Weekly Roundup – March 2, 2024
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.
3 Key Takeaways From ViVE 2024: Live from Los Angeles, Colin Hung shared some quick takes on the main conversations at ViVE 2024: AI maturity, Change Healthcare and the stage of cybersecurity, and the booths in the expo hall getting bigger. Read more… and don’t forget to check out our special edition of Bonus Features from ViVE 2024!
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Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Whole Roasted Squash With Tomato-Ginger Chickpeas & Za ’atar
I read myself the riot act about 6 months ago, when my cholesterol level reached a new high. My doctor seemed nonplussed, perhaps because my cardiac calcium score was a perfect zero. But I was not happy. Yes, I had lost weight and was exercising, but to be honest, my heart belonged to cheese. And eggs. And ice cream. Something had to change.
Breakfast was easy. The whole eggs (which I had been eating almost daily) were replaced by Starbucks Sous Vide Egg whites or oatmeal served with a side of chicken sausage. Lunches were yogurt or soup or vegan bean burritos or salad or tuna or peanut butter. I started snacking on nu...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 21, 2024 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Vegetables Butternut Squash Chickpeas vegetarian za'atar Source Type: blogs
Must Read
I ' m not going to discuss this or try to add to it, I ' m just going to ask you to read it.This is the McLuhan Lecture from Berlin, given by Cory Doctorow, on the subject of enshittificiation. We ' re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in
which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into
giant piles of shit.It ' s frustrating. It ' s demoralizing. It ' s even terrifying.I think that the enshittification framework goes a long way to
explaining it, moving us out of the mysterious realm of the ' great
forces of history, ' and into the material world of specific dec...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 4, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How to make the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes less difficult
Conclusion
Being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes is undoubtedly an overwhelming experience. However, healthcare providers can make a significant difference by acknowledging and addressing the emotional challenges. Engaging in collaborative conversations, offering support, and providing helpful resources can empower people to manage their diabetes and see it is possible to live a long and healthy life with diabetes.Thanks for joining us today, and remember – you are not alone in your diabetes journey.
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Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - February 1, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Amazon ’s New Prime Benefit Is a Wake-Up Call for Traditional Health Systems
The following is a guest article by Sonia Singh, Chief Insights Officer at AVIA Health
Amazon’s latest venture into healthcare, the integration of One Medical into its Prime service, marks a significant shift in the healthcare industry. With over 170 million Prime subscribers, Amazon’s move promises an affordable healthcare option at just $9 per month at a time when the nation faces a shortage in primary care, with demand significantly outweighing supply.
Delivering a scalable, financially viable model that can actually provide the necessary impact on health outcomes would have transformative effects on the ind...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Amazon Amazon Healthcare Amazon Prime AVIA Health Concierge Medicine Healthcare Accessibility One Medical Sonia Singh Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Understanding the difference between diabetes distress and depression
In conclusion, it is essential to differentiate between diabetes distress and depression to provide people with the correct support and intervention. While depression rates among people with diabetes are not as high as previously believed, diabetes distress is remarkably prevalent. Recognizing the distinction between these two emotional challenges empowers healthcare professionals and individuals alike to manage their emotional well-being more effectively.
You already know that living with diabetes is a continuous journey, and it is normal to struggle emotionally along the way. But by understand...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - December 27, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Ginger Vieira – Exercise with Type 1 Diabetes
In conclusion, Ginger Vieira’s book, Exercise with Type 1 Diabetes (affiliate link), is a must-read for anyone with diabetes who wants to incorporate exercise into their daily routine.
Ginger’s expertise and personal experiences make this book a valuable resource for understanding the impact of exercise on blood sugar levels and managing diabetes effectively.
With practical tips and a supportive approach, Ginger empowers readers to take control of their health and enjoy the benefits of exercise. Don’t miss out on this concise and informative guide! ...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - December 20, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
The arrogance of expertise
Here is a thoughtful essay by NYT reporter Ed Yong. (Free Gift link! [as opposed to a not free gift]) It ' s long, but worth it. Yong was assigned the Long Covid beat and he found -- as I already knew -- that people who tell their doctors about long-term fatigue, pain, and cognitive difficulties, for which the physicians could find no specific biophysical explanation, commonly found their complaints dismissed or even ridiculed:Covering long Covid
solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force it
is often misconstrued as. It is instead a human endeavor, relentlessly
buffeted by our culture, values an...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 11, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 4th 2023
This study produced a great deal of data that continues to be mined for insights into human aging and effects of calorie restriction in a long-lived species such as our own, to contrast with the sizable effects on health and longevity in short-lived species such as mice.
In particular, and the topic for today, cellular senescence and its role in degenerative aging has garnered far greater interest in the research community in the years since the CALERIE study took place. Thus in today's open access paper, scientists examine CALERIE study data to find evidence for calorie restriction to reduce the burden of cellular ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Effects of Diet on Life Expectancy
It is somewhat interesting to see a careful analysis of diet and life expectancy, using the sizable UK Biobank population, that does not contain any of the words "calorie", "weight", or "obesity". The effects of calorie intake on health over the long-term are sizable, even if we focus only on mechanisms associated with the gain of weight. Visceral fat is metabolically active, generates an increased burden of senescent cells, and contributes to the chronic inflammation of aging via a range of different mechanisms.
Thus one would assume that buried underneath this set of data on what it is that people eat is a more re...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards
This article looks at what it will take to let us all check in to our doctor’s office as easily as we wave our cell phone before a scanner in a retail store.
Start with Standards
A typical digital validation in health care must be recognized by software on the patient’s device as well as sites at multiple institutions: providers, payers, pharmacies, and more. Therefore, standards are a prerequisite to digital insurance cards. Luckily (as the saying goes), there are many to choose from.
HL7, which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability CARIN Alliance Commons Project Foundation Digital Insurance Card FHIR hl7 JP Pollak Leavitt Partners Mark Scrimshire OnyxOS Patient Identificat Source Type: blogs
What are the most commonly used pain self-management strategies?
In a very unscientific vox populi survey conducted via my blog, I asked people with pain to tell me the FIVE self-management strategies they’d used over the week prior. If you’re interested in completing this yourself, click here: click. (Scroll down that page to the survey).
My reason for asking the question is that we have a list of self-management strategies, but the definitions and the way strategies are used in daily life are quite murky. For example, we don’t have a clear definition of ‘activity pacing’ though we are starting to investigate it. We also don’t know whether strateg...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - November 19, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping strategies Research Resilience/Health pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
The “Green Pope” Loves Science and Is Cautious of AI
By MIKE MAGEE
By all accounts, they were mutually supportive. He was three years older and the chief scientific adviser to the world’s most powerful religious leader. The Scientific American called him “the greatest scientist of all time,” and not because he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry a decade earlier for explaining the nuts and bolts of ozone formation. It was his blunt truthfulness and ecological advocacy that earned the organization’s respect.
Paul Crutzan is no longer alive. He died on February 4, 2021 in Mainz, Germany at the age of 87. What attracted the 86 year old “Green Pope” to Paul were t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Climate Change Mike Magee Pope Francis Source Type: blogs
Ripoff
You may have heard that the FDA recently concluded that a common ingredient in over-the-counter cold medicines doesn ' t work. That ' s a gift link to a NYT essay byRandy C. Hatton andLeslie Hendeles. This may not seem like such a big deal in itself, but there was never any good evidence that it worked in the first place and pharmacologists have been telling the FDA that it doesn ' t work for decades. The fact is that a lot of over-the-counter products that have FDA approval probably don ' t work. Oh, and by the way just about 100% of the so-called " supplements " and homeopathic " remedies " don ' t work either.Thes...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 29, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
