Why is the angiogram normal?
Written byWilly FrickA man in his 50s with a 15 pack-year smoking history presented to his primary care physician ' s office complaining of intermittent headache. He also complained of intermittent mild chest pain radiating into into both shoulders and his back, as well as occasional unexplained sweating. (Although radiation into the left arm is most classic for coronary ischemia, radiation into both arms is actually modestly more predictive). The primary care physician ' s note indicates low suspicion for cardiac ischemia, but " for completion, check troponin and ECG. " If an ECG was obtained in the office,...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 17, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
Cut These Food Types To Lower Cholesterol
High cholesterol can lead to heart disease and other health problems. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Cholesterol Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – March 16, 2024
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
HIMSS 2024: Bold Statements from Hal Wolf. Colin Hung attended a media briefing with the HIMSS CEO and learned about HIMSS’ international expansion plans, its role as a tight-knit society and not a loose association, and its desire to promote scalable software, perhaps even at the expense of startups. Read more…
HIMSS 2024: A Closer Look at S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
What is the risk of ACS after PCI in a CTO related artery ?
CTOs are opened primarily for four reasons
Angina which is refractory to drugs
Stress test positivity with or without angina
Anxiety of having a blocked coronary artery in a self educated patient
Cardiologist’s clandestine pride & pursuit*
* Personal experience included
Some evidence based observation
Most of the studies as on today do not give survival advantage of opening a CTO.(DECISION-CTO,EURO-CTO,EXPLORE,IMPACTOR)
Opening a CTO, for reasons other than angina (i.e. for relief of dyspnea or improving functional capacity) is largely conjectural and based on randomly accrued data back...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - March 16, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized cto cto hardware cto trials jcto score open artery hypothesisacc esc aha guidelines Source Type: blogs
Assisted suicide is the wrong prescription
America expends much time, effort, and resources when people become seriously ill, bringing many face-to-face with their own mortality. For patients and their families, it is an emotional and difficult time under the best of circumstances. As a cardiologist, I participate in the decision-making that comes at this time, and it has provided me with
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Assisted suicide is the wrong prescription originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 15, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Joseph E. Marine, MD, MBA Tags: Physician Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
9amHealth Raises $9.5M Series A Extension Led by The Cigna Group Ventures to Expand to Employers Nationwide
After Being Selected by Leading PBMs, Benefits Navigators, and Health Plans as the Virtual Cardiometabolic Provider of Choice, 9amHealth Increases the Round’s Total to $25M
9amHealth, the leading virtual provider for cardiometabolic health, announced it has raised $9.5 million in a Series A extension round today. The financing round was led by The Cigna Group Ventures, with additional support from existing institutional investors, including 7Wire Ventures, Define Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, and Founders Fund.
A recent survey conducted by 9amHealth found that 48% of Americans are on or want to be on a GLP-1 medicati...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 7Wire Ventures 9amHealth Craig Cimini Define Ventures Founders Fund Frank Westermann Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Leaps by Bayer The Cigna Group Ventures Source Type: blogs
Efforts to Produce Drugs to Slow or Reverse Sarcopenia Benefit from the Semaglutide Hype
This popular science article is a reminder that all too little in this world happens for entirely rational reasons. Drugs aimed at slowing or reversing the age-related loss of muscle mass leading to sarcopenia are presently under development by a number of companies, though none of the candidates discussed are producing effect sizes that look very favorable in comparison to the effects of resistance exercise. These efforts will likely benefit from the present manufactured hype that attends the use of antidiabetic GLP1 receptor agonists for weight loss, as one of the side-effects of this drug is modest loss of muscle mass. ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 15, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Three patients with chest pain and “normal” ECGs: which had OMI? Which were normal? And how did the Queen of Hearts perform?
This study had such low risk patients that not a single patient was ultimately diagnosed with ACS. It is well known that NOMI usually has a normal ECG or nonspecific ECG. The fact that not a single one of these patients had ACS shows that the population studied could not possibly support their conclusion. It should never have been published.According to this data a triage ECG labeled ‘normal’ rules out the possibility of acute coronary occlusion.This is obviously unreliable
data, as Dr. Smith ’s Blog has published51
cases of OMI with ECGs labeled ‘normal’, 35 of which were identified by the
Queen ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 14, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren 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
History Lesson
Psalm 78 is, I believe, the third longest psalm. It ' s also one of three so-called " long history " psalms. It basically recounts events from Exodus and Numbers, in chronologically confused order, and then skips ahead to touch on the establishment of the reign of David. The listing of the plagues of Egypt does not exactly correspond to the canonical version of Exodus we have today -- there are no caterpillars or frost in Exodus. This may just be a fanciful addition, or it may be that it draws on a lost version of the story. Once again, keep in mind that there were no printing presses and any document would have existed in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 13, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A man in his 40s with 3 days of stuttering chest pain
Written byWilly FrickA man in his early 40s with BMI 36, hypertension, and a 30 pack-year smoking history presented with three days of chest pain. It started while he was at rest after finishing a workout. He described it as a mild intensity, nagging pain on the right side of his chest with nausea and dyspnea. It woke him the next day and radiated into his back. He was only able to sleep while sitting in a chair. He went to urgent care and had an ECG (not available) which was interpreted as normal, and was sent home. His pain returned, and he went back to the urgent care but was sent to the ER. His ECG is shown:What do you...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 13, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
Wait Till Health Care Tries Dynamic Pricing
By KIM BELLARD
Nice try, Wendy’s. During an earnings call last month, President and CEO Kirk Tanner outlined the company’s plan to try a new form of pricing: “Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling.”
None of the analysts on the call questioned the statement, but the backlash from the public was immediate — and quite negative. As Reuters described it: “the burger chain was scorched on social media sites.”
Less than two weeks later Wendy’s backtracked – e...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care Kim Bellard pricing Private equity Wendy's Source Type: blogs
The Correlation Between Education and Life Expectancy
It is comparatively easy to find correlations in human epidemiological data, but much harder to determine causation. A web of correlations exist between socioeconomic status, education, intelligence, and life expectancy. We can even draw in environmental factors such as degree of exposure to particulate air pollution, which tends to correlate with the wealth of individuals living in a given area. In the matter of education, the effect size is small but the correlation is robust in large data sets. Why this is the case remains a topic for discussion.
To measure the pace of aging, the researchers applied an algorith...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 11, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Foods That Boost Weight Loss And Reduce Heart Disease
Eating these foods has considerable health benefits, scientists have found. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 10, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Heart Disease Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 10, 2024 – Only 36% of CEOs have assessed how to govern the risks of AI, Emory Healthcare is deploying Epic on MacBook Air, plus 27 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
The Biden Cancer Moonshot is advancing a recommended minimum set of key cancer-related data elements under USCDI+ Cancer, a subset of United States Core Data for Interoperability.
Atlanta’s Emory Healthcare is deploy...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Alayacare Amwell Apple Vision Pro Cancer Moonshot CCS CHG Healthcare ClearDATA Dr. Geeta Nayyar Emory Healthcare Epic Hyperspace Ernst & Young eXeX Experis FDB FertilAI Google Cloud Healthcare IT Today Bonus Source Type: blogs
