Uncovering Diagnostic Information in the EHR with Regard
When doctors first see output from Regard’s AI analytics, they often say, “This is what I imagined the electronic medical record would be like when I heard about it for the first time.” Regard scans the patient’s medical records to find buried data that might be relevant to current treatment, and prepares a doctor’s note with that information.
According to Eli Ben-Joseph, CEO and co-founder at Regard, their tool “amplifies and empowers doctors and nurses who use it to be the best they can be.”
Regard is also dedicated to reducing the administrative burden on clinicians, where so ma...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Cerner EHR Bias EHR Burnout EHR UI Eli Ben-Joseph Epic Healthcare AI Healthcare Analytics H Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: A poetic interlude
Ch. 3 is a poem, in which Job laments his existence, and wishes for the succor of extinction. At the same time, he invokes the ubiquity of suffering and the despair countless others have felt. It refers to injustice and oppression, as well as simple misfortune such as his own. This is the first serious reflection on the human condition we have encountered in the Tanakh, and by far the most sophisticated literary creation. Again, we aren ' t sure whether the book has a single authorship, or whether this poem was inserted into the larger work by an editor. In any case, its existence implies that there must have been a substa...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 16, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Look at the Nobi Smart Lamp
One of the cool products we saw a demo of at the HIMSS conference this year was the Nobi smart lamp. Roeland Pelgrims, CEO at Nobi, took the time to demo the smart lamp to us and tell us more about what makes the Nobi smart lamp special.
Pelgrims shared that the goal of Nobi is to empower older adults. That’s why they believed that smart technologies like the Nobi smart lamp must be hidden and designed for life. He suggested that Nobi is “Clark Kent” 99% of the time and only has to be “Superman” 1% of the time.
What helps Nobi be superman is its ability to do fall detection, fall preve...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Elderly Patients Fall Detection Fall Prevention Healthcare IT Video Interviews HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Lifest Source Type: blogs
Bully nurse in ICU: a shattered moment for a dying patient
She was oil, and I was vinegar. We didn’t mix. Ever. Even though we wanted the best outcome for our ICU patients, we stood on opposite poles of the earth. Sometimes, there’s only room for one alpha dog, one ultimate bully. And that person wasn’t me. Mr. Williams, 68 years old, received the tragic news
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Bully nurse in ICU: a shattered moment for a dying patient originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Debbie Moore-Black, RN Tags: Conditions Critical Care Source Type: blogs
Globalization and occupation therapy - a continued musing.
I have been talking about the implications of globalization on the occupational therapy profession for quite some time - it started off withblog posts here and then apresentation at OT24VX in 2015. Then I gave the topic a whole chapter inmy theory textbook in 2019. Then there were more blog postshereandhere.In sum, I am uncertain if occupational therapy is a unitary global profession, although I now add this caveat:at least as understood in the publications of academics. I add this caveat now because I am uncertain if the things that people in academia write about truly reflects actual practice in oth...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - August 10, 2023 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: blogs
Chest pain and T wave inversion, NSTEMI?
Case submitted and written by Dr. Mazen El-Baba and Dr. Emily Austin, with edits from Jesse McLarenA 50 year-old patient presented to the Emergency Department with sudden onset chest pain that began 14-hours ago. The nurse alerted the MD because the patient was still symptomatic, diaphoretic and “looking unwell”. What do you think? ECG interpretation: sinus rhythm, normal conduction (PR, QRS, and QTc), normal axis, delayed R-wave progression, and normal voltages. There ’s primary TWI inferiorly (aVF and III) and V6, with reciprocal tall T-wave in lead I/aVL, and a Q wave in III. The...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 10, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
I Want a Lazy Girl Job Too
BY KIM BELLARD
I came across a phrase the other day that is so evocative, so delicious, that I had to write about it: “lazy girl job,” or, as you might know it. @#lazygirljob.
Now, before anyone gets too offended, it’s not about labeling girls as lazy; it’s not really even about lazy or even only girls. It’s about wanting jobs with the proverbial work-life balance: jobs that pay decently, don’t require crazy hours, and give employees flexibility to manage the other parts of their lives. Author Eliza Van Cort told Bryan Robinson, writing in Forbes: “The phrasing ‘lazy girl job’ is less than ideal...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: The Business of Health Care Gabrielle Judge Kim Bellard tiktok Work Life Balance Working Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – August 6, 2023 – 83% of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, 46% of hospitals planning to use large language models in the call center, and more
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.
News and Research
Five in six (83%) of hospitals are collecting SDoH data, according to the latest ONC Data Brief, with 74% using structured, electronic screening tools. Another 60% of hospitals are receiving SDoH data from out...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT ACO REACH AdvancedMD athenahealth Barracuda Cadence CareAR Carenet Health Cedar Clarify Health Cognizant Configo Health Connect Cost Plus Drugs David Bertoch David S. Wichmann Denise Ceule Dr. Mark Cohen e Source Type: blogs
These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level
The following is a guest article by Dr. Mark Pratt, Chief Medical Officer at Altera Digital Health
The patient quietly sits while her physician delves into the data stored in her electronic health record, combing through different screens for specific information. It takes longer than both expect, precious minutes that diminish the available time for an actual conversation about the patient’s health status and the physician’s recommendations.
This familiar scene exemplifies the unnecessary burdens traditional EHRs have placed on providers, patients, and the overall healthcare system. As a former ER physician and curren...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Altera Digital Health Clinical Usability Dr. Mark Pratt FHIR Flexible EHR Workflows Interoperability Physician Burnou Source Type: blogs
Examining the changing definition of medicine in health care
An excerpt from Imposter Doctors: Patients at Risk. On December 17, 2020, television network WGN America featured the book Patients at Risk: The Rise of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant in Healthcare in a news segment entitled, “Families sound alarm on medical transparency after deaths of their children.” The American Association of Nurse Practitioners
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Examining the changing definition of medicine in health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Rebekah Bernard, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Republican Misbehavior Promoted Health Professional Activism
By MIKE MAGEE
If you wanted to create a motto for the summer of 2023 – one that would stand the test of time from the medical exam room of Ohio to the gilded bathroom of Mar-a-lago – it would have to be Jack Smith’s “Facts matter!” If that is true on a national scale, it is equally true in states across the nation where doctors increasingly are coming out from behind a self-imposed clinical curtain and going public.
As reported in ProPublica last week, “Doctors who previously never mixed work with politics are jumping into the abortion debate by lobbying state lawmakers, campaigning, forming polit...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion Activism health care providers Mike Magee Physicians Trump Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 2nd August 2023 - reports
Some recent reports you might find useful. And one piece of research that escaped from the earlier blogpost.Maternal mental health: a briefing for integrated care systems, Maternal Mental Health Alliance.The Independent Pregnancy Loss Review: care and support when baby loss occurs before 24 weeks gestation, presented to Parliament (PDF).Royal College of Midwives:England: State of maternity services, 2023. NHS Race and Health Observatory,Review of neonatal assessment and practice in Black, Asian and minority ethnic newborns: Exploring the Apgar score, the detection of cyanosis, and jaundice (PDF),covere...
Source: Browsing - August 2, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
How dementia and COVID-19 robbed the baby doll of love
When I started visiting patients in nursing homes, a good many of them had some degree of dementia. In its earliest form, a person with dementia could recall what they were doing when they found out about 9/11, or when Kennedy was shot, or when Pearl Harbor was bombed in the Second World War. However,
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How dementia and COVID-19 robbed the baby doll of love originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Robert Killeen, MD Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
The Top 10 Health Chatbots
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 or nurses or any medical professional with every one of their health questions but will turn to chatbots first. If th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare Design health chatbot Innovation List medical Personalized medicine AI technology digital health chatbots Source Type: blogs
