Professor, Medicine & Computational Precision Health, Co-Director @UCJointCPH, @UCSF Chief Research Informatics Officer, Co-founder @Openmhealth & @VivliCenter
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Articles by Ida Sim
Generative AI as Third Agent: Large Language Models and the Transformation of the Clinician-Patient Relationship
Promise and Pitfalls Strengthening the Human in the Clinical Exchange Evolution of the Doctor-Patient Relationship New Trilateral Framework LLM as Interrupter? Longer Term: Agentic AI as Ally or Facilitator?
Chronic Pain Treatment Preferences Change Following Participation in N-of-1 Trials, but not Always in the Expected Direction
Highlights • Treatment preferences are “sticky”: only a minority of patients change their minds about treatment based on N-of-1 trials. • Different schemes for defining treatment success lead to different conclusions about whether patients’ treatment choices are concordant with their own data. • Patients and clinicians need more help interpreting personalized results. Abstract Objective : To examine pain treatment preferences before and after participation in an N-of-1 trial.
Industry Voices-Personal health records are a lynchpin to COVID-19 strategies
COVID-19 has upended the way we work and live, creating an immediate need for digital tools as companies across all sectors and regions accelerated their digital transformation efforts and moved their products and services online. Across all industries and sectors, organizations have adapted their business and digital strategies at record speed.
Ethical Framework for Assessing Manual and Digital Contact Tracing for COVID-19
Public health interventions to control a contagious disease must balance benefiting the community and restricting individual liberty (1). The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has challenged traditional balancing of these countervailing aims. Some opponents of wearing masks, restricting public gatherings, and closing businesses regard these measures as assaults on individual liberty, reject medical science, and downplay the threat of infections (2, 3).
Open Access to Federally-funded Research Data
Summary The majority of scientific research data in the United States is not shared, meaning that our nation has vast untapped potential to fuel scientific advances. The Biden-Harris Administration can dramatically accelerate scientific progress by (i) requiring scientists who receive federal funding to share their research data and (ii) directing federal research agencies to coordinate to build an International Research Data Commons that allows research data to be easily discovered and shared.
Open Access to Federally Funded Research Data
Authors: David Crotty, Ida Sim, Michael Stebbins Summary The majority of scientific research data in the United States is not shared, meaning that our nation has vast untapped potential to fuel scientific advances.
Time for NIH to lead on data sharing
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest global funder of biomedical research, is in the midst of digesting public comments toward finalizing a data sharing policy. Although the draft policy is generally supportive of data sharing (1), it needs strengthening if we are to collectively achieve a long-standing vision of open science built on the principles of findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) (2) data sharing.
Mobile Devices and Health
Audio Interview Interview with Dr. Ida Sim on mobile devices and health. (14:22)Download Mobile health involves sensors, mobile apps, social media, and location-tracking technology used in disease diagnosis, prevention, and management. This article provides an overview of key functional and regulatory aspects; the article is accompanied by an explanatory video, an illustrated glossary, and an audio interview with the author. Register to get 3 free subscriber-only articles each month.
Two Ways of Knowing: Big Data and Evidence-Based MedicineBig Data and Evidence-Based Medicine
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