Digital Clothing, Biofashion And Smart Outfits – The Future Of Fashion
Fast fashion is not only unsustainable but also means an unbearable burden to the planet. The situation is ripe for change. Could lab-grown leather and other novel ways of synthetic garment production, biofashion or digital clothing show the way to an alternative future for the apparel industry? Is there a chance of improving our attitude towards clothing items by adding more value, new functionality?
From Burda to the unsustainable downward spiral of fast fashion
When our grandmothers in the 1950s wanted to dress according to the latest trend, they bought the Burda Magazine alongside some fabric and used the fam...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Biotechnology Health Sensors & Trackers design digital future Healthcare wearables fashion fast fashion digital clothing digital clothes artificial leather artificial material synthetic biofashion Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Hit the snooze button
Chapter 15 consists largely of a boring recitation of names of kings with an occasional random event thrown in. There are a couple of points worth noting, however. First, I should clarify that this repeated reference to people burning incense in the high places is about ceremonies worshiping Baal. For some reason the kings of Judah can ' t seem to eradicate it. Despite this, the book continues to emphasize the greater righteousness and loyalty to Yahweh of the kings of Judah versus the consistently perfidious kings of Israel/Samaria. (Two names for the same kingdom.)In verse 12, God promises Jehu his descendants will...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Upgrading Your Reference Frames
Conscious reframing is one of the most accessible self-development skills because it aligns with how your brain works internally. Your brain already performs this task for you. And just as you can consciously control your breathing, you can also learn to consciously control your reference frames.
A reference frame is a context upon which other thinking and behaviors are layered. It’s essentially an assignment of meaning.
We don’t think in terms of how reality works. We think in terms of how we’re modeling reality internally. Our brains are constantly building and refining models (or frames).
For example, dur...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Productivity Source Type: blogs
Taking Back Medicine
I am currently trying to decide how this blog moves forward - and if continuing to publish here is the best way to move forward. A few long-standing posts (detailing my adventures with corporate medicine as a medical whistleblower abandoned by the Federal government) have been archived for now. Others remain.For instance, I like to remember how idealistic I once was. Last year, I lent a lot of support to my local County Commissioners ' plan to " save " my (bankrupt) hometown hospital (Randolph Hospital in Asheboro, N.C.) - never mind all their executives did to destroy me - a long time ago - after a ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - July 18, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Sketchy History
In Ch. 14 we get a lot of random, poorly explained factoids about kings of Judah and Israel, with several references to the full story being told in The Chronicles of the Kings of Judah and The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. These books have been lost. This does not refer to the Book of Chronicles, which merely selectively recapitulates stories from the Torah and the Deuteronomic History without adding anything except a lot of genealogy consisting of nothing but lists of contextless names. It does contradict the Deuteronomic History in certain details, for example it offers yet a fourth version of the death of Saul.The...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 17, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 14, 2022 Edition-----The biggest news this week was the assassination of the ex-PM of Japan – Shinzo Abe – who was a good friend to OZ incidentally.In the US we have had a wind-up to a busy summit season – NATO etc – and the ongoing war in Ukraine which is becoming a deepening, protracted and horrible situation which it seems hard to resolve sadly.In the UK Boris is out but not gone and the battle for the succession is off and rolling.In OZ we have Albo back and we need to work out what to mitigate these various natural disasters and actually get on with it!!!! The response has been pathetic so far I reckon!--...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Weight Loss: An Easy Way To Shrink Belly Fat
Lose weight and burn belly fat without dieting. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The invention of accounting
First, I need to say a bit about names, because it gets confusing. The boy Joash seems to has grown up to become KingJehoashof Judah, but sometimes he ' s still called King Joash. Meanwhile, the Israelites king called Jehoahaz, and on his death his son Jehoash becomes king. So there are two Jehoash ' s, one of whom is also Joash. Anyway . . .The Temple needs repair, so Joash orders the priests to earmark some of the fees and donations they receive for the purpose. But the priests didn ' t do it, evidently they spent the money on themselves. So the high priest installed a lock box, all the money went into it, an...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 10, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – July 9, 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.
Telehealth Lessons and Perspectives from Boston’s Beth Israel. In the latest edition of the CIO Podcast, John talked to Leanne Harvey, CIO of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at BIDMC, about the telehealth experience for patients and physicians more than two years after COVID hit the Northeast. She also offered some perspective on the future of t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Digital Transformation Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Physician Burnout Source Type: blogs
The Real Core of the Physician Burnout Problem and What to Do About It
When I watch doctors and nurses on Twitter talk about burnout, one common theme emerges. Another wellness program or yoga room is not going to help. Instead of making clinicians more resilient (they’re already extremely resilient), we need to address the core problems in healthcare that are causing burnout.
One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow. We know this is the case, because TransformativeMed has created a workflow based on the clinician called CORES and the response from doctors ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Great Resignation Healthcare Scene Featured Healthcare Workflow Jed S. Rosen LifeBridge Health Physician Burnout Rishi Sarna Staff Burno Source Type: blogs
Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/8 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Christopher Crow, MD (@catalysthg) on the topic “Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care.”
Primary care providers face a unique dichotomy: Never have they been more valuable… and never has their future been more uncertain. Whether you look at the findings from organizations like NASEM–which characterize primary care as the only part of healthcare where an increased supply is associated with better population health and more equitable outcomes...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 5, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Administration Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management #HITsm Chat #HITsm Topics Christopher Crow Healthcare Transformation NASEM Primary Care Primary Care Physicians technology Source Type: blogs
poem
Op Note XXVII like to think I ’ve gotten better at this as time goes on. Fifteen years a surgeon, you learn a few tricks. Whip out a gallbladder lickety split. Slide along the planes of action. Spot the hidden vessel. Some cases it ’s almost elegant. But never anything close to art. The best we can get in this gig is mechanical, the cold uncanny beauty of something approximating a machine. Actual machines are never beautiful. Awe inspiring, maybe. Useful. Precise. Remorseless. A hint of indescribable dread. Dogged relentlessness. The perfect soldier, in other words. ...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - July 5, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The Final Solution
As you may recall, Jezebel was the daughter of a Phoenician king, who married Ahab and introduced the worship of Baal to the northern kingdom. Elijah and then Elisha have been fighting a sort of guerilla war against Ahab ' s successors and the worship of Baal, but for some reason Yahweh has mostly been putting up with it until now. Yahweh finally had Elisha appoint Jehu as king, to impose the final solution. So here it is. First Jehu orders the Samarians to kill all 70 of Ahab ' s sons and send him their heads, which they do. Then Jehu massacres the rest of Ahab ' s family and his priests. Then Jehu goes to Samaria a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 3, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Extra Bible Study
First, here is every word in the New Testament -- Gospels, Acts, epistles, Revelation -- about abortion:Good. Have you memorized it? It isn ' t hard! And now, here is every word in the Old Testament -- that is the Tanakh, as translated into English from the Masoretic text as the New International Version -- about abortion. Literally this is the only mention of it anywhere in the Bible. It is from Chapter 5 of the Book of Numbers.11 Then theLord said to Moses,12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him13 so that another man has sexual re...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 25, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Cognitive dissonance in the medical profession
Since writing a cathartic post about being burned out, I’ve received supportive messages as well as concerned calls from friends and former colleagues. Some were worried about my well-being. Others agreed with the sentiments. One note in particular resonated. It named cognitive dissonance as part of the problem. This dissonance is pervasive in society. TheRead more …Cognitive dissonance in the medical profession originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 21, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/claudia-finkelstein" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Claudia Finkelstein, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
