Administrative Supplements for IDeA-CTR Grants to Advance the Use of Electronic Health Records for Research
We’re pleased to announce the availability of administrative supplements to Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Networks for Clinical and Translational Research (IDeA-CTR) (U54) grants to advance the use of electronic health records (EHR) for clinical and observational research (NOT-GM-23-035). Applications are due May 15.
Submissions may propose activities in one or more of the following areas:
Assisting IDeA-CTR-affiliated health care sites to adopt updated Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-compliant software
Harmonizing FHIR-compliant EHR data to a single common data model
Creating ...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 17, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Meetings/Events Administrative Supplements Institutional Development Award Preparing an Application Webinars Source Type: blogs
Administrative Supplements for IDeA Team Science Development Projects
We’re pleased to announce the availability of administrative supplements to Institutional Development Award (IDeA) grants for team science projects (NOT-GM-23-034). The supplements are intended for projects that bring together two or more investigators from IDeA states with different expertise to address complex basic, behavioral, clinical, and/or translational research questions through complementary approaches. The questions shouldn’t duplicate those that researchers are currently pursuing through the parent awards and should clearly benefit from the collective efforts of the collaboration.
Applications are due Ju...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 16, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Meetings/Events Administrative Supplements Institutional Development Award Preparing an Application Webinars Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Project Director, Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Project Director, Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yale New Haven Health and is in Connecticut.
Here’s a description of the position:
Overview
The Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) is a leading national outcomes research center dedicated to transforming healthcare for the betterment of people and society by leveraging data, analytics, and technology. We have as...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome Job Seekers Project Director Yale New Haven Health IT Jobs Yale New Haven Jobs Source Type: blogs
Reducing Racial Disparities in VA Disability Compensation Decisions
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough recently announced formation of an equity team to examine and address racial differences in disability compensation grant rates. This is encouraging progress, particularly after years of reluctance on the part of the department to acknowledge there might be a problem. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 13, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Kayla M. Williams Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 13th 2023
In this study, we report the extensive and progressive accumulation of misfolded proteins during natural aging/senescence in different models, in the absence of disease. We coined the term age-ggregates to refer to this subset of proteins. Our findings demonstrate that age-ggregates exhibit the main characteristics of misfolded protein aggregates implicated in PMDs, including insolubility in detergents, protease-resistance, and staining with dyes specific for misfolded aggregates. Misfolded protein aggregates with these characteristics are thought to be implicated in some of today most prevalent diseases, including Alzheim...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Launching Biomedical Careers for Students Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Group of RIT U-RISE students, including Bo Allaby (standing second from the right) and Maameyaa Asiamah (kneeling in front) who are interviewed in this post. Credit: Dr. Bonnie Jacob.
Scientists who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) are underrepresented at all career stages, especially at the Ph.D. level. To address this, the Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) training program for undergraduates who are deaf and hard of hearing at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York, has committed to lifting barriers and increasing DHH representation in science.
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Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Profiles Training Source Type: blogs
Lobbying for the Treatment of Aging Leads to a Congressional Caucus for Longevity Science
For those who believe that only governments get things done, it is frustrating to see the lack of interest in human longevity in politics, a mirror of the relative lack of interest in society at large. The past few decades have seen a number of political initiatives, largely the formation of lobbying campaigns and organizations, aimed at diverting more public funding into aging research. Little has been achieved to date as a result, but these efforts are now growing alongside the new longevity industry.
Politicians pay attention to the movement of money in the world, for the obvious reasons; they are nothing if not ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 7, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Politics and Legislation Source Type: blogs
The Clean Water Act Gives States Freedom To Experiment
Thomas A. Berry andIsaiah McKinneyCongress enacted the Clean Water Act (CWA) to create a federal system for pollution control. But Congress wanted that federal system to leave room for the states as well. That ’s why the CWA encourages “cooperative federalism” between federal and state enforcement. Under the CWA, states can create their own water quality standards, as long as these meet federal requirements. The same is true for permitting regimes. And states are free to create their own administrat ive procedures for handling CWA violations.In addition to federal and state enforcement, the CWA also permitspriva...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 7, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry, Isaiah McKinney Source Type: blogs
Ecology Rescued the AMA and Medical Professionalism Beginning in 1870. Will technology and science rescue the profession once again?
BY MIKE MAGEE
Medicine does not exist in a vacuum. The trusting relationships that underpin it function within an ever-changing environment of shifting social determinants. This is not new, nor surprising.
Consider for example the results of their 1851 survey of 12,400 men from the eight leading U.S. colleges had to be shocking. The AMA was only four years old at the time and being forced to acknowledge a significant lack of public interest in a physician’s services. This in turn had caused the best and the brightest to choose other professions. There it was in black and white. Of those surveyed, 26% planned to pur...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy AMA Ecology Mayo Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 5, 2023 – Two-thirds of patients connect with regular docs when they need medical care when traveling, half of clinical workflow automation users plan to expand their use, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Research
With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency due to end on May 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed restrictions on the remote prescription of controlled substances, with only buprenorphine and Sch...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Abridge Alan Swenson ATA Biofourmis canon medical CareCloud Carequality Chugai Phmarceutical DEA Derek Shaw Dustin Spencer eClinicalWorks eCW emt Source Type: blogs
Whoops! AI might have invented 40000 new toxic nerve agents … but probably not
TL:DR – Software used to predict which chemicals in a database have potential as new medicines has been flipped as a warning demonstrating that the same system could be used to predict whether they are highly toxic.
Artificial intelligence, AI, machine learning, language models, neural networks, generative models, algorithms trained on big data. A lovely collection of buzzwords that have been littering grant proposals for years and are now emerging into the real world as apps and websites and citizen science projects. For chemists and pharmaceutical scientists, AI has been a tool to experiment with for a long time. ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Chemistry Source Type: blogs
Markets at Work: DNA Sequencing
Chris Edwards and Ilana BlumsackTheWall Street Journal recentlyprofiled companies racing to slash the cost of genome sequencing. The progress has been remarkable, and the advances may generate vast benefits for human health. The article says that two decades ago it cost millions of dollars to sequence a genome, but since then one company has led the way in driving costs down:“Illumina in 2010 released a machine enabling genome sequencing for about $10,000… Subsequent innovations dropped the cost to $1,000 in 2014, and to $600 in 2020. Illumina is rolling out a new instrument series, NovaSeq X, that reduces it to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 3, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards, Ilana Blumsack Source Type: blogs
Protecting your website with ChatGPT
TL:DR – I noticed someone attempt to use access a file called c99.php on one of my websites. It was blocked by the server, but I wanted to know more. ChatGPT explained that it was a hacking tool.
I was seeing some unusual activity in the logs for one of my websites, so I gave this prompt to ChatGPT, the language model, to see if it could offer an explanation:
You are to act as a web and programming expert with experience of PHP, WordPress, MySQL, and Apache. I noticed a visit to my site that was attempting to open a file called c99.php, is that file a hacking “backdoor” of some sort. It does not appear t...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Technology Source Type: blogs
14 Ways the Tax Code Subsidizes Higher Education
Adam N. MichelThe federal government subsidizes higher education through a multitude of grants to universities, subsidized loans, and direct scholarship funding. In addition, the tax code includes at least 14 different programs that distort the education system and complicate tax filing. All told, the tax code subsidizes higher education to the tune of $322 billion over ten years.From an education policy perspective, the accumulation of all this federal spending has a distorting effect. Over time, the subsidies havelikelycontributed to thehigh price of college as subsidies increase demand, which drives up prices. This cycl...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 2, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
Innovating Education, Outreach, and Mentorship With Organic Chemist Neil Garg
Dr. Neil Garg. Credit: Penny Jennings.
“An important part of being in science is being in a community,” says Neil Garg, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and chair of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). That philosophy has led him to prioritize mentorship, diversity, and inclusion—while maintaining research excellence—as well as re-envisioning what it means to educate students and the public.
Falling in Love With Chemistry
Science was always a part of Dr. Garg’s childhood. He participated in science fairs as a kid but says he did it for the commun...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Profiles Training Source Type: blogs
