It Seems The Australian Capital Territory Is Going Full Bore Into Hospital Digital Health!
I noticed this recently:Here ' s what you need to know about the incoming Digital Health Record13 August 2022 |Lottie TwyfordIn exactly three months ’ time, a single patient records system will be rolled out across the Territory’s public health system.When it does, it will replace a mishmash of more than 40 existing systems.The move to the Digital Health Record is touted by the government to make life easier for patients and clinicians, although some challenges and additional work for staff are anticipated in the first instance.What is the Digital Health Record?Essentially, it ’s a Territory-wide records system that ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
5 things I would never do as an allergy and immune system expert
Jumping on the recent TikTok trend of medical professionals sharing the things they would never do given their knowledge and expertise, I am sharing the five things I would never do as a board-certified allergist-immunologist. 1. I would never rely on a Primatene mist inhaler to treat my asthma or breathing symptoms alone. Primatene mist
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5 things I would never do as an allergy and immune system expert originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 11, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kara Wada, MD Tags: Conditions Allergies & Immunology Source Type: blogs
I Pass This Point Of View On Without Comment. What Do Readers Think?
This appeared last week:Residential aged care and My Health Record: Linkage is mission criticalAug 1, 2022 |Aged care,Community Chats,Community of Practice,Data,Digital Health,eHealth,Innovation,Nursing& Midwifery InformaticsResidential aged care organisations in Australia have been slow to not only move to digital clinical information systems but embrace the benefits of digitalisation in general. The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (Royal Commission) and others have stated that the residential aged care sector as a whole has not kept up with even other healthcare sectors in the use and application o...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - August 9, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - August 2, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon....
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
A nut allergy nightmare at 35,000 feet
A hungry college student was on a plane flying to Italy. She was alone, as her parents had bought her a ticket to join them on the trip, but their own flight had been sold out. About an hour after take-off, the flight attendants came down the aisle with their carts to serve dinner. She
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A nut allergy nightmare at 35,000 feet originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 30, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Samara Friedman, MD Tags: Conditions Allergies & Immunology Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 23rd July2022.
In this study, researchers sought to determine whether differences in occult hypoxemia treatment existed between people of different races.Occult hypoxemia was defined as arterial blood oxygen saturation of less than 88 percent despite a pulse oximetry reading of 92 percent or more.-----https://healthitsecurity.com/news/security-awareness-and-training-crucial-to-preventing-healthcare-phishing-attacksSecurity Awareness and Training Crucial to Preventing Healthcare Phishing AttacksSecurity awareness and training greatly decreased the likelihood of an employee falling for a healthcare phishing attack, KnowBe4 researchers foun...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Where Does it Hurt? Specialty Physician Shares Three Ways to Improve EHR Charting
The following is a guest article by Jason Handza, DO, Chief Medical Officer at Nextech Systems.
It is no surprise that healthcare providers and other clinical staff want to experience consistent and improved charting capabilities to deliver better patient care. It’s also well known that many physicians remain disappointed with the charting and clinical documentation capabilities of hospital and specialty EHRs.
According to KLAS Research’s Arch Collaborative, physicians want three basic things from their EHRs: strong user mastery, a sense of ownership and system personalization. In KLAS’s latest EHR satisfaction repor...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Arch Collaborative EHR Charting EHR Regulations EHR Training Jason Handza KLAS Medication Compliance Nextech Ophthalmology EHR Physician Dissatisfaction Source Type: blogs
Why Is Nutrigenomics The Biggest Flop In Digital Health?
If somebody had told me five years ago that I’d sooner review an A.I. guided portable ultrasound device than a nutrigenomics test, I would have laughed so hard. Yet, here we are, this ultrasound test is almost a year old now, and where is a nutrigenomics test I could finally lay my hands on? Not even close.
This is THE digital health technology I have been waiting for the longest and still had no chance to try. At the moment I can’t name a single service, a single direct-to-consumer (DTC) solution focusing on this area while being available and being backed by scientific evidence.
Why is that? I can name fo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Lifestyle medicine Biotechnology Future of Food Genomics Personalized Medicine nutrigenomics nutritients how to eat dna food test dna diet Source Type: blogs
The immune system
It occurs to me that right now, a great deal of trouble results from public misunderstanding of the immune system. It would actually be impossible for most of the public to understand very much about the immune system because it is extremely complicated. It depends on elaborate correlation of literally dozens of different kinds of cells, along with complicated features of all other human cells and of pathogens. Understanding how all of this works further depends on fairly deep understanding of basic biology, which believe me very few people have.Into this immense gulf of ignorance wade opportunistic charlatans who want to ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 2, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
From MARC Student to MacArthur Fellow
Dr. Víctor J. Torres. Credit: Keenan Lacey, Ph.D.
“I study the dance between a bacterium and its host. If we can decode the secrets of that dance—how the pathogen causes disease, and how the host fights back—we might be able to take advantage of vulnerabilities to improve our ability to combat infections,” says Víctor J. Torres, Ph.D., the C. V. Starr Professor of Microbiology at the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine in New York City.
Discovering and Pursuing a Passion for Science
Growing up, Dr. Torres never would have imagined his highly successful scientific career, especially sinc...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 25, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Injury and Illness Bacteria Infectious Diseases Profiles Source Type: blogs
If You Think About It, This Is Really Pretty Fascist Plan From A Supposedly Centre-Left Victorian Government!
This appeared a few days ago: Push to make Victoria ’s consent-free digital health database opt-in Denham Sadler
National Affairs Editor 18 May 2022 The Victorian government’s plan for a centralised health database for all people with no consent has been labelled “bureaucratic imperialism” and “inherently dangerous”, with a last minute push to allow people to opt-out from it.
The state government is attempting to pass legislation facilitating the establishment of a centralised electronic patient health information sharing system for health services to share health information to provide medical care. The bill...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
3 misperceptions and myths about food allergies
Recently, singer and musician Halsey shared her recent allergy testing results on TikTok along with the news of her recent diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and Sjogren ’s Disease. Pictured were the telltale red welts we inflict day in and day out in allergy clinic with our scratch tests and aRead more …3 misperceptions and myths about food allergies originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/kara-wada" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Kara Wada, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Allergies & Immunology Source Type: blogs
The Reckoning: What Happens to Digital Health After COVID?
By JEFF GOLDSMITH and ERIC LARSEN
It has been a rough year so far for digital health. After an astonishing $45 billion poured into new digital health companies in 2020 and 2021, and an early 2021 peak in market valuations of publicly-traded digital health providers, valuations and multiples have collapsed. Once high-flying Teladoc, which traded at an eye-watering 42x revenues and commanded a $45 billion market capitalization, is now trading around 2.7X at about $5.7 billion. AmWell, the next largest telehealth player, has seen its stock drop more 90% from its high.
Nor is the evaporation in market value is co...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech digital health Digital health investing Eric Larsen Healthcare bubble Jeff Goldsmith Source Type: blogs
When Do You Think We Can Expect Such Services In OZ?
This appeared last week: April 12, 2022 Walgreens and Wing launch drone delivery in first major U.S. metropolitan area The story behind Walgreens and Wing ’s expansion to Dallas-Fort Worth, a milestone for customers and the drone industry alike. By Sarah Cason, Walgreens Stories It’s a sunny spring morning in Dallas, Texas. Representatives from Walgreens and Alphabet’s Wing are in Simpson Plaza, preparing to launch drone delivery in the Dallas-F ort Worth metroplex. The first two recipients, the mayors of Frisco and Little Elm, have inputted their order into Wing’s app.
Minutes later, the drone arrives and safely ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 28, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
