National Guideline Clearing House

1. Please go to the National Guideline Clearing House www.guideline.gov and note the search field. Type in “type 2 diabetes,” and see how many returns you have (500+). Now select the “Advanced Search” option and study the multiple filters to refine your search. You can select anything you like. This should reduce the choices significantly. Now look at a few CPGs and see if they are easy to read, recent, evidence-based and include a summary.

What features would you like to see in a guideline?
How should it be available to busy docs in the exam room?
Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?

2. Consider the following videos:
https://youtu.be/8wV-6HsCyy8 – A Teladoc Member Story: Behavioral Health
https://youtu.be/TXhwUBX408U – A Teladoc Member Story: Meet Jessie
https://youtu.be/aTytgEfFlgg – Teladoc from Youngevity

Teledoc is a service that is now reimbursed by many insurances and allows patients to virtually see doctors through video conferencing or speak to a physician via a telephone in the convenience of their home. What are your thoughts on this service? Would you use it? What type of telemedicine is Teledoc (indicate Telemedicine Category)?

3. Consider the following video: https://youtu.be/bGfwKjbZNeA

What are your thoughts about this video? Do you feel this device can help with the diagnosis of patients without ever leaving their home? Do you think it’s a must-have device for every household? Do you think this is today’s version of the futuristic Baymax from the Big Hero 6 video you watched during Week #1 discussions?

4. Consider the following article:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/apos-why-many-food-recalls-202320128.html

The article attributes the increasing number of recalls this year to the CDC’s surveillance methods such as PulseNet.

Discuss this technology and its role in the public health and continued survival of our species.
Do you feel the surveillance methods currently employed by the CDC are sufficient? Can these methods be improved? If so, what are your suggestions for improvement?
5. Public Health Surveillance is an important topic essential to the survival of our species. With the increased global mobility, the importance of quick response to disasters is critical to our survival and technology is an essential element in the speed of response. HealthMap is a map that helps visualize infectious diseases around the world. This information is publicly available and can serve as an invaluable source of information. Review this video https://youtu.be/vsp52VNVq5k and then navigate to http://www.healthmap.org/en/ . Share with the class your thoughts on this map and what you learned from browsing this map.

6. Studies involving the genome are very complex. There’s been a number of cutting-edge discoveries related to genetics that made it possible to come up with new treatments for diseases. Consider the following video: https://youtu.be/b0Bqbk7rux4 and this article https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/07/11/with-new-genes-and-an-electric-shock-scientists-turn-immune-cells-against-cancer/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ceebd3716d39 . Linking specific genes to various diseases is opening up medicine to amazing possibilities. What do you think about this type of research? How much did you understand from the video and the article? Looking into the future, can you think of possibilities this type of research creates within a 5-year span?