Learnsoft Scales to Meet Increasing Training Demands for Highly Regulated Industries
Closes $16.7 Million Growth Financing by Elsewhere Partners and Names Seasoned Healthcare Technology Executive Robbie Abt as CEO
Learnsoft, a technology leader meeting the unique training needs of highly regulated service industries, today announced the appointment of seasoned technology leader Robbie Abt as chief executive officer timed with the close of a $16.7 million Series A round of growth financing led by Elsewhere Partners. Scaling to meet heightened demand for comprehensive, customizable learning management systems (LMS), Learnsoft plans to use the funding to advance its solution offering, grow its team, acce...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Chris Pacitti Elsewhere Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Kansas Department of Administration Kishor Amberkar Kraig Knowlton Learnsoft M Source Type: blogs
When You Are Warned This Is An Obvious Risk To Be Avoided.
This appeared last week:GPs warned to avoid intimate examinations of kids over telehealthDoctors say it is important children learn it is never appropriate to expose their genitalia to a camera25th August 2022BySiobhan CalafioreIntimate examinations of children via telehealth might inadvertently increase the risk of online sexual grooming, GPs are being warned.Asking a child to undress in front of a phone or computer camera, even for a medical examination with a parent present, may normalise the type of behaviour that sexual predators would encourage, according to paediatric endocrinologists writing in theJournal of Paedia...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 01, 2022 Edition-----This week it is all about weather and climate change with floods, heatwaves and droughts in Parkistan, Europe and China. In the US drought is causing all sorts of food supply issues and price rises.In the EU was a seeing all sorts of energy supply problems.In Australia we have a feast of investigations into ScoMo, RoboDebt and so on. Lots to browse!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/us-alliance-fear-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-20220818-p5bat8US alliance fear that dare not speak its nameUneasiness about divided, inward-looking America fulfilling its security gua...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Outbreaks of Injustice Linked by Two Different Dobbs.
BY MIKE MAGEE
Under the definition for the noun, epidemic, there are two main (and distinctly different) definitions. I know this fact because it was the beginning point of my preparations earlier this summer for a Fall course on “The History of Epidemics in America” at the Presidents College at the University of Hartford.
The entry reads:
Epidemic nounep·i·dem·ic | \ ˌe-pə-ˈde-mik \Definition of epidemic (Entry 2 of 2)1: an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time : an outbreak of epidemic disease2: an outbreak or product of sudden ra...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Bioethics and Law Medical Practice Buck vs. Bell Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 29 August, 2022.
The objective is to create a new era of digital health in Australia with strong governance. This means open and collaborative processes for the agreement, development, testing, publishing and maintenance of digital health standards.“Digital health standards are critical to the safe, secure and seamless movement of consumer health information between different healthcare providers,” she said.-----https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/anz/adha-ties-hl7-nationwide-fhir-adoptionADHA ties up with HL7 for nationwide FHIR adoptionThis comes as the agency enforces the government ' s plan to fully connect the country ' s health...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Cool Medical Tools
My longtime friend, Kevin Kelly, author, world traveler, and futurist invited me to join him on the Cool Tools podcast. He wanted me to share my most recent medical “Cool Medical Tools”. He also asked me to share the first aid and medical treatments I carry with me when I travel. Check out the video below for our conversation:
Links to My Favorite Recent Cool Medical Tools
01:00 – Timeshifter app
12:55 – Aranet4 CO2 monitor:
19:14 – Bite Helper big bite aid
25:18 – Natrapel insect repellent
26:13 – Zyrtec antihistamine
Cool Stuff in my Personal First Aid Travel Kit
Ibupro...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 25, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Kids Travel Safety Vacationing & Travel Source Type: blogs
Educating Physicians About Firearm Safety and Injury Prevention
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests Katherine Hoops, MD, MPH, Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA, and Allison Augustus-Wallace, PhD, MS, MNS, join host Toni Gallo to talk about firearm safety and injury prevention education. They discuss the role of physicians in engaging patients and communities in firearm injury risk reduction, the current state of firearm injury prevention education, and where the academic medicine community needs to go from here.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available.
A transcript is below.
Read the articles d...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 22, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast firearm injury prevention firearm safety medical education Source Type: blogs
The Nurse as Tireless Patient Advocate
As highly respected healthcare professionals who often go above and beyond the call of duty, nurses are natural patient advocates. The nursing process may begin with assessment, but where the rubber hits the road is when nurses go to bat for their patients to make sure they receive the best possible care when they need it most. &...
Source: Digital Doorway - August 22, 2022 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs
Lilly Pulls the Plug on Mix-and-Inject Glugagon Rescue Kits
For those who didn ' t hear the news when it broke, diaTribe news reported (seehttps://diatribe.org/glucagon-options-expand-lilly-discontinues-emergency-kit for the news) that Lilly announced that the company intends to discontinue manufacturing its traditional Glucagon Emergency Kitshttps://www.lillyglucagon.com/ by the end of 2022. The kits are old-school, mix& inject kits that many patients (and caregivers alike) really despise because they are rather cumbersome and inconvenient to use when time is of the essence. Having an unpopular product works in the absence of competition, but when newer, more convenient produc...
Source: Scott's Web Log - August 17, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Eli Lilly and Company glucagon PBM rebates Source Type: blogs
Career Conversations: Q & A with Organic Chemist Elizabeth Parkinson
Dr. Elizabeth Parkinson. Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Elizabeth Parkinson.
“Being able to discover new, unexpected things is why you wake up every day and go to work as a scientist. The other part is hopefully to have a positive impact on human health—through combatting conditions ranging from antibiotic resistance to cancer,” says Elizabeth Parkinson, Ph.D., an assistant professor of organic chemistry at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. In an interview, Dr. Parkinson shared with us her path to a scientific career, research on natural products made by soil-dwelling bacteria, and advice for students.
Q: W...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 17, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Bacteria Medicines Microbes Profiles Source Type: blogs
15 Simple Ways to Spread Happiness and Kindness Around You
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
Albert Schweitzer
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”
Amelia Earhart
A very simple way to spread more happiness in your own little world is through kindness. It's often an easy and quick thing you can do as you move through your daily life.
But we sometimes forget about it. Or don’t remember how it can help us all.
Three things that I like to keep in mind and that help me to try to be a ki...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - August 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Happiness Personal Development Source Type: blogs
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
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 13th August 2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment-----https://ehrintelligence.com/news/va-appoints-functional-champion-for-ehr-modernization-programVA Appoints Functional Champion for EHR Modernization ProgramThe new functional champion appointment will assist the VA EHR Modernization program as it struggles with implementation delays and cost overruns, the VA stated.BySarai RodriguezAugust 05, 2022 - The Depart...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20, Appendix: The Fate of Rosie the Riveter
George SelginInassessing the possibility that a severe downturn occurred at the end of WWII, I took issue with conventional wartime and postwar output statistics, while taking the period ' s unemployment statistics at face value. In so doing I set aside a hypothesis that disputes the unemployment numbers themselves. According to it, large numbers of would-be wartime women workers left the labor force not because they didn ' t want to keep working, but because they faced impossible odds of staying employed. If that was the case, then official figures substantially understate the real extent of unemployment, and whatever act...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 11, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Phonics, Failure, and the Public Schools
David BoazCould the public schools finally be " following the science " on how to teach reading? It would be about time. Dana Goldsteinreports in the New York Times:For decades, Lucy Calkins has determined how millions of children learn to read. An education professor, she has been a pre-eminent leader of “balanced literacy,” a loosely defined teaching philosophy.In a classic Calkins classroom, teachers read aloud from children ’s literature; students then chose “just right” books, which fit their interests and ability. The focus was more on stories — theme, character, plot — less on sounding out words.Her cu...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 11, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
