How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Human Resource Management
The previous articles in this series discussed what kinds of programmers do well and enjoy working in a digital health company. This final article looks at some important aspects of culture and how to cultivate the developers you have.
Allow Programmer Creativity, With Sensitivity
Several of my respondents talked about giving professionals flexibility and autonomy. But programmers need to be sensitive to the unique needs of patients and clinicians. Health care is far different from most of the other industries they’re used to working in.
As Anmol Madan, co-founder and CEO of RadiantGraph, puts it, software engineer...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Anmol Madan Avanade Digital Health Software Developers Health IT Deveopment Health IT Programmers Health IT Software Developers Healthcare Software Developers Inteleo Source Type: blogs
AAPC Expands Its Technology Solutions Portfolio with the Acquisition of Semantic Health
Semantic Health’s AI-Powered Auditing Software Will Supplement AAPC’s Suite of Business Solutions that Safeguard Against Revenue Cycle Errors
AAPC, a leading global solutions provider in healthcare revenue cycle management, is pleased to announce the successful acquisition of Semantic Health, an early-stage healthcare technology company focused on creating AI-powered inpatient medical auditing software for health insurance plans and hospitals.
“We are thrilled to integrate Semantic Health’s advanced technology and skilled AI team into AAPC,” said Bevan Erickson, CEO at AAPC. “This acquis...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AAPC Bevan Erickson Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Nicola Sahar MD Raemarie Jimenez Semantic Health Source Type: blogs
Lead Pipe Cinch
By KIM BELLARD
The term “lead pipe cinch” means something that is very easy or certain. Here’s two things that are lead pipe cinches: first, that ingesting lead, such as from the water or the air, is bad for us. It’s especially bad for children, whose cognitive abilities can be impaired. Second, that the Biden Administration’s latest proposal to reduce the lead in our drinking water is not going to accomplish that.
The new proposed rules would require that lead service lines be replaced within ten years; there are estimated to still be some 9.2 million such lines in the U.S. The trouble is, no one really kn...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Kim Bellard Lead public health Source Type: blogs
Klotho as a Biomarker of the Influence of Lifestyle Choice on Health
Klotho is a longevity-associated protein that operates both within the cell and also as a circulating signal protein. It is longevity-associated in the sense that upregulation increases life span and downregulation reduces life span in mice, but also in the sense that measured klotho levels correlate with health and life expectancy in human epidemiological studies. Klotho may largely operate by maintaining kidney function into late life, but researchers have found that it may also help brain cells resist the harmful effects of an aged environment.
In today's open access paper, the authors make the interesting point ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 4th 2023
This study produced a great deal of data that continues to be mined for insights into human aging and effects of calorie restriction in a long-lived species such as our own, to contrast with the sizable effects on health and longevity in short-lived species such as mice.
In particular, and the topic for today, cellular senescence and its role in degenerative aging has garnered far greater interest in the research community in the years since the CALERIE study took place. Thus in today's open access paper, scientists examine CALERIE study data to find evidence for calorie restriction to reduce the burden of cellular ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, husband of Moms For Liberty cofounder, accused of sexual battery by alleged menage a trois lover
Please folks, I am totally in agreement that Hamas is an unacceptable threat and that the organization must be neutralized. That does not mean that the Israeli military has the right to indiscriminately massacre civilians. Evidently some of you support genocide, as long as the right people are being exterminated. Yes, yes, at this point it ' s only an allegation, it has not been substantiated. But the headline is irresistible, and we know this happens all the time, from Roy Cohn to Larry Craig to Ted Haggard. The harder these people thump their Bibles and persecute homosexuals, the better the odds that they are exactl...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 2, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
XPRIZE Healthspan, $101 Million to Incentivize Rejuvenation in Old People
Prizes for success in research and development can work well, if coupled with suitable publicity and activism. Such efforts have a long history, going back to the well-documented longitude rewards offered by the British government in the 1700s. More recently, the original Ansari X Prize for suborbital flight was a very successful example of this sort of initiative, and was launched around the same time as the Methuselah Mouse Prize to spur greater efforts to extend life in animal models. The Palo Alto Longevity Prize followed later with similar goals. Unfortunately for the ability of longevity-focused prizes to generate on...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Getting the Patient Into the Office at Sun Life Health
Sun Life Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) near Phoenix, Arizona, is leveraging their eClinicalWorks EHR platform to persuade patients to get the care they need. By closing these care gaps, not only are they better serving the community, Sun Life Health is also able to secure more federal funding.
Taming the Paper Tiger
In an interview with Healthcare IT Today Trey Davis, Director of Information Systems at Sun Life Health, shared insights into how the healthcare organization has leveraged eClinicalWorks’ technology to enhance patient care and maximize efficiency.
Sun Life Health operates as a FQHC wi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Healthcare IT care gaps eClinicalWorks eCW FQHC FQHC incentive payments Healow Insights Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured Population He Source Type: blogs
Study finds positive self-reported aspects of the ADHD experience among young women, especially related to hyperactivity and hyperfocus
– Three young Norwegian women. Source: Young and Promising show (SBS)
As is true for children and adolescents, many adults experience substantial challenges related to having ADHD. These challenges often include relationship problems, educational and work challenges, difficulty adhering to long-term plans and goals, and time and money management difficulties.
Given these well-documented difficulties, it is not surprising that ADHD treatment with adults has largely adopted a deficit model that emphasizes reducing the symptoms and impairments associated with the condition.
While these are important treatment goals, and the...
Source: SharpBrains - November 30, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. David Rabiner Tags: Attention & ADD/ADHD ADHD experience ADHD-Treatment cognition cognitions cognitive cognitive-abilities cognitive-behavioral-therapy deficits impairments resilience treatment research ymptoms Source Type: blogs
A Primer on NIGMS Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity Efforts
This post is part of a series outlining NIGMS research priorities, funding opportunities, and the grant application process. You can read more posts in this series and sign up to receive all future posts delivered straight to your inbox.
Our previous post in this series provided an overview of NIGMS research capacity building opportunities. This post provides a primer on our Institute’s research training, workforce development, and diversity programs.
What Falls Under NIGMS’ Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity Umbrella?
NIGMS plays a large role in the research training space, supporting nearly h...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 30, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Research Administration Resources Training/Fellowships/Career Development NIGMS Grant Basics Research Capacity Building Submitting an Application Source Type: blogs
Wanted: Division for Research Capacity Building Director
With the departure of Ming Lei, a search is open for an outstanding candidate to serve as director of our Division for Research Capacity Building (DRCB).
DRCB seeks to enhance the research, research training, research infrastructure, and faculty development of institutions in states and jurisdictions that have historically received low levels of NIH support. DRCB is thus responsible for both broadening the distribution of NIH biomedical research funding and supporting NIGMS’ commitment to developing a diverse biomedical research workforce. DRCB manages a number of highly impactful initiatives, including the I...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 28, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Job Announcements Research Capacity Building Source Type: blogs
SEMCAP Health Continues Strategic Investment in SafeRide Health and Secures Memorial Hermann Health System Co-Investment
Recent Series C Financing of Leading Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Platform Fuels Rapid National Expansion
SEMCAP Health announces its continued support of portfolio company, SafeRide Health, with participation in the company’s recently announced Series C funding. This follows SEMCAP Health’s November 2021 initial investment in SafeRide Health, the leading network optimization platform for Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT). SafeRide Health’s ability to improve member experience and reduce costs for Medicaid and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries also attracted a strategic investment from Memorial Herm...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Feby Abraham Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Memorial Hermann Memorial Hermann Health System Ralph Muller Robbins Schrader SafeRide Health SEMCAP SEMCAP Health Vic Kats Source Type: blogs
The Amaranth Foundation on Bottlenecks in Aging Research
The Amaranth Foundation is one of a small number of organizations created by high net worth individuals to accelerate progress towards the development of therapies to treat aging, picking and choosing research programs and biotech startups to fund based on the founders' understanding of the science and favored goals. Amaranth has a strong focus on neuroscience, for example. The Amaranth pitch on the importance of focusing on bottlenecks in the research and development process is a more general call to action, however, and an interesting take on how best philanthropic organizations should direct their efforts in order to sp...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 27, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
(We Don ’ t) Trust The Science
By KIM BELLARD
I know the A.I. community is eagerly waiting for me to weigh in on the Sam Altman/OpenAI dramedy (), but I’m not convinced this isn’t all a ploy by ChatGPT, so I’m staying away from it. A.I. may, indeed, be an existential issue for our age, but it’s one of many such issues that I fear we’re not, as a society, going to be equipped to handle.
Last week the Pew Research Center issued an alarming report Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline. Now, a glass half-full kind of person might look at it and say – no, it’s good news! Fifty-seven pe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Creationism Education Kim Bellard Science STEM Source Type: blogs
Doctors and disabled patients [PODCAST]
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs
