAHSI 

Book Editor Fundamentals of Telemedicine and Telehealth (Published by Elsevier)