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Electronic Health Records (EHR): How to Achieve Healthcare Data Accuracy with Artificial Intelligence
The following is a guest article by Ann Krutsko, Healthcare IT Researcher at ScienceSoft In healthcare, working with inaccurate patient data is a dangerous game. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems. And while EHRs have largely benefited the organizations that have adopted them, data accuracy is still a point of concern. Data entry is still fraught with human error. However, innovations in the field in the way of artificial intelligence integrations are making significant strides in enhancing data quality in EHRs. From data validation to ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Integration Ann Krutsko Data Accuracy Data Entry Data Validation EHR Healthcare AI Healthcare Data Real-Time Alerts ScienceSoft Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 26th 2024
In conclusion, mTORC1 signaling contributes to the ISC fate decision, enabling regional control of intestinal cell differentiation in response to nutrition. « Back to Top Reviewing the Development of Senotherapeutics to Treat Aging https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/02/reviewing-the-development-of-senotherapeutics-to-treat-aging/ Senescent cells accumulate with age and contribute meaningfully to chronic inflammation and degenerative aging. Destroying these cells produces rapid and sizable reversal of age-related diseases in mice, demonstrating that the presence of senescence cells ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

An Update on Kimer Med, Improving on the DRACO Antiviral Technology and Moving Towards the Clinic
The state of anti-viral therapies isn't that great, all things considered. Technology has not yet advanced to the point at which a viral infection can be simply shut down, as is the case for near all bacterial infections. The present anti-viral drugs are either vaccines (useful!) or merely shift the odds somewhat by interfering in some part of the viral life cycle, but nowhere near as effectively as desired. Many persistent viral infections are thought to contribute meaningfully to forms of age-related dysfunction, and there is too little that can be done about that at the present time. This landscape is one of the ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 23, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 5th 2024
In conclusion, the Immunity and Redox Clocks allow BA quantification in mice and both the ImmunolAge and RedoxAge in mice relate to lifespan. « Back to Top Senolytic CAR T Cell Therapy Improves Health in Aged Mice https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/01/senolytic-car-t-cell-therapy-improves-health-in-aged-mice/ To the degree that senescent cells in a tissue exhibit distinctive surface features, one can deploy technologies such as chimeric antigen receptor T cells to selectively destroy them. T cells will destroy whatever cell binds to the chimeric antigen receptor they are equipped w...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 4, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

DEL-1 Upregulation Promotes Bone Regeneration in Aged Mice
Bone is constantly remodeled throughout life. The extracellular matrix making up bone tissue is continually broken down by osteoclast cells and built up by osteoblast cells. In youth, these activities are balanced. With aging, however, the activity of osteoclast cells progressively outweighs the activity of osteoblast cells. The consequence is an ever greater loss of bone mineral density leading to osteoporosis. This process is also found in the bone loss characteristic of advanced periodontitis. There are many contributing factors leading to the imbalance in bone remodeling, and it isn't all that clear as to which of them...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 1, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

I Have Some Silly Questions
BY KIM BELLARD Last year I used some of Alfred North Whitehead’s pithy quotations to talk about healthcare, starting with the provocative “It is the business of the future to be dangerous.”  I want to revisit another of his quotations that I’d like to spend more time on: “The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.”  I can’t promise that I even have intimations of what the totally new developments are going to be, but if any industry lends itself to asking “silly” questions about it, it is healthcare. Hopefully I can at least spark some thought and discussion.   ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Healthcare Kim Bellard US Healthcare system Source Type: blogs

A smelly boost for your mothing life
TL:DR – Recent research has demonstrated that adding the volatile organic compound amyl acetate to a scientific moth-trap can boost the number of moths attracted to the UV light by almost a third. A social media discussion about UV light sources for scientific moth-trapping, the type of vanes on the trap, and the environment in which one traps brought up some interesting thoughts. Several moth-ers use double sources to give them a better chance of enticing numbers and diversity to their traps. Although moths have been shown almost always to simply opt for the most energetic (higher frequency, shorter wavelength) whe...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Chemistry Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs

From penicillin to digital health: the impact of social media on medicine
In a growing social media world population, one cannot ignore the technological invasion of the medical world. From the discovery of penicillin to electronic medical records and the digital health revolution, real medical revolutions are not too many. However, social media is disrupting the medical ecosystem and how we practice medicine. Information to the public Read more… From penicillin to digital health: the impact of social media on medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 20, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors:

As Balwani and Holmes Head To Jail …Will Others in Health Tech Follow?
by MIKE MAGEE This week’s headlines seemingly closed a chapter on the story of medical research criminality in America. Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, former president and COO of Theranos was sentenced to 13 years in prison for fraud. That’s 2 years more than his former business and romantic partner, Elizabeth Holmes. White crime criminal defense attorney for all things science tech, Michael Weinstein, took the opportunity to trumpet out a confident message that crime doesn’t pay in Medicine with these words, “It clearly sends a signal to Silicon Valley that puffery and fraud and misrepresentation will be pr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medical Practice Ethics Henry K. Beecher Medical Ethics Mike Magee Theranos Source Type: blogs

Quiz: Antibiotic Resistance and Researchers Studying It
Antibiotics are a class of drugs that treat bacterial infections. They may seem common now, but they were discovered less than a century ago. In 1928, Alexander Fleming, a scientist studying bacteria, found that mold from his bread kept bacteria from growing. He determined that “mold juice” was able to kill different types of harmful bacteria, and he and his assistants worked to figure out what natural product in the mold was actually causing the killing. It turned out to be penicillin! Thanks to Fleming’s discovery, doctors have been successfully treating bacterial infections with penicillin and other newer anti...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 26, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Injury and Illness Bacteria Infectious Diseases Quiz Viruses Source Type: blogs

Rheumatic heart disease – Cardiology Basics
Rheumatic heart disease – Cardiology Basics Rheumatic heart disease is a group diseases which occur secondary to heart valve damage from rheumatic fever. Rheumatic fever is a disease in which antibodies produced by the body against streptococci cross react with different tissues in the body, especially the heart. Group A beta hemolytic streptococci causing sore throat are involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatic fever. Most of the long term damage following rheumatic fever is caused by damage to heart valves . Initial manifestation of rheumatic fever is with polyarthritis, usually of the large joints. But it does no...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 22, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - October 11, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and any related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon, a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

TLC Todd-versations: Todd Linsky in Conversation with Dr. Alan Greene
Todd Linsky, a food and organic industry veteran, hosts the podcast Todd-versations. He interviews guests from around the globe — influencers, leaders, and innovators in their respective fields. In this episode, Todd and Dr. Greene discuss the pediatric roots of longevity, the importance of nutrition in health, Dr. Greene’s reasons for creating DrGreene.com, his next projects, and a whole host of side topics. Transcript of Todd-versation Podcast with Todd Linsky and Dr. Greene 0:00 this conversation is brought to you in part by Calavo Growers the family of fresh! 0:19 hey there everybody good ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - October 6, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Source Type: blogs

At the Core, Tuskegee Has Never Been Resolved
BY MIKE MAGEE July 25, 1972 was fifty years ago this week and it is a day that all AP Science journalists know by heart. As Monday’s AP banner headline read: “On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked the nation. Based on documents leaked by Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower at the U.S. Public Health Service, the then 29-year-old journalist and the only woman on the team, reported that the federal government let hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis for 40 years in order to study th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Bill Clinton Elisabeth Holmes Mike Magee Theranos Tuskegee Source Type: blogs

Mirage of Health
My personal update is that I ' m recovering day by day, but it ' s taking a while. I get a little stronger, a little more stamina each day and I expect to get back to my previous full strength in time to put in a solid week of work starting Monday. Meanwhile a little down time isn ' t the worse thing that could have happened.I ' ve gotten some very odd comments which show that some people harbor very basic misunderstandings about heath, illness and medicine. As I have noted here many times, medical intervention was largely ineffective until the 20th Century. It has grown more effective over the past 100+ years, but you nee...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 17, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs