The unsung heroes of disease detectives: Controlling outbreaks and pandemics to save lives
An excerpt from Outbreaks and Pandemics: The Life of a Disease Detective. The importance of disease detectives in solving and controlling outbreaks and pandemics must be recognized. We are the backbone of our public health system. We are scientifically savvy, inquisitive, detail-oriented, and able to follow the data wherever it leads, hopefully to answers and
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The unsung heroes of disease detectives: Controlling outbreaks and pandemics to save lives originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nicholas A. Daniels, MD, MPH Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Pomelo Care Secures $33M, Partners with Leading Health Plans, Employers and Academic Medical Centers to Deliver Value-Based Care and Improve Maternal and Newborn Health
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital, Pomelo Care has Built an End-to-End, Value-Based Virtual Maternity Care Platform and is on Track to Cover 2M Lives this Year
Pomelo Care, a virtual medical practice that improves maternal and newborn health outcomes, today announced $33 million in Seed and Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The capital will fuel Pomelo’s continued partnership expansion with major health plans, including several Medicaid managed care organizations, employers and leading academic medical centers on the front lines of the national maternal health crisis.
Pomelo’s multispeci...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Adam Boehler Allen & Company LLC Andreessen Horowitz BoxGroup Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation CMMI Elevance First Round Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Source Type: blogs
Legal Accountability and Judicial Review During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand
Dean R. Knight (Victoria University of Wellington), Legal Accountability and Judicial Review During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand, (2023): This paper looks at the use of judicial review of administrative action in Aotearoa New Zealand to hold the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 23, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies
Roojin Habibi (York University), Luciano Bottini Filho (Sheffield Hallam University), Judith Bueno de Mesquita (University of Essex), Gian Luca Burci (University of Geneva), et al., The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (2023): The COVID-19 pandemic... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 22, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans
The following is a guest article by Mike Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value Based Care at Edifecs
Consumers are at the heart of healthcare — their fears are forcing healthcare innovators to shift priorities to deliver consumer-centric digital health offerings. This is true today, tomorrow, and far into the future.
With inflation brings financial concerns that lead to cost-cutting efforts often resulting in poorer health outcomes from millions of Americans. Consumers are looking for smarter ways to save on healthcare, forcing insurance providers to make marked changes to the way they conduct outreach and how they...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring APIs Application Programming Interfaces Consumers Edifecs EHR FHIR Health Plans Healthcare Consumers Healthcare Insurance Compa Source Type: blogs
As Health Professionals Go, So Goes Our Democracy
By MIKE MAGEE
Last weekend’s New York Times headline, The Moral Crisis of America’s Doctors, spotlights that there is growing concern that the monetarization and corporatization of nursing and medical professions by hospital and insurance power houses, have seriously undermined the mental health and ethical effectiveness of health care professionals. The pandemic has only heightened the crisis.
Since focusing on the social science of Medicine in the 1990’s in Philadelphia, it has been an uphill battle to convince leaders in and out of Medicine that doctors and nurses are critical to individual and societal ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Mike Magee physician burnout Policy/Politics Source Type: blogs
Current resources about COVID-19
(Last updated 19th June 2023)IntroductionDuring lockdown I maintained a set of blogposts linking to resources about COVID. I have not updated those for some time, and have now decided that they are no longer needed. I have added the word " Archived " to the start of each page title, and tried to make it clear that they are no longer updated. Of course, COVID-19 has not gone away, and has become one of the infectious diseases that is with us always. So, I think although those older posts are no longer useful, a current list of resources might be. So, here is a shorter...
Source: Browsing - June 19, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
Lab-Created Mini Lungs to Study Respiratory Infections
Researchers at Rockefeller University have developed a cell culture platform in which to grow ‘lung buds’ from human embryonic stem cells. The tiny structures are similar to the lung buds that form during fetal development, and they contain tiny airways and alveoli. The researchers create the structures in a bio-reactor style device that is furnished with microfluidic chips in which the lung buds grow. The team developed a cocktail of growth factors that can stimulate the embryonic cells to differentiate into the lung buds, and they hope to use the system to test how respiratory infections behave and to discover new tr...
Source: Medgadget - June 19, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Pathology Public Health RockefellerUniv Source Type: blogs
3 myths about ECMO that are costing hospitals and patients
Although the global pandemic is officially over, it has left a permanent mark on the health care landscape, reshaping the dynamics of hospitals in the United States. While staffing crises often dominate the headlines, health care institutions face an underlying financial crisis that remains largely underreported. In 2022, a startling 50% of all U.S. hospitals
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3 myths about ECMO that are costing hospitals and patients originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: John R. Mehall, MD, MBA Tags: Physician Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Ask and Tell: Family Caregiving as a Social Determinant of Health
I sat in front of my doctor for the first time since before the pandemic. She was concerned: “You’re way overdue for a couple of screening tests and a vaccination.” I explained that between Covid waves and caregiving for my mom, I’d had to cancel and reschedule the most the screening test at least 3 times. And, caregiving for my mom was becoming more intense, which was going to create more challenges. She asked if anyone was helping me. I explained that my husband is a huge help. But I’m the only adult child who lives within driving distance. And just within the past few months there’s been a couple of falls, a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Geri Lynn Baumblatt Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System care partner family caregiver patient clinician relationship patient engagement SDOH Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
Air, Air, Everywhere, and Not a Breath Safe to Take
BY KIM BELLARD
If you live, as I do, anywhere in the Eastern half of the country, for the past week you’ve probably been thinking about something you’re not used to: wildfires. Sure, we’ve all been aware of how wildfires routinely plague the West Coast, particularly Oregon and Washington, but it’s novel for the East. So when the smoke from Canadian wildfires deluged cities through the East and Midwest, it came as kind of a shock.
For a day last week, New York City supposedly had the worst air quality in the world. The next day Philadelphia had that dubious distinction. The air quality index ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Non-Health Climate Change East Coast Kim Bellard West Coast Wildfires Source Type: blogs
On the front lines of COVID-19: the untold sacrifices and heroic efforts of health care professionals
There is a phenomenon sweeping across various medical circles on social media that is forcing people to address accusations from those who were not on the front lines of COVID at the beginning of the pandemic. Though I have refused to pay much attention to the details, I have become more and more enraged at
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On the front lines of COVID-19: the untold sacrifices and heroic efforts of health care professionals originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nicole M. King, MD Tags: Conditions COVID Critical Care Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: Unveiling the transformative shifts in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us as we chat with medical writer Steven Marshall about the evolving health care landscape during the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss the transformative effects on health care delivery, the availability of testing, vaccination, and therapies, and the upcoming changes as the public health
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COVID-19: Unveiling the transformative shifts in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Increased Medicaid Coverage Is Not Improving Low Birth Weight
Marc JoffeWith so many people obtaining Medicaid coverage in the wake of the Affordable Care Act and during the pandemic, it is worth investigating whether this expanded eligibility is improving health outcomes. Overall, decreases in theproportion of uninsured individuals over the last decade are not being matched by improved life expectancy. Indeed, life expectancy at birth in 2021was lower than it was when the Affordable Care Act passed. But this fact tells us little about the benefits of Medicaid coverage since the decline has been driven in large part by COVID-19 deaths among elderly patients (often not on Medicaid) as...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
Better Health Care Tests, Faster
This article looks at some specific problems and solutions.
Speeding up Test Development
We’ve seen with COVID-19 how quickly a virus can evolve and how hard it is to design both tests and vaccinations that accommodate different variants. Virax Biolabs uses data from the World Health Organization and others to develop tests quickly. For instance, new viral variants tend to spread in the southern hemisphere before hitting the northern hemisphere in our Winter, so Virax can check existing data to prepare better tests for the North.
The company is developing a T-cell diagnostics and profiling platform called Virax Immu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability CLIA COVID-19 Hydreight Immunexpress ixlayer Laboratories Labs Rolland Carlson Sepsis Sepsis Lab Tests Septicyte Shane Madden testing Tomasz George Source Type: blogs
