Answer to Case 690
Answer: Embedded hard tick, partially engorged with blood. As noted by Florida Fan, it is unfortunate that this tick was sectioned for histopathology, since " we need to examine the anal groove, the shield, the palpi, and the basis capitulum " in order to identify the tick to the genus and species level. This level of identification is helpful for patient management, since different species serve as vectors for different microorganisms. Additionally, finding an engorgedIxodes scapularisin a region of high Lyme disease endemicity may prompt antibiotic prophylaxis in certain situations. Without being able to ...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - July 31, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 23rd July2022.
In this study, researchers sought to determine whether differences in occult hypoxemia treatment existed between people of different races.Occult hypoxemia was defined as arterial blood oxygen saturation of less than 88 percent despite a pulse oximetry reading of 92 percent or more.-----https://healthitsecurity.com/news/security-awareness-and-training-crucial-to-preventing-healthcare-phishing-attacksSecurity Awareness and Training Crucial to Preventing Healthcare Phishing AttacksSecurity awareness and training greatly decreased the likelihood of an employee falling for a healthcare phishing attack, KnowBe4 researchers foun...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Danger Ahead. Good
BY KIM BELLARD
I saw a great quote by Alfred North Whitehead the other day: “It is the business of the future to be dangerous.”
Now, I was a math major many years ago, so I know who Alfred North Whitehead was: the coauthor (with Bertrand Russell) of the Principia Mathematica, a landmark, three-volume treatise that proved – in excruciating detail — that all of mathematics (and thus, arguably, all of science) can be reduced to mathematical logic. I always thought Lord Russell was the eloquent one, but it turns out that Professor Whitehead had a way with words too.
So, of course, I want to apply a fe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Alfred North Whitehead Bertrand Russell Cambridge future Futurism Futurists health futurist Principia Mathematica Source Type: blogs
Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/8 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Christopher Crow, MD (@catalysthg) on the topic “Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care.”
Primary care providers face a unique dichotomy: Never have they been more valuable… and never has their future been more uncertain. Whether you look at the findings from organizations like NASEM–which characterize primary care as the only part of healthcare where an increased supply is associated with better population health and more equitable outcomes...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 5, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Administration Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management #HITsm Chat #HITsm Topics Christopher Crow Healthcare Transformation NASEM Primary Care Primary Care Physicians technology Source Type: blogs
Immigrants Reduce Unionization in the United States
Alex NowrastehIdentifying and analyzingarguments against increased legal immigration has been one of the core components of my job over the last decade. Most of those arguments areflimsy. The effect of immigrants on wages issmall and to the benefit of complementary native ‐born American workers. Immigrants are lesscriminallyinclined than native ‐born Americans. Immigrants and their descendantsassimilate quickly into American culture. The threat ofterrorist attacks carried about by foreigners on U.S. soil is real but also small and manageable. But one argument stands out to the point where I ’veco ‐authored...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 28, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Consulates Deny 61% of Employer ‐Sponsored Immigrant Visas
David J. BierU.S. consulates deny a large majority (61 percent) of employer-sponsored immigrant visas for prospective legal permanent residents because it claims to have found a problem with their job offers. The denials reverse labor certifications and petitions approved by the Departments of Labor (DOL) and Homeland Security (DHS) and contrast with rare denials by DHS (4 percent) for workers applying for green cards while already inside the United States. Although this astounding denial rate has existed for decades, the State Department has never publicly explained it, and no one has previously reported on it.It appears ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Doceree Closes $11 Million Series A Funding Round Led by Eight Roads Ventures
Financing accelerates company’s global growth and development of its platform to enrich HCP messaging solutions on endemic and point-of-care networks for life sciences companies Doceree Inc, the first global network of physician-only platforms for programmatic messaging, today announced the completion of $11 million Series A funding round led by Eight Roads Ventures, a global investment […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Alkemi Growth Capital Ashish Venkataramani Carl Byers Doceree Eight Roads Ventures ESPYIAN F-Prime Capital Fidelity Harshit Jain Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Rahul Gupta Source Type: blogs
How Do We Know If COVID Is Over?
Is it the end of COVID? – we hear this very question more and more often these days. This topic has been analysed over and over in the past two years, I also wrote about it more than once. Here, at the beginning, we outlined possible scenarios on how the pandemic will develop. By now we can determine that we ended up somewhere between #2 and #3.
We also discussed how widespread vaccination is the way to go, and how it will contribute to getting back our lives.
The speculation on finally getting over it is not surprising. It is in line with recent reports, and the discussion about the pandemic entering the endem...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Covid-19 public health covid19 pandemic endemic end of covid Source Type: blogs
TWiV 870: COVID-19 clinical update #103 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #103, Daniel Griffin covers immunocompromised people, hospitalization of children, vaccine usage update, Omicron and cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies, reinfection prevents disease in hamsters, repeated infections with endemic coronaviruses, global burden of antimicrobial resistance, ivermectin not protective in hamsters, and Omicron evades therapeutic monoclonals. Click arrow to playDownload TWiV 870 (52 MB .mp3, 43 […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 26, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation Long Covid monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern viruses Source Type: blogs
Take a Tip from Domino ’ s
By KIM BELLARD
If you’re already thinking ahead to next Sunday’s Super Bowl, you might be thinking about Domino’s, because, as everyone knows, pizza and football go together like mom and apple pie. I’m thinking about Domino’s too, but not because I’m planning my order. It’s about their new program to reward customers who do more of their own work.
Ahem, healthcare: pay attention.
Last week Domino’s announced that customers who picked up their own orders, rather than using delivery, would earn a $3 tip. Art D’Elia, Domino’s executive president and chief marketing officer...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Burnout Domino's Insurance Source Type: blogs
5 COVID-19 Discussions That Will Dominate 2022
Discussions That Will Dominate 2022 appeared first on The Medical Futurist. (Source: The Medical Futurist)
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Science Fiction vaccination pandemic vaccine pfizer fatigue booster Source Type: blogs
Omicron Is Coming: Can We Live With It?
Ryan Bourne andJeffrey A. SingerThe U.S. is about to be hit by a huge wave of infections from the COVID-19 omicron variant. Thoughit ’s unclear yet whether omicron isnaturally less severe than, say, the delta variant, South African and British case data shows just how quickly it spreads, with significant vaccine evasion and widespread anecdotal reports of COVID-19 reinfections.UK recorded daily cases, for example, have risen quickly to theirhighest level in the pandemic, despite not counting any reinfections as new cases. These numbers vastly understate true daily infections, because not all those infected test and there...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 17, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne, Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Reconciliation Bill Would Expand Housing Subsidies Prone to Fraud and Corruption
Chris EdwardsThe Democratic reconciliation billincludes dozens of new and expanded tax credits for businesses and other special interests. Such credits complexify the tax code, reduce growth by distorting resource allocation, and tend to foster fraud and corruption.The Low ‐Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is a good example. The $11 billion program inflates the costs of apartment construction, may generate more benefits for middlemen than tenants, and fortifies the well ‐known corruption nexus between local governments and developers. The LIHTC is so complex that the standard guidebook for it covers1,654 pa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 13, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
The Military Is Not the Solution to the Challenge of Ransomware
Brandon ValerianoGeneral Paul Nakasone, head of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, finally confirmed what many had long speculated, the U.S. militarydirectly intervened to shut down criminal cyber hackers after the attacks on theColonial gas pipeline and themeat supplier JBS during the Summer of 2021.The threat of ransomware is precarious and a challenge to the stability of the nation during the ongoing pandemic. Yet, threats to digital connectivity do not require the blurring of the boundary between domestic security and international security. Leveraging military assets to handle criminal problems ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 10, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Brandon Valeriano Source Type: blogs
Endemic COVID-19 will be a cause for celebration
There was a time, not long ago, when COVID-19 was one of the scariest things on earth. In the summer of 2020, scientists were stunned as infections climbed and deaths spiked. They couldn ’t say (exactly) how the virus spread, how deadly it was or how to cure it. ICU beds were filling up while officialsRead more …Endemic COVID-19 will be a cause for celebration originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 9, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/robert-pearl" rel="tag" > Robert Pearl, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
