On not being a arse
Humans are judgemental beings. All of us are. It’s part of having a big brain and wanting to know who’s ‘in’ and who’s ‘out’. Judgements help us make decisions, they’re surprisingly resistant to change, and they can inadvertently trap us into doing things we would never countenance were we able to stand back from what our minds want us to know (and feel).
My post today is prompted by a couple of conversations recently. One was with a clinician, new to a pain team, who found that experienced members of that team thought actions taken by a person with pain were a sign of ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 2, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Interdisciplinary teams Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice healthcare pain management Source Type: blogs
On not being an arse
Humans are judgemental beings. All of us are. It’s part of having a big brain and wanting to know who’s ‘in’ and who’s ‘out’. Judgements help us make decisions, they’re surprisingly resistant to change, and they can inadvertently trap us into doing things we would never countenance were we able to stand back from what our minds want us to know (and feel).
My post today is prompted by a couple of conversations recently. One was with a clinician, new to a pain team, who found that experienced members of that team thought actions taken by a person with pain were a sign of ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 2, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Interdisciplinary teams Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice healthcare pain management Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 3rd 2023
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 2, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Ending Disability Segregated Employment: ‘Modern Slavery’ Law and Disabled People’s Human Right to Work
Linda Steele (University of Technology Sydney), Ending Disability Segregated Employment: ‘Modern Slavery’ Law and Disabled People’s Human Right to Work, Int’l J. L. in Context (2023): Disability segregated employment (also referred to as ‘sheltered workshops’) violates disabled people’s human right... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 1, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Complicating the Relationship Between Cellular Senescence and Late Life Depression
Inflammatory signaling may be influential in major depressive disorder. For any condition in which inflammation is important, attention should be given to the possible role of cellular senescence, given the advent of senolytic therapies to clear these cells. Senescent cells grow in number throughout the body with age, and while never a large fraction of all cells, they energetically generate pro-inflammatory signals. Here, researchers discuss the sometimes there, sometimes not correlation between burden of senescent cells and incidence of major depressive disorder in later life.
Previous studies suggested the role...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Why Are Exercise Studies for Long Covid Still Failing to Address PEM Adequately?
By David Tuller, DrPH I have written previously about the issue of exercise studies for long Covid patients. As with the discredited PACE trial for the illness or cluster of illnesses currently being referred to as ME/CFS, the theory behind these studies posits deconditioning as a central cause of patients’ disability. This approach tends to […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 29, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized exercise Long Covid recover initiative Source Type: blogs
Aggrephagy in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Aging
Autophagy is the name given to a complex, varied set of processes that tag and recycle broken or excess proteins and structures in the cell. The destination for materials to be recycled is the lysosome, a membrane-wrapped collection of enzymes capable of breaking down near all of the proteins and other molecules a cell is likely to encounter. How materials are selected and how exactly they make their way to the lysosome varies considerably. Alongside autophagy, the ubiquitin-proteasome system is another way for cells to identify problem proteins, such as those that misfold into toxic configurations, and then break them dow...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
SpectrumAi Secures up to $20M Series A Investment
CVS Health Ventures leads with Cobalt Ventures, F-Prime, Frist Cressey, and Autism Impact Fund
SpectrumAi, a company developing innovative solutions to improve autism care, today announced that it closed up to $20 million in Series A funding led by CVS Health Ventures with participation from Cobalt Ventures, and follow-on investments from Seed investors F-Prime, Frist Cressey, and Autism Impact Fund. Financing will accelerate adoption of SpectrumAi’s applied behavior analysis (ABA) electronic health record, Twyll, and Patterns, its network analytics platform, that are designed to improve data capture and objective measur...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ABA Applied Behavior Analysis Autism Autism Impact Fund Carl Byers Cobalt Ventures CVS Health Ventures David Eichler EHR F-Prime Frist Cressey Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Inv Source Type: blogs
Cerebral Admits HIPAA Breach, Reports Leak of Data On 3.1 Million Users
Online mental provider Cerebral, Inc. has admitted that it inappropriately shared private health data on 3.1 million of its users, a problem that arose from its use of pixel-based tracking technologies which gather and share data on people who visit the site.
According to the company, which just released a letter outlining the nature of the data issue, Cerebral discovered a breach on January 3, 2023.
Its leaders found that the tracking technology used to mine user data had disclosed information to third parties and subcontractors.
Cerebral’s investigation concluded that the data might be considered protected health i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring BetterHelp Cerebral Facebok GoodRx Google HIPAA Breach META Patient Health Data Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Director, Information Technology and Security
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Information Technology and Security position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is located in Windsor, Canada.
Here’s a description of the position:
Director, Information Technology & Security
Position Summary
The Director Information Technology & Security understands the business of healthcare, the importance of quality patient care, the utilization of technology in a health care setting and th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Canadian Health IT Jobs Director Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Information Technology and Security Job Seekers TransForm Jobs Source Type: blogs
Beyond bulky VR headsets: Voice recognition, eye tracking, and natural gestures in the era of the metaverse and the “Medi-verse”
Imagine you have moved to a new city and bought a condo advertised as “metaverse enabled.” Upon closing, along with the physical keys to your condo, you receive a unique cryptographic key to the community. You move into your neighborhood both physically and digitally. With the crypto key, you link your own personal metaverse profile to the condo. This merges your personal metaverse, including a digital catalog of all the objects in your home, to a digital map of the new space integrating all the sensors and devices that control the objects through the metaverse.
As you move from your bedroom to the kitchen, the li...
Source: SharpBrains - March 21, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Cori Lathan Tags: Technology & Innovation AnthroTronix AR display eye-tracking healthcare delivery Medi-verse metaverse personal metaverse spatial computing stress relief voice recognition wearables Source Type: blogs
What do people want from pain management?
The short answer is often “take my pain away” – and we’d be foolish to ignore the impact of pain intensity on distress and disability. At the same time there’s more than enough research showing that if treatment only emphasises pain intensity (1) it may not be achievable for many, especially if we take into account the small effect sizes on pain intensity from exercise, medications and psychological therapies; and (2) even if pain is reduced, it may not translate into improvements in daily life.
The slightly more complex answer lies behind the desire to “take my pain away.” We n...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 19, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping strategies Research Science in practice Occupational therapy pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Access to Post-secondary Education in Canada for Students with Disabilities
Laverne Jacobs (University of Windsor), Access to Post-secondary Education in Canada for Students with Disabilities, Int ' l J. Discrimination& L. (Forthcoming): Article 24(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) provides a commitment to... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 19, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Death in Childbirth
I taught a course last year in global maternal mortality so I have some idea of what I ' m talking about here. Childbirth is dangerous for women because, for one thing, thanks to evolution giving us big brains, the baby ' s head is too big for the birth canal. However, there are other complications of pregnancy that can occur. In Europe in the 19th Century, as it became common for women to give birth in hospitals, infectious disease killed a lot of mothers, thanks to the doctors transferring pathogens on their unwashed hands and unsterile instruments. Many a family was bereaved by maternal death, but it has become rare in ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
PointClickCare Advances the Transition Toward Value-Based Care with Acquisition of Patient Pattern
Proven care management solution integrates with leading health information technology platform to improve care for high-needs patient populations
PointClickCare Technologies, a leading healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey, today announced the acquisition of Patient Pattern. The combination of PointClickCare and Patient Pattern will further the companies’ shared vision of enabling better care and outcomes for high-needs populations and provide care teams with the solutions they need to successfully operate at t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Care Management Dr. Steven Buslovich EHR Electronic Health Record Goodwin Procter LLP Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A I-SNPs Institutional Special Needs Plans Nemphos Braue LLC Patient Pattern Source Type: blogs
