Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off
This article explains the complexities that makes it so hard to implement electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), summarizes the intended impacts of the bills, and introduces Imprivata digital identity technology, which has been used in health care for such purposes for many years.
Calling the Cops
Health care advocates and reformers can show off plenty of war stories and wounds just from dealing with regulations and bureaucracies in health care. When it comes to controlled substances, toss in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for extra suspense. State governments are also roped in thanks to thei...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Regulations American Telemedicine Association ATA Colin Banas Controlled Substrances DEA DrFirst Electronic Prescribing Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances EPC Source Type: blogs
A New Day for Parkinson ’s Disease Research Is Near
By STEVEN ZERCOLA
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (“HHS”) is responsible for a wide range of activities relating to medical and public health. It has 60,000 employees and a $1.7 trillion annual budget with approximately $140 billion for discretionary spending. For the past 13 years, HHS has been spearheading a National Plan for addressing Alzheimer’s disease – with some notable successes.
Given its resources, expertise and charter, HHS should launch a National Plan to cure Parkinson’s disease patterned after its approach on Alzheimer’s disease.
Legislation, or Not
The U.S. House of R...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Drug discovery FDA Parkinson's Disease steve zecola Source Type: blogs
Artisight to Scale and Advance AI-Driven Smart Hospital Platform with Oversubscribed $42 Million Series B Round
A Crop of New Investors Joins Existing Financiers such as AI Powerhouse NVIDIA
Artisight, Inc., a smart hospital platform powered by industry-defining artificial intelligence to provide virtual care, quality improvement, and care coordination solutions, announced today that it raised $42 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round. Multiple new strategic and client health system investors participated in the round, as well as full participation from Series A investors, including chipmaker NVIDIA (NVDA).
The Artisight platform, which was developed by clinicians for clinicians, marries IoT sensors with deep learning...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Andrew Gostine Artisight Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Northwestern Medicine NVDA NVIDIA Source Type: blogs
What will happen if you implement the Queen of Hearts in your Hospital?
This case was sent by Dr. Jean-christophe Reiters, an interventionalist in Belgium. He has been following the blog for 4 years.He has now implemented the Queen of Hearts in his hospital. He wanted to share one of the first cases.A 55 year old with no previous cardiac history presented with 3 hours of chest pain. The pain was persistent and reportedly still present at the time of the ECG.Here is the EKG:Smith: It looks like a reperfused inferior lateral OMI. (Inverted T-waves in inferior and lateral leads, with reciprocally upright (pseudo-hyperacute) T-waves in I and aVL. But if the pain ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - February 2, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Too much fawning over Len Schaeffer?
By MATTHEW HOLT
There’s a lot of strum & dangst about the uptick in system utilization that has boosted hospital profits and hit Humana and United’s bottom line (But not so much Elevance’s). Kevin O’ Leary over at Health Tech Nerds brought this up today and I was reminded of this piece I wrote in 2006. And a big issue was, how much understanding and control do insurers have over the utilization in (and out of) their networks. So take a look at this piece and particularly, given the issues at the BUCAHs and at smaller players like Agilon, consider how much insurers actually know about spending...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health insurers Len Schaeffer Medicare Advantage Oldies Utilization Source Type: blogs
A 40-something with chest pain
This was sent by Sam Ghali @EM_RESUSA 44 year old man presented with chest painThe tech came running with the ECG as the computer called " STEMI! "The conventional computer algorithm read: ***STEMI***The cardiologist overread was: " ST Elevation. Consider Anterolateral Injury or Acute Infarct "What do you think?Sam sent this to me and asked: " What do you think, Steve? "My answer:--Tough one!--But I ' m going to stick my neck out and say " Not OMI "--STE in V2 has a near " saddleback " configuration, and that is a sign of false positive STE.--Tell me the outcome!He responded:--You nailed it!--The Saddleback in V2 isexactly...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 29, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Chest pain and a computer ‘normal’ ECG. Therefore, there is no need for a physician to look at this ECG.
This article,published this month (!), tells us that we physicians do not need to even look at this ECG until the patient is placed in a room because the computer says it is normal:Validity of Computer-interpreted “Normal” and “Otherwise Normal” ECG in Emergency Department Triage PatientsI reviewed this article for a different journal and recommended rejection and it was rejected. There were zero patients in this study with a " normal " ECG who had any kind of ACS! This defies all previous data on acute MI which would show that even undetectable troponins do not have a 100% negative predictive value.&nb...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 27, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
Sunoh ’ s Ambient Clinical Voice Automates Clinician Note Creation
According to Saurabh Singh, VP of Sunoh, the success of ambient clinical voice depends on much more than the accuracy of the recording. Sunoh “checks the boxes” when it comes to meeting the needs of physicians’ workflows and differences.
Sunoh’s solution can take input from many different sources: mobile devices, and laptop or desktop computers. This makes it easy to deploy in different rooms and settings.
At the end of a clinical session, Sunoh generates a structured note tailored to the EHR within 30 to 60 seconds. Note generation is fully automated. The doctor can edit the note manually or using ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Clinical Voice Automated Clinical Documentation Digital Assistant eClinicalWorks eCW EHR AI Assistant Healthcare IT Video Interviews Saurabh Source Type: blogs
What are Some of the Uses of AI Already Being Used in Healthcare?
Though we’ve talked about it quite extensively, artificial intelligence (AI) still sounds like something from a science fiction novel. This idea of futuristic and lifelike computers is only encouraged by the way that a lot of what we talk about in AI are possibilities. Ideal scenarios of how much our lives could be improved with AI. However, not all of AI is futuristic sci-fi. In fact, there is a lot of AI that is already being used in healthcare. To help keep us grounded in what is currently happening, at the CHIME 2023 Conference we talked to our wonderful Healthcare IT Today Community to hear their insights on som...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AI in healthcare Artificial Intelligence CHIME 2023 Chris Sullivan Englewood Health Erik Pupo Guidehouse Healthcare AI Healthcare Cha Source Type: blogs
The Big Consult: Clinicians Who Entered Digital IT Speak About the Differences
We’ve been through several waves of health IT adoption, and are witnessing a new phase of growth (temporarily interrupted by the rise in interest rates) with exciting new ventures. All these digital health companies bring in expert doctors, nurses, or other clinical staff to help them design products and interact with potential customers. These highly experienced people, with one foot firmly in the world of medicine and the other in IT, form bridges between technologists and the clinicians still out in the field.
For this four-part series, I interviewed more than a dozen clinicians who work in IT now, asking them in ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Hospital - Health System Aaron Neinstein Arcadia AvaSure Cindy Gaines Clever Care Health Plan DarioHealth Equality Health Healthcare IT Development Healthcare IT Solutions John Showalter Kate Behan Kh Source Type: blogs
Filling the frame – some tips on wildlife photography
I see a lot of wildlife photography from both amateurs and professionals. At the highest level in both domains, there are perfectly composed, pin-sharp, exquisitely exposed photos of the natural world, and then there are those that aren’t quite up to snuff.
Capturing the beauty of nature can be an exhilarating experience, but even the most enthusiastic amateur photographers can run into common pitfalls that hinder the impact of their shots. Here a few key challenges faced by us all at different stages in our photography:
Put Nature First: The most important point to make is that your photography should not have a neg...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 23, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Photography Source Type: blogs
Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 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. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Check out our community’s 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.
All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared):
John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC 2024 Health IT Predictions Aasim Saeed Amenities Health Andrew Harding Ankit Gupta Anthony Hare Ash Wellness Availity Bicycle Health Source Type: blogs
Wanted: Biomedical Technology and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program Directors
We’re recruiting accomplished scientists for program officer positions in the Division of Biophysics, Biomedical Technology, and Computational Biosciences (BBCB). The selected candidates will be responsible for scientific and administrative management of a portfolio of research grants, and will stimulate, plan, advise, direct, and evaluate program activities related to their field of expertise.
One program officer position is in the Biomedical Technology Branch (BTB), which supports the development and optimization of innovative NIGMS’ mission-relevant technologies and tools to advance biomedical research....
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - January 17, 2024 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Job Announcements Source Type: blogs
Constellation Software ’s Harris Operating Group Acquires MEDHOST, Inc.
Constellation Software Inc. (Constellation), today announced its wholly-owned subsidiary N. Harris Computer Corporation (Harris), a global vertical market software provider, has acquired MEDHOST, Inc. (MEDHOST), a leading electronic health record solution provider.
Harris will continue to operate MEDHOST as a stand-alone business headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.
About Harris
Harris acquires software companies, manages them using industry best practices, and builds them for the future. Through acquisitions, Harris has grown tremendously since its origins in the private, utility, education, government, and healthcare ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Constellation Constellation Software Inc. Harris Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Medhost MEDHOST Inc. N. Harris Computer Corporation Source Type: blogs
Two patients with chest pain, with QRS obscured: which was STEMI positive, and which had Occlusion MI?
Written by Jesse McLaren Two patients
presented with acute chest pain, and below are the precordial leads V1-6 for
each. Patient 1 (ECG on the left) was a 45 year-old male, and patient 2 (ECG is
on the right) was a 70 year-old male. The limb leads have been removed because
there was no ST elevation in those leads, the QRS complexes have been
obscured because this is irrelevant to STEMI criteria, and red lines have been added to measure ST segment elevation. Using the
current paradigm, can you tell which patient had an acute coronary occlusion? Using
T wave amplitude, can you tell which ECG has hyperacute T waves?...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 17, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
