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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

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State Medicaid authorities can expand services that sustain individuals in the community and improve health outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorder. (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - December 8, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Laura Conrad Source Type: blogs

Public Health Law's Digital Frontier: Addictive Design, Section 230, and the Freedom of Speech
Matthew B. Lawrence (Emory University), Public Health Law ' s Digital Frontier: Addictive Design, Section 230, and the Freedom of Speech, J. Free Speech L. (forthcoming 2023): A new generation of claims argues that addictive design by social media companies has caused... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 8, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Lead Pipe Cinch
By KIM BELLARD The term “lead pipe cinch” means something that is very easy or certain. Here’s two things that are lead pipe cinches: first, that ingesting lead, such as from the water or the air, is bad for us. It’s especially bad for children, whose cognitive abilities can be impaired. Second, that the Biden Administration’s latest proposal to reduce the lead in our drinking water is not going to accomplish that. The new proposed rules would require that lead service lines be replaced within ten years; there are estimated to still be some 9.2 million such lines in the U.S. The trouble is, no one really kn...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Kim Bellard Lead public health Source Type: blogs

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As millions are disenrolled from state Medicaid programs, the health insurance marketplaces can serve as a critical coverage safety net. (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - December 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rachel Swindle, Sabrina Corlette Source Type: blogs

Klotho as a Biomarker of the Influence of Lifestyle Choice on Health
Klotho is a longevity-associated protein that operates both within the cell and also as a circulating signal protein. It is longevity-associated in the sense that upregulation increases life span and downregulation reduces life span in mice, but also in the sense that measured klotho levels correlate with health and life expectancy in human epidemiological studies. Klotho may largely operate by maintaining kidney function into late life, but researchers have found that it may also help brain cells resist the harmful effects of an aged environment. In today's open access paper, the authors make the interesting point ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

What Area of Healthcare Needs More Investment and Why?
Tragically, in a world full of wonderful healthcare inventions and opportunities there is only so much money to be invested. Each year only a certain amount of areas can be invested in, with the hopes of it being spent in the right areas to improve the world of healthcare. But are there areas of healthcare that are getting passed over? Are there areas that desperately need more investment and are just getting skipped because not enough people are talking about them? Searching for the answers to these questions in the hopes of them getting more investments in the future, we reached out to our absolutely incredible Healthcar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Barry Dellecese BJ Boyle CareRev ClearDATA FINN Partners Healthcare Investm Source Type: blogs

From fishing licenses to gun control
My son’s favorite thing to do is fish. I bought him a brand-new Mickey the Mouse fishing pole and a tackle box for his birthday. His favorite spot was on a small inland lake in a state park. On the bank of the lake, we would fish underneath a large cottonwood tree decorated with bobbers Read more… From fishing licenses to gun control originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 3, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mitch Bruss, MD Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

How the NFL offers a window into health care solutions for our country
The NFL season is now in full swing, with TV screens ablaze in households across the nation, eyes glued to an elliptically-shaped ball being thrown and kicked far distances. This reminds me of an incredibly rare case that happened to a male patient I saw in the ER many years ago, whose right testicle had Read more… How the NFL offers a window into health care solutions for our country originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 3, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Renee Hsia, MD Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 4th 2023
This study produced a great deal of data that continues to be mined for insights into human aging and effects of calorie restriction in a long-lived species such as our own, to contrast with the sizable effects on health and longevity in short-lived species such as mice. In particular, and the topic for today, cellular senescence and its role in degenerative aging has garnered far greater interest in the research community in the years since the CALERIE study took place. Thus in today's open access paper, scientists examine CALERIE study data to find evidence for calorie restriction to reduce the burden of cellular ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

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Clinicians must become leaders of climate action and accelerate progress to protect their patients, the public, and the planet from harm. (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Hardeep Singh Source Type: blogs

The Effects of Diet on Life Expectancy
It is somewhat interesting to see a careful analysis of diet and life expectancy, using the sizable UK Biobank population, that does not contain any of the words "calorie", "weight", or "obesity". The effects of calorie intake on health over the long-term are sizable, even if we focus only on mechanisms associated with the gain of weight. Visceral fat is metabolically active, generates an increased burden of senescent cells, and contributes to the chronic inflammation of aging via a range of different mechanisms. Thus one would assume that buried underneath this set of data on what it is that people eat is a more re...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Lessons from historical drug prohibitions
New Zealand just rescinded its ban on tobacco smoking at the same time that Donald Trump just suggested the death penalty could cure the drug problem. What did New Zealand learn? And how has drug prohibition worked out in the past? In 1511, the governor of Mecca, Khair Beg, had a serious problem. A powerful Read more… Lessons from historical drug prohibitions originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Conditions Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Synthetic Data and LLMs Power the World ’ s Most Powerful Research Assistant
The next public health pronouncement or clinical treatment might emerge from synthetic data: rows of totally invented people that contain no real data but reflects the actual characteristics of a population such as race, gender, and medical conditions. Synthetic data plus large language models (LLMs), which lie at the base of current generative AI, provide “the world’s most powerful research assistant” in the words of Josh Rubel, chief commercial officer for MDClone. This video contains a wide-ranging discussion between Rubel and interviewer John Lynn about the current applications and future possibilitie...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Generative AI Healthcare AI Healthcare Data Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare LLMs Josh Rubel Large Language Models MDClone Synthetic Data Source Type: blogs

Ageism and Ableism
Alan S. Gutterman, Ageism and Ableism (2023): The World Health Organization has reported that approximately 16% of the global population, over 1.3 billion people worldwide, had some form of disability, and that an additional 190 million people (3.8% of people... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 30, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs