Hackers, Breaches And The Value Of Health Data: 2024 E-Book Update
As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D printing disrupts the normal supply chain and the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (AI) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era. This was to come sooner or later, but the pandemic accelerated the process by years.
However, along with the enhanced healthcare landscape that digital health brings along, there is the pressing issue of privacy. To put it bluntly, there is no digital health without sacrificing a part of our privacy. The advanced technolo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 8, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Policy Security & Privacy facebook data privacy google data security deepmind EHR Hospital cybersecurity genetic sequencing smartphone data breach big t Source Type: blogs
The northern lights aren ’ t in my eyes – Aurora borealis
Lots of lucky locals, by which I mean people a bit further north in Norfolk saw the northern lights, the Aurora Borealis, in Norfolk and elsewhere. There is a slight possibility of seeing them in Cambridgeshire although finding somewhere with little light pollution around here is a tough call, but more to the point it’s been cloudy and wet when other places have had their lightshow these last couple of nights. In recent years they have been observed from Devon and Cornwall.
Aurora borealis at Vestrahorn, Southern Iceland (Credit: Simaron)
So, what are the northern lights?
The northern lights are a natural phenomenon ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Astronomy Source Type: blogs
Whooper Swans spread their wings thanks to nature reserves
TL:DR – Even small wetland nature reserves could help boost Whooper Swan wintering populations in the UK.
A new study has shown that protected wildlife areas are crucial for the survival of Whooper Swans, a species of migratory bird. These protected areas are important for species conservation, but it has been uncertain how effective they are when species move between protected and nonprotected areas throughout their lives. The research, conducted by Stuart Bearhop, Richard Sherley, and their colleagues, analyzed data on more than 10,000 Whooper Swans (Cygnus cygnus, also known as the Common Swan) over 30 years at 2...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Short-eared Owls on the Fens
I’ve discussed the Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus, previously. Beautiful bird that occasionally overwinters in the UK, having spent the summer months in Iceland, Russia, or Scandinavia.
We are lucky to see them hunting on the fens sometimes. These photos were taken in the hour before sunset at NT Burwell Fen. There were three shorties hunting.
We usually anticipate their arrival in October, November, but they can sometimes arrive earlier and will stay until early April. There were half a dozen at Burwell a couple of years ago and one of them with damage to its wing (it could still fly) stayed through the summer mon...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 16, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
My Trial of the New Abbott Freestyle Libre 3
There are many compelling features on the new Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 and I may decide to switch; but I may wish to first try the new Dexcom G7 once it ' s FDA-approved. But I won ' t wait forever...In my 15 years of writing this blog, one thing I have never done is something I occasionally see some younger, less-discerning members of the blogging community do: which is to pimp their blogs (and themselves) out to receive free so-called " blog-ola " . I ' ve been blogging since 2005, and I have never endorsed a product in order to get free things, nor have I ever used my blog to even solicit free stuff from companies which...
Source: Scott's Web Log - December 7, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 Abbott Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 CGM CGMS Dexcom Source Type: blogs
American Health Care Consumers Should Have Access to Drugs and Devices Benefitting People in Other Developed Countries
Jeffrey A. SingerSwiss Medtech, a trade association representing the medical technology industry, issued a press release on November 28 praising the Swiss Parliament for enacting legislation allowing Swiss health care providers and patients to access medical devices approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Until now, the Swiss government only permitted patients and doctors to access devices that have a CE Marking, which indicates the device meets European Union standards, and the E.U. approves it for marketing among member states. The Swiss Parliament ’s action should expand access and increase p...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 29, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Cigna-Express Scripts by InsideRx Strategy Modification, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Insulin Trial
Two years ago, I made a very well-informed decision to simply bypass our own healthcare insurance for a number of prescriptions used in my household because we were paying out-of-pocket until the deductible was satisfied anyway (which was about half the year), and our new insurance carrier Aetna and its PBM Caremark was obviously ripping us off by a fairly wide margin. In fact, the financial gamesmanship (or as the PBM ' s call it, " Price Arbitrage " ) was so overt, that it would have been financially foolish to stick with insurance under the presumption that it contributed toward satisfying the deductible (a falsehood; t...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 21, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 CIGNA coupon-generating websites apps coupons Express Scripts InsideRx PBM Source Type: blogs
Why mandating boosters for college kids is a no good, very bad, dumb idea 
This study reinforced prior research that measured these responses up to 12 months. The stimulation of an immune response after a mild infection can even be demonstrated in the absence of actual seroconversion (detectable prior infection by antibodies) at the level of T-cells. The presence of effective immune memory, both humoral (antibody) and cellular components, after even a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection is no longer a matter of debate. One might be tempted to argue that repeated boosting can permanently suppress infection. Unfortunately, all available evidence suggests that this increased protection from infection is ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka COVID-19 vaccine Viral Myalgia Source Type: blogs
Vaccine Myocarditis Update
BY ANISH KOKA
The European Medicines Agency decided on July 19, 2021 that myocarditis and pericarditis be added to the list of adverse effects of both messenger RNA (mRNA) based vaccines (BNT162b2 [Pfizer-BioNTech] and mrna-1273 [Moderna]) against COVID-19. This advice was based on numerous reports of myocarditis that followed a clinical pattern that strongly suggested a causal link between these particular vaccines and myocarditis/pericarditis. The adverse events that appeared to be predominantly in young men typically occurred within a week after injection, and were clustered after the second dose of the vaccine serie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Uncategorized Anish Koka cardiology Source Type: blogs
Hackers, Breaches And The Value Of Health Data: 2022 E-Book Update
As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D printing disrupts the normal supply chain and the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (A.I.) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era. This was to come sooner or later, but the pandemic accelerated the process by years.
However, along with the enhanced healthcare landscape that digital health brings along, there is the pressing issue of privacy. To put it bluntly, there is no digital health without sacrificing a part of our privacy. The advanced techno...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Personalized Medicine Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones amazon dev Source Type: blogs
How to Keep a Conversation Going: 8 Simple Tips
Do you have problems with keeping a conversation going? Do you sometimes run out of things to say?
Then you’re in the right place.
Because in this post I’d like to share 8 of my own favorite tips and habits that have helped me to greatly reduce this issue in my own life.
Here is what has worked the best for me to not get stuck in awkward silences or in not being able to keep a conversation going.
1. Get into the right frame of mind before the conversation even begins.
This is one of the most important things in this post. Perhaps the most important one.
Because if you are overly nervous, wound up and you feel stiff th...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: People Skills Personal Development Source Type: blogs
#HealthTechDeals Episode 28 | Alan; HealthMap Solutions; Sidekick Health; Dialogue & Tictrac
It’s Friday 13th, the unluckiest day and many on the stock market were feeling it. But there were some deals. Alan in France raises 183m Euros, HealthMap Solutions gets $25m for kidney care, Icelandic Sidekick Health gets $55m for DTx & Dialogue buys Tictrac for $43m US.
–Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Tech Deals Alan Dialouge HealthMap Solutions Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt sidekick health Tictrac Source Type: blogs
Smithy Fen Birding
Over the last year or more, a patch of farmland known, as Bullock’s Haste, which lies on the outskirts of our village has been perpetually flooded. Incredibly, over two winters it has attracted a greater and greater diversity of bird species who have spent time there feeding, preening, and roosting.
Two friends dedicated to the citizen science cause of birding (Brendan Doe and Ian Ellis) have observed and catalogued (on eBird) more than 150 species there in that time. I cannot claim to have seen even a fraction of that number there, although I have seen a good many of the “ticked” species in various othe...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 7, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Mind the Gap
For decades, NATO forces have used nearby bases to keep tabs on Russian submarines, surface ships, and aircraft transiting the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom Gap. Strong independence movements in Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Scotland could soon jeopardize this position. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - July 15, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Scott Savitz Source Type: blogs
A Hamiltonian View of Post-Pandemic America
By MIKE MAGEE
“In countries where there is great private wealth much may be effected by the voluntary contributions of patriotic individuals, but in a community situated like that of the United States, the public purse must supply the deficiency of private resource. In what can it be so useful as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry?”
Those were the words of Alexander Hamilton published on December 5, 1791 in his “Report on the Subject of Manufactures.” He was making the case for an activist federal government with the capacity to support a fledgling nation and its leaders long enough to allow e...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy hamilton Mike Magee Pandemic post-pandemic America Source Type: blogs
