New G-RISE and IMSD Funding Opportunities and Upcoming Webinar
We’re pleased to announce that the notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) for the Graduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (G-RISE; PAR-24-032) and Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD; PAR-24-031) programs have been reissued. These NOFOs aim to strengthen research training environments and promote broader participation in the biomedical research workforce by expanding the pool of well-trained scientists earning a Ph.D., for example, encouraging the inclusion of individuals from underrepresented groups (see Notice of NIH’s Interest in Diversity).
The new NOFOs have some...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 7, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Meetings/Events Training/Fellowships/Career Development Preparing an Application Webinars Source Type: blogs
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
How a Medical Receptionist Service Can Help Improve the Patient Experience
The following is a guest article by Stephanie Maharjan, Operations Leader at WellReceived.
The role of a medical receptionist has transformed significantly. They are not just a point of contact, they are the gateway to a healthcare facility, embodying its ethos and values from the first ‘hello.’ Ensuring a positive patient experience is fundamental to the healthcare industry’s success. Patients today seek more than just medical expertise. They want a seamless, comforting, and engaging interaction with healthcare providers.
Medical Receptionists play a crucial role in shaping these interactions. However, m...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Healthcare Scene Featured Medical Receptionists Online Self-Scheduling Patient Check-in Patient Intake Stephanie Source Type: blogs
Reviewing the Role of Cellular Senescence in Pulmonary Fibrosis
The first small human clinical trial of the senolytic therapy of dasatinib and quercetin targeted idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, showing some benefit to patients. Later trials for kidney disease demonstrated that this treatment does remove a fraction of lingering senescent cells in human tissues in much the same way as it does in mice. Senescent cells accumulate with age in tissues throughout the body, the burden of these cells resulting from a growing gap between pace of creation and pace of clearance by the immune system. Researchers are coming to see a prominent role for senescent cells in all fibrotic conditions, in wh...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 7, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
VCAM1 and APOE Involved in Microglial Clearance of Amyloid- β
One of the characteristics of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease is the inflammatory activation and dysfunction of microglia. These are cells of the innate immune system distinct to the brain, analogous to macrophages elsewhere in the body. They undertake a similar portfolio of tasks, including chasing down pathogens, destroying errant cells, cleaning up waste and debris such as toxic aggregated proteins found outside cells, and aiding in tissue maintenance and repair. When microglia are in an inflammatory state, they are less inclined to aid in tissue maintenance and clearance of harmful metabolic wa...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 6, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
How Digital Health Companies Attract Software Engineers: Strategies
The first article in this series laid out the challenges in recruiting programmers to digital health firms and who tends to make a strong contributor in those firms. Now we can cover the strategies companies use and the arguments they make.
Make an Important Difference in Society
Dean says that many programmers choose health IT over other industries because they want to do something positive for humanity. The programmer may have suffered a health crisis, or seen family members go through one. In any case, they find more meaning in health IT than retail, finance, or social media.
Dean’s observation matches what I...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Anmol Madan Carenet Health CliniComp Darena Solutions David Mulligan Dedalus Digital Health Software Developers Health IT Deveopment Health IT Programmers Health Source Type: blogs
Award-Winning Safety Training Videos Showcase Inclusivity in the Lab
Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU’s) Center on Health Disparities and safety and risk management department in Richmond teamed up to develop a series of six lab safety training videos with supplemental funding to their NIGMS-funded Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) program. The videos cover topics such as safety culture, biosafety, chemical safety, and emergency response, but what sets them apart is how they showcase diversity and inclusion in the lab.
The first video in the safety training series describes the importance of maintaining positive safety culture, which includes people’s p...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 6, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cool Videos Training 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
What Area of Healthcare Needs More Investment and Why?
Tragically, in a world full of wonderful healthcare inventions and opportunities there is only so much money to be invested. Each year only a certain amount of areas can be invested in, with the hopes of it being spent in the right areas to improve the world of healthcare. But are there areas of healthcare that are getting passed over? Are there areas that desperately need more investment and are just getting skipped because not enough people are talking about them? Searching for the answers to these questions in the hopes of them getting more investments in the future, we reached out to our absolutely incredible Healthcar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Barry Dellecese BJ Boyle CareRev ClearDATA FINN Partners Healthcare Investm Source Type: blogs
The Most Overhyped Technologies in Healthcare
The hype about technological development in healthcare should not blind us in terms of the probabilities and possibilities of today’s healthcare and the future of medicine. To remain objective and conscious but still optimistic, let’s look at the most overhyped technologies and keep in mind the realistic development opportunities in healing.
You know the saying: the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the optimist says it is half full, and, well, the cynic asks who drank the other half? I’m truly an optimist – especially when it comes to the future of medicine and healthcare, but we need to ask the uncom...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing robotics virtual reality wearables GC1 hype organs Source Type: blogs
Coping with grief in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Natalya Beneschott, a pediatric infectious disease fellow, as she shares her personal experience and insights on coping with the lasting impact of a patient’s death, the challenges medical professionals face in processing grief, and the importance of creating a supportive environment for health
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Coping with grief in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 5, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Funding Opportunity: Modules for Enhancing Biomedical Research Workforce Training
We’re pleased to announce a new notice of special interest (NOSI) (NOT-GM-24-007): Topics for Training Modules for Enhancing Biomedical Research Workforce Training (R25). The NOSI, associated with the reissue of notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) PAR-24-040, requests applications to develop biomedical research training modules on one of the following topics:
Mental health and well-being: utilizing the U.S. surgeon general’s framework to provide organizational dialogue and changes to improve the mental health and well-being of those being trained to become part of the biomedical research workforce.
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Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 4, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Resources Training/Fellowships/Career Development Research Resources Source Type: blogs
CIO Podcast – Episode 64: Teamwork and Leadership with Anna Turman
For the 65th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking about teamwork and leadership with Anna Turman, System VP of Region Health at CommonSpirit Health! We kick off this episode by debating what should be the top priority of a leader in our current environment. Then we discuss how CIOs can connect their why with stories while using both IT business language and human language. Next, we take a look at remote teams and discuss various ways CIOs can effectively lead them. We then transition into Turman’s idea of an IT Team of Excellence (ToE) as she explains what that is and how it can be...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Anna Turman CIO Leadership CommonSpirit CommonSpirit Health Health IT Healthcare Leadership Hospital CIO IT Team of Excellence John Lynn Mentorship Source Type: blogs
The Pace of Epigenetic Drift is Slower in Long-Lived Species
Epigenetic drift is a measure of age-related change in epigenetic marks that alter the structure of packaged DNA in the cell nucleus, and thus control gene expression by making regions accessible or inaccessible to the translation machinery that produces RNA from gene sequences. Regardless of whether epigenetic drift is a form of damage contributing to aging, or a reflection of stochastic molecular damage within cells and consequent disarray in signaling and environment, one would in either case expect it to scale with species life span. Longer-lived species must show a slower pace of change in measures of aging, it would ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 733
Answer to theParasite Case of the Week 733:Cordylobia anthropophaga,myiasis causing fly larva. Florida Fan painted an accurate picture of this parasite with his vivid description: " The mango fly, aka Tumbu fly, lays eggs on human clothing hung to dry in the sun. The Man-Eating larvae hatching eats its way into the skin of its prey. The three sinuous slits are definite identification clues. Ironing the clothes dried outdoor kills the eggs and prevent a myasis infection. The video clearly exemplifies the voracious nature of The Beast. " Very apt!The adult female fly also commonly lays her eggs on sandy soil conta...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - December 4, 2023 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
