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Broken HomeDivorce is Wednesday nights at Villas For pizza and all you can drink cokesAsking Dad for another quarterTo stick in the table side jukeboxSo I can listen toFunkytownAnd Another One Bites the DustIt ’s drawing pictures of your new stepmomWith horns coming out of her headAnd flames for hair It ’s getting in big trouble forCracking an egg on the skullOf your toddler half brother.It ’s calling Dad collect on his birthdayBecause Mom didn ’t get a child support check. Divorce is figuring out ridesTo weeknight baseball practice. It ’s hearing the phrase “broken home”And realizin...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - March 18, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Will Americans Get PBM Reform in 2024? Maybe, But Many Things Need to Happen I Order to Get There. On the Upside: Insulin Has Opted Out of PBM Sales.
At the core of this post is a YouTube video which can be viewed in the middle of this blog post. The subject is about whether we ' ll get much-needed legislation passed into law to reform corrupt Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) which we know with absolute certainty were at fault for runaway insulin prices. At least that was true until March 2023, when the three largest insulin manufacturers, starting withLilly, followed byNovo Nordisk and shortly thereafter,Sanofi all announced major insulin list price reductions in the range of 70% to 78%. Think about that for a second: Imagine being able to instantly...
Source: Scott's Web Log - March 17, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2024 Congress insulin prices PBM rebates reform Source Type: blogs
Will Americans Get PBM Reform in 2024? Maybe, But Many Things Need to Happen In Order to Get There. On the Upside: Insulin Has Opted Out of PBM Sales.
At the core of this post is a YouTube video which can be viewed in the middle of this blog post. The subject is about whether we ' ll get much-needed legislation passed into law to reform corrupt Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) which we know with absolute certainty were at fault for runaway insulin prices. At least that was true until March 2023, when the three largest insulin manufacturers, starting withLilly, followed byNovo Nordisk and shortly thereafter,Sanofi all announced major insulin list price reductions in the range of 70% to 78%. Think about that for a second: Imagine being able to instantly...
Source: Scott's Web Log - March 17, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2024 Congress insulin prices PBM rebates reform Source Type: blogs
Why is the angiogram normal?
Written byWilly FrickA man in his 50s with a 15 pack-year smoking history presented to his primary care physician ' s office complaining of intermittent headache. He also complained of intermittent mild chest pain radiating into into both shoulders and his back, as well as occasional unexplained sweating. (Although radiation into the left arm is most classic for coronary ischemia, radiation into both arms is actually modestly more predictive). The primary care physician ' s note indicates low suspicion for cardiac ischemia, but " for completion, check troponin and ECG. " If an ECG was obtained in the office,...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 17, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – March 16, 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.
HIMSS 2024: Bold Statements from Hal Wolf. Colin Hung attended a media briefing with the HIMSS CEO and learned about HIMSS’ international expansion plans, its role as a tight-knit society and not a loose association, and its desire to promote scalable software, perhaps even at the expense of startups. Read more…
HIMSS 2024: A Closer Look at S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Price Transparency: Shifting Responsibility to Employers
In this intriguing video, important advances in transparency of health care prices are explained by Mark Galvin, Founder, President and CEO at TALON at the HCAA conference in Las Vegas.
Two “watershed moments” have been overlooked by most people, while media coverage focuses on other things such as the No Surprises Act.
The first change came when a recent “transparency in coverage” law leverages fines on sponsors (normally employers), who the government hopes will then put pressure on health care providers to be more transparent.
The second came with a class action lawsuit against Johnson & John...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Employer Healthcare Employer Insurance HCAA Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Payers Healthcare Price Transpa 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
Bold Statements from Hal Wolf at HIMSS24
Hal Wolf, CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), made several bold statements at HIMSS24 about international growth, courting people in CIO-adjacent roles, and learning from other industries.
HIMSS Expansion
At a briefing during the HIMSS24 annual conference in Orlando Florida, Hal Wolf CEO of HIMSS laid bare the organization’s plans for continued growth an expansion. Key to the organization’s strategy is continued investment overseas with emphasis in Europe and Asia.
In addition, Wolf shared how HIMSS is actively courting audiences beyond healthcare CIOs. “We want to be inclusive o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 14, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Highlighted Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Hal Wolf Healthcare Startups HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS Conference HIMSS24 Informa Shahid Shah Source Type: blogs
The doctor ’ s digital twin will see you now
Imagine a day when you wake up from a perfect six hours and thirty-six minutes of restorative sleep. Overnight, a wearable device or implanted chip has been continuously monitoring and capturing a comprehensive set of your biological and physiological variables. The ingested data from the variables collected is processed through an adaptive machine learning algorithm
Read more…
The doctor’s digital twin will see you now originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 14, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Scott Ellner, DO, MPH Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
UnityAI Secures $4 Million in Seed Funding to Revolutionize Hospital Flow
Company will Apply AI Technologies Including Reinforcement Learning and LLMs to Optimize how Patients Flow through Hospitals
UnityAI, a healthcare technology startup founded by three seasoned engineers and data scientists with backgrounds at HCA Healthcare, a leading hospital and healthcare company in the United States, announced the successful closure of its seed funding round, securing $4 million in total capital to date.
The founders, Dr. Edmund Jackson, Cody Hall, and Dr. Jason Parker, bring a wealth of expertise in the healthcare sector, where they identified a critical need for innovation in hospital operations. Usi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 14, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Cody Hall Company Ventures Dr. Edmund Jackson Dr. Jason Parker Geoff Clark HCA Healthcare Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Max Ventures Nashville Capital Network Ryan Darne Source Type: blogs
SOX17 Allows Early Stage Colon Cancer to Evade the Immune System
Researchers here report on work that identifies SOX17 inhibition as a potential way to attack colon cancer in its early stages. Any successful cancer must have adopted one or more ways to suppress the immune system in order to grow past the earliest stages of a few cancerous cells. Interfering in those suppression mechanisms is a potential basis for therapy, as the researchers demonstrated here. Whether or not this line of work will make much further depends on whether an economically viable approach to SOX17 inhibition can be found, and whether or not it is a good target for many other forms of cancer.
Colon canc...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 14, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Is the Aging Hippocampus Particularly Vulnerable to Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction?
The hippocampus in the brain is vital to cognitive functions involving learning and memory. In today's open access paper, researchers review the evidence for the hippocampus to be particularly vulnerable to damaging mechanisms, including those involved in aging. It is tentatively suggested that physiological and biochemical differences in the hippocampus point to a greater fragility of the hippocampal blood-brain barrier as a common thread underlying pathological changes observed in aging and Alzheimer's disease. The blood-brain barrier is a specialized layer of cells that wrap blood vessels passing through the central ner...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 13, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
A Look at Sunoh ’ s Ambient Clinical Voice Solutions Including New EHR Integrations
One of the hottest topics in healthcare and particularly at the HIMSS 2024 conference is ambient clinical voice. We haven’t seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software. However, this feels very different since healthcare organizations are evaluating ambient clinical voice solutions on their merit versus chasing government money. They’re doing this because the benefits of this technology are so impactful on doctors and patients.
While at the conference, I had a chance to sit down with Saurabh Singh, VP of Sunoh.ai, and...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interviews Podcast by Healthcare IT Today Ambient Clinical Voice Automated Clinical Documentation Automated EHR Documentation Cerner 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
A man in his 40s with 3 days of stuttering chest pain
Written byWilly FrickA man in his early 40s with BMI 36, hypertension, and a 30 pack-year smoking history presented with three days of chest pain. It started while he was at rest after finishing a workout. He described it as a mild intensity, nagging pain on the right side of his chest with nausea and dyspnea. It woke him the next day and radiated into his back. He was only able to sleep while sitting in a chair. He went to urgent care and had an ECG (not available) which was interpreted as normal, and was sent home. His pain returned, and he went back to the urgent care but was sent to the ER. His ECG is shown:What do you...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 13, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
