How a Sepsis Project Helped HCA Be Better Prepared for Hurricanes
HCA Healthcare, one of the leading providers of care in 20 states and in the United Kingdom, has smartly been investing to improve the quality of the health data they collect. This investment made it possible to deploy an innovative sepsis detection project that has enhanced patient safety across the entire organization. That same project also had an unintended beneficial impact – it helped HCA facilities react faster during hurricanes and other emergencies.
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Jim Jirjis, Chief Health Information Officer at HCA to discuss the value of data quality in healthcare and find out more about ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Clinical Architecture Dr. Jim Jirjis Emergency Preparedness good quality health data HCA Healthcare Health Data Normalization hur Source Type: blogs
Intelligent Communication: The Key to Retaining Nursing Staff
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Healthcare organizations must implement effective communication strategies that foster a sense of community, promote engagement, and meet the unique needs of nursing staff. Organizations must utilize technology and data to inform their communication strategies and meet nursing staff with the right information, in the right place, at the right time. By adopting these strategies, healthcare organizations can retain their nursing staff, promote engagement, and thus deliver the highest-quality care to their patients. (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Burn Out Community Firstup Hawaii Pacific Health HPH Intelligent Communication Jarrad Inc. Jim Larrison Lehigh Valle Source Type: blogs
50 year old with acute chest pain, with ‘normal’ ECG and falling troponin
Written by Jesse McLaren, with comments from SmithA 50-year old patient on the medical wards developed acute
chest pain, with an ECG labeled (see computer interpretation at the top) and confirmed as normal. What do you
think? There ’s normal sinus rhythm, normal conduction, normal axis,
normal R wave progression, and normal voltages. Lead aVL jumps out as abnormal
because there is a discordant T wave inversion and mild ST depression. This is reciprocal to inferior
mild ST elevation and hyperacute T waves (wide based, bulky, and symmetric, and in III taller than
the QRS complex), and adjacent to ST depression in...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 21, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
Preparing For AI-Driven Medicine: 6 Crucial Questions For Tomorrow ’ s Doctors
This article will discuss some critical questions that medical professionals must be able to answer in order to navigate the AI revolution successfully.
1. Do you know enough about AI?
As a medical student or a young doctor, it is crucial to have a fundamental understanding of AI, its applications, and potential implications. The Medical Futurist’s paper, A short guide for medical professionals in the era of artificial intelligence provides a high-level overview of AI, its definitions, methods, levels, dangers, and advantages.
To stay relevant in the evolving healthcare landscape, medical professionals shoul...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Medical education AI digital health Source Type: blogs
Compare these two ECGs. Do either, neither, or both show anything important?
One case sent by Dr. Sean Rees MD, written by Pendell Meyers, other case by Sam Ghali and Steve SmithTake a look at these two ECGs below from two patients in the ED, first without any clinical context. Full case details and outcomes are below.Case 1:Case 2: Case 1:What do you think?This was sent to Dr. Smith by SamGhali (@EM_RESUS) with zero other info. Smith ' s response was: " OMI Mimic. "Later, this info was supplied by Sam:This
ECG was recorded in a 23-year-old African American man with a history
of psychiatric illness, acute alcohol/drug intoxication, brought in by
police officers status post being ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 17, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
A man in his 60s with acute chest pain and high voltage
Sent by Anonymous, written by Pendell MeyersA man in his 60s with history of CAD and 2 prior stents presented to the ED complaining of acute heavy substernal chest pain that began while eating breakfast about an hour ago, and had been persistent since then, despite EMS administering aspirin and nitroglycerin. There was associated diaphoresis, but no dyspnea, nausea, or vomiting. He reported having covid 2 weeks ago, but had seemingly fully recovered.Triage 1104:What do you think?The triage ECG was sent to me with no history (I did not have access to baseline ECGs), and I said that I thought this was just LVH causing the an...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 14, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Manager – Systems Analyst
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Systems Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Goldstone Partners for Mental Health Partners and is in Lafayette, Colorado.
Here’s a description of the position:
Mental Health Partners, located in Lafayette, Colorado, is a non-profit federally designated comprehensive community mental health collective serving the residents of Boulder and Broomfield counties. In alignment with our mission – Healing is our purpose. Help is our promise. Heal...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Goldstone Partners Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers Mental Health IT Jobs Mental Health Partners Mental Health Partners Jobs Systems Analyst Source Type: blogs
Are crypto currencies destroying the planet?
TL:DR – Bitcoin mining uses vast arrays of energy-hungry computers many of which are powered with an unsustainable, non-renewable energy supply, generating enormous carbon emissions. It is estimated that Bitcoin is currently wasting 140 terawatt-hours of electricity annually and producing 70 megatonnes of carbon emissions each year.
Bitcoin is a form of digital currency. Each Bitcoin has a digital ledger, a blockchain, that records all transactions and is at the heart of the value in the currency. Bitcoin transactions are typically irreversible and can be made anonymously, providing a level of privacy. It operates o...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Environment Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 10th 2023
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter,
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 9, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The hidden impact of health tech: How to regain control and prioritize patient care
Usually, patients remain unaware of the demands health care technology makes on the time and attention of physicians. The patient may sense the doctor is always rushing and perhaps not spending as much time with them as they would like, but they don’t realize that the computerization of the medical office is part of the
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The hidden impact of health tech: How to regain control and prioritize patient care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Robert Murry, MD Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
A Flawed Software Framing of Programmed Aging
The hypothesis that aging is a genetic program that is to some degree selected has always been a vocal minority view in the research community. There are just as many quite diverse theories of programmed aging as there are more mainstream evolutionary theories of aging that orbit the concept of antagonistic pleiotropy, the idea that lesser selection pressure in late life, because early reproduction means greater evolutionary fitness, allows for the evolution of mechanisms that are beneficial in youth and harmful in late life. There is even a fusion of the two sides: the hyperfunction theory of programmed aging suggests tha...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Utilizing Technology to Expand Language Access
The following is a guest article by Nic McMahon, CEO at United Language Group
Communication and connection are crucial in healthcare settings. To better connect with their community and ensure equitable access, healthcare organizations are shifting to a more human-focused, patient-centered care approach. Without a strong focus on language access, some groups of vulnerable patients may fall through the cracks.
As of 2019, almost 68 million people in the United States spoke a language other than English at home. A significant percentage of these people have limited English proficiency (LEP).
Research shows that patients ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Accessible Communication Blind Patients Deaf Patients Hard of Hearing Patien Source Type: blogs
How to organise your photos
Organizing a collection of tens of thousands of digital photos can be a daunting task, but there are some steps you can take to make it easier and more efficient. Here’s a workflow that might work for you:
Gather all your photos in one location: It is important to have all your photos in one place so that you can easily see what you have and begin organizing them. This might involve copying photos from various devices or external hard drives onto a single computer or cloud storage service.
Remove duplicates and unwanted photos: Go through your collection and delete any duplicates, blurry or out-of-focus photos, or ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Photography Source Type: blogs
How to organise your photo collection
I have tens of thousands of photos in my archives, some stretching as far back as the pre-digital era (working in and touring the US in 1988, touring Australia in 1989, southern Africa in 1992, and so much more in between, mostly prints, but lots of scans too). My first digital camera (an Agfa ePhoto 307, provided by Agfa itself in 1997). It had a VGA sensor (one third of a megapixel) and no screen. After that I progressed to pocket digital cameras, notably the Canon Ixus 500 and from there to the digital SLRs (Canon 20D to 6D to 7D mark ii. Before you ask, I’ve not gone mirrorless and don’t yet feel the urge t...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Photography Source Type: blogs
I was reading EKGs on the system and came across this one......
I am always looking for EKGs that show either subtle OMI or OMI mimics.Which did I think this was?I suspected that this was amimic. It is hard to say why. There is " inferior " ST depression, reciprocal to high lateral ST Elevation. The precordial leads have ST Elevation but also high voltage and look like possible LVH. I was not certain that it did not represent OMI, but was pretty sure.So I went to the chart and found that it was not different from previous ECGs and the patient ruled out for MI by serial troponins.This is a very difficult ECG and so I wanted to know how the PM Cardio Bot would per...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 2, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
