Syllable Corporation Announces Purchase of Actium Health
Syllable Expands Artificial Intelligence Offerings to Health Systems Through the Purchase of Actium Health’s Patient Activation Solution, Thus Furthering its Vision to Advance and Accelerate Patient Access to Care
Syllable Continues on the Path to Revolutionize Healthcare with Actium Health to Alleviate Pain Points of Growing Patient Demands and Expectations while Driving Patient Volume
Syllable, a leader in healthcare artificial intelligence and process automation, today announced its purchase of Actium Health. Actium Health will operate as a division of Syllable Corporation.
As the industry evolves, health systems are ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Actium Health Chrisie Scott Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Kobus Jooste Michael Linnert Oak HC/FT Syllable Syllable Corporation Vig Chandramouli Virtua Health Source Type: blogs
Catastrophising – and controversy
There are few constructs more widely known in pain psychology than catastrophising. Defined as “an exaggerated negative mental set brought to bear during actual or anticipated pain experience” (Sullivan et al., 2001), catastrophising is associated with poor outcomes including greater pain intensity, distress and disability in almost every situation where pain is experienced (Sullivan & Tripp, 2024). Cognitive biases associated with catastrophising include interpretive bias, attentional bias and attentional fixation – in other words negatively interpreting situations, attending to the negative in a situation, ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 21, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Coping Skills Pain Pain conditions Research Science in practice catastrophising catastrophizing Chronic pain pain-related worry Source Type: blogs
Supported self-management – what are we managing, actually?
One of the words that has been in my vocabulary for decades is ‘management.’ No, I don’t mean the proliferative middle management layer infesting healthcare for about as long as I’ve been working in health. I mean ‘pain management’ or ‘supported self-management.’ As ever, what pops up for me is about what, exactly, is being managed?
Is it pain? Well – not exactly. After all, pain does what it does, and if we focus on pain reduction alone just look where that gets us (Ballantyne & Sullivan, 2015; Cutler & Glaeser, 2021). And quickly, lest anyone think I’...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 14, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
56 year old male had 5/10 chest pain for several hours, then presented to the ED in the middle of the night with 1/10 pain.
A 56 year old male with PMHx significant for hypertension had chest pain for several hours, then presented to the ED in the middle of the night.He reported chest pain that developed several hours prior to arrival and was 5/10 in intensity. The pain was located in the mid to left chest and developed after riding his bike. There was associated fatigue when symptoms developed and mild shortness of breath at onset of chest pain however that has since resolved. The patient states he experienced similar 7/10 chest pain 2 days prior when he had to hurry to catch the bus. He states he experience...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 14, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
8 Mindblowing Examples Of Technology Innovation In Healthcare
Medical innovations often conjure images of sterile labs, high-tech equipment, and complex procedures. But every now and then, remarkable breakthroughs come with a dash of ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ ingenuity. From reimagined everyday objects to solutions inspired by the natural world, these innovations prove that effective healthcare doesn’t always need to be complicated.
Let’s see some medical innovations that are as surprising as they are effective. We collected eight of our favorites that show how a little out-of-the-box thinking is leading to big changes in healthcare.
1. Zip-up ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF creative healthcare healthcare innovation Source Type: blogs
Complexity and chronic pain*
*Persistent didn’t alliterate so well!
I’ve been pondering what makes persistent pain so complicated? What is it about this problem that means clinicians use terms like ‘heart-sink’, or ‘problematic’, or ‘difficult’ when they talk about people living with pain?
While nociception and all the associated neurobiological processes associated with pain are undoubtedly complex (and poorly understood), I don’t think this is what people mean when they describe chronic pain is complex. After all, there are loads of body systems and disease processes that are complex.
I...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 7, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Professional topics Science in practice healthcare pain management Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 8th 2024
In this study, we tested a stem cell secretome product, which contains extracellular vesicles and growth factors, cytoskeletal remodeling factors, and immunomodulatory factors. We examined the effects of 4 weeks of 2×/week unilateral intramuscular secretome injections (quadriceps) in ambulatory aged male C57BL/6 mice (22-24 months) compared to saline-injected aged-matched controls.
Secretome delivery substantially increased whole-body lean mass and decreased fat mass, corresponding to higher myofiber cross-sectional area and smaller adipocyte size, respectively. Secretome-treated mice also had greater whole-bod...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 7, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Chronic Pain Accelerates Brain Aging, Perhaps via Inflammation
A range of conditions produce chronic pain in muscle and skeletal tissue. While conditions such as osteoathritis are comparatively well understood, the etiology of chronic muscular pain disorders such as myofascial pain syndrome is poorly understood and treatment options are consequently limited. Here, researchers analyze available epidemiological data on knee osteoarthritis, and show that it suggests an inflammatory link between chronic pain and an accelerated pace of degenerative brain aging.
Individuals suffering from chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) may face a higher high risk of brain aging. CMP is a leadin...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 2, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 1st 2024
This study supports the proposed model that aging-related loss of colonic crypt epithelial cell AMP gene expression can promote increased relative abundances of Gn inflammaging-associated bacteria and gene expression markers of colonic inflammaging. These data may support new targets for aging-related therapies based on intestinal genes and microbiomes.
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A Skeptical View of the Role of Nuclear DNA Damage in Aging
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/03/a-skeptical-view-of-the-role-of-nuclear-dna-damage-in-aging/
It is evident and settled that stochastic nuclear DNA damag...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 31, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A man in his 50s with shortness of breath
Sent by Tom Fiero, written by Pendell Meyers A man in his 50s presented with acute shortness of breath. Unfortunately we do not have access to the patients presenting vital signs.Here is his ECG:Original image, suboptimal qualityQuality improved with PM Cardio digitizationThe ECG is highly suggestive of acute right heart strain, with sinus tachycardia, S1Q3T3, and T wave inversions in anterior and inferior with morphology consistent with acute right heart strain. There is also STE in lead III with reciprocal depression in aVL and I, as well as some subendocardial ischemia pattern with STD in V5-V6 and STE in aVR. Thus...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 26, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Predicting the Order of Arrival of the First Rejuvenation Therapies
It has been going on eight years since I last speculated on the order of arrival of the first rejuvenation therapies. Tempus fugit, and time for an updated version! Eight years is a long enough span of time for the first of those rejuvenation therapies to now exist, albeit in a prototypical form, arguably proven in principle but not concretely. The world progresses but my biases remain much the same: the first rejuvenation therapies to work well enough to merit the name will be based on the SENS vision, that aging is at root caused by a few classes of accumulated cell and tissue damage, and biotechnologies that either repa...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Palpitations and presyncope in a 40-something
Discussion: Putting all of the information together this patient is most likely suffering from arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC) better known as ARVC. The medical hx is typical, with sudden onset tachydysrhythmia during physical exertion. It is not uncommon for the initial presentation to be sudden cardiac death (SCD). In fact it is one of the leading causes of SCD in people age less than 40 years. Thus it is very important to identify this disorder. AC is a disease in which myocardium is replaced by fibrofatty tissue. This usually and predominantly affects the RV free wall and apical regions, but it can affect the left v...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 24, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Magnus Nossen Source Type: blogs
Topoisomerase inhibitors and chronic pain
Topoisomerase inhibitors emerged in the American medical landscape in 1971, thanks to the discovery by Dr. Jim Wang of the E. coli omega protein. Topoisomerase I, an enzyme identified by Dr. Wang, plays a crucial role in DNA unwrapping from supercoiling. Supercoiling involves tightly wrapping DNA for storage and protection, requiring unwrapping for reading, a
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Topoisomerase inhibitors and chronic pain originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 23, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Meds Medications Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Women of color face biases in endometriosis diagnosis and surgical treatment
March is endometriosis awareness month. Endometriosis, a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside of the uterus, affects 1 in 10 women, or 190 million individuals worldwide. Although endometriosis leads to chronic pain and fertility issues and can impact bowel, urinary, and sexual function, it may take up to
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Women of color face biases in endometriosis diagnosis and surgical treatment originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 21, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Taytum Kahl Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Wound Care Education for Medical Doctors: Filling the Gap
Whenever I ask a group of doctors, “How many of you have had any training in care and treatment of chronic wounds?” it is the rare person who raises their hand. Despite the urgent need for medical doctors to know how to assess and treat pressure injuries and chronic wounds, there is no formal medical or surgical specialty in wound care. This has resulted in a gap in education, training, and research, with extensive variation in clinical practice. The medical education establishment has simply not caught up to the realities of care for the chronically ill patient. Filling the education gap in wound care is one of my pro...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - March 18, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: An Aging World Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care Pressure Injuries & Wound Care Risk Management aging skin bedsore bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer end-of-life care geriatrics Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care Jeff Lev Source Type: blogs
