Ignorance is Strength
The next item on our bullet list: " An open border is no border. " Taken as a hypothetical, this would be half true. When you cross an open border, you enter a new jurisdiction and become subject to its laws. The border between Maryland and Virginia is open, but it ' s still a border. The same goes for the national borders within the European Union. To be sure, that has caused some friction, but it is obviously incorrect to say that they aren ' t borders at all. Keeping people out is not the only function of a border.That said, what this is supposed to mean is that keeping people out is indeed the principal func...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 29, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The struggle of a computer-based doctor
I saw shocking photos from Northern Italy and New York City, reviewed my life insurance, and thought about my three kids. I didn’t chicken out, but I thought about it long and hard as I sat, sipping tea through trembling lips, preparing—whatever that meant. In the end, I got COVID twice while working the frontlines.
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The struggle of a computer-based doctor originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ryan McCarthy, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
The Top 10 Health Chatbots
This study from March 2023 reports how an app developed to help patients’ bowel preparation can increase compliance and thus, the number of successful colonoscopies.
In some cases, health chatbots are also able to connect patients with clinicians for diagnosis or treatment, but that is one step further down the line. The general idea is that in the future, these talking or texting smart algorithms might become the first contact point for primary care. Patients will not get in touch with physicians or nurses or any medical professional with every one of their health questions but will turn to chatbots first. If th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare Design health chatbot Innovation List medical Personalized medicine AI technology digital health chatbots Source Type: blogs
Price ’ s Protein Puzzle: 2023 update
One of the joys (?) of having been online for…quite some time now…is watching topics reappear every few years or so.
What is the longest coherent word or phrase present in the amino acid sequence of a real protein?— Dr. Caroline Bartman (@Caroline_Bartma) July 21, 2023
Yes, it’s Price’s Protein Puzzle which I last wrote about back in 2019. The good news is that my code still runs, so I’ve updated the results of an English word search versus the UniProt Reviewed (Swiss-Prot) protein database. Just for fun I threw in a few other languages too.
So what’s new?
In terms of...
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - July 26, 2023 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: nsaunders Tags: bioinformatics statistics algorithm amino acid rstats search words Source Type: blogs
Temperature Feedback for Prosthetic Limbs
Engineers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed a new technology that can provide temperature feedback for amputees using a prosthetic limb. Excitingly, the device makes it feel as if the temperature sensation is experienced in the phantom limb, providing a realistic experience of touching something cold or hot with the missing limb. The system consists of a temperature sensor that is placed on the finger of a prosthetic hand, for example, and then thermal electrodes that can generate cold or heat are placed on the skin of the residual arm. When the finger sensor encounters some...
Source: Medgadget - June 6, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Rehab Source Type: blogs
Who Supports Liberal Policies? A Tale of Two Referendums in Italy
Leonardo Madio (University of Padua), Francesco Principe (University of Bergamo), Who Supports Liberal Policies? A Tale of Two Referendums in Italy (2023): We leverage a unique dataset at the municipality level in Italy to examine the factors that drive support... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 4, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
A young lady with wide complex tachycardia. My first time actually making this diagnosis de novo in real life in the ED!
Written by Pendell MeyersA woman in her 30s with minimal past medical history presented simply stating she was " feeling unwell. " Her symptoms started suddenly about 48 hours ago, but had continued to worsen, including epigastric discomfort, nausea, cough, and dyspnea and lightheadedness on exertion. She denied chest pain and denied feeling any palpitations, even during her triage ECG:What do you think?Despite otherwise normal vital signs, she was appropriately triaged to the critical care area of the ED.She was awake, alert, well perfused, with normal mental status and overall unremarkable physical exam except for ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 3, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, and more
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 Research
More than four in five (82%) of wearable device owners are willing to share health data with their physicians, according to a poll conducted by the Connected Health Initiative. Additionally, 87% of users said t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AccYouRate BeeKeeperAI Bill Lewkowski Cerner Cognizant Connected Health Initiative Cylera Deloitte Dispatch Health eClinicalWorks eHealth Exchange eHealth Initiative Epic EscrowAI HCTec Hea Source Type: blogs
Finally A Good Wearable Blood Pressure Monitor: Aktiia Bracelet Review
The digital health revolution has been lagging behind in at least one major field: blood pressure monitoring. For a very long time, there were no better solutions in the market than traditional cuffs. Even the first smartwatches (like the one I tested from Omron), were big and uncomfortable to wear. So it was time for companies to realise the future of BP monitoring lies in Photoplethysmography (PPG).
PPG is a non-invasive optical technique used to measure blood volume changes in the microvascular bed of tissue. It works by shining a light onto the skin and then measuring the variations in light intensity that result fr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Aktiia review blood pressure wearable blood pressure monitor non-invasive blood pressure monitor blood pressure bracelet digital health sensors Source Type: blogs
HIMSS Takeaways: Size Doesn ’t (Always) Count, Johnny Appleseed and MomGPT
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON
Live and in-person once again, HIMSS 2023 attracted more than 30,000 attendees to the exhibit halls and meeting rooms of Chicago’s sprawling McCormick Place. Although no one person could possibly absorb it all, below are some harbingers of the health care future that stayed with me.
Size Doesn’t Count. Exploring the remote byways of the cavernous exhibition areas, it became clear that it’s not the size of the booth, but the impact of the product that counts. At a pavilion highlighting Turkish companies, for instance, R. Serdar Gemici stood in front of a kiosk that might fit into a walk-i...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Best Buy Clarify Health Solutions Dedalus Epic Systems Eyal Zimlichman HealthPartners HIMSS HIMSS2023 Intermountain Healthcare Medeanalytics Michael Millenson NCQA Pangea Tim Barry VillageMD Source Type: blogs
Machiavellianism: 7 Examples Of This Personality Trait
Machiavellianism is named for a 15th century Italian diplomat famous for manipulating people to get what he wanted. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Personality Source Type: blogs
Uncovering the overwhelming impact of the advanced maternal age patient on nursing
Imagine you have a busy full-time job. You get married at age 31. You and your new partner travel to Italy, Ireland, and Hawaii before settling with the kids. You both make pretty good money, so you buy a house. Of course, it needs furniture. And you have to have the new I-phone that just
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Uncovering the overwhelming impact of the advanced maternal age patient on nursing originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Donna Barnett, RN Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Ray Bradbury and Roald Dahl
David BoazLast week it wasreported that the publishers of Roald Dahl ’s books have been quietly editing to make them presumably more acceptable to modern readers — or at least more acceptable to modern activists.To wit:In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” for instance, Augustus Gloop is no longer “fat”; he’s “enormous.” And the Oompa Loompas aren’t “small men”; they’re “small people.” While Matilda once went to India with Rudyard Kipling, now she travels to California with John Steinbeck. In “Fantastic Mr. Fox, ” even the chickens’ feelings have been spared; they’re no longer called...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 20th 2023
In this study, researchers stimulate the ghrelin receptor using a suitable small molecule for much of the lifespan of mice, and observe the results. The overall extension of life span is a quarter of that produced by calorie restriction, and so we might draw some conclusions from that as to the relative importance of hunger in the benefits resulting from the practice of calorie restriction or fasting. Interestingly, the short term weight gains observed in mice given this ghrelin receptor agonist in the past don't appear in this long term study, in which the controls are the heaver animals. This is possibly because the rese...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
