Can App Data Link Sleep and Chronic Disease?; AI Model to Manage Diabetes

MedPage Today July 27, 2024
Rick Lange, MD, Texas Tech; Elizabeth Tracey,

— Also in TTHealthWatch: a monoclonal antibody for ulcerative colitis

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week.

This week’s topics include a monoclonal antibody for ulcerative colitis, the impact of cash payments on healthcare utilization by low-income people, an artificial intelligence (AI) model to manage diabetes, and sleep and chronic disease.

Program notes:

0:38 Cash payments and healthcare utilization

1:38 Biomarker measurement

2:38 No effect on COVID vaccination

3:38 Enable healthier choices

4:38 Didn’t offset costs of the program

5:03...