Isometric Exercises: A New Hope For Hypertension Management
Conclusion
As we reflect on the power of exercise in managing hypertension, it’s clear that isometric workouts stand as a compelling addition to the traditional regimen.
Their role in significantly reducing both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, as the study suggests, offers fresh hope for individuals navigating the challenges of high blood pressure.
Yet, as we embrace these workouts, it’s essential to remember the words of healthcare professionals like Joanne Whitmore and Jim Pate. Exercise, though pivotal, is just one aspect of a broader strategy to manage hypertension.
Alongside this, life...
Source: The EMT Spot - July 31, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – July 30, 2023 – Amazon gets into the generative AI game, HIMSS plans to sell off the annual trade show, 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
HIMSS is planning to sell its annual conference to Informa. Fierce Healthcare confirmed the news as initially reported by Trade Show Executive. The deal only appears to involve the trade show – next slated for March 1...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 3M ABOUT Partners Amazon AWS Babylon Carta Healthcare Cognizant CoxHealth eClinicalWorks eCW Gilead Gozio Health Healthbook Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Healthcare VR HealthLock HealthScribe HEDIS He Source Type: blogs
Health IT ’s Role in Fixing Healthcare’s Biggest AI Misconceptions
The following is a guest article by Dave DeCaprio, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at ClosedLoop
No matter where you look – from TikTok filters to the latest ChatGPT release – artificial intelligence (AI) has a profound and growing impact on our daily lives. The market for AI is expected to show strong growth in the coming decade; its current value of nearly $100 billion USD is expected to increase twentyfold by 2030, reaching nearly $2 trillion.
AI has the potential to transform the ever-growing healthcare industry. However, many healthcare organizations don’t know where to start. Leaders struggle to disting...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AI Solution Algorithmic Bias Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT ClosedLoop Dave DeCaprio EHR Generative AI Healthcare AI Healthcare ChatGPT La Source Type: blogs
Gradia Health Secures $4.2M in Seed Funding to Improve Ongoing Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions
The Platform is set to Reinvigorate Patient-Physician Communication Pathways by Partnering Directly with Brick-and-Mortar Practices to Deliver Superior Virtual Care Beyond the Doctor’s Office
Gradia Health, the integrated concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions, today announced its seed funding totaling $4.2M. The round was led by Adrian Fenty at MaC Venture Capital with participation from YCombinator, Soma Capital, Atlanta Ventures, and several angel investors, including Gene Lee (Ramp), Eric Feldman (Bolt), David Tsao (BillionToOne), Austen Allred (Bloomtech), Juan Bene...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Adrian Fenty Andrew Zelaya Atlanta Ventures Austen Allred BillionToOne Bloomtech Bolt Chronic Conditions David Tsao Eric Feldman Gene Lee Golden Gradia Gradia Health Health IT Funding Healt Source Type: blogs
The persecution of pain management doctors
The call came in during a busy workday. My comprehensive primary care clinic had been built over a decade of hard work and had a general practice clinic staffed by a very capable former surgeon and several nurse practitioners, as well as a pain management program and an addiction treatment clinic. We also had several
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The persecution of pain management doctors originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Physician Pain Management Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Thinking on Your Feet Well: Building Adaptive Expertise in Learners Using Simulation
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Sam Clarke, MD, MAS, and Jon Ilgen, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss the importance of teaching adaptive expertise to prepare learners for the types of complex cases they will encounter in clinical practice. This conversation also covers what adaptive expertise is, how simulation can be used to foster this skill in learners, and the complementary relationship between performance-oriented cases and adaptive cases in health professions education.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available.
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 24, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast adaptive expertise medical education medical students residents simulation Source Type: blogs
“The Problem is Not Lack of Information”: A Qualitative Study of Parents and School Nurses’ Perceptions of Barriers and Potential Solutions for Hpv Vaccination in Schools
Ève Dubé (Institut National De Santé Publique Du Québec), Chantal Sauvageau (Institut National De Santé Publique Du Québec), Maude Dionne (Institut National De Santé Publique Du Québec), Marilou Kiely (Institut National De Santé Publique Du Québec), “The Problem is Not... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 22, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Don ’t Wait for A Lawsuit to Address Accessibility
The following is a guest article by Bob Farrell, VP, Solution Delivery & CX Practice at Applause
When it comes to healthcare, inclusivity is not a nice to have, but rather an absolute necessity. In healthcare, many patients have short- or long-term needs for accessible experiences. A lack of accessible experiences exposes companies to liability, and more importantly, their customers to faulty care. Failing to comply with accessibility standards puts patients at risk and opens the door to very expensive litigation. Meanwhile, conformance to standards should merely be a first step.
Full digital accessibility has many ben...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations Accessibility Ada Applause Bob Farrell Healthcare Accessibility Inclusive Healthcare People with Disabilit Source Type: blogs
The corporatization of medicine: Part One
This will be a multi-part series. The days of independent community hospitals and small
physician practices are just about over. Paul Starr ’s famous book The Social
Transformation of American Medicine tells the story
of rise of a “sovereign” medical profession, consisting largely of
entrepreneurs who owned their own individual or small group practices and made
their living as independent business people. They were generally suspi cious of
alternative models such as large group practice and salaried employment. But recent
decades have been marked by one overarching trend: the consolidation of the
medical institu...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Mindlessness
Academy Health is the rather oddly named society for health services researchers. They sent me a press release which I excerpt: Today, the House Appropriations Committee released a
breathtakingly reckless bill that decimates federal research, science,
and medicine programs, and puts the health of all Americans at risk. It
is so extreme that many pundits presume it has zero chance of becoming
law, but that very extremism requires that we respond quickly and
unequivocally. . . . " This bill would eliminate the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) in its entirety. AHRQ supports r...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 14, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
DexCare Closes $75M in Series C Funding, Led by ICONIQ Growth, to Accelerate Market Expansion of its Care Access Platform
Funding will Advance DexCare’s Product Portfolio of Innovation to help U.S. Healthcare Systems Capture Consumers, Manage Limited Resources, and Control Costs to Fuel Growth
DexCare, Inc., the leading patient demand and care access platform, today announced the close of its $75 million Series C funding round led by ICONIQ Growth. The funding will advance DexCare’s platform, which extends limited health-system capacity to serve patients faster and to precisely manage the supply and demand of digital-care access. The new funding brings the total raised to $146 million, including two oversubscribed rounds closed in less th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Adyen Caroline Xie Datadog Define Ventures Derek Streat DexCare Frist Cressey Ventures GitLab Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment ICONIQ Growth Kaiser Permanente Ventures Source Type: blogs
What do doctor and nursing burnout, the COVID pandemic, and the Easter Bunny have in common?
Question: What do doctors and nursing burnout, the COVID pandemic, and the Easter Bunny have in common? Answer: Not a damn thing. For the past few years, any article on medical labor shortages, disgruntlement, or changes in employment, such as the rise of travel nurses or locum physicians, invariably cited the same cause: COVID. But
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What do doctor and nursing burnout, the COVID pandemic, and the Easter Bunny have in common? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Anonymous Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
What we can learn about rehab from my dog
Miss Molly May is my adorable, high energy, full-sized labradoodle. She’s five years old, and has just undergone a tibial plateau leveling osteotomy for her right rear knee. Essentially she damaged the dog equivalent of her cruciate ligament because she’s an idiot. Well, she’s a dog who adores chasing the B-A-L-L and the F-R-I-S-B-E-E and any random S-T-I-C-K at full speed, turning really fast to catch it before anyone else gets to it.
Five weeks ago she was seen by our local general practice vet, referred to animal physio (click) and comprehensively examined there, then referred to the Animal Orth...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - July 9, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Coping strategies biopsychosocial Clinical reasoning Health healthcare Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – July 9, 2023 – Providers spend 11% less time writing clinical notes than they did three years ago, 54% of surgeons unsure about first-to-market products, 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
The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools. Overall, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Carenet Health Clarify Health Connected Health Initiative EHR Association Epic Epic Research Ethicon Harvard Medical School Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS Inovalon Laudio Lauren Struck Loyal MCG Health Source Type: blogs
Should physicians defend their “ Dr. ” title amidst changing entitlements?
In these uncertain times regarding entitlement, physicians find themselves unsure whether they should continue defending their use of the title “Dr.” There are instances where teachers can hold the title of Dr., as can individuals with PhDs. Additionally, nurses can also obtain PhDs and subsequently be addressed as Dr. Given the evolving climate of reducing
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Should physicians defend their “Dr.” title amidst changing entitlements? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Deepak Gupta, MD Tags: Physician Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
