Emerging Technologies Shaping the Health IT Landscape and How They Contribute to Improving Patient Outcomes and Healthcare Delivery
It’s been said many times before, but the truth remains the same: the world of healthcare is ever-evolving. We are learning and growing every day, which means we are also coming up with new ideas, technologies, and practices every day. But with all of this constant news of new technologies and changes in practices, it can be really tricky to stay on top of it all. To help, we reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them: what emerging technologies in Health IT are currently shaping the landscape, and how do they contribute to improved patient outcomes and healthcare delivery? The following...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 12, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Regulations athenahealth Azalea Health Baha Zeidan Caregility CenTrak Deepi Source Type: blogs
What Does an Immunologist Do?
This post is part of a miniseries on the immune system. Be sure to check out the other posts in this series that you may have missed.
Immunology is the study of the immune system, including all the cells, tissues, and organs that work together to protect you from germs. A person who studies immunology is called an immunologist, and there are three types:
Researchers, who study the immune system in the laboratory to understand how it works or how it can go awry and find new treatments for immune system-related diseases
Doctors, who diagnose and care for patients with diseases related to the immune system, such as ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 12, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Injury and Illness Immunology Miniseries Infectious Diseases Medicines Microbes Research Roundup Source Type: blogs
Circling back to supported self-management
I’ve been writing a bit about supported self-management over the last few months. Partly because it’s topical given that medications and exercise offer very small reductions in pain and disability, and people do have lives outside of swallowing a pill and doing 3×10 reps! And partly because it is what we end up doing. It is the bulk of what people living with pain use to have lives.
Self-management refers to a broad range of strategies people with pain use in their daily lives to help them live well. I’m aware of the multiple definitions that exist for self-management, and that the level of agreem...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - February 11, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping strategies Pain conditions Professional topics Research Science in practice biopsychosocial Health self-management Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 12th 2024
In conclusion, frailty is a dynamic process, and improved frailty and remaining robust are significantly associated with lower risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular death in older people.
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Greater Individual Wealth Correlates with Longer Life Expectancy
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/02/greater-individual-wealth-correlates-with-longer-life-expectancy/
Individual wealth correlates with life expectancy, with an effect size that is in the same ballpark as those related to lifestyle choices involving exercise, diet, and consequences thereof. It remains unclear...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 11, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – February 10, 2024
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.
Automating For Workflow and Quality in Healthcare. John Lynn interviewed Jason Warrelmann at UiPath about helping organizations look for automation opportunities where lots of data exist, particularly in quality control, compliance, and imaging. After awhile, Jason said, organizations may find 300 to 400 use cases for workflow improvement or automation. ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Mitigating the “ Burn ” , “ Out ” of Healthcare Transformation.
Lisa, a nurse’s assistant manager suddenly approached her supervisor and calmly handed her resignation paper. The surprised supervisor led Lisa to their office and immediately asked her, “Why?Something wrong? What happened?” Lisa, close to tears, answered in a terse voice, “I’m tired. As in really tired. You know I love this work and I knew this is my calling, but I can’t seem to finish any significant work on my program and my own people is close to collapsing in disagreement and project stasis. Moreover, I’m having family issues with my frequent over times and missed events. I th...
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - February 10, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Remo Aguilar Tags: Decision Making Focus Health Quality Improvement burnout group attention deficit health workers burnout initiative overload team culture Source Type: blogs
Where UiPath Can Automate For Workflow and Quality in Healthcare
UiPath has been expanding the scope of automation for years, most recently by applying generative AI. In this extensive interview Jason Warrelmann, Global Director of Healthcare, describes many of the current and future areas ripe for automation. Beyond the details, the video is well worth watching for Warrelmann’s vision of how automation can extend into new areas of health care to relieve burdens on clinicians and administrators.
He points out that there are many use cases left where automation is valuable without the need for AI. He has found that clients can identify 300 to 400 use cases for workflow improvement ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Revenue Cycle Management Desktop Automation Healthcare Automation Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Vide Source Type: blogs
The Payment Integrity Game-Changer: Generative AI
The following is a guest article by Dr. Musheer Ahmed, Founder and CEO at Codoxo
New Generative AI Use Cases are Emerging, Including to Transform Healthcare Payments, it’s up to the Industry to Embrace Adoption for Next-Level Cost Containment Outcomes
The healthcare system in America is confronted with significant challenges, including a steep rise in healthcare expenditures. In 2023, healthcare costs are projected to surge by almost 6%. A vast majority of healthcare workers are reporting job burnout. While these and other obstacles may seem insurmountable, we are already seeing how advancements in technology — partic...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Codoxo Dr. Musheer Ahmed Generative AI Healthcare ChatGPT Healthcare Costs Healthcare Generative AI P Source Type: blogs
PointClickCare Acquires CPSI Subsidiary, American HealthTech
CPSI Selects PointClickCare to Support AHT Customers with Access to a Best-in-Class Suite of Products and Solutions, and the Most Expansive Care Collaboration Network
PointClickCare Technologies, a leading healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey, today announced the acquisition of American HealthTech Inc. (AHT), a subsidiary of Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (CPSI) and a leading provider of electronic health record (EHR) solutions and related services for the post-acute care market. CPSI, a community healthca...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AHT American HealthTech Chris Fowler Claire Stephens Computer Programs and Systems Inc. CPSI Dave Wessinger Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A John Pulliam PointClickCare PointClickCare Technolo Source Type: blogs
The Optimism of Digital Health
By JONATHON FEIT
Journalists like being salty. Like many venture investors, we who are no longer “green” have finely tuned BS meters that like to rip off the sheen of a press release to reach the truthiness underneath. We ask, is this thing real? If I write about XYZ, will I be embarrassed next year to learn that it was the next Theranos?
Yet journalists must also be optimistic—a delicate balance: not so jaded that one becomes boooring, not so optimistic that one gets giddy at each flash of potential; and still enamored of the belief that every so often, something great will remake the present paradigm.
T...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI DHIS West Jonathon Feit Michelle Snyder venture capital Source Type: blogs
The Death of Death, in English
The authors of the Death of Death are regulars on the conference circuit for aging research, the longevity industry, and patient advocacy for the treatment of aging as a medical condition. The book was originally in Spanish, and has finally been translated into English. It is a popular science overview of progress towards technologies that will first slow aging, then enable the control of aging, and eventually, at some point, produce large gains in healthy human life span, postponing death by aging essentially indefinitely. The book and its authors also unapologetically and straightforwardly stand in opposition to the horr...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 8, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Broadening Opportunities for Students in STEM at Brown University and Beyond
Credit: Courtesy of Brown University.
Andrew G. Campbell, Ph.D., a professor of medical science at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and previous dean of the graduate school, is passionate about researching understudied diseases and helping students reach their full potential.
Dr. Campbell’s lab has studied the single-cell organism Trypanosoma brucei (T. brucei), a parasite transmitted through the bite of the tsetse fly, which is only found in specific regions of Africa. In humans, T. brucei causes African Trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness. Symptoms of this illness include headache, weakne...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 8, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist STEM Education Profiles Training Source Type: blogs
The Shocking Way Depression and Schizophrenia Hijack Learning Abilities (M)
The subtle learning bias seen in people with depression and schizophrenia that stops them grasping patterns in everyday life. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Depression subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Multiple Components Render Withings Device Widely Applicable
In this short video, Livia Robic, Product Manager BeamO at Withings, introduces their new BeamO device, which is awaiting regulatory approval and will probably be released at the end of 2024.
BeamO introduces a new “multiscope category” of device. It combines a thermometer, EKG monitor, pulse oximeter, and stethoscope. Using these four components, the device should be useful in a wide range of situations ranging from postoperative recovery to behavioral change.
WiFi allows automatic synchonization with records. It can store symptoms and medications, and results can be shared with doctors. Furthermore, a whole f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 8, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring BeamO CES CES 2024 EKG Monitor Healthcare Devices Healthcare IT Video Interviews Livia Robic Multiscope Pulse Oxime Source Type: blogs
Staying Informed About Regulatory Changes, Industry Standards, and Technological Advancements to make Informed Decisions
The world of healthcare is constantly changing – both in terms of our tools and inventions and in how we approach things and where our priorities are at. But we also know that being knowledgeable and informed on the entire landscape of healthcare is crucial to being a good Health IT leader who can effectively lead their teams. This leaves us with the big question: in an ever-evolving healthcare landscape, how do Health IT leaders stay informed about regulatory changes, industry standards, and technological advancements to make informed decisions and guide their teams effectively?
So in search of the answer to this qu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 8, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT 1upHealth Arcadia BJ Boyle Brent Dover Brightside Health Carta Healthcare Caryn Hewitt CenTrak Data-Driven Decisions Don Rucker Edifecs H Source Type: blogs
