Highly Sensitive Motion Sensors from Xandar Kardian Anticipate Critical Health Incidents
Timely prediction is key to saving both lives and money in the health care system. I recently talked to Sam Yang, managing director and cofounder of Xandar Kardian, about their motion sensor called XK300 that can tip off clinicians to oncoming emergencies in patients suffering from COVID-19, heart failure, COPD, pneumonia, asthma, and more. The […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 9, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Biometric Devices Merck Motion Sensors Sam Yang Vital Signs Xandar Kardian XK300 Motion Sensor Source Type: blogs
Properly Naming the Sinusitis-Otitis-Conjunctivitis Syndrome
One of our nonphysician providers recently announced, “This kid has that double-sickening thing you talk about all the time." She was referring to the sudden worsening of signs and symptoms (e.g., onset of fever) in a patient who had had an upper respiratory tract infection for several days.The majority of links in a Google search for “double-sickening" are references for sinusitis, but new-onset pneumonia is another double-sickening event. The Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines for sinusitis acknowledge double-sickening and concur that pneumonia can present similarly. I investigate for sinusit...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - November 1, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
COVID ravaged my mother ’s body
The day that my 82-year-old mother was scheduled to receive her first COVID vaccine, she was admitted to the intensive care unit, critically ill with COVID pneumonia. It was late January. My siblings and I hadn ’t heard from our mother in a few days, and we were worried because she lived alone. Joanie was aRead more …COVID ravaged my mother’s body originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 27, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/judith-markey" rel="tag" > Judith Markey, PsyD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Good Grief! Where Have I Been All This Time ‽
My life was briefly put on hold, thanks to a certain virus, but now I’m back, more cheeky& cynical than ever!So much for new beginnings.A week after my knee surgery, just as I was able to feel more human than sore, I became sick. Then sicker. Then sicker still. A quick visit to the InstaCare on a quiet Sunday evening ushered me into my new life of exhaustion and fatigue.I’ve had five or six COVID–19 tests since the pandemic began. They were almost beginning to feel routine. That Sunday night was no different. I showed up to pick up my pre-registered self-test, then opted to be seen instead because I f...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - October 27, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Somnambulating Spinning Visualizing Source Type: blogs
Explainable A.I. Or Why You Need To Understand Machine Learning In Healthcare
A doctor in China uses a machine learning algorithm to detect signs of pneumonia associated with SARS-CoV-2 infections on images from lung CT scans. Epidemiologists in Canada are using the technology to monitor the spread of a disease and help prevent outbreaks. In the U.S., researchers are using artificial intelligence for more efficient drug discovery. Elsewhere around the world, patients are turning to their phones to access symptom checkers leveraging smart algorithms.
These instances where medical professionals and patients alike employ artificial intelligence (A. I.) are already happening but in the coming years w...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 28, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research algorithm study deep learning machine learning A.I. npj Digital Medicine supervised learning reinforcement learning unsupervised learning Source Type: blogs
American Primary Care is a Big Waste of Time (When …)
By HANS DUVEFELT
Before Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450, books in Europe were copied by hand, mostly by monks and clergy. Ironically, they were often called scribes, the same word we now use for the new class of healthcare workers employed to improve the efficiency of physician documentation.
Think about that for a moment: American doctors are employing almost medieval methods in what is supposed to be the era of computers. Why aren’t we using AI for documentation?
The pathetically cumbersome methods of documentation available (required) for our clinical encounters is only one of several a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs
Relative risk perception and public investment
Motor vehicles are not quite in the top 10 causes of death in the U.S.The way the CDC categorizes causes of death, unintentional injuries are number 3, about 173,000 deaths per year, and motor vehicle-related injuries constitute about 1/3 of those. If you were to extract those 40,000+ motor vehicle deaths they would probably be at about #11. (This data is from 2019, and for 2020 Covid has undoubtedly bumped up cause number 9, " influenza and pneumonia, from 9 to 3 making unintentional injuries number 4, but we can hope this is temporary.) However, unlike the other leading causes of death, which disproportionatel...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 21, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Man With Sudden Onset of Gastroparesis
By HANS DUVEFELT
Leo Dufour is not a diabetic. He is in his mid 50s, a light smoker with hypertension and a known hiatal hernia. He has had occasional heartburn and has taken famotidine for a few years along with his blood pressure and cholesterol pills.
Over the past few months, he started to experience a lot more heartburn, belching and bloating. Adding pantoprazole did nothing for him. I referred him to a local surgeon who did an upper endoscopy. This did not reveal much, except some retained food in his stomach. A gastric emptying study showed severe gastroparesis.
The surgeon offered him a trial of metoclopra...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 16, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 6th 2021
In conclusion, patients over 90 years of age had an overall low prevalence of fractures and relative preservation of bone health, suggesting a preserved bone molecular profile in these individuals. Epigenetic factors and activity levels might also have favorably affected bone health. The low percentage of osteoporosis and fractures likely reduced the morbidity and mortality in this population, potentially contributing to their overall longevity.
Building a Therapy for Aging Based on SIRT6 Upregulation
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/08/building-a-therapy-for-aging-based-on-sirt6-upregulation/
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Source: Fight Aging! - September 5, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Poor Oral Health Correlates with Increased Mortality Risk in Older People
It is suggested that inflammation in the gums spreads to cause inflammation in the heart and brain, raising the risk of cardiovascular disease and dementia. There is a good deal of evidence for this spread of inflammation to exist, the question is whether or not it contributes to age-related disease to a significant degree in comparison to other mechanisms present in the aging body. Epidemiological data such as that reported in today's open access paper shows meaningful correlations between poor oral health and raised risk of mortality, but it is only a matter of correlation. It might also be compared with other studies, s...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 30, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Shift Happens
Dataset shift can thwart the best intentions of algorithm developers and tech-savvy clinicians, but there are solutions.John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article.Generalizability has always been a concern in health care, whether we ’re discussing the application of clinical trials or machine-learning based algorithms. A large randomized controlled trial that finds an intensive lifestyle program doesn’t reduce the risk of cardiovascular complications in Type 2 diabetics, for instance, suggests the...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - July 28, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Vaccine associated myocarditis revisited with COVID-19 mRNA vaccines
When I had reviewed the topic of vaccine associated myocarditis for an editorial in the BMH Medical Journal in 2017, most of the cases were associated with small pox vaccination [1]. There were also reports of streptococcal pneumonia vaccine and influenza vaccine associated myocarditis. Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA) used in the vaccine were also implicated in some cases [2,3].
While the large scale vaccination for small pox in an attempt to prepare for potential bioterrorism was the association in 2003 [4], COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are currently in the limelight for vaccine induced myocarditis...
Source: Cardiophile MD - July 22, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
CareAlign, fixing that physician workflow – demo & interview
By MATTHEW HOLT
I recently interviewed Subha Airan-Javia, the CEO of CareAlign. CareAlign is a small company that is working to fix the clinician workflow by creating a tool for all those interstitial gaps that the big EMRs leave, and now get moved to and from paper by the care team. in this interview she tells me a little about the company and shows how the product works. I found it very impressive
Full transcript below
Matthew Holt:
Matthew Holt, quick THCB Spotlight. I’m here with Subha Airan-Javia. She is the CEO of CareAlign, which is a pretty new company that is doing physician workflow in...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 30, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech Health Technology Medical Practice Start-Ups CareAlign EMR Matthew Holt Subha Airan-Javia Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 28th 2021
In conclusion, in our prospective community-based study, aging-related biomarkers were associated with measures of subclinical atherosclerosis cross-sectionally and with all-cause mortality prospectively, supporting the concept that these biomarkers may reflect the aging process in community-dwelling adults.
The Role of Aging Macrophages in Skin Inflammation
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/06/the-role-of-aging-macrophages-in-skin-inflammation/
The immune system is complex and ages in complex ways, pressed by the lifetime burden of infection and rising levels of molecular damage that trigger man...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 27, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
