Connection Is Healthcare
By TOMER BEN-KIKI
The American people can’t afford partisan politics that increase long-term healthcare costs.
When the GOP came to the table with a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal last week, I was pleased to see that they had increased funding for broadband access to $68 billion.
The President wants $100 billion for broadband expansion, but a meaningful increase before the soft deadline of June 7 was a positive step.
Politics aside, the pandemic made it clear how dependent we are on the issue of broadband internet access.after all, broadband underpinned nearly everything that was done to keep the economy...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech broadband broadband access Happify Health Telehealth tomer ben-kiki Source Type: blogs
Healthcare costs a concern across all generations new survey finds
A survey found 56 percent worry about health coverage, leaving the question, what would you do if you don ' t have affordable health insurance? (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - June 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy Source Type: blogs
Asthma Care And Digital Health
Right before her afternoon run, Rita pairs her smart preventer inhaler with her smartphone and takes two puffs. Checking the companion app, she finds that she took the right dose and waited for the recommended 30 seconds between inhalations. Relieved that her workout will not trigger her asthma symptoms, she begins tracking it on her smartwatch.
Following the 40 minute run, Rita checks her peak flow reading – or how well she exhales – with her smart, handheld peak flow monitor. This enables her to determine whether her workout caused any narrowing of her airways, which could lead to an asthma flare-up well b...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 8, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers fda wearables asthma asthma care ADAMM smart patch DailyBreath asthmaTrack AsthmaMD Smart PeakFlow AioCare Propell Source Type: blogs
How Digital Health Technology Can Contribute To Asthma Care
Right before her afternoon run, Rita pairs her smart preventer inhaler with her smartphone and takes two puffs. Checking the companion app, she finds that she took the right dose and waited for the recommended 30 seconds between inhalations. Relieved that her workout will not trigger her asthma symptoms, she begins tracking it on her smartwatch.
Following the 40 minute run, Rita checks her peak flow reading – or how well she exhales – with her smart, handheld peak flow monitor. This enables her to determine whether her workout caused any narrowing of her airways, which could lead to an asthma flare-up well b...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 8, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers fda wearables asthma asthma care ADAMM smart patch DailyBreath asthmaTrack AsthmaMD Smart PeakFlow AioCare Propell Source Type: blogs
On building better brains at any age, treating Depression vs. Dementia, emerging neurotechnologies, psychedelics, and more
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring eleven new research findings and innovative resources for lifelong cognitive and brain health.
#1. Debate: Are depression and dementia two sides of the same coin? And, if they are, how to best approach treatment?
#2. Either way, the earlier the better, but it’s never too late: New book outlines the five lifestyle pillars to “build a better brain at any age”
#3. “If I were a cardiologist evaluating a patient’s chest pain, for instance, I would speak with the patient, but then I would listen to their heart and measure their pulse and blood pr...
Source: SharpBrains - May 28, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning Technology & Innovation brain health cognitive cognitive healthcare cognitive--disorders cognitive-health Cumulus Neuroscience dementia depression neurotechnologies psychedelics Source Type: blogs
Study: Higher mental wellbeing (in 2016) seen to lower healthcare costs (in 2017)
Conclusions: Estimated reductions in costs related to mental well-being add to what is already known about potential savings related to the prevention of mental illness. It does so by illustrating the savings that could be made by moving from lower to higher levels of mental well-being both within and beyond the clinical range. Our estimates pertain to costs associated with those health-related outcomes that were included in the study, but excluding other social and economic outcomes and benefits. They cover immediate cost estimates (costs generated the year following mental well-being measurement) and not those that could...
Source: SharpBrains - May 7, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health continuum mental health promotion mental wellbeing mindfulness self care Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 26th 2021
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter,
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 25, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Reducing Measured Epigenetic Age by a Few Years with Diet and Lifestyle Changes
Epigenetic clocks assess changing patterns of DNA methylation at CpG sites on the genome that correlate well with chronological age, and to some degree with biological age. People who age more rapidly, as judged by a range of factors such as presence or risk of age-related conditions, tend to have a higher assessed epigenetic age. It remains unclear as to which processes of aging are reflected by any given set of DNA methylation markers, however. For example, the early clocks are insensitive to exercise and fitness. Sedentary people and fit people at any given age tend to measure the same epigenetic age.
Today's open ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 21, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
What Would The Ideal Hospital Look Like?
If your imagination could run wild, how would you envision the future of hospitals? Hi-tech big machines, physicians analysing data obtained from patients’ devices, LED screens greeting visitors by their names using facial recognition, virtual patient visits, and robots leading operations… Well, experts have pretty much the same idea. Recently we wrote a lot about the future of hospitals. We emphasised the importance of good design both inside and outside the point of care. We imagined that these institutions will become “health centres for patients for preventing diseases, for acute care patients and for patient...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 20, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Personalized Medicine Po Source Type: blogs
Our Healthcare System Needs More Than Policy Overhaul: It ’s Time for Private Sector Innovation to Kick into High Gear for Our Health’s Sake
By SACH JAIN
Last year I was heading to a meeting on a Fortune 500 business campus and stumbled upon a bake sale. It was odd to see someone selling cupcakes and breads on the grounds of a major corporation, so I inquired. As it turns out, Judy, an employee, was selling baked goods to finance her insurance deductible for spinal fusion surgery.
“Is this what our system has come to?” I asked myself, “Fundraisers for fusions?” If so, our health system is broken.
No matter how you slice it, Americans spend more on healthcare than any other advanced economy, with households responsible for 28% of that spen...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Carrum Centers of Excellence Sach Jain Source Type: blogs
Health-Based Proxy Discrimination, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data
Daniel Schwarcz (University of Minnesota), Health-Based Proxy Discrimination, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data,Houston J. Health L.& Pol ’y (2021): Insurers and employers often have financial incentives to discriminate against people who are relatively likely to experience future healthcare costs. Numerous... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 8, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Hummingbird Device for Ear Tube Placement: Interview with Steve Anderson, CEO of Preceptis Medical
In the United States approximately 1 million children undergo ear tube placement every year. The tubes are typically needed when there’s excess fluid in the middle ear and to address chronic ear infections. The tubes help to prevent this fluid build-up but require placement under general anesthesia.
General anesthesia can be distressing for children and parents, and Preceptis Medical, a medtech company based in Minnesota, has developed an in-office solution for ear tube placement that requires only a local anesthetic. The Hummingbird device allows an ENT surgeon to place an ear tube in a single pass, and provides ...
Source: Medgadget - March 30, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: ENT Exclusive Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Wouldn ’ t you love to see this ad run during TV morning news?
Watch TV morning news and nearly half the commercials are direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug ads. Watch evening news and you will likewise be inundated by drug commercials. They all follow the same script: People living their lives, having fun, happy, while the potential side-effects of these drugs are recited. The happy visuals serve to make the side-effects mentioned seem remote.
So I thought we should parody a DTC drug ad. This is not for any drug; it’s for how to avoid being exploited by the healthcare system and by doctors. Sure, we need them when there is injury, infection, or a genetic condition. For the vas...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 29, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Advance Care Planning? Meh. - Part 1
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle) (no degrees)Several years ago I was giving a talk in front of a mostly palliative care audience and asked, "How often do you find yourself, in the care of your patients, saying to yourself something like ' Thank the stars this patient has a healthcare directive (HCD) ' ? " The overwhelming answer was a bunch of shrugs and people agreeing occasionally (but not routinely) HCDs are helpful.For something that seems so central to our work, why is it that so many of my colleagues that day were lukewarm about their utility?It ' s fair to say that the last few months have been a controversial one in t...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 29, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: advance care planning rosielle Source Type: blogs
GoodRx Upends Healthcare Price Obfuscation
As Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal told NPR in 2017 (listen to or read the interview athttps://n.pr/2OgsDMt -- it was fascinating), Americans are told over and over again that they need to be good consumers of healthcare services. But she explained that in order to be a good consumer, you need to know a price. Healthcare in the U.S. is one of the few markets in which no one can tell the consumer what the prices for their services actually are. (And she added " P.S., a lot of medicine isn ' t so elective. Your doctor says hey, you need to have your hip replaced. Or your doctor says, I ' m going to fill out a requisition for t...
Source: Scott's Web Log - March 8, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2021 GoodRx insulin Source Type: blogs
