Weekly Roundup – September 3, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Unpacking Healthcare’s IT Infrastructure Needs. Despite the industry’s move to the cloud, healthcare organizations are still in the IT infrastructure business. John Lynn spoke to several industry leaders about how orgs can best manage their existing infrastructure (and all its complexity) while planning for a future where less is likely to be...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Drawing the line on unnecessary medical tests
How much medical uncertainty can you tolerate? Most patients have not given much thought to this consequential issue, but it hovers over them in their doctors’ offices. This is also an issue for medical professionals. Indeed, how both sides in the doctor-patient relationship navigate this will be instrumental in choosing the path forward. Medicine is
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Drawing the line on unnecessary medical tests originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 2, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Michael Kirsch, MD Tags: Physician Gastroenterology Source Type: blogs
How Will A.I. Penetrate Healthcare? Through Your Skin, Voice And Cough!
There is certainly no shortage of research on artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning algorithms these days. You will come across a number of announcements every week reporting on fascinating findings, new methods, and breakthrough results.
Despite the unquestionable buzz, it is challenging to pinpoint examples that actually found their way into everyday medical practice, that became part of “standard” healthcare.
In this article, we will introduce three areas we believe will be the forerunners of the A.I. revolution in medicine and will discuss four principles that help to determine whether you ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine AI doctors vocal biomarkers Future of healthcare medical algorithm skin checking app cough analysis Source Type: blogs
3 Powerful Real-World A.I. Examples That Are Used by Patients in Healthcare
There is certainly no shortage of research on artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning algorithms these days. You will come across a number of announcements every week reporting on fascinating findings, new methods, and breakthrough results.
Despite the unquestionable buzz, it is challenging to pinpoint examples that actually found their way into everyday medical practice, that became part of “standard” healthcare.
In this article, we will introduce three areas we believe will be the forerunners of the A.I. revolution in medicine and will discuss four principles that help to determine whether you ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine AI doctors vocal biomarkers Future of healthcare medical algorithm skin checking app cough analysis Source Type: blogs
Newest Digital Health Programs Address Digestive Disease Management
The following is a guest article by Bill Snyder is CEO of Vivante Health.
More than 70 million Americans suffer from a wide gamut of digestive diseases, but until recently few digital health solutions were available to help them manage their conditions. There are smartphone apps for tracking everything from exercise, sleep and calorie consumption to blood pressure, COVID-19 symptoms and even diabetes management, but gut health has largely been left in the digital dust – in part because there is no one-size-fits-all solution for a category spanning so many different disorders.
Today that’s changing as health tech compan...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Bill Snyder Digital Health Employer Health GI Health GIThrive Healthcare Personalization Healthcare Sensors Vivante Health Source Type: blogs
The Poop Episode | Using Fecal Changes to Monitor Health | TAPP 121
InThe Poop Episode, host Kevin Patton applies stories from his experiencemonitoring digestive health in zoo and circus animals to human anatomy and physiology. We explore thefrequency of defecation, andhow to read poop for common health issues. This is the episode that tells you how toget an elephant to poop on command!00:00 | Introduction01:08 | Getting Our 5#!+ in Order07:42 | Zookeepers Know Their 5#!+23:13 | Sponsored by AAA24:18 | No Poop July30:58 | Sponsored by HAPI32:07 | Poop Reading42:12 | Sponsored by HAPS42:58 | We All Need to Know Our 5#!+46:24 | Staying Connected★ If you cannot see or activate the...
Source: The A and P Professor - August 25, 2022 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 22 August, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----This week we seem to have more in the way of State-Based initiatives as well as the usual rubbish info sessions from the ADHA.Also the usual from of NBN news and news of #myHR Rule 42 – which I had never heard of!-----https://www.australianageingagenda.com.au/contributors/opinion/critical-staff-shortages-affect-more-than-frontli...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Postoperative nutritional management among patients with oesophago-gastric cancer in England: NOGCA short report
This report provides insight into current postoperative nutritional practices in ten (27.8 per cent) oesophago-gastric cancer specialist centres across England, based on 617 patients who underwent curative surgery after being diagnosed between April 2019 and March 2020. The report found that, for patients who had oesophagectomy, the most commonly reported nutritional management strategy was enteral nutrition delivered via a jejunostomy during the admission and continued on discharge (51.0 per cent). It also found that the majority of oesophagectomy patients (83.9 per cent) had a jejunostomy or received parenteral nutrition...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 16, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Theator Extends Series A Funding with Additional $24M for a Total of $39.5M
Company extends round amid commercial and company expansion to accelerate rollout of Surgical Intelligence Platform across North America
Theator, the creator of Surgical Intelligence, announced today that it has raised $24M in an extension of its Series A funding round. This extension follows an initial $15.5M Series A round announced in February 2021, bringing the round total to $39.5M. The extended funding round was once again led by Insight Partners with support from existing investors including Blumberg Capital, Mayo Clinic, NFX, StageOne Ventures, iAngels, and former Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt. In ad...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Ariel Cohen Blumberg Capital Brad Fiedler Dr. Gerald Fried Dr. Tamir Wolf Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment iAngels Source Type: blogs
Spray Coating Fights Viruses and Bacteria
Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia engineered a new spray coating for surfaces that provides long-term protection against bacterial and viral contamination. The material is intended as a long-term alternative to disinfectant sprays and combines hydrophobic properties with antimicrobial nanoparticles to reduce microbial contamination.
The hydrophobicity of the coating prevents liquid droplets from spreading over the surface, helping to prevent biofilm formation and microbial colonization. If the coating becomes damaged, reducing its hydrophobic properties, a second line of defense in the form of nanopa...
Source: Medgadget - August 1, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Public Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 1st 2022
In this study, we used the recently released Infinium Mouse Methylation BeadChip to compare such epigenetic modifications in C57BL/6 (B6) and DBA/2J (DBA) mice. We observed marked differences in age-associated DNA methylation in these commonly used inbred mouse strains, indicating that epigenetic clocks for one strain cannot be simply applied to other strains without further verification. Interestingly, the CpGs with highest age-correlation were still overlapping in B6 and DBA mice and included the genes Hsf4, Prima1, Aspa, and Wnt3a. Furthermore, Hsf4, Aspa, and Wnt3a revealed highly significant age-associated DNA methyla...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 31, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Inflammatory Pathways Triggered by the Aging Gut Microbiome Converge on NF- κB
While more knowledge is always a good thing in the long run, it is unclear as to what exactly can be done about age-related chronic inflammation in the near term with a better map of the regulatory processes that initiate, sustain, and suppress inflammation. The state of knowledge today strongly suggests that excessive, unwanted inflammation and necessary, important inflammation both run through the same systems of signaling between and within cells. Therapies based on interfering in more critical portions of that signaling can reduce inflammation, and indeed a number of such drugs already exist, but they have the serious ...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 26, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
A gastric bypass might help some people bypass cancer
In an exciting recent study, researchers found that for adults with obesity, weight loss through bariatric surgery lowered their risk of cancer by 35% and reduced their risk of cancer-related death by 43%. This was true of both gastric bypass and gastric sleeve surgeries, and the results were observed ten years after patients’ procedures. This
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A gastric bypass might help some people bypass cancer originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 23, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian Tags: Conditions Obesity Surgery 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
Why are women leaving medicine? Gaslighting.
Not a week goes by that I don’t have a conversation with an amazingly successful women physician who states: “I’m thinking of quitting.” They are succeeding in all their goals: leadership, family, practice improvement, the highest level of patient care, contributing meaningful research and/or teaching, and even getting some homemade muffins or a bottle of
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Why are women leaving medicine? Gaslighting. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dawn Sears, MD Tags: Physician Gastroenterology Source Type: blogs
