How to shed old narratives and forge a powerful new identity in 2024
Like other business owners and private medical groups, I tend to work more hours towards the end of the year. December is an endless marathon trying to see more patients, add more procedure hours, and double book the office and endoscopy sessions on the clinic side. On the business side, we are creating more content Read more… How to shed old narratives and forge a powerful new identity in 2024 originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Gastroenterology Source Type: blogs

Patients are Not “Consumers”: My Cancer Story 
By JEFF GOLDSMITH On Christmas Eve 2014, I received a present of some profoundly unwelcome news: a 64 slice CT scan confirming not only the presence of a malignant tumor in my neck, but also a fluid filled mass the size of a man’s finger in my chest cavity outside the lungs. Two days earlier, my ENT surgeon in Charlottesville, Paige Powers, had performed a fine needle aspiration of a suspicious almond-shaped enlarged lymph node, and the lab returned a verdict of “metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with an occult primary tumor”.  I had worked in healthcare for nearly forty years when ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice The Business of Health Care Cancer Jeff Goldsmith Medicare Advantage Patient Experience Source Type: blogs

My Cancer Story  
By JEFF GOLDSMITH On Christmas Eve 2014, I received a present of some profoundly unwelcome news: a 64 slice CT scan confirming not only the presence of a malignant tumor in my neck, but also a fluid filled mass the size of a man’s finger in my chest cavity outside the lungs. Two days earlier, my ENT surgeon in Charlottesville, Paige Powers, had performed a fine needle aspiration of a suspicious almond-shaped enlarged lymph node, and the lab returned a verdict of “metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with an occult primary tumor”.  I had worked in healthcare for nearly forty years when ca...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice The Business of Health Care Cancer Jeff Goldsmith Medicare Advantage Patient Experience Source Type: blogs

The shifting landscape of gastroenterology manpower and compensation
The field of gastroenterology in the United States has undergone a significant transformation over the past 5 to 10 years, driven by a confluence of historical changes in training programs, changing demographics among GI doctors due to the relatively new specialty of GI endoscopy, and a dwindling supply of gastroenterologists. These factors have culminated in Read more… The shifting landscape of gastroenterology manpower and compensation originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Gastroenterology Source Type: blogs

Featured Health IT Job: Imaging System Analyst
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Imaging System Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Llyod Staffing and is remote. Here’s a description of the position: Has minimum 3 years’ experience in previous support of Endoscopy imaging, Ophthalmology imaging, Urology imaging systems Knowledge of Radiology and Cardiology PACS systems Advanced knowledge of a VNA, preferably Hyland Mail Reader and PACS Gear MDR Dicom modality interface troubleshooting Knowledge and experience with ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Analyst Jobs Health IT Jobs Health IT Procurement Healthcare IT Jobs Imaging System Analyst Job Seekers Llyod Staffing Source Type: blogs

Closing the Gap: Why Healthcare Needs More Gender Diversity in Leadership
The following is a guest article by Dr. Erica Barnell, MD, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at Geneoscopy Women comprise 70% of the healthcare workforce and 59% of medical, biomedical, and health sciences graduates, yet are the minority at leadership levels — holding only 25% of senior executive roles. As a result, the lack of women in significant decision-making positions is evident. According to U.S. Census estimates, no single ethnic or racial group will represent a majority of the U.S. population by 2055. The potential for more positive patient care experiences, greater innovation, and improved organizatio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Dr. Erica Barnell Dr. Erica Barnell MD PhD Gender Bias Gender Diversity in Healthcare Leadership Geneoscopy Women in Healthcare Women in Leadership Women in STEM Women's H Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 12th 2023
In this study, we investigated the effect of NXP032 on neurovascular stabilization through the changes of PECAM-1, PDGFR-β, ZO-1, laminin, and glial cells involved in maintaining the integrity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in aged mice. NXP032 was orally administered daily for 8 weeks. Compared to young mice and NXP032-treated mice, 20-month-old mice displayed cognitive impairments in Y-maze and passive avoidance tests. NXP032 treatment contributed to reducing the BBB damage by attenuating the fragmentation of microvessels and reducing PDGFR-β, ZO-1, and laminin expression, thereby mitigating astrocytes and microglia ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Video Capsule Navigates the Stomach
Researchers at George Washington University have created a swallowable capsule containing a video camera that can assist in identifying lesions in the stomach. However, unlike similar devices that have been developed previously, this capsule can drive around the stomach under the control of a clinician. This allows it to thoroughly navigate and screen the entire area to identify any health issues in the stomach mucosa, such as ulcers or bleeding. The technology requires an external magnet to be placed near the stomach, and the clinician can use a joystick, just like with a video game, to control the movement of the capsule...
Source: Medgadget - June 9, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: GI GWToday GWTweets Source Type: blogs

The Gut Microbiome Differs in Characteristic Ways in Patients with Precancerous Colon Polyps
The gut microbiome changes with age, the relative abundance of microbial populations shifting in ways that appear connected to chronic inflammation and dysfunction of the intestinal epithelium and intestinal barrier function. Cancer of the colon is an important cause of human mortality, and there is some hope that finding ways to prevent or reverse gut microbiome aging, such as via fecal microbiota transplant from young individuals, will go some way to minimizing colon cancer incidence. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S., and rates of colorectal cancer are rising amon...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 7, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Ingestible Sensor Reveals Gastric Motility
Researchers at MIT have developed an ingestible sensor that can reveal gastrointestinal motility issues, such as gastroparesis and gastroesophageal reflux disease. The technology is intended for use as an easy at-home method to diagnose such issues, which typically require more invasive and inconvenient procedures, such as endoscopy or X-ray imaging. This new technology is based on the concept that a magnetic field produced by an electromagnetic coil becomes weaker the further away you move from the coil. This change in field signal is predictable, allowing researchers to calculate the distance accurately by measuring the ...
Source: Medgadget - February 16, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: GI mit Source Type: blogs

Return to McAllen: A Father-Son Interview
By IAN ROBERTSON KIBBE You are going to hear a little more about McAllen, TX on THCB Shortly. And before we dive into what’s happened there lately, I thought those of you who weren’t here back in the day might want to read an article on THCB from July 2009. Where then THCB editor Ian Kibbe interviewed his dad David Kibbe about what he was doing as a primary care doc in McAllen–Matthew Holt By now, Dr. Atul Gawande’s article on McAllen’s high cost of health care has been widely read.  The article spawned a number of responses and catalyzed a national discussion on cost controls and t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized David Kibbe Ian Robertson Kibbe McAllen Physicians TX Source Type: blogs

Exciting Medtech at the Healthcare ᐩ Expo Taiwan
Medgadget was recently invited to Taiwan to cover the 2022 Healthcareᐩ Expo in Taipei. As is the case for most trade shows, the exhibit hall comprised a large portion of the expo. Consisting of over 2000 exhibitors in two massive halls, the main hall showcased the best of Taiwan’s healthcare industry. Here are some notable trends we observed while roaming the aisles. Big Tech is Invested in Healthcare At the MedTex Summit Asia that took place during the expo (see here for our coverage), speakers from ASUS, Microsoft, Intel, and Oracle shared about how each of their companies were partnering with hospitals ...
Source: Medgadget - December 21, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Informatics Medicine Radiology Source Type: blogs

If You ’ ve Seen One Robot – Wait, What?
BY KIM BELLARD If You’ve Seen One Robot – Wait, What? We think we know robots, from the old school Robbie the Robot to the beloved R2-D2/C-3PO to the acrobatic Boston Dynamics robots or the very human-like Westworld ones.   But you have to love those scientists: they keep coming up with new versions, ones that shatter our preconceptions.  Two, in particular, caught my attention, in part because both expect to have health care applications, and in part because of how they’re described. Hint: the marketing people are going to have some work to do on the names.  ———– Let’s...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard robots SlimeBot Source Type: blogs

Magnetic Tentacle Robot Travels Deep into Lungs
Researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK have created a magnetic “tentacle robot” that is just 2 mm in diameter, which they hope will be able to navigate through some of the smallest airways in our lungs. At present, a bronchoscope is used to investigate the lungs, but this cannot pass into very narrow airways without an additional catheter attachment. This arrangement is cumbersome and difficult to navigate. This new technology is controlled autonomously using external magnets mounted on robotic arms and does not require X-ray imaging during the procedure. The researchers hope that the device will aid clinicia...
Source: Medgadget - March 25, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Pathology Radiology Surgery Source Type: blogs

Patients Occasionally Experience Sexual Hallucinations While Under Conscious Sedation
By Emma L. Barratt Since anaesthetics were first used in 1846 there have been reports of sexual hallucinations during medical procedures. And, though there’s been much discussion about the relationship between anaesthesia and these hallucinations, awareness of this side effect amongst both clinicians and academics remains somewhat low. The consequences of clinicians being accused of sexual misconduct that was in actuality a hallucination can extremely be serious; some have lost their licenses to practice, despite being acquitted. But even with the high-stakes consequences of sexual hallucinations, there has been r...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 16, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Health Perception Sex Source Type: blogs