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Optimize your knee injury recovery without surgery
This article succinctly summarizes the situation, citing dozens of studies showing that some orthopedic surgeries popular in past decades had no better results than non-invasive treatments. This issue is deeply personal to me. In 2020, during the pandemic, Read more… Optimize your knee injury recovery without surgery originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Orthopedics Source Type: blogs

Unmasking the truth about ECMO [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join John R. Mehall, a cardiothoracic surgeon and physician executive. We explore the lasting impact of the global pandemic on hospitals in the United States, uncover the underlying financial crisis often overlooked by headlines, and discuss innovative strategies to bolster hospital finances. In particular, Read more… Unmasking the truth about ECMO [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Cardiology Critical Care Source Type: blogs

Weekly Roundup – July 22, 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. Bridging the Trust Gap Is Key to AI Success. AI needs guidelines, parameters and transparency, Dr. Stephen Kearney at SAS told Colin Hung. Algorithms should be evaluated with the same rigor as a clinical trial so clinicians know they can trust them before putting them to use. Read more… Cloud EHR Helped Suncoast Community Health Centers Save Money ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs

I am one of those women who left academic medicine
Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, anecdotal evidence and small survey-based studies show that women were leaving academic medicine in droves and were not returning— up to 40 percent of women leave medicine or go to a part-time position within six years of finishing residency. One landmark study pointed out the rarity of women in leadership Read more… I am one of those women who left academic medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs

The corporatization of medicine: Part two
2016 was in fact the first year in which fewer than half of physicians had an ownership stake in their practice, based on a survey by the American Medical Association.[i] The pace of acquisition of practices by hospitals and health systems during this period was astonishing. From 2014-2018, just four years, corporate ownership of practices increased from 24.1% to 45.6% of all physicians in a nationally representative sample. After selling out, physicians actually experienced a reduction in their income.[ii]The evidence that increasing concentration of medical services is associated with higher prices is consistent and exte...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 21, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

The Evolution Of Open Source Biotech - From Liberty To Justice
Jorge L. Contreras (University of Utah), The Evolution Of Open Source Biotech - From Liberty To Justice (2023): The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a resurgence of interest in “open source” approaches to biotechnology development. Like the open source software projects... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 21, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

What an occupational health lens reveals about clinician burnout
Clinician burnout is one of the most tenacious problems facing the contemporary health system. Recent years have seen a plethora of guidance on reducing burnout and improving health care workers’ well-being following the pandemic, but little evidence of improvement. Seeing the problem through an occupational health lens can reveal different solutions. Occupational health is a subfield of public health concerned Read more… What an occupational health lens reveals about clinician burnout originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 20, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors:

Reading for pleasure during childhood may lead to higher brain/ cognitive development and mental well-being during adolescence
This article was originally published on The Conversation. To Learn More: Reading science fiction can help children build critical thinking and resilience 8 Tips To Remember What You Read What are cognitive skills and how to boost them? Neuroimaging study finds extensive brain rewiring among illiterate adults learning to read and write The post Reading for pleasure during childhood may lead to higher brain/ cognitive development and mental well-being during adolescence appeared first on SharpBrains. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - July 19, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning ABCD adolescence adulthood boost cognition brain-development Brain-Plasticity brain-structure cognitive cognitive-skills cortex educational attainment Executive-Functions good Source Type: blogs

High Vendor Churn May Be On the Horizon in Healthcare
During the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of technologies were rapidly acquired and deployed by healthcare organizations like telehealth, remote patient monitoring and digital patient intake. According to a new report from Panda Health, now that the pandemic has subsided, organizations are revisiting those purchase decisions. Seven solution categories were identified as likely to experience moderate to high levels of churn in the next two years. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Ryan Bengtson, President and COO at Panda Health to dive deeper in to their Great Shakeup Report. Pandemic Drove Rapid Health IT Adoption According to ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Health IT churn healthcare vendor consolidation Panda Health Ryan Bengtson Telehealth The Great Shakeup Report vendor churn Source Type: blogs

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As Medicaid returns to normal, policymakers can utilize the tools at their disposal to prevent the potential reversal of children’s pandemic-era coverage gains.        (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - July 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sara Federman, Akeiisa Coleman Source Type: blogs

Physician burnout is a threat, no different from the spread of a virus —here ’ s how to fix it
Few problems in health care are more vexing or persistent than physician burnout. It’s a problem that poses a serious threat to patient care, no different from the spread of a virus or the impact of cigarette smoke. And it has only gotten worse since the pandemic. Burned-out physicians are less effective as healers. They Read more… Physician burnout is a threat, no different from the spread of a virus—here’s how to fix it originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 15, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Practice Management Primary Care Source Type: blogs

App Converts Smartphone to Clinical Thermometer
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed an app that converts common smartphones into clinical thermometers. Spotting the signs of fever early could make a difference in providing early treatment or beginning a period of isolation to reduce the chance of disease transmission. This is particularly important for viral diseases, such as COVID-19. However, many people may not have ready access to a clinical thermometer, so simply downloading an app could makes it accessible for people to take their temperature. The app relies on data from temperature sensors in the phone that normally monitor the temperature ...
Source: Medgadget - July 14, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Emergency Medicine Public Health Telemedicine universityofwashington 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

Our institutions have given up on the COVID-19 pandemic. We should not.
The COVID-19 pandemic is over. On May 5, The World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 was no longer a public health emergency. The U.S. followed suit on May 11, allowing the public health emergency declaration to expire. The pandemic did not end because of vaccination efforts nor from acquired herd immunity. The pandemic is over because Read more… Our institutions have given up on the COVID-19 pandemic. We should not. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs