Faculty Perspectives on Responding to Microaggressions Targeting Clerkship Students
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Meghan O’Brien, MD, MBE, and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee members Tasha Wyatt, PhD, and Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss new research into faculty perspectives on responding to microaggressions targeting medical students in the clinical learning environment. They explore several tensions that affected how faculty responded to the microaggressions in the study scenarios as well as some of the strategies the faculty used to respond effectively. This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else p...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 31, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast faculty development medical education medical students microaggressions RIME Source Type: blogs

5 Ways You Can Use AI In Your Healthcare RIGHT NOW
This study from March 2023 reports how an app developed to help patients’ bowel preparation can increase compliance and thus, the number of successful colonoscopies. In some cases, health chatbots are also able to connect patients with clinicians for diagnosis or treatment, but that is one step further down the line. The general idea is that in the future, these talking or texting smart algorithms might become the first contact point for primary care. Patients will not get in touch with physicians, nurses, or any medical professional with every one of their health questions but will turn to chatbots first. If the ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI digital health Healthcare Source Type: blogs

How Can You Use AI In Your Healthcare RIGHT NOW?
This study from March 2023 reports how an app developed to help patients’ bowel preparation can increase compliance and thus, the number of successful colonoscopies. In some cases, health chatbots are also able to connect patients with clinicians for diagnosis or treatment, but that is one step further down the line. The general idea is that in the future, these talking or texting smart algorithms might become the first contact point for primary care. Patients will not get in touch with physicians, nurses, or any medical professional with every one of their health questions but will turn to chatbots first. If the ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: imported Healthcare AI artificial intelligence digital health Source Type: blogs

WellSky Acquires Corridor, Expands Commitment to Offering Best-in-Class Coding, Revenue Cycle Management Services for Post-Acute Industry
The Combined Companies will Work Together to Bolster Providers’ Ability to Improve Financial Performance and Succeed in Value-Based Care Arrangements WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, announced today that it has acquired Corridor, an end-to-end tech-enabled services platform designed for the post-acute care industry’s toughest challenges, from HealthEdge Investment Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm. By adding Corridor to its portfolio, WellSky will expand its medical coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) offerings to help care providers increase efficiency and improv...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bill Miller Corridor Des Varady Experience Care Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A HealthEdge Investment Partners Lincoln International WellSky Source Type: blogs

The power of listening in palliative care consultations
Finishing up a consultation in the ICU, the nurses approached me to see how it went. “Did you get the DNR?” I explained that I enter these conversations without an agenda. My first goal is to develop rapport, reading the room to gauge how far I can take this conversation. What are they ready to Read more… The power of listening in palliative care consultations originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Weekly Roundup – October 28, 2023
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. Considerations for Migrating Existing Healthcare Systems and Applications to the Cloud. It’s a topic on everyone’s mind, so we asked the Healthcare IT Today community for advice. Tips include improving legacy systems before moving them to the cloud, ensuring what gets moved to the cloud is optimized for scalability and flexibility, and weighi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs

Why emotional intelligence is critical for safe nurse staffing
In Daniel Goleman’s model of emotional intelligence (EQ), there are two main competencies: Personal competency, which includes self-awareness, self-regulation, and motivation; and social competency, which includes social skills and empathy. We can think of both competencies in terms of communication. Personal competency relates to our abilities to identify and value our needs, wants, limits, etc., Read more… Why emotional intelligence is critical for safe nurse staffing originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Nursing Source Type: blogs

Decoding doctor designations: the crucial need to ditch the “ provider ” label
Health care terminology has evolved significantly over the years, with the term “provider” becoming a standard reference for various health care professionals, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. While the term includes many health care professionals in current medical practice, it’s important to discuss why “provider” was initially used and should not be used Read more… Decoding doctor designations: the crucial need to ditch the “provider” label originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Education Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Revolutionizing health care ops: data connectivity and AI insights [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join nurse executives Linda Knodel and Karlene Kerfoot as they share their 45 years of experience in health care administration. In this insightful podcast, they discuss the urgent challenges facing health care organizations, the power of data connectivity in improving operations, the role of Read more… Revolutionizing health care ops: data connectivity and AI insights [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Practice Management Source Type: blogs

Oracle Health Goes Beyond Visit Summaries with Its Use of AI in Their EHR
Many companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon to offer services ranging from risk stratification to auto-generation of patient notes after a visit. Oracle Health wants to move further. In this video at the Oracle Health conference, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Suhas Uliyar describes how Oracle Health is creating tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients. Uliyar addresses the commonly noted problem of burnout among clinicians, and says that Oracle Health wants to speed up administrative work so they can talk more to patients. During a patient visit, where other tools ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Ambient Clinical Voice Cerner EHR AI EHR Copilot Healthcare AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews Oracle Source Type: blogs

Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services
Conclusion In the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought numerous security and privacy hurdles. While AI-powered health services promise to revolutionize patient care, diagnosis, treatment, and administrative efficiency, this new technology also presents serious security concerns that demand our immediate attention—both as patients and IT professionals in the healthcare industry. About Sriram Rajagopalan, Ph.D. Sriram Rajagopalan, Ph.D. is the Head of Training & Learning Services as well as  Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra. Sriram designs and orch...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy App Permissions Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan EHR HCO HCP Healthcare AI Healthcare Cybersecurity H Source Type: blogs

“Doomscrolling” – Call the doctor!
by MIKE MAGEE Exactly 1 year ago, mental health experts alerted the medical world to their version of an assessment scale for yet another new condition – “doomscrolling.” As defined in the article, “Constant exposure to negative news on social media and news feeds could take the form of ‘doomscrolling’ which is commonly defined as a habit of scrolling through social media and news feeds where users obsessively seek for depressing and negative information.” No one can deny a range of legitimate concerns. Faced with continued background noise from the pandemic, add global warming, renegade AI, and...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice Democracy Doomscrolling Nurses Physicians Source Type: blogs

Cortica Closes $40 Million Series D Extension Led by CVS Health Ventures, LRVHealth, and Other Strategic Investors, Bringing Round Total to $115 Million
Funding to Support Expanded Access to Whole-Child, Value-Based, Outcomes-Driven Autism Care Cortica, the United States’ leading physician-led, whole-child, value-based autism services company, has raised $40 million in a Series D extension, bringing the total Series D round to $115 million. The extension was entirely strategic, led by CVS Health Ventures, in conjunction with LRVHealth, Ascension Investment Management (a subsidiary of Ascension), and the University of Wisconsin Foundation. “There is an increasing need for access to evidence-based care for children with neurodivergent conditions and autism...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AIM Ascension Ascension Investment Management Cortica CVS Health Ventures Ellen Herlacher Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Justin Brock LRVHealth Neil Hattangadi MD Unive Source Type: blogs

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 Op Note XLIOur diagnosis was never in doubt. It was the definitive treatment that remained elusive. Knowing the well-described occasional efficacy of placebo interventions we offered the patient a procedure of last resort. We were down to our last couple of bullets. A proposition strictly in the experimental stages, we told her. A double blinded study. But what other choice did we have? Unbeknownst to her it was a sham surgery. Nothing would be fixed, nothing cut out. We termed it her “special procedure”, as if she were a child being told that grandma was “only sleeping”. We reviewed the risks and benefits, t...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - October 24, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs

Automation Drives Optimal Use of Temp Nurses
Staffing has become alarmingly tight in health care, driven by aging and a less healthy population, an aging workforce, bureaucratic demands from payers that disincentivize staff, and the traumas of the COVID-19 crisis and increasing violence against staff. Temps, often traveling long distances, have been making up the difference between supply and demand in staffing. The critical shortage has interfered with well-intentioned regulatory goals. ShiftMed, though, has been taking a sleeker and friendlier direction in temporary staffing. On the institutional side, pressures to reduce staff costs intersect with desperate needs ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Craig Allen Ahrens Healthcare Burnout Healthcare Staffing nurse staffing Nursing ShiftMed Temp Nurses Uber UberHealth Source Type: blogs