Wednesday Bible Study: Hit song
As far as I can tell, Chapter 16 has no real basis in Samuel.  I doubt that it ' s actually original, but the source material has been lost. This shows the Chronicler ' s usual obsession with lists of meaningless names, but the main act is a song. Now seems as good a time as any to mention that the Book of Psalms is traditionally attributed  to David, but that ' s nonsensical. It was compiled centuries after his death, if he ever existed. Presumably this song reflects theology at the time Chronicles was written, probably in the 4th Century BCE, in the Second Temple period. I ' ll just make a couple of points...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 26, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - October 25, 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 any 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, a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: A twice-told tale
 Ch. 14 is largely lifted from 2 Samuel 5, although it skips a lot. Basically it skips ahead to verse 13 of 2 Samuel 5, leaving out the fact that David already had a whole lot of wives and concubines. The reason for the Chronicler ' s selective lifting from Samuel isn ' t clear, but in general he seems to be trying to clean up David ' s image. In case you ' ve forgotten, the David of Samuel is one horrible son of a bitch. On the other hand, why the Chronicler felt the need to reprint this in the first place is equally unclear. To make it easy on you, I ' m going to provide the matching passages from Samuel after this....
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 19, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Blistered Shishito Peppers
Thanks to my daughter for turning us on to Blistered Shishito Peppers – a simple, fast, delicious and fun appetizer. The Shishito is mild pepper brought to the US from Japan and now widely available here in the United States. We got ours from Trader Joes, but you can easily grow them in your home garden. The Shishito pepper likely came to Japan from Spain, where it is called a Padron pepper and is much hotter. It is believed to have mellowed after generations of selective breeding in Japanese soil. The fastest and most fun way to get to know Shishito is to toss them in a little olive oil, blister t...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - October 18, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Appetizers blistered shishito peppers charred shishito peppers Japnese food Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: Jumping Ahead
As we have seen, the Chronicler has no interest in chronological order. He ' s wandering through time and space. Now he jumps ahead from David ' s years as a guerilla leader to the early years of his kingship, skipping entirely over the theft of the Ark by the Philistines, its recovery (a tale involving golden hemorrhoids, as you may recall), and David ' s ascension to the throne, to David ' s decision to move the Ark to Jerusalem fromKiriath Jearim, where it happened to land after the Philistines sent it back. This chapter is largely derived from 2 Samuel 6, either with some light rewriting, or based on an alternative ver...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 16, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

How can exercise prevent cardiovascular disease? Cardiology Basics
Dr. Paul Dudley White, the famous physician who has taught many a luminary in the field of cardiology once wrote that heart disease before eighty is our fault and not God’s will or nature’s will. This means that he recognized long back, the role of life-style modification in preventing heart disease. Exercise in a regular pattern is one of the important life style modifications which everyone can adopt to prevent or delay cardiovascular disease. Exercise helps in various ways for prevention of cardiovascular disease. In those with established cardiovascular disease, graded exercise programs can promote the formation o...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 15, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs

A Country Doctor Reads: What if Burnout Is Less About Work and More About Isolation?  (NYT)
BY HANS DUVEFELT This weekend I read a piece in The New York Times that put a slightly different slant on what burnout, in the case of physician burnout, is or is caused by. We have heard theories from being asked to do the wrong thing, like data entry, to “moral injury” to my favorite, “burnout skills“, when you keep trying to do the impossible because people praise you when you pull it off. Tish Harrison Warren’s piece is a dialog between her and psychiatrist/author Curt Thompson. He focuses on isolation as a driver of burnout: Assume that if you’re burned out, your brain needs the help of another b...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Education Medical Practice Burnout Hans Duvefelt New York Times physician burnout Source Type: blogs

The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 13, 2022 Edition-----In the US the recovery from Hurricane Ian, which will take years is starting as nuclear war sadly seems to be coming closer – I hope this is just sabre-rattling and no more!In China there seems to be more instability as Xi moves to term 3 of 5 years in a week or two.Liz Truss still seems to be there!In OZ we have more floods – again – and we are waiting for a new Budget in 2 weeks or so!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/defence-gets-ready-for-the-fight-of-our-lives/news-story/4ea89108b822df72194742dc3eec0246Defence gets ready for the fight of our livesAlan D...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Important blood tests in relation to the heart – Cardiology Basics
Important blood tests in relation to the heart – Cardiology Basics Here are some important blood tests in relation to the heart. Normal ranges of some of these tests may vary between labs. Cholesterol is a type of fat found in the blood and has a role in the development of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries as well as other arteries. Desirable value of total cholesterol in blood is less than 200 milligrams per decilitre. Triglycerides is another type of fat found in the blood. Desirable value is less than 150 milligrams per decilitre. Very high levels of triglycerides carry a risk of pancreatitis. Calorie restr...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 11, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Weekly Roundup – October 8, 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. Burnout’s Effect on Healthcare Staffing. As burned-out healthcare workers leave their roles, the workers who remain must do more with less. John Lynn asked members of the Healthcare IT Today community if technology can help health systems facing a staffing crisis. A range of solutions – from automation of repetitive tasks to more flexible sch...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs

Burnout and the Staffing Crisis – How Do They Impact the Healthcare Workforce and What are Some Possible Solutions?
During the pandemic, so much was asked of our healthcare workers that they began to get burnt-out and started to quit. With people leaving, the remaining staff began to be stretched to make up for this loss. Stretched out led to stretched thin, meaning that more healthcare workers got burnt-out and quit as well. Leaving us stuck in a vicious cycle of not enough workers and burning out quickly as a result. So how do we get out of this cycle? We reached out to our Healthcare IT Today community to hear their thoughts on physician burnout and the healthcare staffing crisis and see what solutions they had. Take a look and see i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Bryan Dickerson burnout Dr. Kikelomo (Dayo) Belizaire Dr. Ujjwal Ramtekkar Healthcare Automation Healthcare Burn Source Type: blogs

The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 06, 2022 Edition-----In the UK the current Tory Government appears to have totally lost the plot and failed to even move to fix things – a real disaster I fear for millions.In the US Hurricane Ian seems to have been of Biblical Scale that will take years to repair the damage.In Europe we see the recession arriving.In OZ we are coping with the Optus data breach, an imminent and difficult Budget and the new Integrity Commission being sorted out!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/technology/manufacturers-turn-to-robots-as-job-ads-go-unanswered-20220920-p5bjilHow a $1m robot solved this company ’s labour sh...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Disruption Final
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH If you read the business press, as I do every day, It is impossible to escape the “disruption” meme.  Clayton Christiansen’s  1997 Innovators Dilemma explored how established businesses are blindsided by lower-cost competitors that undermine their core products, and eventually destroy their businesses.   Classic examples were the displacement of film-based cameras by digital cameras and, now, cell phones, the destruction of retail shopping by Amazon and video rental outlets by streaming video services. A Civic Religion Perhaps because Christiansen’s analysis arrived at the peak of the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology health innovation Jeff Goldsmith Source Type: blogs

Has “Disruption” Reached Its Sell-by Date? 
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH If you read the business press, as I do every day, It is impossible to escape the “disruption” meme. Clayton Christiansen’s 1997 Innovator’s Dilemma explored how established businesses are blindsided by lower cost competitors that undermine their core products, and eventually destroy their businesses. Classic examples were the displacement of film-based cameras by digital cameras and then cell phones, the destruction of retail shopping by Amazon and of video rental by streaming video services. A Civic Religion Perhaps because Christiansen’s analysis arrived at the peak of the first In...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology health innovation Jeff Goldsmith Source Type: blogs

Burning Up and Burned Out? Addressing Patient Burnout Amidst a Burned-Out Industry – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 10/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT).  This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen (@thegr8chalupa) on the topic “Burning Up and Burned Out? Addressing Patient Burnout Amidst a Burned-Out Industry.” As an industry, we have our work cut out for us. Among a list of growing challenges and dynamics, there are several patterns coloring the landscape: Managing the high costs of care. Ensuring patient access to adequate insurance coverage. Delivering equitable health outcomes. Responding to the consumer in the healt...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Erica Olenski Johansen Tags: #HITsm Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT #HITsm Chat #HITsm Topics burnout Clinician Burnout Clinician Satisfaction Erica Olenski Johansen Healthcare Burnout Patient Burnout Patient Satisfaction Physician Burnout Source Type: blogs