Wednesday Bible Study: The Return of the King
You may recall that an earlier psalm purported to be the last Psalm of David, but as we know, the current Book of Psalms is actually a compilation and the editors just didn ' t delete that. There are more psalms attributed to David and we ' ve come to two of them today. Psalm 101, attributed to David, is a sort of oath of office. Psalm 103 is a song of praise, which gives God several attributes that he clearly doesn ' t have. No, he doesn ' t heal all diseases (v. 3), doesn ' t renew youth (v. 5), doesn ' t work vindication and justice for all who are oppressed (v. 6) and most certainly is not merciful and...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 17, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Yahweh Dah Bomb!
We now get a run of (mercifully short) songs of praise. Again, there are multiple gods but our god is the biggest and baddest. Yes, he is also the creator, but that ' s sort of a contradiction. If the Big Y created the heavens and the earth, where did all these competing gods come from? This is never explained.There is some weird imagery in these, with geographic features engaging in anthropomporphized activities. As a final note, these were evidently written during times of victory and prosperity. They obviously don ' t pertain to the exilic situation in which the book was compiled.98 O sing to theLord a new song,for...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 14, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 15th 2024
In conclusion, although several clinical trials targeting SnCs are ongoing, various questions about the biology of SnCs remain open, resulting in a gap between molecular and cellular data. Concerning the need, initiatives such as SenNet aiming to create openly accessible atlases of SnCs should contribute enormously to the area. Advances in understanding the subcellular structure, the heterogeneity, and the dynamics of SnCs require the integration of molecular and cellular techniques with data analysis packages to evaluate high throughput evidence from microscopy and flow cytometry. It is also necessary to develop new equip...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 14, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
OpenNotes Lab Will Explore the Intersection of Patients and AI
The OpenNotes Lab will bring transparency, collaboration, and innovation to the intersection of healthcare AI and patient-centered care. The Lab builds on the organization’s 15 years of advocacy and research.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Liz Salmi, Communications & Patient Initiatives Director at OpenNotes and Chethan Sarabu, MD, FAMIA, FAAP – Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine to learn more about OpenNotes and OpenNotes Lab.
A Win for Patient Transparency
For the past 15 years, the team at OpenNotes has been advocating for greater transparency in ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 12, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Ambient Clinical Voice atherine M. DesRoches BIDMC Chethan Sarabu Generative AI Harvard Medical School Healthcare AI Healthcare Transparency John Hal Source Type: blogs
Novel mTOR Inhibitors Viewed as a Safer Option by Conservative Investors
The safest sort of investment into therapeutic development is one made in a part of a field that is well established, producing a small variant of an existing drug, using the well beaten path of small molecule development, targeting a mechanism that is very well understood, and that has extensive safety data associated with it. One could argue that mTOR inhibition is the canonical example of a low risk investment in the longevity field. Like most lower-risk exercises in medical development, the potential gain for patients is modest. mTOR inhibition can produce larger gains in mouse life span than exercise, but doesn't beat...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 8, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The usual BS
We now have three fairly short pieces, all of which are in the same vein. The righteous will prosper, the wicked will have their downfall. Sad to say, it just ain ' t so, and repeating it every Saturday won ' t make it true. If we want the righteous to flourish, and the wicked to have their downfall, we need to make it happen ourselves. God is of no help.A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.92 It is good to give thanks to theLord, to sing praises to thy name, O Most High;2 to declare thy steadfast love in the morning, and thy faithfulness by night,3 to the music of th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 7, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
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Momentum at the state level to increase investment in primary care should be coupled with federal leadership to create national consistency.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - April 3, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jordan Goldberg, Corinne Lewis, Jennifer Lyons, Cynthia Summers, Lisa Dulsky Watkins Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Sadly, no
Psalm 89 is quite lengthy so it will be our only text for the day. I ' m afraid I can ' t do anything special for Easter because we haven ' t gotten to the messianic prophecies yet. It isn ' t clear when Psalm 89 was written, but Ethan the Ezrahite was an associate of King Solomon, mentioned in Kings 4:31. One problem is that the (probably fictional) reign of Solomon as described in Kings does not include any of the hard times evoked here. It was a time of prosperity, military strength, and conquest. It could refer to the invasion by Pharaoh Shisak during the reign of Rehoboam, after the civil war that saw the northern kin...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 31, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Problem of Competency in Immigration Court
Elizabeth Jordan (University of Denver), The Problem of Competency in Immigration Court, Nw. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024): In criminal law, an individual must be deemed competent to stand trial, yet our immigration courts routinely order the deportation of incompetent... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 26, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
A Look at a Number of Innovations at HIMSS 2024
At HIMSS 2024, we got a chance to sit down with a number of amazing individuals and companies who were doing great things. I think we did close to 90 videos at the conference, so be sure to subscribe to Healthcare IT Today, follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, or TikTok, and Subscribe to Healthcare IT Today on YouTube to get all the latest information. We wanted to highlight a number of the short videos we recorded that talked about some of the great innovations that were happening at HIMSS 2024.
First up is Ginny Torno, Executive Director, Innovation and IT Clinical Systems at Houston Methodist who shared with...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Agamon Health Care Coordination care gaps CitiusTech Di Source Type: blogs
Endava to Acquire GalaxE Solutions to Boost Its Position in North America Healthcare With Delivery from India
Endava, a leading technology services company combining world-class engineering, industry expertise, and a people-centric mindset, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% ownership of GalaxE Group, Inc. (GalaxE), a global IT and business solutions provider headquartered in New Jersey, United States.
Founded by Tim Bryan over 30 years ago, GalaxE has been singularly focused on driving digital transformation for Fortune 500 companies in the healthcare, financial services, and retail industries.
When completed, the transaction will add approximately 1,650 employees and provide several key strategic benefits to...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP BofA Securities Endava GalaxE GalaxE Group Inc. Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A John Cotterell JP Morgan Securities LLC Tim Bryan White & Case LLP Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: QAnon
Psalms 81 and 82 are pretty standard fare. 81 is written for a specific observance, and it reminds the Israelites that they are God ' s chosen people and to be faithful. 82 calls on God to punish the wicked and reward the righteous -- as if he wouldn ' t do it unless we asked. Psalm 83, however, is getting a whole lot of attention right now, from people who probably don ' t read this blog and who you probably are barely aware of. It describes a broad alliance against Israel, bent on its destruction, and calls on God to exterminate them, referring to the massacres of the Midianites in Numbers 31, and the massacre of th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 20, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Moar Anachronism
Psalms 79 and 80 are attributed to Asaph. As you will recall, Asaph was purportedly one of David ' s chief musicians, but the setting of these psalms is evidently the fall of Judah to Babylon, so that makes no sense. These must have been written during the exile, after Nebuchadnezzar sacked Jerusalem and kidnapped the elites. It ' s also possible, though less likely, that the setting is the sack of Jerusalem by the Egyptian Pharaoh Shishak in the 10th Century BCE, in the reign of Rehoboam, but Asaph, if he ever existed, would certainly have been long dead by then. In general, most of the psalms seem to be responses to even...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 17, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
History Lesson
Psalm 78 is, I believe, the third longest psalm. It ' s also one of three so-called " long history " psalms. It basically recounts events from Exodus and Numbers, in chronologically confused order, and then skips ahead to touch on the establishment of the reign of David. The listing of the plagues of Egypt does not exactly correspond to the canonical version of Exodus we have today -- there are no caterpillars or frost in Exodus. This may just be a fanciful addition, or it may be that it draws on a lost version of the story. Once again, keep in mind that there were no printing presses and any document would have existed in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 13, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: God is bad(ass)
Psalms 75 and 76 are classified as songs of praise, but what they are praising is not goodness or wisdom, but sheer power. And they use some weird metaphors. Psalm 75 appears to refer to a day of judgment, an idea which appears rather vaguely in the Tanakh but which is more central to Christianity. Note that the idea in Judaism of the coming of the Messiah and restoration of the kingdom is quite different. However, they have become conflated in the current political alliance between fundamentalist Jews and Evangelical Christians. One of the other would be really disappointed should it ever come to pass. (Again, " Do Not De...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 6, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
