Vitamins and Wound Healing
Wound healing is a complex biological process that involves inflammation, tissue formation, and tissue remodeling. Vitamin supplements can play a role in wound healing by supporting various aspects of the body’s natural healing processes. Here are some key vitamins and minerals that are important for wound healing:
Vitamin C: Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is essential for collagen synthesis, a protein that helps in the formation of skin, blood vessels, and connective tissue. Collagen is a crucial component of wound healing. Adequate vitamin C intake can promote tissue repair and reduce the risk of infectio...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - September 9, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Geriatric Medicine Pressure Injuries & Wound Care aging skin bedsore bedsores decubiti decubitus ulcer geriatrics gerontology Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD Nursing Homes pressure s Source Type: blogs
Visana Health Raises $10.1 Million Seed Round to Bring Comprehensive Virtual Healthcare to Women Nationwide
Team of Women’s Healthcare Visionaries Builds a Comprehensive Virtual Clinic through a Whole-Person Care Model for Menstruation through Menopause
Available through Health Plans and Employer Benefit Plans, Visana Leapfrogs Narrowly Focused Women’s Health Point Solutions with Quality Longitudinal Medical Care from Visana-Trained Doctors and Nurse Practitioners
Visana’s Best-in-Class Clinical Model Caters to Complex Women’s Health Conditions without Driving Unnecessary Spend for Patients and Payers
Flare Capital Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures Co-Led Oversubscribed Seed Financing
Visana Health, a v...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bill Frist M.D. Dr. Barbara Levy Flare Capital Partners Frist Cressey Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment inHealth Ventures Joe Connolly Margaret Malone Olivia Capra Source Type: blogs
All the Lonely People: Primary Care isn ’t a Team Sport Anymore, We’re Only Interacting with Our Computers
BY HANS DUVEFELT
In spite of all the talk these days about health care teams and in spite of more and more physicians working for bigger and bigger healthcare organizations, we are becoming more and more isolated from our colleagues and our support staffs.
Computer work, which is taking more and more time as EMRs get more and more complex, is a lonely activity. We are not just encouraged but pretty much forced to communicate with our nurses and medical assistants through computer messaging. This may provide more evidence of who said or did what at what point in time, but it is both inefficient and dehumanizing.
Wh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice EMR Hans Duvefelt primary care Professional Isolation Social Isolation Source Type: blogs
Has Sensemaking Collapsed When It Comes To U.S. Healthcare?
By MIKE MAGEE
This past week my wife and I were at a family event to celebrate my brother-in-law’s 70th birthday. Our extended family has more than a few doctors. A physician nephew who had read CODE BLUE and had a strong interest in health policy asked if I felt I (and others) were too hard on doctors. My response was yes, but that it was intentional and came with the territory. Combining scientific, sometimes life and death expertise, with high-touch compassion, understanding and partnership has always been a “big ask” but that was what we and others had signed up for as “health professionals.”
But can a ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Deming Don Berwick ESCAPE FIRE Karl E. Weick Mike Magee Physicians Sensemaking Source Type: blogs
Why It Is Important To Understand Multimodal Large Language Models In Healthcare
The future of medicine is undoubtedly inextricably linked to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Although this revolution has been brewing for years, the past few months marked a major change, as algorithms finally moved out of the specialized labs and into our daily lives.
The public debut of Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT which became the fastest-growing consumer application of all time, has been a roaring success. LLMs are machine learning models trained on a vast amount of text data which enables them to understand and generate human-like text based on the patterns and structures they̵...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine large language models multimodal AI multimodal large language models multimodal LLM Source Type: blogs
The Hollowed-Out American Nursing Home: Using Private Law to Police Poor Quality Care and Expand Owner Responsibilities
Barry R. Furrow (Drexel University), The Hollowed-Out American Nursing Home: Using Private Law to Police Poor Quality Care and Expand Owner Responsibilities, Drexel Univ. Sch. of Law Rsch. Paper Series (2023): The United States has more than 26,000 nursing homes,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 5, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Cost of Cardiovascular Disease
Age-related disease places a huge financial burden on individuals and their caregivers; even the need for caregivers arises only because aging produces disability. Even only considering cardiovascular disease, the largest contribution to human mortality, the costs are enormous. This is a point often made by advocates arguing for greater institutional funding of ways to treat aging. Present levels of funding for research and development of means to reduce age-related disease are very low in comparison to the massive ongoing costs that result from age-related disease. It makes little sense for this to be the case in an age o...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – September 2, 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.
Improving Security When Lives Are on the Line. John Lynn spoke to John Wilson and Scott Pross at SolarWinds about the importance of proactive security in healthcare. That means everything from configuring new security features right away to closing the security gaps that appear when disparate clinical systems are integrated. Read more…
How Healthca...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Social Isolation: A Broader View
The previous articles in this series explain how technology is being used to bring people out of social isolation. But sometimes, loneliness springs from other mental conditions, such as anxiety and depression. Targeting these problems can help bring the patient back into a community.
Treating Psychological Conditions
One of subtler negative effects of moving online is that people lose the small, casual social interactions that previously would buoy their spirits and leave them smiling: asking for help from the post office staff, chatting with cashiers while bagging purchases, greeting people in the elevator, etc. The mi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT LTPAC Caretakers Carta Healthcare Dor Skuler ElliQ Facebook Gather Healthcare AI Healthcare Metaverse Intuition Robotics loneliness Matt Hollin Source Type: blogs
Dr. Temi, The Autonomous Robot Will See You Now
It seems we’re just at the start of robots in healthcare. We see them moving around supplies. We see robots working in the pharmacy. Plus, we have a long list of robots doing virtual tasks. When I came across the Dr. Temi robot, it was the first application of an autonomous robot to assist nurses and doctors that I’d seen.
At the HIMSS annual conference, we sat down with Yaron Yoels, CMO at Temi Robot, to learn more about Dr. Temi, an autonomous robot for patient care. What’s cool about this robot is that it doesn’t need a nurse to get to the bedside. The robot can go to the room request...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Autonomous Robot Dr. Temi Healthcare IT Video Interviews He Source Type: blogs
How Technology Can Overcome Social Isolation
The previous article in introduced the topic of social isolation and showed its relationship to the subjective feeling of loneliness. Now we’ll start to look at the use of technology (which has been implicated in making these conditions worse) to try to improve them.
Physically Connecting Lonely Individuals
mPulse Mobile evaluates patient needs and suggests local resources they can tap, including peer groups. The service gets data from patient records through AI and natural language processing (NLP). as well as from what the patient says to the service. According to Eden Brownell, director of behavioral science, mP...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT LTPAC Aging in Place Andy Tubman Avanade Caretakers Christiana Voelker Dr. Kate Burke Eden Brownell HealCommunity Healthcare AI Healthcare NLP James Maskell loneli Source Type: blogs
Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT
For something as important and as sensitive as healthcare, there are plenty of rules and regulations in place to protect both patients and organizations. However, with healthcare being ever-evolving our regulations are also ever evolving. This can make it extremely difficult to not only follow all of the ones in place today but to prepare our organizations for the upcoming regulations.
To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. The following is what they had to say.
Stephen Sofoul, SVP, Data & Decision S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Andrew Harding athenahealth Brightside Health Cassie Choi Darena Solutions e4 Services Freshpaint Healthc Source Type: blogs
20th Birthday Classic: “Healthcare” vs. “Health Care”: The Definitive Word(s)
This is the last of the classics that THCB will run to celebrate our 20th birthday. And we are finally tackling the most important of questions. Is what we call this thing one word or two? Back in 2012 Michael Millenson had the definitive answer–Matthew Holt
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON
A recent contributor to this blog wondered about the correctness of “health care” versus “healthcare.” I’d like to answer that question by channeling my inner William Safire (the late, great New York Times language maven). If you’ll stick with me, I’ll also disclose why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Serv...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy health care Healthcare Michael Millenson Source Type: blogs
Flurry of AI, Partnerships, and New Features Announced at Epic UGM
The theme of this year’s Epic User Group Meeting (UGM) was Castaway which was inspired by both the Tom Hank’s movie as well as earlier fare like Gilligan’s Island. A more appropriate theme may have been the Fast and Furious movies given the fast pace of announcements from senior company leaders on Day 2 of the event.
Dressed in a brightly colored “island survivor“ outfit, Epic CEO Judy Faulkner strode onto the UGM stage to deliver her keynote address to the amassed audience of 38,000 customers and employees (virtual + in-person). Her hour-long speech was packed with updates.
Generative AI
Sprinkled through Faulkn...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System #EPICUGM Abridge Epic partnership program Epic Systems Generative AI InterSystems Judy Faulkner Microsoft Nuance PressGan Source Type: blogs
In the trenches of health care: Facing unbearable strain
I’m so sorry, but the pain was too much, and I couldn’t continue. I have witnessed patients crying themselves to sleep while nurses held their hands, praying for their treatments to be approved, giving them one more chance at life. Nurses try to juggle 8, 9, 10, or more patients during their shifts, holding onto
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In the trenches of health care: Facing unbearable strain originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Anonymous Tags: Physician Critical Care Source Type: blogs
