There Is Little Doubt We Can Now Deliver A Lot Of Care Outside Expensive Hospital Environments!
This appeared late last year. Why home is better than hospital Patients can often be treated at home just as well as in expensive hospitals. But private health insurers have too little incentive to fund it. Jason Kara is chief executive of Catholic Health Australia Jan 1, 2024 – 2.47pm Modern hospital-in-the-home care is a generational game changer for the health system, offering huge cost (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Econoclasm continued: What's this pre-existing conditions deal?
Since I interrupted this series, I will remind you that previously, we discussed the problem of adverse selection -- that people who are unhealthy are more likely to buy health insurance in a hypothetical Free Market. ™ But sellers of health insurance must find ways of predicting
and limiting their losses. The problem of adverse selection would not exist if
we had a universal system, as all other wealthy countries and some
not-so-wealthy do. Everybody would pay into the system, preferably according to
their mea ns. That way people who are healthy today subsidize the costs for
people who are not. If that strikes you as un...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 1, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 1st 2024
Discussion of What is Need to Speed the Pace at which Drugs to Treat Aging Arrive in the Clinic
Cellular Senescence in the Aging Brain, a Contributing Cause of Cognitive Decline
Reviewing What is Known of the Mechanisms of Taurine Supplementation Relevant to Aging and Metabolism
Blunt Thoughts on Calculating the Revealed Value of Human Life
A Look Back at 2023: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
Towards Adjustment of the Gut Microbiome to Slow Aging
Gene Therapy Enhances Object Recognition Memory in Young and Old Mice
Benefits of Sem...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Rising Use of Telehealth for the Delivery of Outpatient Mental Health Services
The following is a guest article by Michael Levinson, M.D., J.D., Partner at Berger Singerman LLP
Telehealth has revolutionized the delivery of outpatient mental health services, and there has been exponential growth in the acceptance and delivery of remote care. No longer does a patient have to be sitting on a therapist’s couch to receive care. The sofa at home will work just fine. This was fostered in a large part by changes implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to 2020, less than one percent (1%) of outpatient health care was delivered virtually. A national public opinion poll of U.S. adults by the American ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring American Psychiatric Association APA Berger Singerman LLP Digital Therapy IMLC Interstate Medical Source Type: blogs
Blunt Thoughts on Calculating the Revealed Value of Human Life
Bloodless, heartless calculations of the value of your life are constantly taking place behind the curtains that society politely draws over some of the uglier realities of the human condition. Interactions with insurance companies might be the most visible signs of these calculations, but this is the tip of the iceberg. Humans assign value instinctively; to value is to be human. We don't just value objects, we value our lives, we value the lives of others. Based on an analysis of our actions, i.e. revealed preferences, one can estimate monetary equivalents to those life valuations and how they shift with time and circumst...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 28, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Econoclasm Chapter Two, continued: " Insurance "
Health insurance – again I’m using
the term because everybody else does, not because I think it’s accurate – can
work in many ways. One of the most important broad dimensions is how the
benefit gets delivered. ·Indemnity
plans are the most like fire insurance. They pay money when the beneficiary
incurs medical expenses. (The money could be paid to the beneficiary, or
directly to the provider. That doesn ’t much matter.)·Service
benefit plans have negotiated arrangements with providers to pay them a
certain amount for a given service, when it is provided.·Service
delivery plans actually provide the s...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 28, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Discover the hidden world of state medical board complaints
In a world of 24/7 news coverage often highlighting high-verdict medical malpractice cases, few physicians know about thousands of complaints that undergo review by state medical boards each year. Most complaints are filed by patients and/or family members, malpractice payment reports by insurance companies, and actions by other state medical boards. In North Carolina, where
Read more…
Discover the hidden world of state medical board complaints originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Gretchen E. Green, MD Tags: Physician Malpractice Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 25th 2023
This study generates a comprehensive single-cell transcriptomic atlas of human atherosclerosis including 118,578 high-quality cells from atherosclerotic coronary and carotid arteries. By performing systematic benchmarking of integration methods, we mitigated data overcorrection while separating major cell lineages. Notably, we define cell subtypes that have not been previously identified from individual human atherosclerosis scRNA-seq studies.
Besides characterizing granular cell-type diversity and communication, we leverage this atlas to provide insights into smooth muscle cell (SMC) modulation. We integrate genome...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 24, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Modeling the Financials of a Drug to Treat Aging
We live in the world in which the regulatory costs imposed on the development of new medicine are enormous. This leads to centralization and regulatory capture. Only the largest entities, the Big Pharma companies, have the funds needed to satisfy the demands of regulators. These companies exist in synergy with the regulators, guiding the regulators (and the politicians backing them) to ensure that (a) their revenue streams are large and stable, and (b) there are fewer challenges to those revenue streams. Big Pharma entities are easily viewed through a cynical lens because their "treating the world, improving lives" rhetori...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
Abbott Gets Real About " Formulary Exclusions " Bankrolled by Rival Dexcom in the U.S.
My followers may recall that I ' ve written not-so-kind blog posts about how Dexcom paying legally-exempted rebate kickbacks (seehttps://blog.sstrumello.com/2023/06/dexcom-pays-pbms-kickbacks-to-exclude.html for one such blog post) to major Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) contingent upon " formulary exclusions of less costly rival continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems such as Abbott Freestyle Libre. The retail prices for both CGM sensor brands are remarkably close (ranging from $57.33/sensor to $61.28/sensor). However, the cost computation is not based on the cost per sensor, but must be computed on a cost per ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - December 14, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 coupons Dexcom PBM PBMs Source Type: blogs
Bertelsmann Investments Invests €5 Million in Doccla’s European Expansion
Europe’s Virtual Hospital Raises Fresh Funds to Accelerate European Expansion, with Focus on Germany
Leading virtual ward technology provider Doccla has received a strategic investment of €5 million Euro from Bertelsmann Investments, the global venture capital arm of Bertelsmann Corporation.
The funding (received in the form of a convertible loan) will be deployed for Doccla’s European expansion – with a focus on Germany, which Doccla views as a priority market during the next phase of their expansion. The fresh cash follows September 2022’s Series A round (participants included General Catalyst, KHP Ventures...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bertelsmann Investments Carsten Coesfeld Dag Larsson Doccla General Catalyst Giant Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment KHP Ventures Martin Ratz Speedinvest Stefan Z Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – December 10, 2023 – 84% of physicians still use manual processes to manage care transitions, 70% of executives prefer managed services for RCM, plus 26 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 and Studies
ONC announced the launch of the USCDI+ Platform, the single place where datasets for all USCDI+ domains will be located.
Clinician shortages, virtual care partnerships, and weight loss medications are the majo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 10, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AdvancedMD Airstrip Amenities Health athenahealth b.well Brent Dover Brooks Rehabilitation Carta Healthcare DUOS eClinicalWorks Ensemble Health Partners Epic EHR FDB Vela GE Healthcare Healthcare IT Today Bonus Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – December 9, 2023
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.
Aiming for Transparency, Reliability, and Credibility With Ambient Clinical Voice. John Lynn and Dr. Shiv Rao at Abridge chatted about the power of going beyond speech recognition to build trust with physicians thanks to EHR integrations and maps to ontologies such as SNOMED and LOINC. Read more…
Keeping Large Language Models and AI Tools Honest. N...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Open AI, Legacy Firewalls, and Insurance Cyberbullying – Fun Friday
Happy Friday everyone! It’s been a while since we’ve done a Fun Friday article. We have had so much content from the various fall health IT conferences, that there just hasn’t been space for our usual Fun Friday series. However, I figured it was time to correct that this Friday. We all need a little humor going into the weekend. This week we have an eclectic mix of healthcare humor.
Our #AI future times 🙂 pic.twitter.com/x7UYgqY6Vj
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 2, 2023
I don’t think AI will take over anytime soon. Although, this is funny to think about. Plus, there’s some...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare IT Aaron Miri Eric Topol Fun Friday Glaucomflecken Legacy Health IT Open AI Personal Musings Source Type: blogs
What ’ s a Problem, Technology, Opportunity, or Issue That Not Enough People are Talking About?
The world of healthcare IT is similar to the birth and expansion of our universe. It started out slowly until a big bang set it all off into motion. And now, just like the expansion of our universe, healthcare IT is only picking up speed and getting bigger and bigger. So with the world of healthcare IT only getting faster and expanding out into newer and bigger areas, how can we keep track of everything? Alone, the task is impossible, but together we just might manage it. In search of a status report, we reached out to our brave Healthcare IT Today community to see what problems, technologies, opportunities, or issues they...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC aidoc BJ Boyle Caregility Carta Healthcare Elad Walach Foley & Lardner Hlth HLTH 2023 HLTH2023 Isabel Hines Jeff Gartland Kedar Ga Source Type: blogs
