Bonus Features – September 11, 2022 – LG names 4 companies to help stand up its digital health business, ONC and HRSA team up to modernize Uniform Data System, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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The LG Electronics North American Innovation Center, LG NOVA, selected four digital health companies among the nine finalists for its Mission for the Future global challenge program: Digital care platform Digbi Health, prec...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 01, 2022 Edition-----This week it is all about weather and climate change with floods, heatwaves and droughts in Parkistan, Europe and China. In the US drought is causing all sorts of food supply issues and price rises.In the EU was a seeing all sorts of energy supply problems.In Australia we have a feast of investigations into ScoMo, RoboDebt and so on. Lots to browse!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/us-alliance-fear-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-20220818-p5bat8US alliance fear that dare not speak its nameUneasiness about divided, inward-looking America fulfilling its security gua...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – July 30, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
A Vision for the Hospital Room of the Future: Part 1. Jeff Fallon, Chairman and CEO at eVideon, shared with John Lynn some of his big ideas for what the hospital room could look like not long from now. Think improvements to the nurse call button, a virtual whiteboard, and actions triggered by activity in the EHR. Read more…
A Vision for the Hospita...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
KLAS Differentiates Patient Communications from Patient-Driven Care Management Solutions
In this report, you actually divide what once was a single category of vendors and products into two separate categories. You now have patient communication solutions and then something you call patient driven care management solutions. Can you help us with that distinction? What’s the difference between the two?
[00:01:28] Dan Czech: This decision to split the categories, actually one of the main purposes of this report was to find a way to take a data-driven approach to separating the vendors by the type of work that they do.
[00:01:42] We were hearing both from the vendors, as well as provider organizations that h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Administration Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Dan Czech GetWell Intrado Klara KLAS Research patient communications Patient Journey patient outreach patient workflow patient-driven care management PerfectServe Source Type: blogs
Season of birth is not related to risk of developing anxiety or depression
By Emily Reynolds
A new study has cast doubt on historic research suggesting that the season or month of someone’s birth is associated with an increased risk of certain mental health conditions.
The paper, published in Scientific Reports, looks at symptoms of anxiety and depression among more than 70,000 older adults in Europe. And it finds that there is no relationship between when they were born and the likelihood that they experience anxiety or depression.
A number of past studies have found a link between season of birth and mental health diagnoses: research has linked bipolar disorder and schizophrenia...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Mental health Source Type: blogs
Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Regulation to Tourism in the Czech Republic
Luk áš Novotný (Jan Evangelista Purkyně University), Pavlína Pellešová (Silesian University), Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Regulation to Tourism in the Czech Republic, 19 Cent. Eur. Pub. Admin. Rev. (2021): The article deals with issues concerning the regulation of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 13, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Public Administration ’s Adaptation to COVID-19 Pandemic – Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak Experience
Matej Horvat (Comenius University), Wojciech Piatek (Adam Mickiewicz University), Luk áš Potěšil (Masaryk University), Krisztina F. Rozsnyai, Public Administration’s Adaptation to COVID-19 Pandemic – Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak Experience, 19 Cent. Eur. Pub. Admin. Rev. (2021): The pandemic of the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - October 13, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
More Laughing, More Thinking
By KIM BELLARD
There was a lot going on this week, as there always is, including the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the beginning of the NFL season, so you may have missed a big event: the announcement of the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Awards (no, those are not typos).
What’s that you say — you don’t know the Ig Nobel Awards? These annual awards, organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, seek to:
…honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in scie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Research health research Ignobel Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Why Do Some People Without Mental Health Problems Experience Hallucinations? Replication Study Casts Doubt On Previous Theories
By Emma Young
Hallucinations are a common symptom of schizophrenia and related disorders, but mentally well people experience them, too. In fact, work suggests that 6-7% of the general population hear voices that don’t exist. However, exactly what predisposes well people to experience them has not been clear. Now a major new study of 1,394 people native to 46 different countries, led by Peter Moseley at Northumbria University, provides support for two hypotheses from earlier, smaller studies — namely, that a history of childhood trauma and a propensity to hear non-existent speech among background noise are both...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Perception Replications Source Type: blogs
Don ’t Confuse Mandates With Changing Behavior
Ryan BourneOne of the key themes ofEconomics In One Virusis that it can be very difficult to disentangle the effects of voluntary behavioral change from public policy. Another way of putting this is that “defining the counterfactual” is hard. In a world in which public policies can crowd out private action, or else merely codify it, you should not judge the wisdom of an action by the outcomes associated with that action being mandated.An interesting example of this in the pandemic relates to mask mandates and mask wearing. Studies on the effectiveness of government mask mandates have so far produced mixed results ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
8 Ways Robots Can Enhance Healthcare
Science fiction movies are filled with depictions of medical robots as integral parts of the healthcare system. From Anakin Skywalker’s surgery by autonomous robots to Big Hero 6’s healthcare robot Baymax, these mechanical staffers stayed only within the realm of sci-fi movies and one’s imagination for a long time; but not for much longer. Indeed, as we exemplify in this article, they are steadily making their way into healthcare institutions. The healthcare industry is betting on those potentials as well, with the global medical robot expenditures expected to rise by about 20% by 2025 to reach $24.6 billion.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - January 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Covid-19 Healthcare Design Medical Education Robotics future Hospital Innovation Surgery technology gc4 drones drone delivery robots InTouch Health Veebot Pepper Big Hero 6 UVD Robots Xenex social robots Zipline A Source Type: blogs
8 Digital Health Technologies Transforming The Future Of Nurses
Being a nurse is a highly demanding but genuinely fulfilling job with the chance to touch many people’s lives. This hasn’t been highlighted better than during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the whole world is stricken by fear and uncertainty, with many under lockdown 2.0, nurses are actively in the front line assisting patients and physicians. As the nursing profession requires the core of what makes us human – paying attention, being empathetic and caring -, it will never be replaced by technology.
However, technological innovations can relieve nurses of the burden of many monotonous and repetitive tasks; especially ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 15, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Future of Medicine Robotics 3d printing AI artificial intelligence digital health Health 2.0 nurse Personalized medicine technology digital technology nurses Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 10th 2020
This study aimed to characterize the role of BDNF in age-related microglial activation. Initially, we found that degrees of microglial activation were especially evident in the substantia nigra (SN) across different brain regions of aged mice. The levels of BDNF and TrkB in microglia decreased with age and negatively correlated with their activation statuses in mice during aging. Interestingly, aging-related microglial activation could be reversed by chronic, subcutaneous perfusion of BDNF. Peripheral lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injection-induced microglial activation could be reduced by local supplement of BDNF, while shTrkB...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 9, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Religious People In The US — But Not Elsewhere In The World — Have More Negative Attitudes Towards Science
By Matthew Warren
It’s a common view among the public — and certain intellectuals — that science and religion are in fundamental opposition to each other, despite claims to the contrary. As Richard Dawkins put it in his essay The Great Convergence, “To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.”
Part of this conviction that science and religion cannot be reconciled comes down to a belief that the two doctrines are psychologically incompatible. How can someone put their faith in a divine being while also trying to make sense of the world ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Personality Religion Source Type: blogs
Brown vs white adipose tissue roles of pericardial fat
This study was conducted using serum and adipose tissue samples collected from pericoronary depots in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting and patients without coronary artery disease undergoing aortic valve replacement [3].
Adipokine synthesis pattern of epicardial also changes in obesity and dyslipidemia. Adiponectin synthesis comes down and proinflammatory adipokines like leptin, tumour necrosis factor alpha, interleukin 1 beta, interleukin 6 and resistin gets synthesised. These are proinflammatory, causing macrophage infiltration, destruction of microvasculature and increase in fibrosis [1]. In one study...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 28, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
