Review of Zebra ’ s New ET40-HC and ET45-HC Tablets Designed for Healthcare
If you work with devices in healthcare, then you’re likely familiar with Zebra and their line of mobile computing devices. For a number of years, Zebra has had one of the most healthcare focused handheld mobile computing devices the size of a cell phone on the market. They were more rugged than your traditional cell phone and had enterprise features that made IT administrators lives easier.
After listening to their customers, Zebra heard that healthcare could really benefit from a tablet sized device that was designed for healthcare as well. Sometimes the smaller cell phone type screen wasn’t big enough f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Health IT Product Reviews Healthcare iPad Healthcare Tablet Cleaning Healthcare Tablets Zebra Source Type: blogs
13 Year Old McAllen
BY IAN MORRISON
As a Scot, obviously I am a whisky fan, and although I prefer the smoky malts of Islay (where my grandfather was from and where I visit my friends there frequently), I am also a huge fan of McCallan 18-year-old whisky, the sticky toffee pudding of single malts.
But as all policy wonks know, McAllen Texas is not famous for whisky but for Atul Gawande’s “Cost Conundrum” article in the New Yorker, in 2009 which is still required reading in medical school and MPH classes and was arguably the cornerstone of Obama health policy and the ACO movement.
Dr. Atul Gawande described overutilization and hi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: The Business of Health Care Affordable Care Act Atul Gawande Ian Morrison McAllen Texas Source Type: blogs
Regional wall motion abnormalities in LAD territory on echocardiography.
Echocardiography is one of the simplest investigations to assess the myocardial regional wall motion abnormalities in coronary artery disease. Regional wall motion abnormalities can also be assessed by nuclear imaging and cine CT (computed tomography) scan / MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). The wall motion is scored from 1 to 4 depending on whether it is normal wall motion, hypokinesia, akinesia or dyskinesia. Hypokinesia means reduced contraction, akinesia means absence of contraction and dyskinesia means bulging out in systole. In order to standardize the reporting of wall motion abnormalities, American Society of Echo...
Source: Cardiophile MD - February 2, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: Echocardiography General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Muslim Anger at Sweden over Qur ’an Burning Is Misplaced
Mustafa Akyol andJohan NorbergThese days, there isanger across the Muslim world against Sweden. Large protests against the small Scandinavian nation have taken place in Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Afghanistan, and Lebanon. In some places Swedish flags were burnt, and some even chanted, “Death to the Swedish government.”All this is a reaction against an act of one man: far ‐right Danish politician Rasmus Paludan, who also happens to be a Swedish citizen. On Jan 21,he publicly burnt a copy of the Qur ’an in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm. Turkish authorities responded with st...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 1, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Mustafa Akyol, Johan Norberg Source Type: blogs
Withings U-Scan: Measuring Waste for Health Benefits at Home
Public health agencies have come to understand the immense value of monitoring waste water, as demonstrated by a recent report calling for its expansion. But Withings allows you to measure your own waste products in the home through a new product called U-Scan.
At CES 2023, Julius Dewavrin, Product Manager for U-Scan, explained how U-Scan works and the kinds of health benefits it can provide. More than 3000 components are packed into a disk you can hold in your hand. Just install the device inside the toilet bowl and choose the tests you want it to perform. These include logging your menstrual cycle by detecting hormones i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring CES CES 2023 CES2023 Healthcare IT Video Interviews Julius Dewavrin Remote Patient Monitoring RPM U-Scan Withings Wome Source Type: blogs
If a rose is a rose by any other name, how should we study treatment processes in pain management & rehabilitation?
A new instalment in my series about intensive longitudinal studies, aka ecological momentary assessment (and a host of other names for methods used to study daily life in real time in the real world).
Daily life is the focus of occupational therapy – doing what needs to be done, or a person wants to do, in everyday life. It’s complex because unlike a laboratory (or a large, well-controlled randomised controlled trial) daily life is messy and there is no way to control all the interacting factors that influence why a person does what they do. A technical term for the processes involved is microtemporality, o...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 29, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Clinical reasoning Professional topics Research Science in practice intensive longitudinal research Occupational therapy Pain rehabilitation research methods single case experimental design Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – January 28, 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.
Lessons Learned From a Health System’s Internal Data Breach. An Alabama health system recently fired an employee who accessed 2,500 patient records without authorization. Mike Semel said this is a telltale example of why health systems need to enforce HIPAA’s minimum necessary access rule, along with logging access and updating incident respo...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Return to McAllen: A Father-Son Interview
By IAN ROBERTSON KIBBE
You are going to hear a little more about McAllen, TX on THCB Shortly. And before we dive into what’s happened there lately, I thought those of you who weren’t here back in the day might want to read an article on THCB from July 2009. Where then THCB editor Ian Kibbe interviewed his dad David Kibbe about what he was doing as a primary care doc in McAllen–Matthew Holt
By now, Dr. Atul Gawande’s article on McAllen’s high cost of health care has been widely read. The article spawned a number of responses and catalyzed a national discussion on cost controls and t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized David Kibbe Ian Robertson Kibbe McAllen Physicians TX Source Type: blogs
Saving us from artificial intelligence
If you’ve been following developments in technology over the last few months, you can’t fail to have noticed the advent of artificial intelligence. There are AI tools that can take a text prompt and respond with a realistic face, a painting in the style of a well-known artist, or a Shakespearean poem.
Some of these tools, such as ChatGPT, which I have mentioned several times before in recent weeks, can translate and edit your text, convert computer code in one language into another, they can even generate working computer code given an appropriate prompt. They can write news articles, essays, even research pape...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 26, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs
Epson DS-790WN Scanner Review for Healthcare
We’re back again with another review of a high quality, high speed scanner. In this case, we had a chance to review the Epson DS-790WN. This fast, secure scanner would be a great fit for many of healthcare’s scanning needs and could work great for a lot of healthcare organizations.
Besides having the core capabilities you would expect in a high speed scanner, I really loved the 4.3″ color touch screen on this scanner. While most scanners can do a lot of the same functions when connected to a PC, the intuitive touch screen is a great feature for healthcare where you may be using a scanner that isn...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Document CapturePro Epson Epson DS-790WN Epson Scanners Health IT Product Reviews Healthcare High Speed Scanners Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – January 22, 2023 – 69% of digital health companies report data set gaps, 66% of patients don ’ t know where their healthcare data goes, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Studies
Amid the push for interoperability, data gaps persist, according to the inaugural State of Interoperability report from Health Gorilla, a health information network. The survey of provider, EHR, lab, and digital...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Advata AllianceChicago Availity AVIA AVIA Marketplace Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Pasc Source Type: blogs
Don't know much about history
I believe I ' ve mentioned now and again that I ' ve been reading a lot of history lately. It ' s just something I ' ve gotten into now that I ' m taking a semi-sabbatical. I wouldn ' t say I ' ve encountered major surprises -- I was conversant with the broad outlines of American and European history. I have certainly learned a lot of specifics and gotten a deeper understanding of the larger stories and patterns over the past few months.Sadly, most Americans know very little history. Even asserting some basic, indisputable facts can provoke howls of outrage -- for instance, the United States was founded as a white supremac...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Panoramas from the past ...
In 1997, my then girlfriend (now wife) and I went camping in Death Valley. It was our fourth trip there to camp in grad. school.I brought my Olympus OM1 and did something I thought could be cool with it. I took multiple overlapping pics of landscapes with the idea that I would use Photoshop or some such program to combine them together into large panoramic landscape imagesThe only problem was -- I did not know how to do thatBut when I got home I got the photos developed and scanned them using a scanner I had and merged them with something like Claris Draw. Here is an example - three pics from the Sand Dunes area - and the ...
Source: The Tree of Life - January 20, 2023 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
About Those “Misplaced” Classified Documents…
Patrick G. EddingtonNo one should envy Attorney General Merrick Garland. He now has another presidential scandal involving “misplaced” or otherwise purloined classified documents on his hands. Except this time, it involves President Joe Biden, the man who nominated Garland to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.Naturally, many of Biden ’s political opponents aredrawing parallels between the mountain of classified material that Donald Trump shipped to Mar ‐a‐Lago and the two batches (and counting?) of classified material in Biden’s possession outside of proper federal handling and storage chann...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 18, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick G. Eddington Source Type: blogs
Monogram Health Closes $375M Growth Capital Raise to Support Continued Expansion of Innovative In-Home Kidney and Polychronic Care Model
Milestone funding from leading strategic and financial investors will help accelerate company’s mission to measurably improve outcomes for patients living with polychronic conditions, including chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease
Monogram Health, a value-based specialty provider of in-home evidence-based care and benefit management services for patients living with polychronic conditions, including chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease, today announced it has closed on $375 million of new funding. This milestone growth funding round included investments from leading strategic investors CVS Health, Cigna Ventu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Affordability BofA Securities Chronic Kidney Disease Cigna Ventures Cravath CVS Health Disease Management Frist Cressey Ventures Source Type: blogs
