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
Sunday Sermonette: The dark book
As I explained last time, the Book of Psalms is a compilation and Psalm 72 is evidently the conclusion of one of the component books. The next ten are attributed to Asaph, who was one of king David ' s chief musicians, but that doesn ' t really make sense because they seem to refer to a time when the kingdom was in dire straits, quite unlike the triumphalist tone of the depiction of David ' s reign. Psalm 73, which is used in both Jewish and Christian liturgy and has been set to music, asserts continued faith even while the wicked prosper. The psalm predicts the downfall of the wicked, although as we know that doesn ' t ne...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 3, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Breaking free from sugar addiction: Why cold turkey doesn ’ t work
We know how dangerous sugar can be to our health. Excess sugar intake has been linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and even our immune system health. But giving it up is easier said than done. One question that people often have is, “Do I have to completely give up sugar, like, all of it? Cold
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Breaking free from sugar addiction: Why cold turkey doesn’t work originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 2, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nicole Avena Tags: Conditions Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Divine Right
Psalm 72 is one of those elevating the king to a kind of demigod status and extolling his power and glory. As I have said many times, the basic structure of Judean society, as was the norm throughout the region, was an alliance between a priestly caste and warrior kings, so that ' s what this is all about. But yes, it ' s weird that it ' s called a Psalm of Solomon, and concludes with " The prayers of David, son of Jesse, are ended. " It ' s doubly weird because many subsequent psalms are in fact ascribed to David. The likely explanation is that the Book of Psalms we have today is a compilation of several books, usually th...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 28, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: A digression to current events
The next two psalms are just the usual pleading for God to be good to me and to screw over my enemies, so I won ' t say anything else about them. But I will take this opportunity to comment on the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that an embryo is legally a child, with Chief Justice Tom Parker writing that " human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy
God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself. " Presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she agrees, that she believes an embryo is a baby. It is something of a mystery why this very weird belief has become ce...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 25, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Quality of Life for People with Mental Illness Employed in Extended Employment Programs in two Arab Towns in Israel: An Exploratory Study
Leena Badran (University of California), Stephen A. Rosenbaum (University of California), Arik Rimmerman (University of Haifa), Quality of Life for People with Mental Illness Employed in Extended Employment Programs in two Arab Towns in Israel: An Exploratory Study, 14 Frontiers... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 24, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Imprecatory prayer for terrorism
In Psalm 69, the protagonist has for unspecified reasons become an outcast, so he begs God to destroy his enemies. Check out verse 22 et seq. While this is attributed to David, there isn ' t really any point in David ' s story that would correspond to this situation. But petitioning God to commit mass violence is a common theme in the psalms.To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm of David.69 Save me, O God!For the waters have come up to my neck.2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold;I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.3 ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 21, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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HHS designated two more QHINs: CommonWell Health Alliance and Kno2. This brings the total number of approved QHINs to seven.
eHealth Exchange is launching an incentive program that will waive annual fees for three years to...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Akash Network AWS Health Equity Initiative Canopy CipherHealth CloudWave CommonWell Health Alliance DeepScribe Digital Health New York Discern Health eHealth Exc Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Obscurantism
Psalm 67 is a mercifully brief, simple song of praise. Psalm 68, however, is both exceedingly long and has been called the" most difficult and obscure of the psalms. "The RSV actually covers up some of the difficulty, for example by translating verse 4 as " His name is the Lord, " whereas the Hebrew actually says " His name is Yah. " That is a specific short form of Yahweh. The KJV spells if Jah, as do Rastafarians who prefer it as the name of god, but the Hebrew pronunciation is closer to English Y than J. The form Yah appears 43 times in the Psalms, but otherwise only once in Exodus and several times in Isaiah. It is par...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 18, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The unseen battle: America ’ s veterans and the crisis of chronic pain
Since the Civil War, there have been seventy-four wars and conflicts America has fought in. But as bad as previous wars had been, there has never been anything in American history like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. While America’s direct intervention against Germany and Japan lasted less than five years, the war on terror went
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The unseen battle: America’s veterans and the crisis of chronic pain originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Meds Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – February 11, 2024 – HTI-1 final rule goes into effect March 11, Best in KLAS highlights 136 products in 8 categories, plus 28 more stories
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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The 2024 Best in KLAS have been named. For the U.S. market, covered in the Software and Services report, KLAS recognized 136 software products across 8 categories. The Global Software report recognized regional leaders in ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 11, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 1stResponder Adam Goldberger Adam Petrich Advantus Health Partners Alliant Purchasing Amplitude Vascular Systems Arcadia athenahealth Availity Best in KLAS Awards Casey Bartolucci Chilmark Research Source Type: blogs
Why lab-grown meat matters: USDA approval and environmental impact
In June of 2023, a release was buried in the cacophony of news stories that the USDA had approved two companies for selling lab-grown meat. This news followed the FDA’s conclusion that lab-grown meat was safe for human consumption. The two companies, GOOD Meat and UPSIDE Foods, have been working on various lab-grown types of
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Why lab-grown meat matters: USDA approval and environmental impact originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 10, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dinesh Arab, MD Tags: Conditions Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Hackers, Breaches And The Value Of Health Data: 2024 E-Book Update
As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D printing disrupts the normal supply chain and the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (AI) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era. This was to come sooner or later, but the pandemic accelerated the process by years.
However, along with the enhanced healthcare landscape that digital health brings along, there is the pressing issue of privacy. To put it bluntly, there is no digital health without sacrificing a part of our privacy. The advanced technolo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 8, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Policy Security & Privacy facebook data privacy google data security deepmind EHR Hospital cybersecurity genetic sequencing smartphone data breach big t Source Type: blogs
Who to Blame for Health Costs: The Poisoned Chalice of “ Moral Hazard ”
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
How the Search for Perfect Markets has Damaged Health Policy
Sometimes ideas in healthcare are so powerful that they haunt us for generations even though their link to the real world we all live in is tenuous. The idea of “moral hazard” is one of these ideas. In 1963, future Nobel Laureate economist Kenneth Arrow wrote an influential essay about the applicability of market principles to medicine entitled “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care”.
One problem Arrow mentioned in this essay was “moral hazard”- the enhancement of demand for something people us...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Care Costs Jeff Goldsmith Kenneth Arrow Medicare Moral Hazard Source Type: blogs
