Patients – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC 2024 Health IT Predictions ABOUT ABOUT Healthcare Amanda Bury Amit Kapoor Cedar Chris Blackley Christian Hardahl Clarify Health Clin Source Type: blogs

This Common Supplement Fights Cognitive Decline
This ubiquitous supplement may improve memory and abstract reasoning. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Brain Health Nutrition Source Type: blogs

A Facial Sign Of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Vitamin B12 levels can be boosted by eating foods such as dairy, liver, salmon and eggs. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs

The Future Of Cognitive Health: This Is How Digital Health Can Help
According to this study, digital healthcare technologies offer ways to manage and slow down the progression of conditions like dementia and mild cognitive impairment. However, choosing the right technology is difficult because there’s no comprehensive review that covers the various types of digital technology for cognitive impairment, including their effects and limitations. The goal of the study was to identify different types of digital health technologies used for dementia and mild cognitive impairment and evaluate how the results are measured and aligned with their intended purposes.  A total of 13...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 16, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF cognitive health Source Type: blogs

knownwell Raises $20M Series A From A16Z to Scale the First Patient-Centered Healthcare Home For Those With Overweight and Obesity
Building on This Mission, the Company is Launching an Adolescent Metabolic Health Program to Combat Rising Child Obesity Rates knownwell, an in-person and virtual, weight-inclusive primary care and metabolic health company, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by a16z with participation from existing investors including Flare Capital Partners. This brings knownwell’s total funding to $24.5 million and highlights a growing demand for weight-inclusive care companies focusing on whole-person treatment approaches to obesity beyond just short-term approaches like GLP-1 utilization organi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT a16z Brooke Boyarsky Pratt Dr. Angela Fitch Flare Capital Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment knownwell Vineeta Agarwala Source Type: blogs

This Antioxidant Supplement Leads To Weight Loss
Overweight people who took this antioxidant supplement managed to slim down without diet or exercise. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Weight Loss Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 15th 2024
In conclusion, FMD cycles have high potential to be effective in increasing the toxicity of a range of therapies against ALL and other blood cancers and should be tested in randomized clinical trials, especially in combination with immunotherapy and low toxicity cancer therapies. In summary, we present a new strategy for improving leukemia treatment by combining FMD with chemotherapy to promote the killing of ALL cells in part by an immune-dependent mechanism. Fasting/FMD has been shown to reduce chemotherapy-associated toxicity in pre-clinical and clinical studies and thus represents a safe and potentially effectiv...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 14, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Continued Assessment of the Fasting Mimicking Diet as an Adjuvant Cancer Therapy
In conclusion, FMD cycles have high potential to be effective in increasing the toxicity of a range of therapies against ALL and other blood cancers and should be tested in randomized clinical trials, especially in combination with immunotherapy and low toxicity cancer therapies. In summary, we present a new strategy for improving leukemia treatment by combining FMD with chemotherapy to promote the killing of ALL cells in part by an immune-dependent mechanism. Fasting/FMD has been shown to reduce chemotherapy-associated toxicity in pre-clinical and clinical studies and thus represents a safe and potentially effectiv...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 12, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Remarkable Cities and the Security and Sovereignty of Food and Nutrition: 41 Ways to Regenerate the Local Food System
Jonathan D. Rosenbloom (Albany Law School), Sierra Tillery, Remarkable Cities and the Security and Sovereignty of Food and Nutrition: 41 Ways to Regenerate the Local Food System, Env ’t L. Inst. (2023): Development is not sustainable if it fails to create... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 10, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Chronological Age is Not a Good Component of Patient Risk Assessment
Chronological age is embedded in a great many standardized, widely-used protocols for patient risk assessment. Age-related diseases are, after all, age-related, and this use of chronological age has long seemed a reasonable choice. That said, we are now moving into an era in which novel means of measuring biological age are under development, such as epigenetic clocks. Biological age is the burden of damage and dysfunction resulting from the causative processes of aging. Obviously, this should better reflect the odds of suffering age-related disease. While biological age correlates with chronological age, there is a...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 9, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Wrong lessons in lipidology : Eradicating LDL is not our goal !
15 % of body weight is fat. (10kg) Out of which just 250 mg of cholesterol is streaming in blood. We must understand fat, lipid and cholesterol are different entities. LDL is obviously a target against atherosclerosis. While the total body fat seems to do little in determining blood cholesterol levels, what is more scientifically shocking is the slope of curve between blood LDL levels and plaque burden is rarely linear. Mind you, LDL constitutes .000025% of total fat. We have many other targets in dyslipidemia like free cholesterol, harmful fatty acids, remnant cholesterol, TGLs, dysfunctional HDLs LDL is not innocen...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - January 9, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized cut off value for ldl esc aha guidlines for lipids functions of ldl molecule good and bad cholesterol how low ldl can go inclisiron lipid metabolism lipidology pcsk inhibitors repatha Source Type: blogs

How Can the Immune System Go Awry?
This post is part of a miniseries on the immune system. Be sure to check out the other posts in this series that you may have missed. The immune system is designed to closely monitor the body for signs of intruders that may cause infection. But what happens if it malfunctions? Overactive and underactive immune systems can both have negative effects on your health. Autoimmune Disorders To effectively monitor the body for pathogens, the adaptive immune system has to learn what a pathogen “looks like” on a molecular level. During their development, white blood cells go through training to learn how to differe...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - January 8, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Injury and Illness Diseases Immunology Miniseries Infectious Diseases Microbes Sepsis Source Type: blogs

The Hallmarks of Aging in the Context of Sarcopenia
Researchers have implicated numerous mechanisms in the age-related loss of muscle mass and strength leading to the condition known as sarcopenia. While not everyone arrives at a diagnosis of sarcopenia, everyone is subject to the progressive deterioration of muscle tissue. One of the challenges facing attempts to understand age-related disease in detail is that the noteworthy mechanisms of aging form a complex, interacting web of cause and consequence. It is next to impossible to determine which mechanisms are more or less important from observation alone. So while one can mount a good argument for sarcopenia to be driven ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 8, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 8th 2024
This study examined whether the local injection of the supernatant of activated PRP (saPRP) into the salivary gland (SG) could help prevent aging-induced SG dysfunction and explored the mechanisms responsible for the protective effects on the SG hypofunction. Human salivary gland epithelial cells (hSGEC) were treated with saPRP or PRP after senescence through irradiation. The significant proliferation of hSGEC was observed in saPRP treated group compared to irradiation only group and irradiation + PRP group. Cellular senescence, apoptosis, and inflammation were significantly reduced in the saPRP group. Th...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 7, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Value Based Care – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions.  We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes.  In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.  Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media. All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared): John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Revenue Cycle Management 2024 Health IT Predictions 9amHealth Andreessen Horowitz Anthony Hudson Anton Kittleberger Source Type: blogs