Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Jonathan “Jon” Komar, MD, is a physician consultant at OptiMed Solutions, a boutique company he established in 2018. When he is not providing service to private medical practices, Dr. Jon Komar enjoys watching and discussing Marvel films with his children.
Films based on Marvel comics made up 30 percent of total box office revenue in 2021. These films included four new installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as well as Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Marvel movies accounted for five of the six highest-grossing domestic films of the year and represented the only movies to crack the $200 million mark for the year. Released on July 9, 2021, Black Widow was the first Marvel film of the year. Despite being available for free to Disney+ subscribers at the same time as the film’s theatrical release, Black Widow grossed $183.65 million in the United States, good for the No. 4 domestic release of the year. The film’s success encouraged Disney+ to provide the next Marvel film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, with a traditional theatrical release. The decision paid off, with Shang-Chi grossing $224.54 million in the US, finishing second in the year-end box office. The Eternals, directed by Academy Award-winning director Chloe Zhao, was the only Marvel film to finish the year outside the top five, trailing F9: The Fast Saga, but the movie still managed a $164.61 million gross. The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s greatest triumph of 2021 was released with just a few weeks left in the year, but the timing did not hamper the box office results for Spider-Man: No Way Home. A joint release by Disney and Sony, the third MCU Spider-Man film grossed $572.98 million. In just two weeks, the film established itself as not only the clear winner of the 2021 box office, but the No. 10 domestic film of all time and the No. 12 global release.
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Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Dr. Jonathan “Jon” Komar has leveraged his MD to treat spine and musculoskeletal issues. Currently guiding the consulting practice OptiMed Solutions, Dr. Jonathan Komar focuses on clinical and business optimization strategies that maximize what electrical health record (EHR) platforms are capable of.
One article in late 2021 by University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program Director Dr. Hamed Abbaszadegan brings focus to the potential of AI in enabling natural language processing (NLP) as an asset in the health IT space. Integrated within platforms such as Google Assist and Siri for many years, NLP has yet to be meaningfully utilized within many areas of medicine. One area where NLP has gained traction is in voice recognition technology for documentation-gathering applications. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for a robust NLP platform has become clear, as it can help track COVID-19 cases across a sometimes fragmented health system. One example has involved the Department of Veterans Affairs developing a National Surveillance Tool that relies on NLP algorithms to identify select text and language, with a focus on COVID-19 tests across various health care systems. In the city of Phoenix, for example, a patient who takes a test at a facility operated by Banner Health and subsequently undergoes a telehealth consultation at the VA hospital will find that their history of present illness (HPI) and documentation of recent COVID-19 testing follow them across systems. The clinical applications of such a system extend to broader realms of medicine, including cancer navigation. In a LinkedIn response to the article, Dr. Komar queries whether opportunities exist for collaborating on the data with the Department of Public Health. |
AuthorJonathan Komar, MD, has involved himself as an active voice in the medical community throughout his career. Archives
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