Hackers, Breaches And The Value Of Health Data: 2024 E-Book Update
As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D printing disrupts the normal supply chain and the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (AI) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era. This was to come sooner or later, but the pandemic accelerated the process by years. However, along with the enhanced healthcare landscape that digital health brings along, there is the pressing issue of privacy. To put it bluntly, there is no digital health without sacrificing a part of our privacy. The advanced technolo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 8, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Policy Security & Privacy facebook data privacy google data security deepmind EHR Hospital cybersecurity genetic sequencing smartphone data breach big t Source Type: blogs

Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem By Jeff Goldsmith Source: OECD, Our World in Data Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see,  the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By  the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs

Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem By Jeff Goldsmith Source: OECD, Our World in Data Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see,  the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By  the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs

These 8 Countries Could Put Together The World ’ s Most Advanced Healthcare System
If we are looking for the one thing common in the healthcare systems in various countries, is that no one has ever been truly satisfied with their own. The level of satisfaction/dissatisfaction of course varies widely between countries and is closely related to the economic performance and possibilities available for the given country in the past centuries/decades. But as we will see, with having focus and working for the right goals, it is possible to fully transform a country and its healthcare in just a few decades. Can we, dreaming freely, come up with the perfect system? There are so many good examples all over the...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Future of Medicine Science Fiction e-patient Healthcare healthcare design digital technology health IT healthcare system longevity digital health technologies Future of healthcare patient inclusion Source Type: blogs

Nitazene Overdose Deaths on the Rise —The Iron Law of Prohibition Cannot Been Repealed
Jeffrey A. SingerLast week the Tennessee Department of Healthreported that overdose deaths from synthetic opioids classified asnitazenes have increased four ‐​fold between 2019 and 2021. Nitazenes, like fentanyl and its analogs, aresynthetic opioids that were originally developed to treat pain. They are anywhere from 10 to 20 times more potent than fentanyl. As with overdoses from fentanyl and other opioids, overdoses from nitazenes can be reversed by administering naloxone, although the antidote might need to be given repeatedly to the victims.The first nitazenes were developed in the late 1950s by the Swiss drug make...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 23, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs

Hackers, Breaches And The Value Of Health Data: 2022 E-Book Update
As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D printing disrupts the normal supply chain and the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (A.I.) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era. This was to come sooner or later, but the pandemic accelerated the process by years. However, along with the enhanced healthcare landscape that digital health brings along, there is the pressing issue of privacy. To put it bluntly, there is no digital health without sacrificing a part of our privacy. The advanced techno...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Personalized Medicine Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones amazon dev Source Type: blogs

Border Chaos and the Catch ‐​22 of Immigration Reform
Alex NowrastehThe immigration system of the United States is more restrictive than most other developed countries. As my colleagueDavid Bier has shown, the foreign ‐​born U.S. share of the population is the 35th highest out of 47 countries, including illegal immigrants. The United States has a foreign ‐​born share of the population between Spain and Estonia. Using just thelegal immigrantshare of the population, the United States would have the 40th highest share that is foreign ‐​born, between Denmark and France.A big difference in immigration between the United States and Europe is that illegal immigrants...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs

Freedom in Decline for 83% of the World ’s Population: New Human Freedom Index
Ian V ásquezThe vast majority of the world ’s population (83%) has seen a decline in freedom since 2008. That includes decreases in freedom in the ten most populous countries of the world—China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, and Mexico.So finds theHuman Freedom Index 2021(HFI) co ‐​published today by the Cato Institute and the Fraser Institute in Canada. The index uses 82 distinct indicators of economic, personal, and civil freedoms to rate 165 jurisdictions from 2008 to 2019, the most recent year for which internationally comparable data is available.The decline ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs

My Meeting with Colin Powell
David BoazIn 2006 the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty was awarded toMart Laar, who as prime minister of Estonia had implemented free ‐​market reforms that made the country a star of the post ‐​Soviet world. During the 1990s Estonia moved from 94th to 24th in theEconomic Freedom of the World index.As we planned the award ceremony, and particularly a short video, we looked for people who could speak about Laar ’s accomplishments. A colleague had a long ‐​shot idea: how about Colin Powell, whose tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State had overlapped ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 18, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs

3 lessons I ’m learning about practicing medicine
With about a year’s worth of experience practicing medicine, I can say with certainty that I’ve got a lot left to learn. I’m a medical student in my final year. In Estonia, we cover all subjects by the 5th year — and in the 6th year, we practice. I applied for a medical license backRead more …Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/klaus-kessel" rel="tag" > Klaus Kessel < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 1st 2021
This study may have important implications for preventing cell senescence and aging-induced tendinopathy, as well as for the selection of novel therapeutic targets of chronic tendon diseases. Our results showed that the treatment of bleomycin, a DNA damaging agent, induced rat patellar TSC (PTSC) cellular senescence. The senescence was characterized by an increase in the senescence-associated β-galactosidase activity, as well as senescence-associated changes in cell morphology. On the other hand, rapamycin could extend lifespan in multiple species, including yeast, fruit flies, and mice, by decelerating DNA damage ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Profiling IntraClear, Aiming to Break Down Lipofuscin in Aged Cells
The Russian and Eastern European longevity community is quite active, with a number of non-profit organizations such as the Science for Life Extension Foundation and Open Longevity. There is arguably a greater interest in engineering greater longevity in that part of the world than in the English-language regions. That said, I would say they are behind the US-centric longevity community in terms of translating patient advocacy and scientific programs into startup biotech companies. Their successes to date include the clinical development of mitochondrially targeted antioxidants, the small molecule discovery company Gero, a...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 25, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs

Smart Stethoscope Helps Monitor and Diagnose Respiratory Conditions: Interview with Helena Binetskaya, CEO of Healthy Networks
LungPass, an AI-powered Bluetooth stethoscope has been developed by Healthy Networks, a company based in Talinn, Estonia. The device can analyze sounds from the lungs and help to diagnose or monitor a variety of respiratory conditions, with an initial focus on pneumonia and COPD. The aim was to create a low-cost (the device costs as little as $45) technology that people could keep at home and use if they suspect to be were a respiratory illness or to monitor a pre-existing condition. With many respiratory illnesses, such as pneumonia, timely diagnosis and intervention is critical to avoid serious illness or death. Ha...
Source: Medgadget - December 9, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Exclusive Geriatrics Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

Your Privacy In The Digital Health Era: The Medical Futurist ’s Guide
As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D-printing disrupts the normal supply chain and even the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (A.I.) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  First and foremost, it’s an era defined by a cultural transformation that will upend the traditional structure of healthcare. Clinical-grade sensors are available outside of the ivory towers of medicine; patients demand such tools so that they can become more proactive in managing the...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 1, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Personalized Medicine Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones amazon device epati Source Type: blogs

Get Used to It: Remote Care Is the New Norm
After living through the past 2-3 months at home, remote care feels just like remote work does: a no-brainer. It is quite frustrating that a global crisis had to lead to this point. Just like in the case of (especially higher) education, people now start to realize how to leverage the tools that have already been there for a while. Once considered science fiction, remote care is today’s new standard. Let me show you how. There are many good examples of remote care solutions. It can connect patients and doctors without the need to travel (did you know that in Alaska patient records can only be transported on a sled wit...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 4, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Artificial Intelligence Digital Health Research E-Patients Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Telemedicine & Smartphones mobile app mobile health digital technology digital health strategy covid covid19 remote Source Type: blogs