Ready for Robots?
By KIM BELLARD
When I was young, robots were Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet, etc.), the unnamed robot in Lost in Space, or The Jetsons’ Rosey the Robot. Gen X and Millennials might think instead of the more malevolent Terminators (which, of course, are actually cyborgs). But Gen Z is likely to think of the running, jumping, back-flipping Atlas from Boston Dynamics, whose videos have entertained millions.
Alas, last week Boston Dynamics announced it was discontinuing Atlas. “For almost a decade, Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired the next generations of roboticists and leapt over technical barriers in ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Kim Bellard robots Source Type: blogs
Dementia
Clinical psychologist John Gartnerpulls out his Ph.D. to tell the world what ought to be obvious. Donald J. Trump has fairly advanced and rapidly progressing dementia. Believe me, I know what dementia looks like and I don ' t need a degree in psychology to tell you, but for some inexplicable reason the world wants to turn a blind eye. The New York Times ran at least one story every day for a couple of months (maybe a slight exaggeration, but also maybe not) telling us that Joe Biden is old, and the next day that he ' s still old, and the next day that he ' s still old . . . Every time he forgot a name or got a date w...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 23, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Ozempic And Other Weight Loss Drugs Will Only Work With Digital Health
Weight loss injections are now widely used as miracle drugs for effortless skinniness. But without digital health, they just won’t work in the long run. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, approved Wegovy, a semaglutide injection for chronic weight management in adults with obesity or overweight with at least one weight-related condition for use in addition to a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity in 2021.
Semaglutide was originally used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, and was found to have a major lucky side effect: being very effective in assisting weight loss. Semaglutide inject...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Digital Health Research weight management weight loss Ozempic Wagevy Source Type: blogs
We Reap What We Sow With Mental Health Services Provision!
This appeared last week
Psychiatrists warn
mental health system is ‘under siege and stress’
Exclusive By Natasha Bita Education Editor 8:27PM April 19, 2024 Psychotic and suicidal patients are being turned away from short-staffed public hospitals, as the nation’s health ministers work to plug gaping gaps between medical treatment and NDIS support for the m entally ill. Frontline health and (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients
The following is a guest article by Dr. Guillermo Diaz, Chief Medical Information Officer at Los Angeles Department of Health Services – Ambulatory Care Network, and Ali Modaressi, CEO at Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES)
When Alex was brought into L.A. General’s emergency room, the hospital’s care team documented a number of indicators that appeared to be related to a neurological issue. As part of their intake process, the team checked Alex’s (a pseudonym) medical history through the hospital’s health information organization and discovered the patient had recently undergone a cardiac surger...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Ali Modaressi Ambulatory Care Network Data Sharing Dr. Guillermo Diaz HIEs LANES Los Angeles Department of Health Services Los Source Type: blogs
Fractional flow reserve for guiding coronary intervention and functional SYNTAX score
Coronary angiography gives a visual impression about the severity of the stenosis. But it need not imply the actual functional significance of the stenosis in terms of flow physiology. It is often difficult to decide which are the flow limiting lesions when there are multiple stenoses in same or different territories. It is here that the fractional flow reserve estimation helps.
FFR is estimated using a guide wire with a pressure transducer. FFR wires have properties similar to the floppy guide wires so that they can passed across coronary lesions back and forth easily to assess the pressure drop across the lesions.
The f...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 22, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Catastrophising – and controversy
There are few constructs more widely known in pain psychology than catastrophising. Defined as “an exaggerated negative mental set brought to bear during actual or anticipated pain experience” (Sullivan et al., 2001), catastrophising is associated with poor outcomes including greater pain intensity, distress and disability in almost every situation where pain is experienced (Sullivan & Tripp, 2024). Cognitive biases associated with catastrophising include interpretive bias, attentional bias and attentional fixation – in other words negatively interpreting situations, attending to the negative in a situation, ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 21, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Coping Skills Pain Pain conditions Research Science in practice catastrophising catastrophizing Chronic pain pain-related worry Source Type: blogs
AusHealthIT Poll Number 743 – Results – 21 April, 2024.
Here are the results of the
poll.
Are You Concerned That Our Mental Health Services Are Not Reliably
Identifying Potentially Dangerous Sufferers And Getting Them Effective Care?
Yes & (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – April 20, 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.
The Impact of the Technology Driving the Evolution of Healthcare at Home. Our latest question for the Healthcare IT Today community focused on the impact of care at home. Key value propositions included risk assessment, chronic condition management, and support for mental health. Read more…
A Look at the Hospital Room of the Future at Tampa General...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 20, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Managing Your Doctor Self
I’m having a conversation with a colleague when our talk drifted to how are we managing our lives. “How are you managing your physician life?” I asked. I am in the middle of pivoting professional directions, easing out on one an aspect of my physician life. So, maybe I could get an insight into how they balance all these amidst their very busy practice and learn something I could apply in my own life context.
“You mean our academic, clinical and administrative life as a doctor? or all of that plus our family??!” She jokingly scoffed. The couple are surgeons, both taking masters degree, bot...
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - April 20, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Remo Aguilar Tags: Habits Productivity doctors managing oneself physicians self management Source Type: blogs
Supporting medical resident families [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Join Elizabeth Landry, a certified coach, as we explore practical strategies to support medical resident families during the challenging transition into residency. Discover how spousal support programs, inclusive social gatherings, and mentorship initiatives can positively impact the well-being of both residents
Read more…
Supporting medical resident families [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Residency Source Type: blogs
The Evolution of Healthcare at Home, the Technology Driving this Change, and It ’ s Impact on the World of Healthcare
The world of healthcare is ever-evolving, especially when new technology is being adopted. One such new area is healthcare at home. Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact. So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting ou...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Academy Medtech Ventures Alaina Victoria Brenden Hayden Cara Lunsford Carrie Nelson Cindy Gaines Digital Communication Discern He Source Type: blogs
Venture-backed telemental health care companies are creating a new opioid epidemic
More Americans are seeking mental health care than ever before, but many people receiving treatment have never met their psychiatrist in person—or even at all. Telemedicine has been growing in popularity for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic sent tele-health care utilization rates through the roof. Now, after sharp increases brought by COVID-19 lockdowns, American telehealth utilization
Read more…
Venture-backed telemental health care companies are creating a new opioid epidemic originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tamir Aldad, MD, MBA Tags: Meds Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Reed Bunting, Emberiza Schoeniclus
Mrs Sciencebase and I opted to follow the footpath from the RSPB Ouse Fen (Earith) car park to what we refer to as the “Clouded Yellow Field”, which is the patch where we saw that butterfly in numbers in 2022 and that leads on to Brownshill Staunch where I spotted the previously mentioned Sandwich Tern.
Male Reed Bunting at RSPB Ouse Fen, perched on Rape plant
It’s a nice stretch to stretch one’s legs. Lots of Marsh Harrier activity over the reed beds, Chinese Water Deer and Roe Deer to see. Calls from Sedge Warbler, White Throat, Chiff Chaff (all warblers). We could hear some Bearded Reedling calli...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 19, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Photography Source Type: blogs
Harnessing Digital Innovation to Unlock Cancer Discoveries
By DOUG MIRSKY & BRIAN GONZALEZ
What if digital innovations could be the key to reducing the burden of cancer? CancerX was founded in 2023 as part of the Cancer Moonshot to achieve this goal. By uniting leading minds across industries such as technology, healthcare, science, and government, we are breaking down silos and leveraging digital innovation in the fight against cancer. With ambitious goals to cut the death rate from cancer by at least 50% and to improve the experience of people who are affected by cancer, digital innovation is critical.
As a public-private partnership co-hosted by Moffitt Cancer Center ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Brian Gonzalez CancerX Digital Medicine Society Doug Mirsky Moffitt Cancer Center Source Type: blogs
