The Hidden Barrier to Better Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Josh Miller, Co-Founder & CEO at Gradient Health.
As a global society, we have never spent more on healthcare. We have never been more informed. We’ve never been more advanced. Yet there is a great divide between what we have accomplished scientifically, and what patients actually get access to.
This is not something spoken about a lot, because the focus is of course on developing life-saving medical devices and diagnostics. However, despite new innovations being created, funded, and announced every week, the speed with which these new technologies are being adopted is slow if they...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AI Artificial Intelligence Clinical Validation Computed Tomography CT Gradient Health Healthcare Da Source Type: blogs
How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?
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Paths to Interoperability
A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually. I wonder whether the path to complete integration requires adopting a single, worldwide, FHIR-based standard (which is time-consuming and probably requires jettisoning old database systems) or programming these systems to translate data from one format to another.
I heard details about problems with COVID-19 lab reporting at a state level from Dr. Paulo Pinho, vice president & medical director of innovation at Availity Clin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Healthcare IT Regulations 21st Century Cures Act Amazon Amazon Healthcare Amazon S3 Availity Availity Clinical Solutions CDC Data Exchange Diameter Health EMPI FDA Gus Malezis Health Gorilla hl7 Imprivata Interoperability Source Type: blogs
Myocarditis update from Sweden
BY ANISH KOKA
The COVID19/vaccine myocarditis debate continues in large part because our public health institutions are grossly mischaracterizing the risks and benefits of vaccines to young people.
A snapshot of what the establishment says as it relates to the particular area of concern: college vaccine mandates:
Dr. Arthur Reingold, an epidemiology professor at UC-Berkeley, notes that UC also requires immunizations for measles and chickenpox, and people still are dying from COVID at rates that exceed those for influenza. As of Feb. 1, there were more than 400 COVID deaths a day across the U.S.
“The arg...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka covid19 myocarditis Sweden Source Type: blogs
R (Gardner and Harris) V Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Others [2022] Ewhc 967: Scant Regard for Covid-19 Risk to Care Homes
Victoria Moore (University of Manchester), Luke D. Graham (University of Manchester), R (Gardner and Harris) V Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and Others [2022] Ewhc 967: Scant Regard for Covid-19 Risk to Care Homes, 30 Medical L.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 26, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
6 Healthcare Examples Of Virtual, Augmented And Mixed Reality
Lately, there has been a tendency in the tech world to adopt “new” realities in their midst. Meta has a branch dedicated to developing virtual reality (VR) hardware and software; earlier this year HTC unveiled its new augmented reality (AR) glasses; while Apple is reportedly gearing up to launch a mixed reality (MR) headset.
Collectively, VR, AR and MR fall under the umbrella term of extended reality (XR), which analysts believe holds the potential to be the next major computing platform. Such potentials have spillover effects into the medical field through digital health approaches, and healthcare practice is...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Augmented Reality Virtual Reality MR XR VR AR mixed reality extended reality Source Type: blogs
Don ’ t neglect the power of clinical examinations in modern medicine
I intended to write an essay endorsing the clinical examination (CE), but recent personal events have made me reconsider. I had outpatient sinus surgery and developed chest pain the next day, leading me to my local rural hospital’s emergency department (ED). The ED physician diagnosed atrial fibrillation, and a CT scan revealed a small pulmonary
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Don’t neglect the power of clinical examinations in modern medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Martin C. Young, MD Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Give Him a Hand – No, Really
BY KIM BELLARD
When I read The Washington Post article about how a Tennessee high school student’s engineering class built him a prosthetic hand, my immediate reaction, of course, was to be touched, but my bigger reaction was, wait – high school students can now create prosthetics?
If you haven’t been paying attention, the world of prosthetics has been changing in amazing ways, and it’s not done.
The student, Sergio Peralta, was born with his right hand not fully formed, and for much of his life it was a problem. As he wrote in his own account in Newsweek: “When I got bullied at my old scho...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard LIMBER Prosthetic hands Robot Arms Source Type: blogs
3D Bioengineered Skin Grafts Fit Complex Anatomy
Researchers at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center have developed a method to create three-dimensional bioengineered skin grafts. To date, bioengineered skin is typically created in flat sheets. However, these are difficult to fit to complex anatomy, such as the hand, and so these researchers have designed a more sophisticated technique that combines laser scanning, 3D printing, and cell culture to create seamless three dimensional skin grafts. For instance, the researchers have already created a skin “glove” that could be useful in replacing skin on the hands by simply slipping it over the hand (just lik...
Source: Medgadget - February 13, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Plastic Surgery columbia columbiauniversity skin graft Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 13th 2023
This study investigated whether taller Polish adults live longer than their shorter counterparts. Data on declared height were available from 848,860 individuals who died in the years 2004-2008 in Poland. To allow for the cohort effect, the Z-values were generated. Separately for both sexes, Pearson's r coefficients of correlation were calculated. Subsequently, one way ANOVA was performed.
The correlation between adult height and longevity was negative and statistically significant in both men and women. After eliminating the effects of secular trends in height, the correlation was very weak (r = -0.0044 in men and ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Blood Pressure Control Reverses Expansion of Perivascular Spaces in the Aging Brain
Study data here shows that age-related enlargement of perivascular spaces in the brain is to some degree driven by raised blood pressure, and reversible given control of blood pressure. As the researchers note, this enlargement is a part of the issues that lead to a reduced clearance of metabolic waste from the brain in later life. This reduced clearance is likely an important factor in the development of neurodegenerative conditions. All told, the raised blood pressure of hypertension is one of the more important ways in which deeper causes of aging are converted to tissue dysfunction and outright structural damage throug...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Antibacterial Smart Sutures Visible in CT Scans
Researchers at RMIT University in Australia have developed ‘smart stitches’ that can fight bacteria and reveal the location of the sutured area in CT scans. The sutures have been developed to reduce the chances of surgical site infections and also make life a little easier for clinicians, as the material shows up in CT scans, allowing for identification of the location of the sutures in the body and quick assessment if they are performing as required. In particular, the researchers envisage the sutures as a replacement for vaginal meshes that are used to treat prolapses, for which surgical site infection rates tend to ...
Source: Medgadget - February 9, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Radiology Surgery RMIT Source Type: blogs
Terahertz Spectroscopy to Assess Severity of Skin Burns
Scientists at Stony Brook University in New York have developed a hand-held scanner that uses terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and neural network data analysis to non-invasively assess the severity of skin burns. At present, it is difficult to visually assess the depth of a burn injury, which could negatively influence treatment outcomes. The device probes the burn injury with pulses of terahertz radiation. The terahertz reflectivity of the skin is altered by burn injuries, allowing a neural network to assess the signal and estimate the burn depth. The technology could allow more precise assessments of burn injuries and ...
Source: Medgadget - February 9, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dermatology Medicine Radiology Surgery stonybrooku Source Type: blogs
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company ( " MCCPDC " ) PBC May Be Able to Say " Mission Accomplished " Even if Sales Stop Growing
On January 19, 2022, a startup called theMark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company ( " MCCPDC " )opened its doors to the American public as a new online pharmacy and generic manufacturing startup. Initially, MCCPDC was also planning to launch its own Pharmacy Benefit Manager, but it later scrapped those plans, instead announcing several PBM partnerships with some PBM startups which do not engage in " spread pricing " , including on generic, biosimilar and " authorized generic " drugs. The company bears the name of its famous principal investor, multibillionaire Mark Cuban, who is perhaps best known as both owner of the NBA te...
Source: Scott's Web Log - February 7, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: authorized generic 2023 Alex Oshmyansky authorized generics Biosimilar biosimilars Cost Plus costplus drug company drug prices drug pricing generic drugs mark cuban Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 23: The Great Rapprochement
George SelginWhat finally brought the Great Depression to an end? We ' ve seen that, whatever it was, it took place not during the 30s but sometime between then and the end of World War II, when a remarkable postwar revival occurred instead of the renewed depression many feared. We ' ve also seen that, while postwar fiscal and monetary policies weren ' t austere to the point of preventing that revival, they alone can ' t explain it, because they can ' t explain the reawakening of private business investment from its decade-and-a-half-long slumber.Animal SpiritsTo get to the bottom of that reawakening, we must first recall ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 7, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Unlocking the Future of Health —and Care—with AI
The following is a guest article by Jonathan Jesneck, Co-Founder and CTO at Firefly Lab.
Unlocking the future of healthcare with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic amongst tech and medical professionals alike. Leaps and bounds have been made since the term was first applied in medicine in the mid-1950s, but it wasn’t until the late 2000s that developments using AI in a variety of healthcare fields started to happen.
Now, AI is effective across the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. The benefits are already being felt by many: 92% of healthcare institutes and professionals say they performed better as a ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AAMC AI Chatbots AI in healthcare American Association of Medical Colleges Artificial Intelligence Biomedicine Dr. Jonathan Jesne Source Type: blogs
