2 Personality Traits That Predict Your Lifespan
People with this personality trait tend to have better health habits and more stable jobs and marriages. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Personality Source Type: blogs

Three Ways AI, If Trusted, Can Transform the Healthcare Landscape
The following is a guest article by Jeanne Greathouse, Healthcare Development Director, AI Regulatory Services at BSI 77% of Healthcare Workers Say They May Be Ready to Let AI Take on Administrative Work Few industries have been stress-tested as thoroughly as the healthcare system during COVID-19 when, at the worst moments, 22% of US hospitals were reporting staff shortages. Even three years on, the World Health Organization found that 84% of countries were still experiencing some disruption. Amid a period of tremendous medical uncertainty and service disruption, health workers and first responders functioned like a life v...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Artificial Intelligence BSI Healthcare Efficiency Healthcare Transformation Improving Patient Care Jeanne Greathouse Medical Innovation Source Type: blogs

9amHealth Raises $9.5M Series A Extension Led by The Cigna Group Ventures to Expand to Employers Nationwide
After Being Selected by Leading PBMs, Benefits Navigators, and Health Plans as the Virtual Cardiometabolic Provider of Choice, 9amHealth Increases the Round’s Total to $25M 9amHealth, the leading virtual provider for cardiometabolic health, announced it has raised $9.5 million in a Series A extension round today. The financing round was led by The Cigna Group Ventures, with additional support from existing institutional investors, including 7Wire Ventures, Define Ventures, Leaps by Bayer, and Founders Fund. A recent survey conducted by 9amHealth found that 48% of Americans are on or want to be on a GLP-1 medicati...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 7Wire Ventures 9amHealth Craig Cimini Define Ventures Founders Fund Frank Westermann Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Leaps by Bayer The Cigna Group Ventures Source Type: blogs

Science Snippet: Examining Enzymes
Structure of a pyruvate kinase, an enzyme that adds a phosphate group to adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Credit: PDB 7UEH. Every day, our cells must produce all the various molecules they need to stay alive. But the chemical reactions to create these molecules can’t occur without help—which is where enzymes come in. Enzymes are biological catalysts, meaning they speed up the rate of specific chemical reactions by reducing the amount of energy needed for the reaction to occur. Most enzymes are proteins, but some RNA molecules can also act as enzymes. Thousands of different enzymes ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 13, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Cellular Processes Proteins Science Snippet Source Type: blogs

Is It Worth Buying Dexcom CGM Sensors from Best Buy Health? The only way to know with certainty is to do the math!
Last autumn, on October 9, 2023, the electronics retailer Best Buy announced (seehttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231009526652/en/Best-Buy-to-Sell-Continuous-Glucose-Monitoring-Systems/ for the press release) that it had started a mail order business called "Best Buy Health"https://wellness.bestbuyhealth.com/ which it said would sell CGM sensors among other products. Best Buy Health aims to sell more than just CGM sensors. Its LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/company/best-buy-health/ describes the business this way:" Best Buy Health aims to enrich and save lives through technology and meaningful connections. ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - March 9, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 2024 Best Buy Best Buy Health Costco Source Type: blogs

Confronting the damaging hierarchy in graduate medical education
Although I have a deep respect for everyone who contributes to the education of our next generation of physicians, I also feel that the current hierarchy in graduate medical education is damaging U.S. health care. That is, the best students go to the best residency programs and get the best jobs and subsequently teach the Read more… Confronting the damaging hierarchy in graduate medical education originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 3, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Education Residency Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Review of the Brother MFC-L6915DW All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier
When I first started doing IT in healthcare, I remember the thought and excitement around the paperless office.  I remember seeing all those paper charts stored in the HIM office and thinking how nice it will be when everything is paperless.  No more managing those charts and everything quickly accessible with a few keystrokes.  While those paper chart rooms have disappeared, the paperless office hasn’t really come to fruition the way that many of us thought it may. The reality in healthcare is that there’s still a lot of paper floating around the office.  It turns out that paper is a great form factor that...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Brother Brother 6915 Brother All-in-One Devices Brother MFC-L6915DW Brother Printers Brother Scanners Healthcare Printer Review Source Type: blogs

Featured Health IT Job: Tier 2 Epic Ambulatory Analyst
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Tier 2 Epic Ambulatory Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is a remote position. Here’s a description of the position: Actively seeking an Epic Ambulatory analyst to support day-to-day activities within a client’s OCHIN Epic system, including Tier 2 escalation tickets for end-users, Epic department builds, maintenance of Provider Master File, assistance when coordinating new interfaces with third-party v...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Analyst Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers Remote Jobs Stoltenberg Consulting Jobs Tier 2 Epic Ambulatory Analyst Source Type: blogs

Economics 101, Lesson One
 One way you can create jobs is to lower people ' s taxes. If people have more money to spend, it means somebody has got to produce more for them. And the producers then need to hire people. It ' s Economics 101! -- George W. Bush, Springfield, MO, January 14, 2002*Mr. Bush was very fond of saying " It ' s Economics 101! " It was a catch phrase for him, and other politicians often say it. But can you think of a critique of the above statement? Is there anything wrong about it?(Jeopardy! music plays.) Okay. When government acquiresrevenue from taxes, what happens to the money? Does it just disappear? Why no.T...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 26, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention
There are a lot of new ideas and technologies being made to better the world of healthcare. These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. So what trend isn’t being talked about enough? What should be trending ri...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Arcadia Ariel Gamiño Bobbi Weber CliniComp Colin Banas Dr. Lawrence Werlin DrFirst Epocrates Health IT Trends Heather Bassett HRC Fertility Joan But Source Type: blogs

Computer Assisted Professional Coding is Helping St. Joseph ’ s Be More Resilient
The team at St. Joseph’s Health in NJ implemented computer assisted professional coding (CAPC) to streamline their revenue cycle management processes. The resulting improvements are helping the organization be more resilient in these challenging times. Dr. Beth Kushner, Chief Medical Information Officer at St. Joseph’s, recently sat down with Healthcare IT Today to discuss the revenue cycle management (RCM) improvements her team has made. Efficient RCM Processes are Critical Dr. Kushner has a passion for RCM. She strongly believes that having efficient RCM processes are critical in these tight economic times or a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management AGS Health AHIMA CAC CAPC clean claim rate Computer Assisted Coding computer assisted professional codin Source Type: blogs

Occupational therapy education: How to navigate in a Perfect Storm
Please click on and read all of the links - they include critical information that is required for this analysis.  A little over four years ago I stated thatthere are too many occupational therapy educational programs in New York State.  At the NYSOTA conference legislative information session in 2023 I stood up and suggested that we should all stop taking jobs at these institutions that were seeking to develop new programs.  I thought that if we did not take those jobs that the problem would be solved. That was neither realistic or correct, even if the intention was good.Well karma tends to strike...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - February 8, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Tags: OT Education Source Type: blogs

Strategies and Best Practices for Developing and Nurturing Leadership Skills in Health IT
The new year is a time of personal growth and self-improvement. We all set out with a list of resolutions, determined to become the best versions of ourselves. While we are still in this mindset, let’s talk about how we can also improve as health IT leaders. Aristotle believed that in order to become a virtuous person, you must do virtuous things. So to become a better leader in health IT, we need to figure out what skills and best practices we must do and find out if these skills for health IT leadership is different than other healthcare sectors. We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to ask...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Career and Jobs Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Arcadia best practices Caryn Hewitt CenTrak CliniComp e4health Health IT Leadership Health IT Skills Healthcare Leadership John Johnson Source Type: blogs

The unseen struggles of Native medical students
The average medical student spends anywhere from 40 to 80 hours a week studying to become the future of health care, not to mention the hours outside of work that include family, community, jobs, volunteering, research, and day-to-day necessities. The average student goes to class, studies, goes home and studies some more. However, this is Read more… The unseen struggles of Native medical students originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 6, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs

Women ’ s Health in the Digital Health Market: What 2024 Has in Store
The following is a guest article by Egle Jakimone, Product CEO at Kilo Health In 2024, we are expecting to witness a significant change in women’s health, particularly centered around the transformative phase of menopause. The notable growth of female wellness apps is helping women to take an active role in managing their health. Additionally, the increased attention to women’s health topics is drawing interest from global players and investors. As a lead of a holistic health product tailored to women, I have gathered some insights into what to expect from 2024 and how to come prepared. Embracing the Menopause ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Digital Health Egle Jakimone FemTech Kilo Health Menopause Menstruation RPM Telehealth Women's Health Source Type: blogs