Poor Healthcare Technology Experiences Erode Consumer Trust. AI Can Repair Relationships
The following is a guest article by Sanjeev Sawai, Chief Product and Technology Officer at mPulse Mobile
The expansion and specialization of health networks has made it difficult for most consumers to navigate and advocate for themselves within today’s healthcare organizations.
For the average health consumer, simply identifying in-network providers, requesting a cost estimate, or scheduling a medical test presents a major hassle. Add a chronic condition or difficult diagnosis in the mix and the burden of accessing required care only increases. Over time, unsatisfactory healthcare interactions leave consumers frustra...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability AI Tools AI-Assisted Chat Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Data Challenges health networks Healthcare Source Type: blogs
125 I ’m Sorry Quotes to Help You Apologize (and Forgive Someone)
You know you shouldn’t have said that. Or done that.
And now you know you’re in the wrong.
I have been there many times myself and it’s no fun. You feel guilty and stupid for what you did or said.
You’re afraid about how this will affect your relationship, no matter if it’s with a family member, a friend or someone at work or in school.
So in this post I’d like to share the best timeless wisdom about apologies. 125 of the most helpful I’m sorry quotes.
I hope you’ll find something helpful here, like I did.
And if you want more useful inspiration then check out this post with quotes on forgiveness and this ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Excess Visceral Fat Generates Inflammatory Signaling that Harms Joint Health
In conclusion, these findings demonstrate the significance of obesity in changing the inflammatory landscape of synovial fibroblasts in both load bearing and non-load bearing joints.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/ctm2.1232 (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - April 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Can San Francisco Afford Reparations?
Marc JoffeLater this year, San Francisco Supervisors will consider anambitious plan to make reparations to black residents to compensate them for the lingering effects of slavery and more recent discriminatory public policies. While other Cato scholars have commented more generally on reparations atthe national level andin San Francisco, I will focus here on the fiscal implications and the local economic impact.AHoover institution analysis of the plan estimates its cost at $200 billion, with most of the expense attributable to the recommended $5 million cash payment to each eligible individual. Because the recommendat...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 10, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 10th 2023
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter,
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Source: Fight Aging! - April 9, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: I'm not making this up
This is an absolutely real screenshot from the group Facebook page for my town ' s residents. This is the true meaning of Easter, it seems. (The post also advertises the time and place of the Easter service, which I omit.). This is what Christianity in the U.S. has become. And no, I don ' t recall this sentiment in the Gospels from my Sunday school days.Consider joining us Resurrection Sunday at New Life! Contemporary music, inspiring faith building messages, and childcare through age 10.I have no further comment. Now, turning to Chronicles, Ch. 34 introduces the reign of Josiah. This is largely taken from the Book of King...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 9, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Analysis of Historical Data Shows Periods of Increasing Human Maximum Life Span
Remaining life expectancy at 65 has increased by a year with every passing decade since at least the middle of the 20th century, an improvement that has occurred without deliberate targeting of the mechanisms of aging. To what degree is this observed trend in human life expectancy due to (a) a general slowing of aging that will carry on throughout the entire life span, and thus lengthen maximum observed life span, or (b) a more selective slowing of processes of aging that does not meaningfully impact lifespan-limiting mechanisms that operate in late life, and thus does not lengthen maximum life span?
For example, we...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 7, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
A Flawed Software Framing of Programmed Aging
The hypothesis that aging is a genetic program that is to some degree selected has always been a vocal minority view in the research community. There are just as many quite diverse theories of programmed aging as there are more mainstream evolutionary theories of aging that orbit the concept of antagonistic pleiotropy, the idea that lesser selection pressure in late life, because early reproduction means greater evolutionary fitness, allows for the evolution of mechanisms that are beneficial in youth and harmful in late life. There is even a fusion of the two sides: the hyperfunction theory of programmed aging suggests tha...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Toxic Relationship Quotes: 130 Eye-Opening Sayings to Help You on to a Healthier Path
Sometimes a relationship can be toxic from the start.
Other times it sneaks up on you.
It deteriorates and slowly becomes draining and inflamed.
In today’s post I’d like to share 130 of the most relatable and helpful toxic relationship quotes.
To help you find the common signs of a toxic relationship and to find a healthier and happier path forward in your own life.
And if you want more helpful inspiration to deal with tough situations, have a look at these post with quotes on dealing with toxic people and toxic family and also this one filled with being used quotes.
Relatable Toxic Relationship Quotes
“At some poin...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
DNA Repair Can Be Improved by Suppression of the DREAM Complex
Researchers here describe a mechanism that appears to reduce DNA repair efficiency, and which can be suppressed to improve DNA repair. This is interesting, to say the least. It might be a path to determining just how much of a contribution to the pace of aging is produced by efficiency of DNA repair. The interaction between this and the finding that repeated cycles of double strand break repair induce epigenetic changes characteristic of aging is also an intriguing question. Mammalian studies sooner rather than later are called for.
The DNA-repair capacity in somatic cells is limited compared with that in germ cel...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 3rd 2023
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter,
please visit:
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Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 2, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Cellular Senescence in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
This review paper goes into some detail regarding present thought on the role of senescent cells of different types in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Fibrosis in general is an often age-related dysfunction of normal tissue maintenance and regeneration, in which excessive extracellular matrix is created, leading to scar-like deposits that disrupt normal tissue structure and function. In the lung, this progressively impairs breathing and is ultimately fatal. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis was one of the first conditions for which early senolytic drugs to clear senescent cells were tested in humans.
Idiopathic pulmona...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 31, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Evidence Builds Against the Low ‐Income Housing Tax Credit
Vanessa Brown CalderThe Low ‐Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is a federal housing subsidy that allocates tax benefits to the states for constructing apartment buildings and other projects. The states hand out the benefits to developers, who are required to cap rents for the units they set aside for low ‐income tenants.Chris Edwards and I reviewed the program in 2017here. We found that the program is very complex and greatly inflates the cost of housing projects. Since then, new research has bolstered our findings.Economists Edgar Olsen and Bree Lang are soon to publishThe Hidden Subsidies of Low ‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Vanessa Brown Calder Source Type: blogs
The Tradeoff of Working with Short-Lived Laboratory Species
It is cheaper and faster to study aging - and potential approaches to treat aging - in short-lived species. The disadvantage is that much of what is learned and achieved will be irrelevant to aging as it occurs in longer-lived species such as our own. The response to calorie restriction, an upregulation of cellular housekeeping mechanisms that lengthens life, fortunately evolved early on in the development of life, and the biochemistry is surprisingly consistent even across widely divergent species. Thus much can be learned of it in lower animals with short life spans. Unfortunately, it turns out that this class of interve...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Reactive Astrocytes in Neurodegenerative Conditions
Chronic, unresolved inflammation in brain tissue is a feature of age-related neurodegenerative conditions, and may even be the most important mechanism in these very complex conditions. The supporting cells of the brain, primarily microglia and astrocytes, become more active and inflammatory in later life. This overlaps with a rising count of senescent cells in these populations. Senescent cells produce an outsized contribution to inflammatory signaling, belying their relatively small numbers compared to non-senescent cells. Active microglia and astrocytes are largely not senescent, however. They are reacting to inflammato...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 27, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
