Biotechnology and biological warfare [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We welcome Ketan Desai, a physician executive, as we’ll delve into the fascinating and concerning realm of biological warfare and bioterrorism. Join us as we explore historical instances of biological weapons, the implications of genetic technology advancements, and the ethical considerations Read more… Biotechnology and biological warfare [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 23, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

The Evolution of Healthcare at Home, the Technology Driving this Change, and It ’ s Impact on the World of Healthcare
The world of healthcare is ever-evolving, especially when new technology is being adopted. One such new area is healthcare at home. Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact. So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting ou...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Academy Medtech Ventures Alaina Victoria Brenden Hayden Cara Lunsford Carrie Nelson Cindy Gaines Digital Communication Discern He Source Type: blogs

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trigger Universal Health Care in America? What do expert Academics say?
By MIKE MAGEE In his book, “The Age of Diminished Expectations” (MIT Press/1994), Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman, famously wrote, “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything.” A year earlier, psychologist Karl E. Weich from the University of Michigan penned the term “sensemaking” based on his belief that the human mind was in fact the engine of productivity, and functioned like a biological computer which “receives input, processes the information, and delivers an output.” But comparing the human brain to a computer was not exactly a complemen...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Bob Wachter Erik Brynjolfsson Karl E. Weich Medical AI Mike Magee Paul Krugman productivity Source Type: blogs

AI ’ s role in simplifying communication [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We sit down with Carlo Mahfouz, a technology executive and author, to explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care communication. Carlo delves into AI’s historical roots, its recent acceleration in adoption, and the unique challenges facing its Read more… AI’s role in simplifying communication [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 17, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Health IT Source Type: blogs

Access, a Leader in Information Management Services, to Significantly Accelerate its Digital Solutions Strategy with Acquisition of Triyam, an Innovative Data and Software Business
This Acquisition Marks a Major Milestone for Access as it Continues to Rapidly Expand its Platform to Address Critical Data and Records Management Needs Triyam Complements Access’ Robust Records Archiving and Compliance Management Capabilities with Expertise in Managing Electronic Health Records Access Information Management (Access), the world’s largest privately-held integrated information management services provider, today announced it has acquired Triyam, a rapidly growing software business that provides expert data management solutions for healthcare organizations. Through this acquisition, Access significantly a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Access Access Information Management Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Luka Salamunic Sudhakar Mohanraj Tony Skarupa Triyam Source Type: blogs

Intersectionality Matters in Food and Drug Law
Colleen Campbell (Hofstra University), Intersectionality Matters in Food and Drug Law, 95 U. Colo. L. Rev. (2024): Feminist scholars critique food and drug law as a site of gender bias and regulatory neglect. The historical exclusion of women from clinical... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 5, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Will Medical Facial Recognition Technology (mFRT) Reawaken Eugenics?
By MIKE MAGEE How comfortable is the FDA and Medical Ethics community with a new super-charged medical Facial Recognition Technology (mFRT) that claims it can “identify the early stages of autism in infants as young as 12 months?” That test already has a name -the RightEye GeoPref Autism Test. Its’ UC San Diego designer says it was 86% accurate in testing 400 infants and toddlers. Or how about Face2Gene which claims its’ mFRT tool already has linked half of the known human genetic syndromes to “facial patterns?” Or how about employers using mFRT facial and speech patterns to identify employees likely t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 1st 2024
This study supports the proposed model that aging-related loss of colonic crypt epithelial cell AMP gene expression can promote increased relative abundances of Gn inflammaging-associated bacteria and gene expression markers of colonic inflammaging. These data may support new targets for aging-related therapies based on intestinal genes and microbiomes. « Back to Top A Skeptical View of the Role of Nuclear DNA Damage in Aging https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/03/a-skeptical-view-of-the-role-of-nuclear-dna-damage-in-aging/ It is evident and settled that stochastic nuclear DNA damag...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 31, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Thoughts on Micronutrient Intake During Calorie Restriction
Despite the considerable attention given to calorie restriction and intermittent fasting in the research community, there is very little formalism applied to the practice in humans. The few clinical trials conducted to date have had to pick their own protocols, and it is only comparatively recently that the fasting mimicking diet was developed to plant a flag on one specific implementation. The challenge here is that it is difficult to monetize calorie restriction and fasting, and thus there is no push towards standardization or more detailed assessment of variant protocols from any of the usual parties who might otherwise...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News 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

The ‘Barbie Speech’ – How Much Has Really Changed For Women in America?
By MIKE MAGEE In our world where up is down, and black is white, there is a left and a right – it’s the middle we appear to be missing. Does it exist, or was it make believe all along? Into this existential despair enters Britt Cagle Grant, the 47-year old Federal Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The Stanford Law graduate, blessed by the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo, and former clerk of Hon. Brett Kavanaugh, was nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 2018. Now six years later, her words in rejecting DeSantis’s “Stop Woke Act” (otherwise kno...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Barbie De Santis feminism Mike Magee Terry Sciaivo Source Type: blogs

Navigating Cyber Threats: Cost-Effective Cybersecurity for Healthtech
Conclusion Understanding and managing the nuances of cyber insurance costs have become top-of-mind for healthtech leaders. As insurers shift from reactive to proactive, requiring prior qualifications before binding policies, healthtech leaders must follow suit. A proactive approach to cost-effective cybersecurity is key. Let’s embrace these strategies together, fortifying our defenses and ensuring a safer future for the healthtech industry. About Justin Kozak Justin Kozak is the Executive VP at Founder Shield, a tech-enabled commercial insurance brokerage. He leads the Life Sciences practice, having 10+ years of expe...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 11, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Cost Effective Cybersecurity Cyber Insurance Cyber Threats Founder Shield Healthcare Cyber Insurance Healthcare Cyber Source Type: blogs

Integrating Ambient Clinical Voice Technology – The Impacts, Challenges, and Benefits
In a time where burnout is at an all-time high, any solution that can help lessen the workload burden of our clinicians is worth looking into. One such solution is ambient clinical voice. Integrating this solution into your organization can save your clinicians a lot of time through documentation automation. However, integrating a new technology will affect all areas of your organization, and with all new technologies, there are always pros and cons to be aware of before jumping. So in order to help you get a deeper look at what integrating ambient clinical voice into your organization will look like – what it will i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC 3M Health Information Systems ACI ACV Ambient Clinical Intelligence Ambient Clini Source Type: blogs

Electronic Health Records (EHR): How to Achieve Healthcare Data Accuracy with Artificial Intelligence
The following is a guest article by Ann Krutsko, Healthcare IT Researcher at ScienceSoft In healthcare, working with inaccurate patient data is a dangerous game. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems. And while EHRs have largely benefited the organizations that have adopted them, data accuracy is still a point of concern. Data entry is still fraught with human error. However, innovations in the field in the way of artificial intelligence integrations are making significant strides in enhancing data quality in EHRs. From data validation to ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Integration Ann Krutsko Data Accuracy Data Entry Data Validation EHR Healthcare AI Healthcare Data Real-Time Alerts ScienceSoft Source Type: blogs

When the conventional algorithm diagnoses the ECG as COMPLETELY NORMAL, but there is in fact OMI, what does the Queen of Hearts PM Cardio AI app say? (with 10 case examples)
Conclusions Need Scrutiny.Proximal LAD Occlusion with STE in I and aVL, and hyperacute T-waves in V2-V6.Algorithm: Marquette 12 SL (GE)The Queen gets it rightCase 9 (prehospital and ED ECGs).  Echocardiography, even (or especially) with Speckle Tracking, can get you in trouble. The ECG told the story.  30 yo woman with trapezius pain. HEART Pathway = 0. Computer " Normal " ECG. Reality: ECG is Diagnostic of LAD Occlusion.Prehospital ECG:There are hyperacute T-waves in V3-V5.The Queen gets it rightFirst ED ECG:Hyperacute T-waves persist.  Called normal again! Algorithm: Veritas (on Mortara...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 4, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs