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Healthcare inequalities: access to NHS prescribing and exemption schemes in England
This report looks at health care inequalities in relation to NHS prescribing and exemption schemes in England. It considers uptake in deprived and other under-served communities, providing actionable insights with a focus on three clinical areas of prescribing - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), hypertension, and severe mental illness (SMI).Report (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 17, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

One family ’s disastrous experience with a growth-driven long-term care company
by “E-PATIENT” DAVE DEBRONKART Continuing THCB’s occasional series on actual experiences with the health care system. This is the first in a short series about a patient and family experience from one of America’s leading ePatients. I’ve been blogging recently about what happens in American healthcare when predatory investor-driven companies start moving into care industries because the money’s good and enforcement is lax. The first two posts were about recent articles in The New Yorker on companies that are more interested in sales and growth than caring. I now have permission ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care ePatient Dave Patient Experience Respite care Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – January 8, 2023 – Omnibus bill extends telehealth expansion through end of 2024, 60% of solution providers pouring all event marketing money into in-person events, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News On Dec. 29, 2022, President Biden signed the omnibus spending bill. The biggest news for healthcare IT was the extension of telehealth expansion under Medicare through the end of 2024. This includes expansion of originating...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 4medica ADAPT AdvancedMD AHA Ardent Health Services Blendid Brian Berning Cadence Carenet Health Carol DeVol CharmHealth CipherHealth Comcast Healthcare CORL directtrust East Tennessee Health Information Netwo Source Type: blogs

Telehealth and RPM – 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 telehealth and RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) predictions. Dr. Reza Hosseini Ghomi, Chief Medical Officer at BrainCheck Digitally-enabled care is the future of tel...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 2023 Health IT Predictions Ankit Gupta Bicycle Health BrainCheck Carlene MacMillan Chris Sullivan Dan Trigub David Feldman Epicore Biosystems MedArrive Medisafe Source Type: blogs

Voice biomarker platform Sonde Health raises $19.25M to spread access to mental health monitoring and beyond
Voice analysis platform Sonde Health raises $19.25M (MobiHealthNews): AI-enabled voice technology platform Sonde Health announced it raised $19.25 million in a Series B funding round led by Partners Investment, bringing its total raise to $35.25 million … Sonde Health uses patented voice technology to detect various health conditions from biomarkers in a person’s voice, including analyzing respiratory fitness and detecting depression and anxiety. The funding will help build out the company’s technology to detect additional health conditions, expand its current respiratory and mental health-monitoring technologies, an...
Source: SharpBrains - January 5, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety biomarkers depression health monitoring mental-fitness Sonde Health vocal biomarkers 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

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

Working through a pandemic and watching the health care system crumble around me
The first dying patient I saw as a medical student was a man newly diagnosed with lung cancer, a chronic smoker with now oxygen-dependent COPD. In rounds, our medical team stopped outside his room, and the learned men and women pontificated about what to do next with the man. Chemo? Radiation? Both? I pretended to Read more… Working through a pandemic and watching the health care system crumble around me originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 27, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Pulmonology Source Type: blogs

The time is ripe for virtual care solutions in COPD
There’s a burgeoning crisis taking hold in the COPD management space; there are simply not enough pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, or pulmonary rehabilitation facilities to treat the growing number of COPD patients. This has left our field with an urgent window of opportunity to implement digital innovation into traditional treatment paradigms. Ironically enough, it was a Read more… The time is ripe for virtual care solutions in COPD originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 26, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Mobile health Pulmonology Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 5th 2022
In conclusion, the PAAIs examined (i.e. mTOR loss of function, Ghrhr loss of function, intermittent fasting-based version of dietary restriction) often influenced age-sensitive traits in a direct way and not by slowing age-dependent change. Previous studies often failed to include young animals subjected to PAAI to account for age-independent PAAI effects. However, any study not accounting for such age-independent intervention effects will be prone to overestimate the extent to which an intervention delays the effects of aging on the phenotypes studied. This can result in a considerable bias of our view on how modifiable a...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 4, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Advocating for Glutathione Upregulation as a Basis for Therapy
You might recall a recent small clinical trial in which oral supplementation with large amounts of glutathione precursors produced improvements in health in older adults, the size of the outcome surprisingly large for a treatment based on supplements. Here, researchers enthusiastically advocate for glutathione upregulation, reversing the normal age-related decline in glutathione levels, as a basis for improving the health of older people and slowing the onset of age-related degeneration. Many local and systemic diseases especially diseases that are leading causes of death globally like chronic obstructive pulmona...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 28, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

A woman in her 20s with syncope
Written by Destiny Folk MD, with edits by Meyers, peer reviewed by Smith and GrauerA woman in her late 20s with a past medical history of cervical cancer status post chemotherapy and radiation therapy presented to the emergency department for shortness of breath, chest tightness, and two episodes of syncope.Her initial vital signs revealed a temp of 97.7F, HR 125, RR 20, BP 115/90, and an oxygen saturation of 95% on room air. Upon arrival, she did not appear in acute distress. She was noted to be tachycardic and her heart sounds were distant on physical exam. She had a normal respiratory effort, and her lungs were clear to...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 28, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs

What Do Digital Biomarkers Mean?
The spread of wearable digital technologies in healthcare generating big data entailed the appearance of a new type of medical information. They produce actionable insights into the biological state of individuals, just like “general” biomarkers, but are collected through digital tools. Here’s our summary of what digital biomarkers mean and how they will be used in the near future. The appearance of user-generated big data in healthcare In the last couple of years, Fitbit, Jawbone, Apple Health, Withings, Garmin, Sleep as Android, WIWE, MocaCare, Skeeper – in other words, fitness trackers, step count...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Digital Health Research Health Sensors & Trackers Innovation prediction prevention digital biomarkers population health preventive health Source Type: blogs

FDA-Approved At-Home Spirometer: Interview with Charvi Shetty, Co-Founder and CEO at Aluna
The COVID-19 pandemic has put lung health firmly in our minds. For those with chronic lung diseases, such as asthma and COPD, an important way to keep track of lung health is to use a spirometer to measure how well air can move in and out of the lungs during forced breathing. However, patients would typically attend with a lung specialist to perform this test. This is inconvenient and precludes regular monitoring to keep a close eye on lung health and spot any upcoming disease exacerbation. This is the motivation behind this latest technology, an at-home digital spirometer, created by a medical startup called Aluna. The...
Source: Medgadget - October 17, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine Pediatrics Rehab Thoracic Surgery Source Type: blogs

Vocal Markers Move Toward Clinical Use
Readers of this publication probably have heard of the impressive advances in analyzing voice patterns for disease. These automated models can monitor so many people efficiently that they have potential applications in public health as well as diagnosis and treatment. A simple app on a cell phone can detect unusual patterns in speech that suggest when a person is depressed or anxious, is losing cognitive function, or has pulmonary disease. But there are several reasons that “prediagnostic” data from popular devices can’t be trusted: lack of regulation, user error, lack of information about the device̵...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 28, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring behavioral health COPD David Liu GN Group India Health Koye mental health Public Health Qualcomm Sonde Vocal markers Voice Diag Source Type: blogs