Wearables for a World Without Disease: Interview with imec ’s Chris Van Hoof
Medgadget was recently invited to attend the imec Technology Forum conference in Antwerp, Belgium. Imec is a non-profit R&D innovation organization specializing in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. Like many digital hardware companies, imec saw a lot of potential in healthcare technologies and started researching them about 12 years ago.
Chris Van Hoof has been there since the beginning. As the Director of Connected Health activities at imec, he oversees all the research that goes into wearables, smart sensors, and more. In the midst of a busy first ITF conference day, Chris was kind enough to sit down with us ...
Source: Medgadget - May 29, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Exclusive Medicine Public Health Rehab Sports Medicine Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
AI Predicts Which Patients Will Code, Allowing Early Intervention
I will occasionally report inLab Soft News about examples of artificial intelligence (AI) that are being introduced into healthcare because the use of such tools will radically change the way care is rendered. One such example is a recently developed algorithm that generates warnings about which patients are in imminent danger of"coding" in the hospital (see: Ochsner Health System: Preventing cardiac arrests with AI that predicts which patients will ‘code’). Such a warning enables physicians to intervene earlier for them. Below is an excerpt from the article:In modern hospitals, doctors and nurses are t...
Source: Lab Soft News - May 13, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Medical Ethics Medical Research Quality of Care Source Type: blogs
AI-Driven Interactive Patient Engagement: Interview with TeleHealth ’s Richard Bootes
Discussions are guided by the patient’s EMR and data analytics created through interactions with the patient.
iCare Navigator is unique in that our system differentiates between a patient’s participation and engagement levels. For example, while a patient may appear participative by interacting with health-agnostic functions of the system, such as watching television, at the same time they may demonstrate a low level of engagement toward their health condition. In such patient situations, iCare Navigator leverages a patient’s overall participation to introduce motivational-type activities designed to increase their i...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Informatics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Empowering Patients through Decentralized Information Governance
By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD
Seema Verma is right, US health care will be transformed if we empower patients and physicians through access to information. Don Rucker is right to focus attention on APIs to enable the transformation. A year and a half into the new administration and the massively bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is having to navigate between the shoals of highly unpopular Meaningful Use regulations and the apparent need for regulation to undo the damage of market consolidation that they caused. From my perspective, it looks like HHS is doing a good job.
Prediction...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
MedStar Franklin Center: The Case Against Global Capitation
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
Baltimore County, Maryland is one hour north of Washington DC, where politicians appear impotent to contain runaway healthcare expenditures. In January 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in partnership with the state of Maryland, piloted an “All Payer Model,” where every insurer, including Medicare and Medicaid, paid a fixed annual amount irrespective of inpatient or outpatient hospital utilization. Maryland agreed to transition hospitals from fee-for-service arrangements to this global capitation model over five years.
Capitation, in general, reimburses a fixed amount...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How Many Years of Additional Life Expectancy Does a Healthy Lifestyle Provide?
What does a healthy lifestyle achieve for life expectancy? It is surprisingly hard to answer that question for humans. Researchers can't construct carefully cultivated lifestyle choice groups and follow them from birth to death. Instead, messy and imperfect vaults of epidemiological data must be fed into complicated statistical machinery, using strategies that are, at the end of the day, guided by a healthy dose of intuition and common sense. Different groups can and do produce widely different answers to questions regarding additional years added by diet, exercise, or other factors. One has to survey the field in aggregat...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 3, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
There Are Buoys: The Real Path to Lower cost in the Coming Catastrophic Deformation of Healthcare
By JOE FLOWER
There are buoys, far out in the ocean, that bob in the waves and signal, through satellites, when the surf will rise at Mavericks on the California coast, or when the tsunami will hit.
Here comes.
Healthcare in the U.S. is a hollow economy, inflated, impossible, all over patches and gimcracks and work-arounds puffed up on clouds of hot air generated by sweaty, dedicated crews of policy panjandrums and podium pundits burning forests of acronyms. True, that’s just looking at the bad side. But this bad side goes all the way around.
Will it pop? Will it undergo catastrophic exothermal deformation? Is it the Hi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Joe Flower Source Type: blogs
Terumo Releases a Narrower Stent-Graft for TEVAR Procedures
Terumo is launching in Europe its RelayPro Thoracic Stent-Graft System, initially being released to a limited set of institutions with wider availability expected soon.
The device is designed to allow patients with narrower access vessels to benefit from thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) procedures. It’s based on the previously available RelayPlus, but with an outer diameter 3 to 4 French narrower, depending on the size of the devices.
The RelayPro is available as a bare stent or as a non-bare stent.
“By combining the proven stent design and material of RelayPlus with a lower outer profile, RelayPro ...
Source: Medgadget - April 25, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Radiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Twitter-Based Medicine: How Social Media is Changing the Public ’s View of Medicine
By BENJAMIN WERTZER, MD
Doctors can be two-faced. This isn’t necessarily a negative attribute. Doctors have distinct personas for our patients and our colleagues. With patients, doctors strive for a compassionate but authoritative role. However, with each other, doctors often reveal a different demeanor: thoughtful and collaborative, but also opinionated and even sometimes petty. These conflicts are often the result of our struggle with evidence-based medicine. The modern practice of evidence-based medicine is more than the scientific studies we read in journals. Medicine doesn’t just change in rational, data-driven in...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Tapeworms are Hungry for Direct Primary Care
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
When Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan (AmBerGan) announced their healthcare partnership, Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett declared “the ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy.” He is right. Our broken system is infested with tapeworms. Tapeworms are parasites; they exploit their hosts, drain resources, and suck the life out of their prey. Unfortunately, Buffet failed to call attention to the tapeworms specifically –they are insurers, hospital conglomerates, pharmaceutical companies, and pharmacy benefit managers.
As healthcare costs continue...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Tapeworms are Coming for Direct Primary Care
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
When Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan (AmBerGan) announced their healthcare partnership, Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett declared “the ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy.” He is right. Our broken system is infested with tapeworms. Tapeworms are parasites; they exploit their hosts, drain resources, and suck the life out of their prey. Unfortunately, Buffet failed to call attention to the tapeworms specifically –they are insurers, hospital conglomerates, pharmaceutical companies, and pharmacy benefit managers.
As healthcare costs continu...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How Can We Increase Value and Monitor / Lower Costs?
Conclusions
Insurance plans should be mindful of the impact of cost-sharing because, as Baicker notes, "There is ample evidence that when patients have to pay more for care, they consume less of it.” This can, however, result in patients not paying for lower-value care and skimping on necessary services and treatments. Financial incentives on both sides of the equation may be the key to increasing value while monitoring increasing healthcare costs.
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Source: Policy and Medicine - April 12, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Nurses: Moving at the Speed of Trust
Seeking a career in nursing could be characterized as an exercise in trust. We nurses willingly endure a grueling educational experience; place ourselves in the hands of nursing professors and professional nurse preceptors; and otherwise trust that the blood, sweat, tears, and expense of pursuing our goal is worthwhile. In essence, we move at the speed of trust as we enter the universe of a nursing career.Photo by Alternate Skate on UnsplashTrusting OurselvesThe first act of trust intrinsic to our nursing journey is trust in the self. Even while our peers, colleagues, friends, or family may caution us agains...
Source: Digital Doorway - April 9, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers healthcare healthcare careers nurse nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
A Better Way: Helping People Recoup Their Healthcare Costs
An
audacious little Oakland-based start-up called Better is tackling one of the most critical problems
in America's nutty healthcare system: people getting buried under heavy "out-of-network" healthcare expenses.
That's
an important but underpubl... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - April 9, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
