Interview with Stefany Shaheen: Revolutionizing diabetes care through cell therapies
I had the extraordinary opportunity to chat with Stefany Shaheen, the Chief Strategy Officer of Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) and BioFab USA, about the transformative potential of cell therapies for individuals living with diabetes. Stefany shared her remarkable journey, insights on cell therapies’ current status, approval challenges, and how the diabetes community can contribute to advancing research in this field.
A few months before this discussion with Stefany, I had the opportunity to hear Dean Kamen speak at the recent ...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - April 1, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
The Long and Tortured History of Alpha-Synuclein and Parkinson ’s Disease
This study tracks the decades-long journey to harness alpha-synuclein as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Steven Zecola an activist who tracks Parkinson’s research and was on THCB last month discussing it, offers three key changes needed to overcome the underlying challenges.
A Quick Start for Alpha-Synuclein R&D
In the mid-1990’s, Parkinson’s patient advocacy groups had become impatient by the absence of any major therapeutic advances in the 25 years since L-dopa had been approved for Parkinson’s disease (PD).
The Director of National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) se...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice Parkinson's Disease Steven Zecola Source Type: blogs
The Advantages, Challenges, and Costs of Healthcare at Home Services
Switching to fully remote operations during the pandemic was a rushed adventure into what was mostly uncharted territory. There were a lot of challenges and bugs to work out, but there were also plenty of advantages and unforeseen benefits. And it is thanks to those advantages and benefits that healthcare at home is continuing, even as there are still challenges to work on and in-person operations return. While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision.
So let’s ta...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Revenue Cycle Management Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Alaina Victoria Ash Wellness Brenden Hayden Carenet Health Carium Chris Darland David McCormick Source Type: blogs
AusHealthIT Poll Number 739 – Results – 24 March, 2024.
Here are the results of the recent
poll.
Does The Government Have Any Sensible Idea On What To Do To Manage And
Reduce The Vaping Epidemic?
Yes & (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Mark your ideas to market
That means that if you make a claim about what is possible or inevitable, you need to check it against reality. Here is reality. (I ' ve put this graphic up before, but apparently some people have a short memory.)Every single country on that list has one form or another of universal, government-funded health care, with a single exception. Every country on that list has a longer life expectancy at birth than the single exception, and every country on that list spends less on health care than the single exception, by a lot -- on average, they spend half as much. Furthermore, their citizens spend far less out of po...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 19, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Weaving the AI Threads Together: Essential Conversations for Integrating AI in Healthcare Transformation
The following is a guest article by Demetri Giannikopoulos, Vice President of Innovation at Aidoc
In the ever-evolving landscape of AI, 2024 stands out as the year where artificial intelligence is poised to claim the coveted title of Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Nowhere is the buzz around AI more palpable than in healthcare circles, where the promise of AI to revolutionize a complex and, in many ways, fragmented system looms large.
Despite notable successes, many AI solutions have fallen short, showcasing potential only in specific areas or departments. Why? Often, AI is treated as a technological bandage. Teams ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability AI Integration aidoc Artificial Intelligence Clinical AI Demetri Giannikopoulos Healthcare AI Healthcare Transformatio Source Type: blogs
Distributive justice
One last point about Economics 101 may be the most important, is likely to be overlooked or even denied in the U.S. today. Economists claim they can show that if all their assumptions are true – perfect information, willing sellers and willing buyers, perfect competition, no externalities – the hypothetical free market will create what is called a Pareto optimum. That is a situation in which no person can be made better off without making someone else worse off. This is the basis of t he claim that the free market allocates resources “efficiently.” But there can be a Pareto optimum in which everybody has an equal o...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 16, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Price Transparency: Shifting Responsibility to Employers
In this intriguing video, important advances in transparency of health care prices are explained by Mark Galvin, Founder, President and CEO at TALON at the HCAA conference in Las Vegas.
Two “watershed moments” have been overlooked by most people, while media coverage focuses on other things such as the No Surprises Act.
The first change came when a recent “transparency in coverage” law leverages fines on sponsors (normally employers), who the government hopes will then put pressure on health care providers to be more transparent.
The second came with a class action lawsuit against Johnson & John...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Employer Healthcare Employer Insurance HCAA Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Payers Healthcare Price Transpa Source Type: blogs
This Seems Like A Real “Boots-and All” Trial Of Microsoft Copilot.
I noticed this a few days ago:
06 Mar 2024 10:16 am AEDT
APS Tests Generative AI for Government Use Safety
DTA
Canberra,
Australia - Over 50 Australian Public Service (APS) agencies have commenced a
6-month trial of Copilot for Microsoft 365. Participating agencies are
trialling new ways to enhance productivity and develop skills, capabilities,
and preparedness for generative artificial (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Goodness!
The essential, first-order or pure concept of " public goods " is whatever we benefit from that is " non-excludable " and " non-rivalrous. " That means you can use it without paying for it, and if you use it, it ' s still there for others. An example, at least for the time being, is the oxygen in the air. Back in the good old paleolithic, there was a lot more of that. Basically, the land and the water and the plants and animals were there for the taking, and there was usually plenty so rivalry was uncommon. Of course, this only worked within your own tribe -- sometimes people of different tribes tried exclusion and rivalry...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 14, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Look at Sunoh ’ s Ambient Clinical Voice Solutions Including New EHR Integrations
One of the hottest topics in healthcare and particularly at the HIMSS 2024 conference is ambient clinical voice. We haven’t seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software. However, this feels very different since healthcare organizations are evaluating ambient clinical voice solutions on their merit versus chasing government money. They’re doing this because the benefits of this technology are so impactful on doctors and patients.
While at the conference, I had a chance to sit down with Saurabh Singh, VP of Sunoh.ai, and...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interviews Podcast by Healthcare IT Today Ambient Clinical Voice Automated Clinical Documentation Automated EHR Documentation Cerner Source Type: blogs
How do we stop a resurgence of fascism?
Is it bad to write for hard-right outlets?
There is no doubt that the Overton window has shifted to the right during the last decade or two. It is now common to hear people saying things that, even in 2010 would have been thought to be frankly fascistic.
I recall a conversation with the great biophysicist, Sir Bernard Katz, in 1992. He had come to UCL in 1936 to escape from the Nazi regime in Leipzig. When I suggested to him that he must have been very pleased about the reunification of Germany, he pulled a long face and said “hmm, let’s wait to see what crawls out from under stones”. ...
Source: DC's goodscience - March 11, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Alan Sokal anti-vaccination antiscience Deborah Cohen fascism Margaret McCartney Paul Marshall Quillette sceptics skeptics Spiked Toby Young transgender UnHerd Source Type: blogs
AusHealthIT Poll Number 737 – Results – 10 March, 2024.
Here are the results of the recent
poll.
Will Having Healthcare Providers Automatically Share Data With The myHR See
Improved Patient Usage Of The Government Patient Record?
Yes & (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Monopoly Money
First, let me acknowledge Chuck ' s comment on the previous Economics 101 post. I ' m going to get to public goods, it ' s extremely important, but I figured I ' d push it down the list because it ' s easier to deal with the rest of the assumptions first. (To put it formally, the ones having to do with public goods are that all good are non-exclusive and non-rivalrous, and also that there are no positive externalities. I will explain anon.)Today, I ' m going to deal with the Many sellers, Many buyers assumption. It ' s obviously impossible even for Milton Friedman to bamboozle people into thinking that this is somehow a na...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 8, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
I Think The Government Wants To Keep Us All Alert And Alarmed!
This appeared
last week: ‘Keeps me up at night’: How Australia’s government sees
hacker threat
Nick Bonyhady Technology writer
Feb 29, 2024
– 4.24pm
Home
Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has warned of a growing threat of cyber sabotage
to Australian power, telecommunications, health and water infrastructure
despit e ransomware capturing public attention.
In
an interview, Ms O’Neil did not name (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
