A young woman with chest pain, cath lab activated
This case came from a friend whose sister was the patient. She knew I was interested in ECGs, so she took a photo of this one.A young woman presented with acute chest pain.This was her presenting ECG:What do you think?This is clearly Brugada phenotype. There is downsloping ST Elevation in V1 and V2. To an experienced interpreter, it is clearly not due to OMI. And it is clearly Brugada phenotype.The conventional algorithm did not interpret Brugada. In fact, it read: ** **ACUTE MI / STEMI ** **The physicians caring for the patient activated the cath lab for " STEMI " .The interventionalist and cath tea...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 6, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Celebrating 500 Episodes: Reliving the Best Moments From the Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast
Today marks a pretty significant milestone for our team: 500 episodes of the Healthcare IT Today Interview series! To celebrate we have a special treat for you, a chat with John Lynn, Colin Hung, and Brittany Quemby.
What started as a blog based largely around articles and our founder John Lynn’s experience in the healthcare IT industry, has grown into a vast array of knowledge provided by experts from across the industry and the world, as well as a few of our own experts using a variety of media to include articles, videos, and podcasts.
Like many things in this world, the Healthcare IT Today Interview podcast was...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: David Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Health IT Podcasts Healthcare IT Podcasts Healthcare IT Today Interviews Podcast Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Podcasts Healthca Source Type: blogs
Advancing Healthcare with High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cybersecurity
Healthcare has become a data-driven industry as the volume of data continues to grow and organizations are able to use that data to provide more personalized care. However, data alone won’t advance healthcare. New systems and processing power that can turn data into insights is the key to accelerating discoveries and improving care.
At the HIMSS 2024 conference, we brought together an incredible panel hosted by AMD and Dell Technologies to discuss the ways high performance computing (HPC) is key to helping healthcare organizations solve the big challenges healthcare faces. Plus, we looked at how security has to be ba...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy AMD Dell Technologies Healthcare High Performance Computing Healthcare IT Video Intervie Source Type: blogs
Healthy Together Acquires Kinsa Health to Build AI Illness Forecasting & Expand into New Markets
Healthy Together, a leading health technology company specializing in Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for State-level Health & Human Services programs, is excited to announce the successful acquisition of Kinsa Health, a powerful and robust AI platform that provides predictive insights for pharmaceutical companies, retailers, illness product companies, public health agencies, hospital systems, and communities.
The acquisition advances Healthy Together’s mission to improve collective health and make government and enterprises more efficient. By integrating Kinsa’s AI illness forecasting engine into He...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Healthy Together Inder Singh Jared Allgood Kinsa Health Source Type: blogs
Unlocking compassion: lessons from a prison clinic
The healing potential of human interaction should always be considered, particularly when practicing medicine. Early in my medical career, I worked in the electromyography laboratory at Charity Hospital, Louisiana State University. During my time there, I saw an astonishing variety of patients. Among other things, we were the hospital of choice for the nearby Louisiana
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Unlocking compassion: lessons from a prison clinic originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 4, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Francisco M. Torres, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Unlocking Healthcare ’ s Mobile Future: HIPAA-Compliant BYOD
When I’ve talked to CIOs about what’s keeping them up at night, they almost universally answer: security. No doubt it’s the biggest risk to a healthcare organization and the attackers only need a slight opening in your security defenses to wreak havoc.
That’s why we were particularly interested in this session at HIMSS 2024 that looked at how to create a HIPAA-Compliant BYOD program which balanced the security needs of a healthcare organization while still meeting the workflow needs of their users. Michael Karnezis, Director of Commercial Sales, and Vernon O’Donnell, President, Field Opera...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 4, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy BYID Security Healthcare Breaches Healthcare BYOD Healthcare Cybersecurity healthcare infrastructure Healt Source Type: blogs
Technobabble To English: A Buzzword Guide For Medical AI And Digital Health
Navigating AI in medicine and digital health can feel like ordering a coffee at that new hipster café downtown: exciting yet slightly overwhelming with a menu that seems to be in a different language. A while ago we published a buzzword dictionary to help you decode the most frequently repeated terms. Back then artificial intelligence and machine learning were rarely heard exotic expressions, but as quite a few years have passed, a whole new set of mambo-jambo emerged, waiting to be explained.
You’re probably sick of hearing the latest digital health buzzwords without any actual context, so let’s translat...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 4, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine buzzword AI in medicine generative AI in medicine Source Type: blogs
Bringing Contextualized Health Data into the Diagnostic and Treatment Process
Healthcare has always relied on data. What’s changed is the explosion of data in healthcare and the availability of this data to clinicians as well as a whole host of healthcare professionals. Bringing context and meaning to this vast amount of data including unstructured health data is going to be key for every healthcare organization. We sat down with Dr. Paulo Pinho, Chief Medical & Strategy Officer at Discern Health, and Dr. Tim O’Connell, Co-founder and CEO at emtelligent, to learn more about what they’re doing to contextualize data and improve processes for providers, payers, and researchers a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Discern Health emtelligent Explainable AI Healthcare AI Healthcare Data Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare LLMs Healt Source Type: blogs
This Week ’ s Health IT Jobs – April 3, 2024
It can be very overwhelming scrolling though job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week.
Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found:
Clinical Documentation Specialist – Emerson Health
Manager Applications – Information Service EMR Applications – The MetroHealth System (Cleveland, OH)
Application Systems Analyst III – EPIC Beaker Principle Trainer &...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System ACCO Engineered Systems Ardent Health Services Bluebird Staffing Duly Health and Care Emerson Health Engage Partners Inc. Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Careers Source Type: blogs
Andy Chu, Providence
Andy Chu is the SVP of Product and Technology at Providence’s innovation unit. They have launched four companies in recent years (Wildlfower, Xealth, Dexcare and just this week Praia). Andy talked a little about Praia, and more about both how Providence comes up with solutions and gets them through their process, and also the inverse, how his group helps new companies get into Providence (not easy!). I also asked him about how big the impact of those hospital innovation groups actually is. And how AI will roll out. Also not easy!–Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Amazon Andy Chu DexCare Praia Providence Tech innovation Wildflower xealth Source Type: blogs
Where ’s Our Infrastructure Plan B?
By KMI BELLARD
I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure. In particular, what to do when it fails.
There was, of course, the tragic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. Watching the video – and, honestly, what were the odds there’d be video? — is like watching a disaster movie, the bridge crumbling slowly but unstoppably. The bridge had been around for almost fifty years, withstanding over 11 million vehicles crossing it each year. All it took to knock it down was one container ship.
Container ships passed under it every day of its existence; the Port of Baltimore is one of the busie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Bridges Change Healthcare GPS Infrastructure Internet Cables Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Lewy Body Disease May Be More Common than Thought
Access to human brain tissue for medical research is more limited than most people realize is the case, and, for obvious reasons, far too little of the available tissue data covers the early stages of disease. This limitation is one of the factors slowing the pace of research into age-related neurodegenerative conditions. Here, for example, researchers make use of an unusual resource to show that the prevalence of Lewy body disease may be greater than presently thought, with pathology beginning in the 50s, even if there are no outright symptoms of disease at that stage.
Lewy body disease is the second most common ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 2, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire
By Jeff Goldsmith
Years ago, the largest living thing in the world was thought to be the blue whale. Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. With its enormous network of underground roots and symbiotic relationship with a vast ecosystem of fungi, that aspen grove is a great metaphor for UnitedHealth Group. United, whose revenues amount to more than 8% of the US health system, is the largest healthcare enterprise in the world. The root system of UHG is...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Jeff Goldsmith Optum PBMs United HealthGroup Source Type: blogs
Ventricular Fibrillation, ICD, LBBB, QRS of 210 ms, Positive Smith Modified Sgarbossa Criteria, and Pacemaker-Mediated Tachycardia
An elderly man collapsed. There was no bystander CPR. Medics found him in ventricular fibrillation. He was defibrillated, but they also noticed that he was being internally defibrillated and then found that he had an implantable ICD.He was unidentified and there were no records availableAfter 7 shocks, he was successfully defibrillated and brought to the ED.Bedside ED ultrasound showed exceedingly poor global LV function, and no B lines.Here is the initial ED ECG. What do you think?Rhythm: Residents asked me why it is not VT. If you use calipers (or equvalent), it is clear that the rhythm...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 2, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
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A History of AnxietyThe ER wanted me to admit the patient to my service. Young, otherwise healthy male with appendicitis. No medical problems except for a history of anxiety. Anxiety? I asked. Is he anxious right now? Well yes, Dr. Parks, I just told him you would be his operating surgeon. Better admit him to psych then, I said. His sigh whistled through the phone like a sirocco wind. I just mean that feelings are weird. Your mom or your pet dies and you ’re sad and that’s ok, everybody understands. But if you’re sad all the time, for no particular reason, you now have a history of sadness. Which doesn’t seem...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - April 2, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
