CIO Podcast – Episode 34: Telehealth with Leanne Harvey
For the 34th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Leanne Harvey, CIO of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at BIDMC.  We dive into telehealth with Harvey to learn about where BIDMC is at 2 years post COVID.  She shares some of the lessons learned.  Plus, we ask her about whether telehealth has an impact on physician burnout.  Finally, we ask her what’s the key to making telehealth successful going forward and what she sees on the horizon for telehealth. Here’s a look at the questions and topics we discuss on this episode: What were some of the big tech issues and other...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring BIDMC CIO Leadership Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians Leanne Harvey Remote Patient Monitoring RPM Teleh Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: The Final Solution
As you may recall, Jezebel was the daughter of a Phoenician king, who married Ahab and introduced the worship of Baal to the northern kingdom.  Elijah and then Elisha have been fighting a sort of guerilla war against Ahab ' s successors and the worship of Baal, but for some reason Yahweh has mostly been putting up with it until now. Yahweh finally had Elisha appoint Jehu as king, to impose the final solution. So here it is. First Jehu orders the Samarians to kill all 70 of Ahab ' s sons and send him their heads, which they do. Then Jehu massacres the rest of Ahab ' s family and his priests. Then Jehu goes to Samaria a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 3, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: God goes on a rampage
Yahweh has been hating on Ahab ' s descendants and on Jezebel for a couple of generations now (she seems to have a long life). He ' s been threatening to wipe them out but he ' s put it off for some reason. In chapters 9 and 10, however, he finally pushes the start button. He has Elisha order the anointment of a new king, Jehu, who will get the assignment. Jehu kills king Joram of Israel, then Jehu also kills Ahaziah, king of Judah, for some reason, although it isn ' t clear that God ordered him to do it. In the next chapter Jehu will massacre all of Ahab ' s descendants. That ' s Biblical morality! 9 Then Eli â€...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 29, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: Some pointless stories
Ch. 8 has three basic components. First, for unknown reasons God decides there will be a 7 year famine in Israel. We don ' t learn anything about this -- whether the people boil their children this time is not specified. All we know is that Elisha warns the woman whose son he resurrected, so she goes and lives with the Philistines until the famine is over. Then she wants her land back, so the king asks Elisha ' s servant what ' s so great about Elisha, the guy tells the resurrection story, and the king gives the woman her land back. That ' s it.Then Elisha goes to Syria and King Ben-Ha ' dad, who is sick, sends an envoy, w...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 26, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: What's wrong with this story?
As you may recall from last time, the Syrians are besieging Samaria (the northern kingdom) and the people are eating their children. Yeah, bummer. So Elisha predicts that by the next morning, the famine will be over and food will be cheap. A high ranking officer scoffs at this so Elisha tells him, it will happen but he won ' t get to eat any of it.We then return to the new-found focus on lepers, four of whom discover that God has sent the Syrians an auditory hallucination of an attack, causing them to flee. Strangely, however, they don ' t ride away on their horses, they leave their horses tied up and apparently flee on fo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 22, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: Trivial miracles and moral whiplash
Chapter 6 is a strange amalgam indeed. I episode 1, Elisha ' s prophet buddies want more living space so they go down to the river to build a bigger encampment. One guy loses an ax head in the water, and Elisha makes it float.That ' s it. Big whoop.In episode 2, the Syrians decide to attack Israel. Elisha can miraculously here his conversation from a distance so he knows their plans. Elisha then has God strike the Syrians blind, and they foolishly let him lead them to Samaria, where they are trapped. Normally, God wants Israel ' s  enemies exterminated, and in fact past kings have gotten into trouble for not completin...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 19, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: Neurosis
 I had a physician appointment this morning, so I ' m a bit late. I ' m okay. Ch. 5 has Elisha curing one guy of leprosy and inflicting another (and his descendants) with it. What I find odd about this is people ' s extreme emotional overreaction to what appear to be very minor issues, barely even annoyances. The king of Israel (unnamed) tears his clothes because the Syrian general thinks the king can cure him of leprosy. I mean, I ' d just say WTF, I wouldn ' t tear my clothes. It ' s just a misunderstanding, the idea is for Elisha to cure the guy. Which he does, but first the Syrian general gets seriously bent ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 15, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Israel Facing COVID-19
Raphael Cohen-Almagor (Middle East Study Centre), Israel Facing COVID-19, 6 Pub. Governance, Admin. and Fins. L. Rev. 7-17 (2021): This paper considers Israel ’s response to the challenges raised by the COVID-19 pandemic with a specific focus on the invoked public... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 12, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Do Iran ’s Nuclear Advances Show the JCPOA Failed?
Justin LoganPolitico ’s Andrew Desiderio highlights a  statement from Senator Bob Menendez (D ‑NJ), who has long been one of the most hawkish Democrats on Iran and opposed the JCPOA when it was signed:Iran now has enough enriched uranium to produce a  nuclear weapon. This latest milestone returns us to a familiar question: At what point will the Administration acknowledge that Iran’s nuclear advances make a return to the 2015 JCPOA not in the United States’ strategic interest?… it is time for a comprehensive strategy to address Iran an d the threats it poses—Iran as it is, not the Iran we might hope for.Le...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Justin Logan Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: Yet more biblical morality
Sorry for the blogus interruptus, I had a grueling day of travel on Sunday then an equally tiring couple of days in D.C. and traveling back, and I just wasn ' t up to it. I ' ll get back in the groove today.Anyway, Ch. 3 is more of that old time religion, that I ' m afraid is not good enough for me. Ahab ' s successor Jehoram removes a shrine to Baal but otherwise, in unspecified ways, he continues the sinful ways of the northern kingdom, referred to variously as Israel and Samaria. The Moabites owe him tribute, which they decide to stop paying, so Jehoram asksJehosh ′aphat, king of Judah, to ally with him in subduing th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 8, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: Thou shalt not make fun of the bald
While I certainly endorse this -- the 11th Commandment -- I do think God overreacts a wee, tiny bit in this case. Most of Chapter 2 is a tedious description of the death of Elijah and the transfer of Prophet-in-Chief to his successor Elishah. Like Jesus a few hundred years later, Elijah ascends bodily into heaven, in front of witnesses. This is a bit of an anomaly because the concept of an afterlife in heaven does not exist elsewhere. (Remember that Samuel was temporarily resurrected from underground.) Anyway, Elisha performs a couple of miracles to show he really is The Man. He then goes to Bethel where 42 children m...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 5, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: Let the massacres begin
2 Kings doesn ' t really need any introduction, because it ' s just the same book we ' ve already been reading. (The division was made in the middle ages.) However, I will note that for a while anyway the pace of God murdering people for trivial reasons seems to pick up. In Ch. 1, he murders 102 men, in two shifts of 51, for asking Elijah to come down from a hill. On the third try, the captain asks more obsequiously and now it ' s okay. As a matter of fact, Elijah wanted to come down from the hill all along so he could convey the bad news to Ahazi ' ah that he was about to kick the bucket. So killing the 102 guys was just ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 1, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: God the deceiver
(Ch. 22 is the last of 1 Kings, but as I have noted before the division of the book in two is arbitrary and is not in the Tanakh.) The plot here is a bit complicated and it ' s more than a bit weird so I ' ll state it clearly.  God finally gets around to killing Ahab because Ahab because Ahab spared the life of Benhadad (1 Kings 20). So god hatches an elaborate plot. For unspecified reasons, God knows that if Israel and Judah attack Syria, the Syrians will concentrate on killing Ahab and leave the rest of the army alone.. Why the Syrians will do this is not explained. So Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, comes to visit and ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 29, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during the First Wave of COVID-19
Israel Waismel-Manor (University of Haifa), Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov (Bar-Ilan University), Olivier Rozenberg (Sciences Po), Asaf Levanon (University of Haifa), Cyril Beno ît (Sciences Po), Gal Ifergane (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Should I Stay (Open) or Should I Close? World Legislatures during... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 28, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: Biblical morality
Chapter 21 is another one of those stories that makes you scratch your head about why it ' s in the Bible. I ' m just going to summarize it. This guy Naboth owns a vineyard which, for some reason, Ahab wants. (Remember that two chapters earlier, Ahab was going to be deposed and most of the Israelites killed, but that never happened and we ' ve forgotten all about it.) But Naboth won ' t sell it so Ahab goes to bed and refuses to eat. So Jezebel has a plan: she writes letters telling some local potentates to accuse Naboth of blaspheming against God and the King, and have him stoned to death, and she signs Ahabs name. They d...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 25, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs