Experian Health Acquires Wave HDC, Immediately Enabling Real-Time, Single Inquiry Insurance Discovery/Verification at the Point of Patient Registration
The Companies’ Combined Capabilities will Deliver Previously Unattainable Efficiencies, Contributing to Increased Staff Productivity and much Faster Collection of Millions in Payer Reimbursements
Experian, the global information services company, announces it has acquired Wave HDC, a healthcare technology leader that offers AI-enhanced data curation solutions to identify unknown insurance benefits coverage and critical patient demographics at the start of a patient’s healthcare journey. The acquisition bolsters the Experian Health business portfolio with more comprehensive and faster healthcare coverage identificatio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Experian Experian Health Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jordan Levitt Tom Cox Wave HDC Source Type: blogs
Nacreous, mother-of-pearl clouds
My sister sent me some photos she took of pearlescent clouds that appeared at dusk over her house today. I took a look outside myself soon after and could see a couple of small patches of these colourful clouds here too. We live at least a couple of hours drive apart. There have been lots of posts on social media of some beautiful nacreous clouds this week.
Nacreous cloud over Cambridgeshire in December 2023. I turned up the saturation slightly on the photograph so that you could see the phenomenon discussed more clearly in my photo.
The term nacreous refers to the iridescent, smooth internal sheen we see in several mollus...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 21, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Petitioning the Lord with Prayer
To me, one of the strangest conceits of religion -- and it seems to be pretty much universal among theists -- is that it ' s worth your while to beg The Almighty to conform to your wishes. He is supposedly all knowing, all powerful, and infinitely wise, but evidently he needs your advice in order to do what ' s right. Obviously, he doesn ' t always take it, but that doesn ' t stop people from continuing to give it, as in Psalm 28. Psalm 29 is a panegyric to God ' s power and greatness, quite reminiscent of parts of the Book of Job. However, if you read this literally it seems to refer to a natural disaster of so...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Greatest Hits
Psalm 23 is the best known. In Judaism, it is commonly recited during Kiddush, and funeral ceremonies. It is also sung in Catholic funeral masses and is incorporated in the Book of Common Prayer. In modern times it has been given many musical settings, usually somewhat redacted to conform to rhyme and meter. Psalm 24 is the inspiration for the hymn " Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates, " written by the German protestant George Weissel during the Thirty Years War, in which he reinterprets the King of glory, referring to God in the original, as Christ the Messiah. Presumably in the original it refers to the openi...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Where is AI in Medicine Going? Ask The Onion.
By MIKE MAGEE
One of the top ten headlines of all time created by the satirical geniuses at The Onion was published 25 years ago this December. It read, “God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy. ‘No,’ Says God.”
The first paragraph of that column introduced us to Timmy Yu, an optimistic 7-year old, who despite the failures of the health system had held on to his “precious dream.” As the article explained, “From the bottom of his heart, he has hoped against hope that God would someday hear his prayer to walk again. Though many thought Timmy’s heavenly plea would never be answered, his dream finally...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Cris Ross John Halamka Mayo Clinic Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Source material
Psalm 22* is notable because it is quoted at several points in various gospels in the story of the crucifixion, and also quoted in the Letter to the Hebrews. That some of the events of the crucifixion are actually lifted from a song written some five centuries before it purportedly happened may give believers pause. Specifically:Verse 1, " My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? " is quoted in Mark 15:34 and Matthew 2:46, as words Jesus spoke while on the cross. ( אלי אלי למה עזבתני)El í, Elí, láma azavtháni. This is an important passage to Christian theologians. (Of course he would actually have...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 3, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What happens to blood pressure when we stand up ?
Many times , an Innocuous question poses a real challenge, to our life time understanding of circulatory physiology.
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This question is very important , if we want to understand the true mechanism of postural hypotension, a commonest autonomic disorder in elderly (& also the newly recognised entity orthostatic hypertension)
Orthostatic hypotension is defined as a sustained drop of at least 20 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure (SBP) or 10 mm Hg in diastolic blood pressure (DBP) within 3-5 minutes of going from a supine to a standing position. In patients with associ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - November 29, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized bp response on standing hemodynamics of standing hypertesnion orthostatic hypertension orthostatic hypotension pots syndreome Source Type: blogs
Personal Connections
Of the three Palestinian young men who were shot in Vermont two days ago, one is a student at Brown University, where I am on the faculty; one is a student at Haverford College, the " sister " institution of my alma mater, where I spent two summers participating in a theater program and otherwise visited often to see friends; and Trinity College in Hartford, which I have also visited at least twice. They became friends because they all attended a prep school in Ramallah, in the West Bank. Their families thought they would be safer now that they are all in the U.S. So obviously I can relate to them. At their age I was in a ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 28, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A bit more on Israel/Palestine
I ' m just going to outsource to Josh Marshall here, this is a bit he shows on his front page so no problem sharing it, although the rest of it is paywalled.In a few recent posts we ’ve discussed the question of whether one
state or two states is the most logical or possible resolution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (You can see my argumenthere.) A few days ago TPM ReaderRC sent me this AprilForeign Affairs article,Israel ’s One-State Reality.
It was written by three scholars at GW and another at the University of
Maryland. The piece was interesting to me because it illustrates a lot
of what the one st...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 23, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Straw men
I got a few comments on my post about gun safety that I didn ' t publish because they attack a straw man. I explicitly, and loudly, at the very beginning, said that I did not have any problem whatsoever with people owning guns. In fact I ' m all for it because the deer population here is out of control. This is also true of the approximately 80% of Americans who favor gun safety laws that are quite similar to the Swiss laws, which are not generally in effect in the U.S. and which the Supreme Court would probably rule to be unconstitutional. The Swiss ban large capacity magazines, automatic weapons and many non-firearm weap...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 22, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Specificity
The next four psalms -- 14 through 17 -- are particular reminders that these were mostly written for specific occasions, in response either to the writer ' s perception of current events, or his personal situation. Actually I don ' t know if any of these might have been composed by women. While it ' s likely that the priesthood had a monopoly on literacy during the time most of these were composed, priests could have served as scribes for others. I note that in Exodus, Miriam leads a female choir and implicitly was the composer of their song. Some are more general assertions of what the writer values moral...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 22, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Okay, Israel and Palestine
I ' ve been circumspect about this, because people hear what they want to hear or think they ' re hearing about it, instead of what people actually say; and they believe what they want to believe. Furthermore, certain truths may not be spoken. ButFintan O ' Toole has said what needs to be said (registration required, though I have a subscription) succinctly and clearly enough that I ' ll take his essay as guidance. First, I ' ll quote his setup:If war is supposed to be the continuation of politics by other means,
Israel ’s assault on Gaza seems to be the continuation by other means of
the absence of politics. It does n...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Advocating for health and humanity: a physician ’ s call to action amidst conflict
The unfolding events in Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank present a complex and deeply concerning situation. The entire area is smaller than the state of Vermont. My experiences in the West Bank, supported by a U.S. Scholar Fulbright award, have given me firsthand insight into the disruptions faced by individuals in these regions. The
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Advocating for health and humanity: a physician’s call to action amidst conflict originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Therese Zink, MD, MPH Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Primary Care Source Type: blogs
My Light, My Sky – AI artwork for a song
I realise there’s a lot of ongoing debate regarding generative AI tools, especially those that have putatively been trained on copyright material without permission from the creators. It’s generally impossible to know what work has been used as source data for the likes of Dall-E, ChatGPT, and MidJourney etc, unless you work in their back office, presumably. However, I do know that some of my copyright material, books, potentially website content, photos, and perhaps even some of my music, will have been used to train various AIs over the last few years.
AI-generated artwork with sullen sky, mountains, a centra...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Music Source Type: blogs
Za ’atar
I’m excited about this season’s Za’atar, because its almost entirely from foraged or home-grown spices.
We picked the sumac along a dirt road in Northern New Hampshire in late June. It was the most luscious, oil-packed, fragrant sumac I’ve ever encountered. (Read about how to find and dry sumac here.)
The oregano and thyme hailed from Pennsylvania and New York City, grown in sis Rosemary and friend Paula’s container gardens, as well as my own window box in the mountains. I dried the sumac by laying them it for a couple of weeks on a cooling rack atop a baking sheet, and the other herbs...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 16, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized food gifts handmade holiday gift homemade gifts spices Sumac Xmas gift za'atar Source Type: blogs
