Evaluating conferences ’ stands on states limiting care for women and the LGBTQ community
I’ve spoken at many medical conferences since co-founding the Peggy Lillis Foundation for C. diff Education & Advocacy following my mother’s death from a C. difficile infection in 2010. Unfortunately, I am often the only patient advocate. The pressure of representing patients in a group of hundreds of clinicians, scientists, and administrators can be intimidating.
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Evaluating conferences’ stands on states limiting care for women and the LGBTQ community originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Christian John Lillis Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Conferences ’ duty of care in the face of discriminatory health policy
I’ve spoken at many medical conferences since co-founding the Peggy Lillis Foundation for C. diff Education & Advocacy following my mother’s death from a C. difficile infection in 2010. Unfortunately, I am often the only patient advocate. The pressure of representing patients in a group of hundreds of clinicians, scientists, and administrators can be intimidating.
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Conferences’ duty of care in the face of discriminatory health policy originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Christian John Lillis Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 19th 2023
In conclusion, among Swedish middle-aged subjects, nearly two-thirds showed complete fatty degeneration of thymus on CT.
Age-Related Dysfunction of Water Homeostasis
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/06/age-related-dysfunction-of-water-homeostasis/
Dehydration can be an issue in older people. As in every complex system in the body, the mechanisms by which hydration is regulated become dysfunctional with advancing age. Researchers here look at the brain region responsible for regulating some of the response to dehydration, cataloging altered gene expression in search of the more important mechan...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Notes from the 2023 Age-Related Disease Therapeutics Summit
The former Longevity Therapeutics conference series was renamed to the Age-Related Disease Therapeutics Summit and held its fifth event recently in San Francisco. It was a smaller meeting than in past years, perhaps a result of the recent downturn in the global financial and investment environment. Few investors were present. Nonetheless, one can usually learn something interesting from the presenting biotech founders and executives. I took a few notes while I was there to present on progress at Repair Biotechnologies, and they follow in the order of the conference program.
Birget Schilling from the Buck Institute f...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests
Conclusion
Health plans typically request records required to process or resolve claims, perform risk adjustment reviews, and comply with HEDIS reporting requirements. The purpose is justified. It’s the recent rise in medical request volume that has created significant administrative burden and cost for healthcare providers.
Now is the time for providers to seriously consider automating their procedures and processes for fulfilling health plan medical record requests. Volumes are rising, and thankfully help is at hand.
About Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer
Mo Weitnauer is the Chief Product Officer at MRO where she is...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Revenue Cycle Management Claims Denials Health Data Exchange Healthcare Scene Featured HEDIS Source Type: blogs
A Demo of How to Make Healthcare Kiosks More Accessible for All
One of the most interesting opportunities at the HIMSS annual conference is the chance to see demos of a wide variety of health IT solutions. At this year’s event, we decided to film a number of demos of interesting health IT products that we thought readers of Healthcare IT Today would find useful. If you want to see all of these demos as we share them, be sure to subscribe to the Healthcare IT Today YouTube channel.
The first demo I’m excited to share is by Nicky Shaw, US Operations Manager at Storm Interface. Shaw demonstrates how you can take a healthcare kiosk and make it accessible for those who ma...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Regulations Ada Healthcare ADA Healthcare IT Demos Healthcare IT Video Source Type: blogs
Ask and Tell: Family Caregiving as a Social Determinant of Health
I sat in front of my doctor for the first time since before the pandemic. She was concerned: “You’re way overdue for a couple of screening tests and a vaccination.” I explained that between Covid waves and caregiving for my mom, I’d had to cancel and reschedule the most the screening test at least 3 times. And, caregiving for my mom was becoming more intense, which was going to create more challenges. She asked if anyone was helping me. I explained that my husband is a huge help. But I’m the only adult child who lives within driving distance. And just within the past few months there’s been a couple of falls, a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Geri Lynn Baumblatt Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System care partner family caregiver patient clinician relationship patient engagement SDOH Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
TEFCA Real Talk
As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. That’s a hard thing to do when there are so many people pining for attention. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention. There are a lot of views on TEFCA, but the one thing that’s certain is that it’s grabbing a lot of the interoperability focus from government regulators and the industry.
ONC recently released some stats that 51% of health...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Regulations CommonWell CommonWell Health Alliance Dr. Jim Jirjis Epic HCA Helathcare He Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: IT Intern, Corporate Support Services
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the IT Intern, Corporate Support Services position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in the Albany, New York office.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Intern Position IT Intern Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs
What Trend Are People in Health IT Keeping an Eye On?
At the HIMSS annual conference, we were blessed to be able to talk to a wide variety of leaders in health IT to hear their thoughts related to what’s happening in healthcare IT for the Healthcare IT Today YouTube channel. One of the questions we asked these health IT experts was “What is a trend that you are keeping an eye on?” Check out all the answers we got to this question and see if maybe you should be paying attention to one of these topics a little more than you are now.
Thanks to Tegria, Clearwater, Cox Communications, Honeywell, Lightbeam Health Solutions, Citiustech, Emtelligent, Karlsgate,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Amwell Automation Anywhere Avel eCare Bandwidth CenTrak CitiusTech Clearwater Concord Technologies Connxall Cox Communications emt Source Type: blogs
Psychedelic Science 2023 Conference
Next week I’ll be attending the Psychedelic Science 2023 conference at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Supposedly it’s the biggest psychedelics conference in the world, expecting 10K+ attendees and 300+ speakers. The speakers include Paul Stamets and Michael Pollan – you might know them from Fantastic Fungi or How to Change Your Mind.
I’m going because I want to learn more about psychedelics. I also want to immerse myself in a social world of people who are open-minded about such explorations. I’ve only done a few journeys so far, the last one being several months ago, and I’d l...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 11, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Dancing Organelles, AI Resources, Distracting Animations, Timed Tests & Micro-credentials | TAPP 138
In Episode 138 ofThe A&P Professor podcast for anatomy& physiology faculty, host Kevin Patton discusses somenew thinking about organelle function, whydecorative animations are not a good idea in our teaching slides, news aboutWendy Riggs and the 2023 HAPS President ' s Medal, why Idon ' t like timed tests, resources forAI in the curriculum, and whymicro-credentials are our friends. With all that, how is that we left out any mention ofcarbaminohemoglobin?00:00 | Introduction00:50 | Wendy Riggs Wins Big04:173 | Curricular Resources for AI08:55 | Timed Online Tests24:12 | Micro-credentials for Professional Develo...
Source: The A and P Professor - June 9, 2023 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Cath lab nightmares : Beware, this one has no simple cure !
Cath lab nightmares may be a cliche word for all of us. Still, It has become a mandatory topic in any cardiology conferences and live workshops. These sessions are always popular and crowded as Interventional cardiologists are eager to get tips from other experts, on what to and what not to do in the cath lab in crisis situations. While stuck in an unexpected problem, these tips really help us come out of this, with shared expertise, presence of mind, skills, innovation, etc.
I used to wonder, what the word nightmare really mean. Thesaurus helped to find it. Nightmare: A Terrifying feeling due to some untoward event ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 8, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in the Albany, New York office.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Administrator Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Policy and Compliance Program Administrator Source Type: blogs
Evernorth Uses SAS Analytics to Help Determine Next Best Step for Member Care
Evernorth Health Services is using advanced analytics from SAS to help determine the next best action a patient can take to improve their health outcomes. The company is analyzing historic claims data, along with demographic and financial data to build a personalized care path that optimizes a patient’s health.
Healthcare IT Today had the chance to speak with Casey Dudek, Business Analytics Advisor at Evernorth Health Services (EHS), about their analytics work. We wanted to know what types of data they were taking into consideration, how they were using the SAS analytics platform, and what are they working on next.
Impro...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Casey Dudek Chronic Conditions Evernorth Health Services Goldilocks Zone Member Engagement Next Best Action Patient Outcomes SAS SAS A Source Type: blogs
