Wrongful prolongation of life: a growing concern in the health care system [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we sit down with patient advocate Althea Halchuck to discuss the importance of advance directives in end-of-life care. We delve into the story of Dr. Gerald Greenberg, a New York dentist who was diagnosed with early-onset dementia and executed a living
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Wrongful prolongation of life: a growing concern in the health care system [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 5, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Progression of parents in NHS medical and nursing careers
This report examines how the length of parental leave and rates of progression after having children vary by specialty, gender and other staff characteristics among doctors, dentists, nurses and midwives in the English NHS.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 28, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
One of the Many Advantages of AI in Healthcare: Data
In the world of Healthcare, there isn’t much room for making guesses. When you’re in charge of someone’s well being, it is critical that all of your decisions are well thought through and based on data. This is where AI can be very useful to your organization. AI, when applied properly, is very helpful in not only gathering data, but in sharing, analyzing, and storing it.
We reached out to our incredibly talented Healthcare IT Today Community for their comments and insights on the impact AI can have on data. This is what they had to say.
Ben Herzberg, Chief Scientist at Satori
From “where we are sta...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC 4medica Artificial Intelligence Ben Herzberg Charlie Clarke Data Driven Healthcare Dr. Source Type: blogs
A dentist ’ s journey to improving oral health for special needs patients
When I was a dental student, a 5-year-old child with special needs started coming to the clinic for dental care. I remember him as inquisitive but lacking the ability to focus or respond correctly to some verbal prompts. He would sit quietly in his mom’s lap on the dental chair, but when we approached him
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A dentist’s journey to improving oral health for special needs patients originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alexander Dorrough, DDS Tags: Conditions Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Medsi Raises USD $10M in Debt-Financing Round to Onboard First 30,000 Mexican Customers Currently on the Waitlist for its “Health Assurance” Super App
Fast-expanding healthcare marketplace, Medsi, aims to solve big challenge of Latin American gap in access to affordable care via first-of-its-kind offering focused on the Mexico market first
With only a tiny fraction of Mexicans having health insurance or access to the necessary credit or savings, a medical emergency can be a catastrophic event as evidenced by the recent COVID-19 pandemic that hit Mexico harder than the rest of North America. It’s why Medsi chose Mexico as its “ground zero.”
Today, Medsi – a “fintech meets healthtech” marketplace that makes healthcare services, information, and pricing more ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Affordable Care CAPEM Mexico Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Jose Pepe Cabrera Manuel Villalvazo Medsi Medsi Credit App Medsi’s 24/7 Medical Concierge™ Services Mexico H Source Type: blogs
Healthcare AI – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 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. Check out our communities 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.
Check out our community’s healthcare AI predictions.
Evangelos Hytopoulos, Sr. Director of Data Science at iRhythm Technologies
There is no doubt that AI has become mainstream in many areas....
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions 4D Path Carlene MacMillan CommBox Dave Bennett Evangelos Hytopoulos Gabriel Mecklenburg Healthcare AI Hinge Health iRhythm Technologies Judy Jiao Na Source Type: blogs
What ’ s the sense of having a living will if it ’ s not honored?
‘This victory ensures that advance planning documents are legally enforceable and will be respected by doctors; if they are not, individuals can hold providers accountable for violating their health care decisions.” – Greenberg decision, 2022 Dr. Gerald Greenberg was a New York dentist when in 2010, he was diagnosed with early-onset dementia. In 2011, he
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What’s the sense of having a living will if it’s not honored? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 25, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Althea Halchuck, EJD Tags: Conditions Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
The Ultimate EMT Guide to Vital Signs (Part 1): Pulse
There are few things that EMT’s should claim as their domain. There are certain skills that the EMT provider should simple dominate. Vital signs are one such skill. No medical provider anywhere should be able to hold a candle to the EMT when vitals signs are the name of the game.
Vital signs are, to the EMT, what sharp shooting is to the sniper; what the fast ball is to the closing pitcher; what swordsmanship is to Zorro. It’s the EMT bread-and-butter skill. And yet…so many EMTs fumble through vital signs like it’s amateur hour. No more. Over the next few weeks we’re going to break down vital signs here at The...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 15, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Dr Margaret Vaux Has Exposed A Problem With Health Department / Medicare Technology!
Last Monday the ABC and The Nine News Outlets made a big splash with the following headlines:‘Medicare is haemorrhaging’: The rorts and waste costing taxpayers billions of dollars a yearByAdele Ferguson and Chris GillettOctober 17, 2022 — 5.00amBillions of dollars are being rorted from Medicare each year by medical practitioners making mistakes or charging for services that aren ’t necessary or didn’t even happen – including billing dead people and falsifying patient records to boost profits.The revelations come as GPs lobby the federal Labor government to boost Medicare funding and increase rebates, claiming t...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Our plan for patients
Department of Health and Social Care -This policy paper details the government ’s plans for the NHS and social care to deliver for patients, this winter and next. It covers four areas: ambulances; backlogs; care; and doctors and dentists.Policy paperDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 23, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Patient involvement, experience and feedback Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Health and care workforce in Europe: time to act
This report focuses on identifying effective policy and planning responses to these HCWF challenges across the Region. The report presents an overview of the HCWF situation in the Region (focusing on medical doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists and physiotherapists, for w hom data are available)and identifies relevant policy options, their expected benefits and potential facilitators or barriers to successful implementation. Examples of sound evidence-informed practices in countries are also provided.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 20, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Meet the Editors: Jonathan M. Amiel, MD
What are your roles and responsibilities with Academic Medicine?
I am an assistant editor at Academic Medicine. In this role, I review new submissions to the journal, designate submissions for peer review, work collaboratively with our fabulous editors and editorial staff to determine editorial decisions, and help authors to finalize their work for publication. As part of this process, I also engage in professional development, learning about research methods and participating in team learning and discussions.
What do you enjoy most about your work with Academic Medicine?
For work that is primarily asynchronous an...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 6, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: Meet the Editors scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
Why you need to care about oral health [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Guess what? The mouth is attached to the rest of the body. And though dentistry and medicine are typically separated from the very beginning of professional training, they are irrevocably linked for patients and have an impact on each other. Here’s some foundational knowledge
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Why you need to care about oral health [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 24, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Magnetic Microrobots Assist with Root Canal Treatment
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a microrobot system that can help with biofilm disruption, drug delivery, and sample retrieval, all within the restrictive space of the root canal. It can be difficult for dentists to know if they have removed all the infectious material when performing a root canal, and failure to do so will typically result in an infection reoccurring. The space is difficult to access and disinfect properly, and so these researchers turned to microrobotics as a solution. The microrobots consists of iron oxide nanoparticles and can be manipulated using magnetic fields. The bots ...
Source: Medgadget - August 22, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dentistry upenn Source Type: blogs
Light-Activated Hydrogel Disrupts Oral Biofilms, Whitens Teeth
Researchers at Nanchang University in China developed a photodynamic hydrogel treatment for teeth that disrupts bacterial biofilms, helps to prevent cavities, and whitens teeth. The gel is applied to the teeth and is then activated using green light, which is less harsh on nearby skin than the high intensity blue light that is sometimes used for teeth whitening procedures. The treatment contains copper oxide nanoparticles and bismuth oxychloride nanoparticles, and sodium alginate was used to create the hydrogel delivery vehicle. The gel works by releasing reactive oxygen species when illuminated with green light, which hel...
Source: Medgadget - August 15, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dentistry Materials Source Type: blogs
