Augmented and Virtual Reality Apps for Training
This article explores research at Inteleos to improve the use of augmented and virtual reality, which I’ll talk about together under the commonly used abbreviation XR. We’ll also look at XR applications in health care by Mobiquity.
How XR is Trained
We all learn from other people, even if their expertise is filtered through books, computer applications, or even generative AI. So medical training starts with the medical expert.
At Inteleos, I interviewed Heather Harris, Ph.D., a data science consultant with Herkimer Consulting, and Inteleos data scientist Denali Carpenter. The two scientists are researching the ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Augmented Reality Denali Carpenter Disaster Response Education Healthcare AR Healthcare VR Healthcare XR Heather Harris Herkimer Consulting HTC VIV Source Type: blogs
Secure Your Hospital ’ s Future: The Critical Need for Robust Telemedicine Security
The following is a guest article by Narinder Singh, Co-Founder and CEO at LookDeep Health
In 2016, attackers gained unauthorized access to Banner Health’s systems through the payment processing system used in the organization’s food and beverage outlets and used it as a gateway to access patient information. The risk of security breaches through indirect access to other systems, like telemedicine solutions, can expose the entire health system.
As inpatient telemedicine experiences rapid growth within hospitals, it presents unique challenges to Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Security Officers (CSOs)...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Hospital Security Isolate Networks LookDeep Health Medical Device Security Medical Devices Microsoft Source Type: blogs
We are Still Learning the Lesson Charles Babbage Taught Us in 1821
Back in 1821 when Charles Babbage introduced the world to his Difference Engine, one of the world’s first mechanical computers, he taught us that bad input = bad output. This is a lesson we are still learning today in healthcare. As we leap into the world of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and large language models, we would do well to remember this lesson before relying too heavily on the output of these fantastical technologies.
At the recent HIMSS23 Conference in Chicago, Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture – a company that provides solutions for healthcare data quality, interoperabil...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Charles Babbage Charlie Harp ChatGPT Clinical Architecture Difference Engine garbage in garbage out Health Data Quality Healthcare Da Source Type: blogs
Therapy Onboarding Optimization: Why the Analytics of Patient Drop-Off Requires a Closer Look
The following is a guest article by Yishai Knobel, CEO at RxWare
From April 2020 to August 2021, the healthcare solutions company Indegene looked at approximately 7.9 million emails sent by prescription drug companies across 15 different email campaigns. The results, reported in April 2022 by Fierce Pharma, highlighted the need for brands to more carefully manage how they engage with healthcare providers in a post-COVID world, where in-person meetings play second fiddle to the convenience of digital communication.
Of course, this finding should come as no surprise to anyone who has given their email address or phone numbe...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Digital Communication Fierce Pharma Indegene IQVIA Patient Drop-Off Patient Onboarding prescription drugs RxWare Specialty Drugs Therapy Onbo Source Type: blogs
23 Small Ways to Make Life Simpler
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”Leonardo da Vinci
“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I love simplifying my life. It makes me more effective and life less stressful. It makes me calmer and happier. And it simply makes life easier.
But where do you start? Or continue if you are already on your way?
In this week's article I’d like to share 23 small habits that help me to live a simpler life.
Pick one of these to get started and keep doing it until it sticks and becomes just another normal part of your life.
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Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Relaxation Source Type: blogs
Will the Added IRS Funding Create Value?
Chris EdwardsThe Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 included $79 billion in added funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the coming decade. The funding will roughly double theagency ’s budget by 2031 in nominal dollars, with 57 percent of the added funding for enforcement but just 6 percent for business systems (computers) and 4 percent for taxpayer services. House Republicans are seeking to repeal most of the new funding as part the debt negotiations.The $79 billion IRS funding increase isprojected to raise tax revenues $180 billion over the coming decade, for a net gain of $101 billion. Supporters...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 9, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
The Power of Connection: Why Building Relationships Is the Key to Personal and Professional Success
Establishing deep meaningful genuine relationships with others is a vital aspect of personal and professional success. Numerous studies have found that social connections are essential for our overall well-being, both physical and mental. Despite this, people often tend to overlook its importance in their lives. There’s plenty of reasons behind it.
Firstly, the hectic nature of modern-day life may involve long working hours and various other responsibilities. Consequently, people fail to allocate adequate time to nurture their relationships with others.
Secondly, we’ve got spoiled by the simplicity of conne...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ilya Rouss Tags: career communication confidence creativity featured internet culture philosophy productivity tips self-improvement success connection Source Type: blogs
AI ’s role in Healthcare: Exclusive Interview with Catherine Estrampes, President & CEO at GE Healthcare
AI is increasingly being used in healthcare to reduce clinician workloads and improve patient outcomes. AI-driven technologies are helping to automate mundane tasks, freeing up clinicians to focus on more complex clinical decisions. AI-powered tools can also help identify patterns in medical data that can lead to faster diagnoses and better patient outcomes.
From the perspective of low hanging fruit, AI can be used to automate tedious administrative tasks such as scheduling appointments, updating medical records, or processing paperwork, saving clinicians time allow them to devote more of their efforts to direct p...
Source: Medgadget - May 3, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Informatics AI medicine GEHealthCare Source Type: blogs
Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring – Not for the Faint-of-Heart (Pun Intended)
This article will summarize these challenges and also provide optimism for the refreshingly near future. Namely, while the progress towards FDA-cleared cuffless BP monitoring may feel protracted, significant technological advances, regulatory modernization, and clinical use case validation are rapidly advancing and aligning.
Key Challenges Confronting OTC Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring
Scientific Risks
At the most fundamental level, the jury’s still out on whether sufficiently accurate noninvasive, cuffless, calibration-free blood pressure monitoring is physically realizable at all. Namely, “Do the laws of nature...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AliveCor Blood Pressure Blood Pressure Cuffs Blood Pressure Monitoring BP Calibration-Free Bloo Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: EHR Applications Analyst
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the EHR Applications Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Harbor Health Services and is located in Massachusetts.
Here’s a description of the position:
Harbor Health Services, headquartered in Boston, MA is seeking a EHR Application Analyst to join our Clinical IT team.
The Electronic Health Records (EHR) Application Analyst is responsible for supporting digital strategies, implementation, testing & training efforts and providing support.
T...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Analyst Jobs EHR Applications Analyst Harbor Health Harbor Health Jobs Harbor Health Services Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers Source Type: blogs
ChatGPT May Not be Ready to Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry Quite Yet, But There ’s Promise for the Future
The following is a guest article by Heather Lane, Senior Architect of Data Science at athenahealth
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have transformed numerous industries in recent years, and healthcare is no exception. AI-powered chatbots, such as ChatGPT, have emerged as tools that have the potential to drastically transform healthcare and the delivery of personalized care. However, while these chatbots hold promise for revolutionizing healthcare, there are several reasons why these technologies require more time to prepare for widespread adoption. While there is no denying that ChatGPT is appealin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI-Assisted Chat Artificial Intelligence athenahealth Chart Summarization ChatGPT False Negatives Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Bi Source Type: blogs
A 50-something with acute chest pain, a computer " Normal " ECG, and a HEART score of 3 (low risk)
A 50-something with no previous cardiac history and no risk factors presented to the ED with acute chest pain (pressure) that radiated to the left arm. An ECG was immediately recorded:Computer read: Normal ECGWhat do you think?There is ST depression in V1-V3. We showed that this isdiagnostic of OMI (of the posterior wall). Moreover, there is ST elevation in V6 (which is getting close to the location of posterior lead V7). Thre is also absence of S-wave in V6, which is not entirely abnormal, but is suggestive of OMI (when this finding is in V2 or V3 in the setting of STE in V2 or V3, we call...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 29, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Charging Ahead with Enovate Medical and JAR Systems
A nurse or technician in a hospital is asked to do a patient intake or capture their vital signs. In modern hospitals, the staff are likely to grab a ‘workstation on wheels,” which is a computer on a cart, accessorized with useful tools along with a wireless connection. Or they may grab a tablet or cell phone.
But can the busy staff person find a free workstation or device? Has it been properly cleaned? Is there enough power on it?
This is the problem solved by Enovate Medical through Rhythm, which provides an “asset management platform” to better manage the devices in your environment. In this vi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC COWs Enovate Medical Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Healthcare WOWs JAR Systems Kevin Brid Source Type: blogs
On the 7 Habits of Highly Stress-Resilient Minds, cognitive screenings, anti-amyloid drugs, and more
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, this time covering the latest developments in stress research, meditation, virtual reality, anti-amyloid drugs, cognitive screenings, and more.
#1. The 7 Habits of Highly Stress-Resilient Minds
“Anything worth doing will have aspects of stress woven through: challenge, discomfort, risk. We can’t change that. But what we can change is our response” – Elissa Epel, Director of the Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center at UCSF
#2. Harnessing mindfulness and virtual reality simulations to maximize sports performance
Good tips and tools to “simulate or repli...
Source: SharpBrains - April 27, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter anti-amyloid drugs cognitive-screenings digital medicine lecanemab Leqembi Linus Health Core Cognitive Evaluation meditation Mindfulness-Based-Stress-Re Source Type: blogs
Worms Aren ’ t So Dumb
BY KIM BELLARD
Chances are, you’ve read about AI lately. Maybe you’ve actually even tried DALL-E or ChatGPT, maybe even GPT-4. Perhaps you can use the term Large Language Model (LLM) with some degree of confidence. But chances are also good that you haven’t heard of “liquid neural networks,” and don’t get the worm reference above.
That’s the thing about artificial intelligence: it’s evolving faster than we are. Whatever you think you know is already probably out-of-date.
Liquid neural networks were first introduced in 2020. The authors wrote: “We introduce a new class of time-continu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Liquid Neural Networks Worms Source Type: blogs
