New year, new you! 10 Steps to Change Your Life!
Are you setting goals for this year? Did you decide to get fit? Eat healthier? Spend more time with your family? Be more mindful? Read on for my famous 10 steps to change your life!
Bah, humbug!
Reflect for a moment on what you’ve just read. Head to Google and do a search using the terms “New Year” and see what you come up with. My search page showed, amongst all the horrific news of car smashes and events for the holiday season, topics like “New Year Bootcamp: Get rid of your debt”, “cook something new every week”, “read more books”, “create a cleaning sch...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 8, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping strategies Motivation Occupational therapy Research Science in practice biopsychosocial contentment goals Health healthcare New Year Source Type: blogs
Healthcare AI – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
Check out our community’s healthcare AI predictions.
Evangelos Hytopoulos, Sr. Director of Data Science at iRhythm Technologies
There is no doubt that AI has become mainstream in many areas....
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions 4D Path Carlene MacMillan CommBox Dave Bennett Evangelos Hytopoulos Gabriel Mecklenburg Healthcare AI Hinge Health iRhythm Technologies Judy Jiao Na Source Type: blogs
Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts
This article is so old, it’s kind of sad that it’s still getting so much traffic. It is fascinating to see how we thought about Facebook and healthcare in 2014.
What the EMR Industry Can Learn From Facebook – Seems like people care about Facebook and Healthcare. Although, this article is from 2012.
HIPAA vs HIPPA – Fun Friday – I’m glad some humor made the top list since I enjoy humor as much or more than the next person. Plus, Bad HIPPA Takes is a great Twitter account.
Top Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Companies – Looks like the interest in RPM started before 2022. Lots of ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Fun Friday healthcare IT today Top Health IT Articles Top Health IT Podcasts Top Health IT Videos Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 2nd 2023
In conclusion, circulating monocytes in older adults exhibit increased expression of activation, adhesion, and migration markers, but decreased expression of co-inhibitory molecules.
MERTK Inhibition Increases Bone Density via Increased Osteoblast Activity
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/12/mertk-inhibition-increases-bone-density-via-increased-osteoblast-activity/
Bone density results from the balance of constant activity on the part of osteoblasts and osteoclasts, the former building bone, the latter breaking it down. With advancing age, the balance of activity shifts to favor osteoclasts, pro...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Neuroscience Trend Forecasters
As 2022 draws to a close, the SNL Trend Forecasters have agreed to divulge their predictions for the most — and the least— exciting research fads for the New Year.The Neurocritic: How do you guys predict today ' s most popular neuroscience trends? Trend Forecasters: Oh, well we have 4,000 computers, they ' re all big they all make charts and they beep LOUD.TN: Let ' s get started!In:posterior cingulate cortexHey Posterior Cingulate — we see you! You ' re fresh, you ' re mysterious, you ' re misunderstood. But we know you exist far beyond the default fashion mode. Thenew tripartite view proposes......that the bro...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 31, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at 2022: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
At the end of 2022, we can reflect on the fact that we are steadily entering a new era of medicine, one in which mechanisms of aging are targeted rather than ignored. It is a profound change, one that will change the shape of a human life and ultimately the human condition by eliminating the greatest sources of suffering and death in the world. Year after year, we see increased funding, ongoing progress towards therapies capable of slowing aging or reversing aspects of aging, and a growing taxonomy of such potential therapies and their target mechanisms.
The view of aging in the medical community and public at large...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 30, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
A Popular Science View of the Development of Senolytic Therapies
Over the last decade, an increasing diversity of research groups and companies are working towards the clinical use of senolytic therapies to reverse aspects of aging in older patients by clearing harmful senescent cells. Of the early senolytic therapies, the dasatinib and quercetin combination is the only one with published data in human clinical trials showing clearance of senescent cells. This treatment is in fact easily accessible to self-experimenters, and even being prescribed off-label by more adventurous physicians. The biotech industry is working to produce a next generation of (probably) better approaches, and ob...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 29, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – December 24, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Tytocare’s Mission to Make Home Medical Care Easier and More Accurate. Demand for care at home is rising, but traditional telehealth and remote monitoring doesn’t support examination and diagnosis in the patient’s home. Colin Hung talked to TytoCare at HLTH about the company’s new Home Smart Clinic and its efforts to bring primary...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Leveraging AI to Improve Revenue Cycle Management and Assist During Staff Shortages
The following is a guest article by Helen Lamons, SVP of Revenue Cycle Management at Advata.
In recent years, AI has made various advancements in the administrative and clinical setting as healthcare systems leverage the technology to benefit workflow operations and reduce human errors. As a business, it makes sense to embrace AI in revenue cycle management (RCM) fully. The potential applications are limitless. As healthcare systems seek tactics to increase revenue following the dire financial impact of the pandemic, 2023 is the perfect year to consider implementing AI to benefit your team and bottom line.
Healthcare organ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Accounts Receivable Advata AI-Enabled Dashboards Artificial Intelligence data analytics Denials Management Healthcare AI Helen Lamons NAHRI National As Source Type: blogs
See OMI vs. STEMI philosophy in action
by Emre AslangerDr. Aslanger is our newest editorial member. He is an interventional cardiologist in Turkey. Dr. Aslanger is also the author of the DIFFOCULT study:Emre K. Aslanger,a,⁎ Özlem Yıldırımtürk,b Bar ış Şimşek,c Emrah Bozbeyo ğlu,c Mustafa Aytek Şimşek,a Can Y ücel Karabay,b Stephen W. Smith,d and Muzaffer De ğertekina DIFOCCULT: DIagnostic accuracy oF electrocardiogram for acute coronary OCClUsion resuLTing in myocardial infarction. International Journal of Cardiology Heart& VasculatureCaseA 40-year-old man presents with...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 22, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Emre Aslanger Source Type: blogs
Bad Backs & Deductibles
It’s time again for me to use my bad back as a case study in why American health care has such crazy incentives.
About a month ago at the HLTH conference in Vegas, over the course of a few hours I developed debilitating leg pain. To quote from my earlier twitter thread on my time in Vegas, “After 3 days of excruciating pain, my wife insisted I went to the ER. The public policy person in me was horrified but we had already spent our deductible, so the cost was actually lower than paying cash for an MRI”
What actually happened was that after 3 days of dreadful pain & inability to wal...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Chronic Back Pain health deductible health plans (HDHP) Insurers Surgery Source Type: blogs
Persistent pain and movement practices
Here I go, stepping into “the bio” to write about movement. Oh dear, what am I doing?
Movement practices of various kinds are part and parcel of pain management. In fact, to read some of the material in social media-land, exercise is the be-all and end-all of pain management, maybe with a dash of psychology. Can we please stop doing this?
I’ve said it often, for many forms of persistent pain, especially the most common forms – nonspecific chronic low back pain, fibromyalgia, and osteoarthritic pain – movement is a good thing, but the effect sizes are small for both pain intensity and d...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - December 18, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Low back pain Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Psychology Resilience/Health Science in practice movement optimism movement practices pain management Research Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
A young patient with diminishing pain with a subtle but diagnostic ECG.
Written by Emre Aslanger(Emre is our newest editor. He is an interventionalist in Turkey and one of 3 originators of the OMI/NOMI paradigm, along with Pendell and Smith. Here are his publications.)CaseA 39-year-old male without prior medical history presents with chest pain that started 2 hours prior to presentation. He says that the pain intensity was 10/10 at home but now about 4/10. His medical exam is unremarkable. He has no cardiovascular risk factors except smoking for 10 pack-years. He denies any illicit drug use. His ECG is shown below. What do you think ?Although not striking, this is clearly a dia...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 18, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Emre Aslanger Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – December 17, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
MedAware’s Mission: Medical Alerts That Make Sense. Alert fatigue is so pervasive because it’s a symptom of bas design, John Lynn learned in his conversation with Dr. Gidi Stein at MedAware. That’s why the company focuses on optimizing alerts by analyzing data from relevant patient records and medical devices to ensure alerts are releva...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Reimagining Pain in the Wake of the Opioid Epidemic
The following is a guest article by Vijay Yanamadala, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Sword Health and System Medical Director of Spine Quality at Hartford Healthcare.
In 2017, after years of over prescribing opioids to treat pain, leading to opioid addiction for millions of Americans, opioid dependency was declared a public health emergency.
Since then, the opioid epidemic has only worsened. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its impact on people’s mental and physical health, has greatly contributed to a rise in opioid-related deaths.
When I was a medical student in the early 2000s, pain was viewed as a vital sign, like heart rate...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Chronic Pain Hartford HealthCare MSK Musculoskeletal Care opioid crisis Opioid Epidemic Pain Management Patient Care Patient Compliance Physical Therapy PT Reimagining Pain Swo Source Type: blogs
