THCB Gang Episode 123, Thursday May 25
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday May 25 at 1PM PT 4PM ET are Olympic rower for 2 countries and DiME CEO Jennifer Goldsack, (@GoldsackJen); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); and writer Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard);
The video will be below. If you’d rather listen to the episode, the audio is preserved from Friday as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Jennifer Goldsack Kim Bellard Matthew Holt Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
AI is Bright, But Can Also Be Dark
BY KIM BELLARD
If you’ve been following artificial intelligence (AI) lately – and you should be – then you may have started thinking about how it’s going to change the world. In terms of its potential impact on society, it’s been compared to the introduction of the Internet, the invention of the printing press, even the first use of the wheel. Maybe you’ve played with it, maybe you know enough to worry about what it might mean for your job, but one thing you shouldn’t ignore: like any technology, it can be used for both good and bad.
If you thought cyberattacks/cybercrimes were bad when done by human...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Artificial intelligence Dark Web DarkBERT Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
SPM-Creative Learning Exchange, Portland, OR ( & virtual), July 16
As you may know I am on the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine (SPM) which is trying to promote a new partnership between patients and the health care system.
On June 16 at 8am-1pm PST SPM is hosting a Creative Learning Exchange in Portland, OR at OHSU. The topic is Advancing Health Equity Through Participatory Medicine and there’ll be patients, clinicians and other leading crucial discussions about how to move health equity forward.
If you are in Portland please come join the meeting and if you can’t get there, it will be broadcast online. (There’s a nominal cost for tickets but no one...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice CLE Portland health equity SPM Source Type: blogs
Asking Bard And ChatGPT To Find The Best Medical Care, I Got Truth And Truthiness
BY MICHAEL MILLENSON
If you ask ChatGPT how many procedures a certain surgeon does or a specific hospital’s infection rate, the OpenAI and Microsoft chatbot inevitably replies with some version of, “I don’t do that.”
But depending upon how you ask, Google’s Bard provides a very different response, even recommending a “consultation” with particular clinicians.
Bard told me how many knee replacement surgeries were performed by major Chicago hospitals in 2021, their infection rates and the national average. It even told me which Chicago surgeon does the most knee surgeries and his infection rate. When I...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Uncategorized Bard ChatGPT Michael Millenson OpenAPI Source Type: blogs
A Therapist ’s Reflection In the Face of a Patient’s Death
I sat in the funeral home and just stood back and observed. There was a montage of pictures. I had an opportunity to see him in his youth, when he got married, and when he was a single parent with two very young children. In these photos I got the chance to meet all the people he’s spoken about for over 15 years with me. There were actual faces to the people I have grown to know so intimately.
The thing that amazed me the most was that there were so many people present that it was standing room only. I wasn’t just imagining it, there were a plethora of people who seemed to really know and care about him. It was obvi...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michelle Maidenberg Tags: creativity depression featured psychology self-improvement death grief therapist therapy Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Data: The Disruption Opportunity + Why This Time Is Different
This article first appeared on their Medium channel (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Data FHIR Jay Santoro Shubrha Jain Tarsadia Investments TEFCA Source Type: blogs
The Disease Killing Healthcare and Causing Physician Burnout
BY SCOTT MACDIARMID
We have a healthcare crisis . . . and the crisis is now. Costs are soaring out of control, threatening the financial health of individuals and our nation. Quality of care is deteriorating, in spite of “world class care” signs seemingly on every corner. And physicians are checking out and burning out. I believe it’s one of the greatest societal issues of our day.
So, you may be wondering: How in the heck did we get ourselves into such a mess? In the greatest country in the world who spends the most on healthcare and is regularly bragging on how great it is, what happened?
Experts and pun...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Burnout Healthcare system Scott MacDiarmid Source Type: blogs
How to Stay Positive: 19 Smart Habits
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”
Bo Bennett
“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.”
Peter McWilliams
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin
One of the very first things I started to work on consciously with my own personal development was to improve my outlook on life.
It was over 15 years ago that I started to delve into this topic and to step by step – and while sometimes tumbling backwards – build a more optimistic outlook.
An attitude that...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Habits Happiness Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
Healthcare: Make Better Mistakes
BY KIM BELLARD
I saw an expression the other day that I quite liked. I’m not sure who first said it, and there are several versions of it, but it goes something like this: let’s make better mistakes tomorrow.
Boy howdy, if that’s not the perfect motto for healthcare, I don’t know what is.
Health is a tricky business. It’s a delicate balancing act between – to name a few — your genes, your environment, your habits, your nutrition, your stress, the health and composition of your microbiome, the impact of whatever new microbes are floating around, and, yes, the health care you happen to receiv...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Healthcare Healthcare system Kim Bellard Mistakes Source Type: blogs
Digital Detox: What is it, and why do you need it?
Our attitudes towards the digital world are very contradictory. Many researches show that most of us consider the Internet the best source of information and knowledge. Moreover, online presence increases the chances of finding a job and facilitates most everyday activities. Almost 80% of teenagers develop their interests and passions in the digital world. 60.2% feel calm and happy when using the web. However, this is only one face of the digital world.
On the other hand, 2 out of 3 Internet users declare they consider themselves addicted to technology. Over half of Americans spend between 3 to 5 hours on their devices ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michal Jonca Tags: depression motivation productivity tips self improvement Source Type: blogs
Matthew ’s health care tidbits: Health care pricing is cray-zee
Each time I send out the THCB Reader, our newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB (Sign up here!) I include a brief tidbits section. Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt
It’s no secret that health care pricing has been out of whack for a very long time. This past week PBMs and pharma manufacturers were in front of congressional committees trying to defend the indefensible–how much drugs cost and why? Hospitals have been required to publish their fictional price lists (their chargemasters) for a few years now and more recently have been instr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Carbon Health Elevance PBMs pricing TrTansparency Source Type: blogs
The ERA – An Amendment Who ’s Time Has Come
BY MIKE MAGEE
Believe it or not, The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first introduced 100 years ago in 1923. But it was only adopted by Congress by a 2/3 majority vote 49 years later in 1972. That was simply step 1 in the world’s most complex and difficult national constitutional amendment process.
Step 2, approval by 3/4 of the states, seemed off to a running start with 28 of the required 38 states signing up that first year. But 1972 was also the year that Phyllis Schafly, an outspoken supporter of patriarchy and stay-at-home motherhood, began echoing her anti-ERA message on Chicago News Radio WBBM. The followin...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy ERA Mike Magee Phyllis Schafly Source Type: blogs
In an Ideal World, How Much Would We Spend on Health Care? – Part 1
BY BEN WHEATLEY
We have heard it said before, and it is no longer shocking to say, that in 2021 the United States spent $4.3 trillion on health care. To put this gaudy number in some perspective, we measure it as a share of our economy and report that health care comprised 18.3% of our gross domestic product. CMS projects that health care will approach 20% of GDP in coming years—one-fifth of everything we buy and sell in this country.
In a recent report, the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value said that “it is unclear what percentage of GDP would represent the ideal level to devote to healt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ben Wheatley Health care spending medical debt Patent Source Type: blogs
In an Ideal World, How Much Would We Spend on Health Care?
BY BEN WHEATLEY
We have heard it said before, and it is no longer shocking to say, that in 2021 the United States spent $4.3 trillion on health care. To put this gaudy number in some perspective, we measure it as a share of our economy and report that health care comprised 18.3% of our gross domestic product. CMS projects that health care will approach 20% of GDP in coming years—one-fifth of everything we buy and sell in this country.
In a recent report, the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value said that “it is unclear what percentage of GDP would represent the ideal level to devote to h...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ben Wheatley Health care spending medical debt Patent Source Type: blogs
23 Small Ways to Make Life Simpler
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”Leonardo da Vinci
“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I love simplifying my life. It makes me more effective and life less stressful. It makes me calmer and happier. And it simply makes life easier.
But where do you start? Or continue if you are already on your way?
In this week's article I’d like to share 23 small habits that help me to live a simpler life.
Pick one of these to get started and keep doing it until it sticks and becomes just another normal part of your life.
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Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Relaxation Source Type: blogs
