Mayo halts MA patient scheduling; Oklahoma hospital locks down ICU after online attacks
This week ' s top stories include the Mayo Clinic ceasing the scheduling of appointments for patients in most Medicare Advantage plans, and an Oklahoma City hospital ' s response to COVID-19-related social media posts that accused providers of murder. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - February 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Epic partners with MapQuest; Massachusetts cuts nonurgent procedures by 50%
This week ' s top stories include Epic tapping MapQuest to help patients find nearby or conveniently located clinicians, and Massachusetts ordering hospitals to cut nonurgent procedures due to critical staffing shortages. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - December 17, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

James H. Cassedy Lecture in the History of Medicine: Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South - September 2022
In 1969, after a protracted legal battle, Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama ordered that segregation of that state ’ s psychiatric hospitals was illegal and unconstitutional. In his judgement, Johnson drew on government inspections and grass roots legal activism to critique the terrible conditions that prevailed for Black patients. In this lecture Dr. Smith will give a preview of her forthcoming book Jim Crow in the Asylum in which she will demonstrate that racial segregation in psychiatric hospitals in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi was supported by underlying racist ideologies and has had long term consequences for p...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Provider orgs launch pro-telehealth effort; House averts Medicare payment cuts
This week ' s top stories include the launch of Telehealth Access for America, which aims to protect and expand access to telehealth, and a last-minute deal that avoids cuts to reimbursement to hospitals and physicians. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - December 10, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Prediction of clinical outcomes after CNS injury using cognitive neuroscience and computational linguistics.
In this report, we present preliminary data in which our methodology enables us to assess the auditory processing network in health individuals. We describe a tightly interactive bilateral neural network located in the temporal parietal lobes. This network is recruited independent of hearing and handedness. It is our intention to use this data to predict the 1, 2 and 3 year postsurgical language mediated neural network alterations following specific surgical interventions. Although we are primarily focused on auditory language processing networks, the same methodology can be used to assess all other aspects of language pro...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 2, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Improving patient experience through remote monitoring
Jack Lee, CEO of SkyLabs, discusses how medical sensors and devices have helped patients manage chronic disease and reduce hospital visits. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - December 1, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Guarding data security while boosting patient outcomes
Miquel Angel Garcia, Head of Medical Systems Division EMEA at Olympus, talks about how the company gives hospitals support in achieving the top goals he outlines. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Using digital health strategy to keep hospitals responsive
Sarah Rush, MD, Akron Children ’s Hospital ' s CMIO, and CIO Harun Rashid discuss how the hospital has used strategy to adapt to a changing healthcare environment. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Turning Genes into Medicines: Challenges in the Development of Gene Therapeutics
Speaker Katherine High joined AskBio in January 2021 as President, Therapeutics and member of the AskBio Board of Directors. Dr. High is responsible for driving the strategic direction and execution of the company ’ s preclinical and clinical programs. Most recently, she was a Visiting Professor at Rockefeller University. Previously, she served as President, Head of Research and Development, and a member of the Board of Directors at Spark Therapeutics, where she directed the development and regulatory approval of Luxturna ® , the first gene therapy for genetic disease to obtain regulatory approval in both the United Sta...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Providers and pharma can work together for digital transformation
Dr. Adrian Zai discusses collaboration between AstraZeneca and Massachusetts General Hospital and what the industry can learn. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 17, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Gravie works to reduce out-of-pocket costs and get hospitals paid up-front
Ben Simmons, VP of insurance at Gravie, says that Gravie Pay takes the " gotchas " out of healthcare billing. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

CMS ups price transparency rule penalties; ATA urges Congress to expand telehealth options
This week ' s top stories include the CMS upping penalties for hospitals ignoring the price transparency rule, the ATA and other groups asking Congress to safeguard telehealth, and senior assistance company Papa raises $150 million in Series D funding. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 5, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Rising costs hurting hospitals' margins; senior living facilities benefit from Alexa
This week ' s top stories include a nursing shortage eroding hospitals ' financial performance, senior living communities using Alexa at scale, and the VA being grilled over patient safety concerns associated with its EHR modernization effort. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - October 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Listening to the patient can save money
The patient voice can save hospitals money, improve safety and enhance the patient experience, says Barbara Lewis, founder of Joan ' s Family Bill of Rights. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - October 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Biomaterials for combination immunotherapy
Biomedical Engineering Scientific Interest Group(BMESIG) seminar series: Lecture by Dr.Natalie Artzi, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women ’ s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Principal Research Scientist, MIT; Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. The power of leveraging the patient ’ s own immune system to fight diseases is increasingly being recognized. This talk will explore medical technologies being developed that harness lessons from biomaterial development for drug delivery systems to those that will reprogram the immune system to generate robust and long-lasting curative outcomes...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 27, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video