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Navigating COVID: Why it still matters
This article is sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc. In this special sponsored episode from Gilead, I’m joined by Anu Osinusi, an infectious disease physician and Vice President of Clinical Research for Hepatitis, Respiratory, and Emerging Viruses at Gilead, to discuss navigating COVID-19 today. We look back on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and Read more… Navigating COVID: Why it still matters originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors:
By KIM BELLARD It’s Cyber Monday, and you’ve probably been shopping this weekend. In-stores sales on Black Friday rose 2.2% this year, whereas online sakes rose almost 8%, to $9.8b – over half of which was via mobile shopping. Cyber Monday, though, is expected to outpace Black Friday’s online shopping, with an estimated $12b, 5.4% higher than last year.  Lest we forget, Amazon’s Prime Day is even bigger than either Cyber Monday or Black Friday.   All that shopping means lots of deliveries, and here’s where I got a surprise: according to a Wall Street Journal analysis, Amazon is now the leadin...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech The Business of Health Care Amazon AWS Delivery Kim Bellard Pharmacy Pillpack Source Type: blogs

Clinicians ’ transformative health care paths [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Listen to conversations that uncover the unique perspectives of health care professionals and the transformative power of their work. Tamara Beckford, an emergency physician, reveals her remarkable journey from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic to entrepreneurial success. And, Robert Kornfeld, a pioneering Read more… Clinicians’ transformative health care paths [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs

The Chaos Machine
That ' s the title of a book by Max Fisher. I ' m only halfway through it but I ' ve already seen plenty. Fisher documents with excruciating detail how so-called social media -- most notably Facebook, YouTube, the application formerly known as Twitter, and TikTok -- use mindless machine learning to hijack some of people ' s natural tendencies and drive them into cesspools of disinformation, extremism, and hatred.  The companies that own that own these platforms know full well what is happening but they only care about money and they adamantly refuse to do anything about it. Facebook has literally caused mob viole...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Toward an Infrastructure of Care
Alan S. Gutterman, Toward an Infrastructure of Care (2023): In the US, the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on residents and staff members of nursing homes and assisted living and long-term care facilities, as well as calls for addressing... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 24, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

(We Don ’ t) Trust The Science
By KIM BELLARD I know the A.I. community is eagerly waiting for me to weigh in on the Sam Altman/OpenAI dramedy (), but I’m not convinced this isn’t all a ploy by ChatGPT, so I’m staying away from it.  A.I. may, indeed, be an existential issue for our age, but it’s one of many such issues that I fear we’re not, as a society, going to be equipped to handle. Last week the Pew Research Center issued an alarming report Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline. Now, a glass half-full kind of person might look at it and say – no, it’s good news!  Fifty-seven pe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Creationism Education Kim Bellard Science STEM Source Type: blogs

The state of digital health and innovation Q3 2023
We witnessed a digital health explosion during the pandemic, marked by significant investments in telehealth and other sectors. However, the market could not maintain its pace in the post-pandemic era. However, the year 2023 is showing clear signs of market emergence. Though the last two quarters have shown a reduction in funding and deal volume, Read more… The state of digital health and innovation Q3 2023 originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 20, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

poem
 MasksThe one thing I miss about the pandemicWas always wearing the mask.Free range to talk to myself Without anyone seeing my lips moving. Don ’t judge It ’s none of your business. Just listen Sometimes an excited whisperOften a boring low drone Mostly a dinner party overcompensation. The best way to become less self-Conscious is to incessantly talk to yourself Out loud as much as you can.Become the mad man muttering On the sidewalk that everyoneCrosses the street to avoid. We aren ’t really crazyJust a little less self aware.Now that I have to keep thoseConvers...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - November 20, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs

Sage Secures $15M to Improve Quality of Care for Older Adults and Combat Caregiver Burnout
Sage Technology Improves Senior Living Community Operations, Improving both Caregiver and Resident Satisfaction, and Reducing Caregiver Turnover by 40% Sage, a technology company reinventing care for older adults through its unified care coordination platform, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by new investor Maveron. The round also includes all major investors including Goldcrest Capital, ANIMO Ventures, and Distributed Ventures. Natalie Dillon, partner at Maveron, will be joining the Sage board of directors as the first outside board member. In the wake of widespread healthcare worker shortages and increasi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ANIMO Ventures Distributed Ventures Goldcrest Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Maveron Natalie Dillon Raj Mehra Sage Source Type: blogs

Zealous for Wellness: Deciding What Kind of Change You Want
This article looks at the measurements and reporting strategies used by some specific companies. Their interventions, goals, and measures depend a lot on who’s paying for the service. Wondr Health Gives Employers What They Ask For Wondr Health, like so many companies in this article and in the value-based healthcare space generally, works with employers and payers. Ultimately, for many employers, the purpose of engaging Wondr Health’s behavioral interventions is to improve employee productivity. According to chief medical officer Dr. Tim Church, some of Wondr Health’s clients focus on cutting down the c...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Behavior Change behavioral health Cli Source Type: blogs

Workflow Automation To Help Deliver Services to Marginalized Populations
The recent turn to a more holistic health care system—such as the interest in dealing with social determinants of health, covered in a recent SDoH series on this site—places a new urgency on connecting patients to services that provide counseling, food, transportation, and other needs that affect their health. Many people among impoverished and under-represented populations don’t use the services to which they’re entitled. The people might not realize these services exist, or don’t think they need help, or don’t think they deserve it. Many of these people enter the ecosystem of human resource o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Administrative Workflows Case Management Casebook Casebook PBC Diversity Equity and Inclusio Source Type: blogs

Putting people in boxes
I just finished readingThe Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Meghan O ' Rourke. She lived for many years with a debilitating illness that went undiagnosed. She ultimately concluded that she had chronic sequelae of Lyme disease, likely complicated by autoimmune and other manifestations that may have been triggered by Lyme disease or possibly just co-occurring coincidentally. In her desperation to find relief, or at least answers, she saw innumerable physicians and other practitioners, ultimately resorting to people with, shall we say, unorthodox ideas who many people -- I included -- would classify as quack...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Geographic Differences in the Mortality Burden of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Julian Reif (University of Illinois), Hanke Heun-Johnson (University of Southern California), Siho Park (University of Illinois), Geographic Differences in the Mortality Burden of the Covid-19 Pandemic (Institute of Government and Public Affairs Research Paper) (2023): While the COVID-19 pandemic greatly... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 13, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Medicine & Art (Not necessarily in that order)
  This video presentation was delivered in March 2023 in the Winter Talk series sponsored by NYC Urban Sketchers, hosted by Mark Leibowitz. Here I discuss how I have integrated medicine with art, and art with medicine, in the course of my career as a medical doctor in Manhattan.  I’ve had many people inspire me in my pursuit of both medicine and art, including Andreas Vesalius, Anton Chekhov, AJ Cronin, and Frank Netter. I would like to quote one of the doctors who inspired me.  His name is William Carlos Williams, who was a practicing physician and a giant in the 20th century world of poetry.  He wrote his ...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - November 12, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Art & Medicine Geriatric Medicine art and medicine artist Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD medical artist medicine and art Source Type: blogs

Capitalist pigs
I ' ve had a few things to say now and again about the incompatibility of the pursuit of profit with medicine. The corporatization and commodification of health care has been bad for people biologically, emotionally, and financially. There ' s a lot to unpack about that, but one of the most egregious problems is so-called private equity, that is companies that are not publicly traded, do not have to make substantive financial disclosures, and generally operate by buying up existing companies, squeezing profit out of them by cutting costs, and then selling them, usually as husks of their former selves. Here ' s one of innum...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 10, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs