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
Microplastics, Major Problem
By KIM BELLARD
It’s been almost four years since I first wrote about microplastics; long story short, they’re everywhere. In the ground, in the oceans (even at the very bottom), in the atmosphere. More to the point, they’re in the air you breathe and in the food you eat. They’re in you, and no one thinks that is a good thing. But we’re only starting to understand the harm they cause.
The Washington Post recently reported:
Scientists have found microplastics — or their tinier cousins, nanoplastics — embedded in the human placenta, in blood, in the heart and in the liver and bowels. In one re...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Microplastics Source Type: blogs
Non-competes: Legal updates that give physicians options [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Did you know that non-compete contracts in the health care industry are constantly evolving? Join family physician and entrepreneur Tod Stillson as we dive into the latest legal changes impacting physicians’ professional mobility. In this episode, we explore how these reforms
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Non-competes: Legal updates that give physicians options [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 18, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Practice Management Source Type: blogs
The Latest AI Craze: Ambient Scribing
By MATTHEW HOLT
Okay, I can’t do it any longer. As much as I tried to resist, it is time to write about ambient scribing. But I’m going to do it in a slightly odd way
If you have met me, you know that I have a strange English-American accent, and I speak in a garbled manner. Yet I’m using the inbuilt voice recognition that Google supplies to write this story now.
Side note: I dictated this whole thing on my phone while watching my kids water polo game, which has a fair amount of background noise. And I think you’ll be modestly amused about how terrible the original transcript was. But then...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Matthew Holt abridge AI Ambient Scribing Anthropic clinical care Coding Google Microsoft Nabla Nuance OpenAI Suki Source Type: blogs
Health care informatics and the future of patient care
In the digital age, health care informatics has emerged as a pivotal field, transforming the landscape of health care delivery and management. This discipline, crucial for both professionals within the health care sector and the general public, leverages technology to optimize patient care, streamline operations, and address the burgeoning demands for an efficient and effective
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Health care informatics and the future of patient care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 17, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Afua Aning, MD Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 17, 2024 – 65% of nurses think AI will negatively impact healthcare, 14% of EHRs have known cybersecurity vulnerabilities, plus 24 more stories
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
CHIME provided some clarity on the Smart Hospital Maturity Model initiative, noting it’s meant to “complement and enhance” the existing Digital Health Most Wired Program. The organization also announced C...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 17, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Akasa Apixio Availity Avalon Healthcare Solutions CenTrak CharmHealth CHIME Christina Rassi Claim.MD Claroty ECRI Institute Encoda Epic Research Evry Health Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HealtheLink HIM Source Type: blogs
EMR shutdown highlights vulnerability in health care IT
Imagine that Elon Musk had decided to buy Epic instead of the platform formerly known as Twitter. Imagine that he had developed his own EMR and informed every Epic user that they should watch their email for their assigned migration dates to the system he had developed, to be completed in the next 60 days.
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EMR shutdown highlights vulnerability in health care IT originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 17, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cathleen Gould, MD Tags: Tech Health IT 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
Bridging the gap between public perception and reality in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Smithson, an internal medicine physician, as we discuss the stark disparities between the experiences within clinical settings and the broader public’s perception. Throughout our conversation, we explore the challenges of burnout, safety concerns,
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Bridging the gap between public perception and reality in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 15, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care 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
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The Integrated Behavioral Health model seeks to build capacity of behavioral health specialty care practices to deliver needed physical health care to clients.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - March 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nathaniel Counts, Rachel Nuzum Source Type: blogs
Reducing political influence in health care: Building trust, transparency, and equity
In our hyperpolarized and political society, it seems everything has a political angle, including health care. I think that some of this conflict is unnecessarily but intentionally introduced by special interest groups to force a point, a change in policy, or the acceptance of societal positions that are controversial for many and not universally accepted.
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Reducing political influence in health care: Building trust, transparency, and equity originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 14, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Donald H. Marks, MD, PhD Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy 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
Blockchain technology in population health management
Blockchain technology may revolutionize population health management. Patients and health care practitioners face the challenge of securely accessing, managing, integrating, and sharing health records. While blockchain is gaining attention in various industries, its application in health care and population health is still preliminary. Data security and interoperability By combining data security measures with innovative approaches to
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Blockchain technology in population health management originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 14, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Regine Severe Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
What could we do if GLP-1 weight loss drugs were free? Would our obesity epidemic be solved for good?
By CECI CONNOLY and SAMI INKINEN
Unless you have been living under a rock, you likely have heard the names Ozempic, Wegovy or Mounjaro. Or perhaps been humming the jingle. Rarely has a class of drugs (in this case, GLP-1s) achieved such widespread attention in popular culture and the media, which has people clamoring for them in every doctor’s office in the nation.
And for good reason. What we know is that the efficacy and safety profile of these medications is substantially better than any weight loss drug in the past, while our obesity epidemic has only ballooned. As organizations committed to sound science and h...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy ACHP Ceci Connoly GLP-1s Obesity Sami Inkinen virta Source Type: blogs