Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Self-management, coping – or living with?
After a weekend relaxing by the beach, I’m once again pondering the nature of how people live well with persistent pain. It’s called variously ‘self-management’ or ‘coping’ or, in my life, ‘living with’ pain, and as I pointed out last week, it’s not well-defined. I’m not even sure that people with pain get a look-in at what to call these ‘ways of living’ because it’s typically an academic discussion that excludes the very people who are expected to comply with them!
That gripe aside, what’s wrong with the terms ‘coping’ or &#...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 8, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping strategies Pain conditions Resilience/Health biopsychosocial pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 9th 2023
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Source: Fight Aging! - October 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Pageantry: an unconventional catalyst for career advancement in academic medicine
In an unlikely intersection, pageantry has the potential to play a pivotal role in accentuating career progression in academic medicine. Through meticulously crafting one’s professional demeanor and image, physicians can hone their interpersonal and networking skills and bolster their professional credibility. Drs. Wada and Nelson share how their participation in pageants over the years has
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Pageantry: an unconventional catalyst for career advancement in academic medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hailey Nelson, MD & The role of institutions in medical misconduct
There are no words more devastating than, “Our hands are tied” to a survivor reporting abuse and seeking some semblance of accountability from a larger institution. “The institution admitted no fault” is a close second. Picture this sequence: a trusted physician at a renowned academic medical center sees a patient at a vulnerable stage in
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The role of institutions in medical misconduct originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Chloe N. L. Lee, MD, MPH Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
What is the infarct artery? What does the post PCI ECG show? What does the convalescent ECG show?
What is the infarct artery? I usually don ' t ask this question, as it is rarely relevant to the decision to activate the cath lab. This is one case where it made a difference: Right Ventricular MI seen on ECG helps Angiographer to find Culprit LesionNevertheless, it is sometimes a fun academic exercise to try to predict the infarct artery:An elderly patient had onset of chest pain one hour prior. He called 911. Here is the prehospital ECG.What do you think?I think it looks like an inferior posterior OMI. The medics thought so too and activated the cath lab from the prehospital.The Qu...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 6, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Briya Raises $11.5M Series A, Accelerates U.S. Rollout of Blockchain-Secured Data Exchange Platform to Enhance Collaboration Between Hospitals and Life Sciences
Briya Enables Hospitals to Increase Revenue While Research Organizations Capitalize on Most Comprehensive Anonymized Data to Develop and Implement Patient Treatments
Briya, an end-to-end healthcare data exchange platform, today announced the completion of an $11.5 million Series A round of financing, bringing the company’s total funding to $17 million. The round was led by Team8, includes existing investors Insight Partners and Amiti Ventures, and is joined by the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
The funding will support Briya’s mission to transform how data is exchanged between healthcare organizations and life sc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amiti Ventures Berlin Institute of Health BIH Briya Charité Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin David Lazerson Dr. Jawed Nawabi George Kaiser Family Foundation Health IT Funding Health IT Fundi Source Type: blogs
Towards More Selective Senolytic Drugs to Clear Senescent Cells from Aged Tissues
Cells enter a senescent state constantly throughout life, largely as a result of reaching the Hayflick limit on cellular replication, but also due to damage and stress. Senescent cells cease to replicate and begin to secrete pro-inflammatory, pro-growth signals. This attracts the immune system to sites of potential concern, and in the case of physical injuries to tissue the signaling of senescent cells helps to coordinate repair. Senescent cells are normally cleared from tissues fairly quickly, being destroyed either by immune cells, or via programmed cell death mechanisms. With age, however, the pace of clearance slows an...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Claira Sohn Cultivates Neurons and Diversity in the STEM Community
Credit: Courtesy of Claira Sohn.
Claira Sohn credits her grandfather with sparking her interest in science. Although he never studied science at a 4-year university due to financial limitations, he took many community college classes and worked in chemistry labs developing products such as hair dyes and dissolvable stitches. “Every morning, my grandfather would take me to school, and we’d stop to get orange juice and a cookie and talk about science. When I was in elementary school, he bought me a book about quantum mechanics written for kids,” she says. “He inspired me to ask questions and encouraged me to go to ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Diseases Profiles Training Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Chief Health Information Officer
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Chief Health Information Officer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Hennepin Healthcare and is located in Minneapolis, MN.
Here’s a description of the position:
Hennepin Healthcare System (HHS) operates as an integrated care system which includes HCMC, a nationally recognized Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center along with a high-quality acute care hospital. This comprehensive healthcare network includes a 473-bed academic medical center, a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Chief Health Information Officer CHIO Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Hennepin Healthcare Job Seekers Source Type: blogs
A Outsider's Popular Science View of the Longevity Industry and Academia
A brace of popular science articles on aging research were recently published at the Economist. Like many of these views from a distance written by journalists on the outside, peering into the field, one must assume that its existence is largely the result of the sizable investments made over the last two years into the development of therapies based on partial reprogramming. The Altos Labs funding in particular represented a meaningful fraction of all investment into biotech made that year. That tends to attract attention. From there, an investigator would notice an additional broad focus on cellular senescence, many comp...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 2, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 2nd 2023
In conclusion, we identified several candidate genes that may confer cancer resistance in cetaceans, providing a new avenue for further research into the mechanisms of lifespan extension.
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A Relationship Between the Gut Microbiome and Bone Density
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/09/a-relationship-between-the-gut-microbiome-and-bone-density/
Changes in the gut microbiome take place with advancing age, an increase in populations that provoke chronic inflammation, a reduction in the populations producing beneficial metabolites. Even only considering rising levels of in...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Summus Raises $19.5 Million to Expand Solutions Solving the Access Problem in Specialty Care
Fundraise Supports Market Expansion with Summus Emerging as the Premier Clinical Platform to Share and Access High-Quality Specialty Expertise Across the Continuum of Care — Serving Employers, Payers, Health Systems, and Physician Groups
Summus, the leading virtual health company focused on specialty care, announced today that it raised $19.5 million to support the company’s continued growth and work to solve the access problem to high-quality physicians. Following a previous investment round in 2022, Summus has now raised $70 million to expand its innovative approach to care.
The company’s proprietary mark...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Danaher Corporation Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Julian Flannery Mitchell Rales Rick Buhrman Sator Grove Holdings Summus Source Type: blogs
A man in his 40s with acute chest pain. What do you think?
Sent by anonymous, written by Pendell Meyers, reviewed by Smith and GrauerA man in his 40s presented to the ED with HTN, DM, and smoking history for evaluation of acute chest pain. He was eating lunch when he had sudden onset chest pressure, 9/10, radiating to his back, with sweating and numbness in both hands.Triage ECG:What do you think?It ' s a very " fun " ECG, with initial ectopic atrial tachycardia (negative P waves in inferior leads conducting 1:1 with the QRSs), followed by spontaneous resolution to sinus rhythm. In the available view of the sinus rhythm, we see normal variant STE which probably meets STEMI criteri...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - September 29, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Two Weeks of Purging, Releasing, and Opening
Integration of my recent MDMA journey has been going well and keeping me busier than I expected. It actually feels like I’m still going through that journey. I sense that the energies involved knew that I’d have two weeks to myself with Rachelle out of town (she’s visiting family in Canada and returns tonight), so they invited me to have an extended solo experience. I’d kept my schedule very open during those two weeks, so I feel that on some level I said yes to that invitation.
I haven’t taken any substances since a microdose of mushrooms on the 16th, opting for a longer break, but that ha...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Emotions Source Type: blogs
