Global Digital Health 100 – The Medical Futurist ’ s Top Choices in 2022
We first published the list of the Top 100 Digital Health Companies in 2017, highlighting the mindblowing growth the sector registered in the previous year. “Global digital health investments totalled more than 8 billion USD in 2016” – we wrote. Looking at the latest data, we better keep our seatbelts fastened: this figure was USD 57.2 billion in 2021, with a year-on-year growth of 79%.
Digital health is booming, with dozens, hundreds of startups and scale-ups entering the realm each year. While their spectacular promises are loud, failure is silent – unless it happens to one of the tech giants ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF bioprinting digital health Healthcare wearables top 100 telemedicine digital health companies remote care digital therapeutics Source Type: blogs
From Coffee Beans to Medical Disease: A Suggestion to Spend Your Gap Years
Through my journey to find a haven for studying as well as easy access to caffeine, staying at coffee shops became my tradition in preparation for all of my classes as both an undergraduate and medical student. To this day, my best work comes amid the backdrop of ambient chatter and the grinding of espresso beans. At one point, I spent so much time at my coffee shop that the baristas knew my order (white tea with peach juice and stevia!), readied my drink before I walked in, and even invited me to after-work outings.
After spending hours studying, I always wondered what it was like working behind the counter to create l...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 31, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Laura Siegel Source Type: blogs
How you ’ re being tricked into buying lotions, potions, and wrinkle cream
An excerpt from The Skincare Hoax: How You’re Being Tricked into Buying Lotions, Potions & Wrinkle Cream. Why do accomplished, intelligent women spend so much money on skincare products that don’t work? Why do they put so much energy into looking a certain way? These questions hover in the back of my mind every day
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How you’re being tricked into buying lotions, potions, and wrinkle cream originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 30, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Fayne Frey, MD Tags: Conditions Dermatology Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 29, 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.
Doctors Love Alerts – Until They Don’t. The idea behind the alerts to help doctors get the information they need quickly to improve patient care. The problem is that EHR alerts are great until doctors stop looking at them – and with hundreds of alerts streaming into the average EHR every day, John Lynn said he’s worried the EHR may so...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Nextech Announces Acquisition of TouchMD, Enhancing Specialty Practice Patient Experience
Nextech, the market leader providing a single, comprehensive specialty practice solution including Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) functionality, is pleased to announce its acquisition of TouchMD, a visual consultation, marketing, and imaging software platform for plastic surgery, medspa, dermatology, and ophthalmology practices. With this acquisition, TouchMD combined with Nextech’s platform enhances both the digital and in-person patient experience and clinical experience for specialty practices.
“Acquiring TouchMD was an easy decision,” said Bill Lucchini, CEO at Nextech. “Our cus...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bill Lucchini EHR Electronic Health Record Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Kary Smith Nextech Patient Journey pm Practice Management TouchMD Visual Consultation Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 24th 2022
This study shows the uncoupling of lifespan and healthspan parameters (aerobic fitness and spontaneous activity) and provides new insights into SIRT3 function in CR adaptation, fuel utilization, and aging.
HDL Level, Age, and Smoking are the Largest Determinants of Mortality Risk in Old People
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/10/hdl-level-age-and-smoking-are-the-largest-determinants-of-mortality-risk-in-old-people/
An interesting epidemiological study here stratifies the contributions of various metrics to mortality in later life, age 70 and older. The authors find that the largest effects arise...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
SFRP4 Knockdown Suppresses the Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype in Senescent Skin Cells
Researchers here note that SFRP4 is expressed in aged skin cells, and especially in senescent skin cells. Gene knockdown of SFRP4 in mice was shown to reduce the harmful signaling generated by these cells, the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), and improve measures of skin aging in the treated animals. On the whole, modulating the SASP seems a poor strategy in comparison to selectively destroying senescent cells with senolytic therapies. For one, a SASP-suppressing treatment is unlikely to suppress all of the diverse molecular components of the SASP, and secondly has to be taken continuously over time. A sen...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 19, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
What Could You Do With Cheap Genome Sequencing Now?
Genome sequencing does definitely not equal fortune telling: it cannot predict how long you will live or what your body mass index will look like. However, it can tell you a lot about your sensitivity to drugs, your family history or whether you are a carrier of monogenic conditions.
After the Human Genome Project was completed 20 years ago (for a whopping $2.7 billion), the dream was to be able to sequence a person’s genome for 1000 USD. After this became feasible, the next dream was to make it even cheaper: now it costs around 200 USD after Illumina’s innovation came to life.
What is the next dream? To...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Genomics Personalized Medicine DNA dna testing Genetic testing genetics Genome Healthcare Innovation gc3 genome sequencing Source Type: blogs
The 8 Most Reassuring Examples of Using A.I. In Healthcare
Artificial intelligence, probably the most powerful technology trend today, will transform healthcare. In some areas, it has already arrived, extending the diagnostic capabilities of radiologists or dermatologists, supporting triage decisions in emergency units, looking for promising new drug candidates or allowing locked-in patients to communicate with others.
But this is just the beginning. A cultural and technological revolution is just around the corner. What will it bring? How will it reshape the art of medicine? This is the topic of our most popular e-book, A Guide To Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare. The...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Source Type: blogs
How does cervical rib mimic coronary artery disease? Cardiology Basics
Cervical rib is an accessory rib in addition to the 12 pairs of thoracic ribs, which can occur in some individuals. Cervical rib is an abnormal rib arising from the vertebra of the neck. It can press on nerve roots coming out of the neck from the spinal cord and cause symptoms in the dermatomal region.
If a nerve root from the same spinal segment which also supplies the heart gets compressed, the pain produced will be similar in location. But the pain due to nerve root compression will have different characteristics from that of pain originating from the heart. Pain due to myocardial ischemia is usually produced by ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 8, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 26 September, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----I have to say the first article calls into question just how the Feds have been procuring IT and what implications there are for Federal Digital Health – a worry!Otherwise a few other good ones as well!-----https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/government-tech-policy/audit-office-releases-scathing-report-on-dta-s-ignoring-of-p...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 26th 2022
This study examined the dose-response association between daily step count and intensity and incidence of all-cause dementia among adults in the UK. This was a UK Biobank prospective population-based cohort study (February 2013 to December 2015) with 6.9 years of follow-up (data analysis conducted May 2022). A total of 78,430 of 103,684 eligible adults aged 40 to 79 years with valid wrist accelerometer data were included. Registry-based dementia was ascertained through October 2021.
We found no minimal threshold for the beneficial association of step counts with incident dementia. Our findings suggest that approxima...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 25, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Targeting Fibroblasts to Enable Scarless Healing
This article describes current understanding of fibroblast heterogenicity and involvement in wound healing, focusing on the role of fibroblasts during physiological scarring. We also present the current most promising targets involving fibroblasts in the reduction of scarring and how we can manipulate the behaviour of fibroblasts to mimic the wound regeneration models in the human foetus. These targets include the pro-fibrotic EN1 positive fibroblast lineage, TGFβ1 inhibition, and genetic therapies utilising miRNAs and siRNAs.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/20595131221095348 (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - September 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
3D Printed Light Sensor for Light-Sensitive Disease
At the University of Minnesota a team of researchers has developed a 3D printed light sensing wearable that can help people with light-sensitive diseases, such as lupus, to understand more about the types of light that can exacerbate their symptoms. Many people with lupus are sensitive to light, such as sunlight or even regular indoor light, but they may not know what specific light conditions are likely to cause flare-ups. This new device aims to provide such people with more information, so that they can learn more about their flare-ups and take steps to avoid or reduce them. The technology could lead to more personalize...
Source: Medgadget - September 19, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dermatology Diagnostics Medicine UMNews Source Type: blogs
Nintedanib as a Potential Senolytic Drug
Senescent cells accumulate with age, and their presence contributes to chronic inflammation and many other age-related disruptions to normal tissue function. Academia and industry are engaged in many programs aimed at the creation of senolytic treatments that can selectively destroy senescent cells. The most proven senolytic treatment to date is the dasatinib and quercetin combination, shown to partially clear senescent cells from tissues in both old mice and old humans. Dasatinib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, and here researchers report their evidence in support another tyrosine kinase inhibitor, nintedanib, to be usefu...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 19, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
