Eureka Health Launches with $7 Million For Patient-Led Platform To Share and Discover Better Treatments
Thousands of Members in its Long Covid Community; Expands into Metabolic Disease and Autoimmune Disorders
Eureka Health, a new community dedicated to helping chronic disease patients share experiences and discover the latest treatments, launched today to provide hope to people living with chronic diseases. Emerging from stealth with thousands already engaged in its Long Covid group, the AI-powered platform added metabolic disease, autoimmune disorders, ME/CFS, and related conditions. It will expand into other conditions in the coming weeks.
The company also announced that it has raised $7 million in funding. The seed rou...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 23andMe Able Partners Adina Teklu Anne Wojcicki Beren Airstone Bling Capital Bow Capital Cancer Commons Eureka Eureka Health Forward Health Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Invest Source Type: blogs
AI-Powered Pain Relief: Interview with Claire Smith, VP at Nevro
Nevro, a medtech company based in California, has developed the HFX iQ spinal cord stimulation system, which is intended to treat chronic pain. While spinal cord stimulators can be very useful in controlling certain types of chronic pain, at present, patients must attend with their clinician to obtain adjustments to their stimulator. This is inconvenient for both patient and clinician alike.
Another common difficulty is the need for frequent adjustments. Pain is subjective, and a patient’s needs can vary from day to day, but such frequent changes in spinal cord stimulator settings are not typically possible. To addres...
Source: Medgadget - July 19, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery Orthopedic Surgery Pain Management Rehab back pain neurostimulation Nevro_HF10 Nevro_HFX Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 26th 2023
This study explored the association between different cooking fuel types and the risk of cancer and all-cause mortality among seniors constructing Cox regression models. Data were obtained by linking waves of 6, 7, and 8 of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, which included a total of 7,269 participants who were 65 years old and over. Cooking fuels were categorized as either biomass, fossil, or clean fuels. And the effects of switching cooking fuels on death risk were also investigated using Cox regression models.
The results indicate that, compared with the users of clean fuels, individuals using bio...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 25, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Will Success in Reversing Aging Shape the Regulatory System to Accommodate It?
A sizable fraction of the therapies produced by the medical industry are, not to put too fine a point on it, garbage. The benefit is not worth the cost of diverting the resources into the full scale production of the drug, versus those resources going towards some better form of medical research and development. Giving a cancer patient an extra month or two of life, reducing fibrosis in the liver by 10% over a year of treatment, incrementally improving mitophagy to half the degree that exercise achieves, and so forth. Small molecule development in particular excels at producing this sort out outcome, as the effects on gene...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
Causes of heart attack and cardiac arrest in teenagers
A heart attack occurs when blood flow to a part of the heart muscle stops. Heart attacks in teenagers can be caused by rare genetic diseases, such as familial homozygous hypercholesterolemia, which increases blood cholesterol levels, and some rare diseases that affect the blood vessels of the heart, such as Kawasaki disease.
Cardiac arrest means the heart stops working completely. A heart attack can lead to cardiac arrest. Inherited diseases like Congenital long QT syndrome and Brugada syndrome that cause cardiac arrhythmias and can also cause cardiac arrest in adolescents. (Source: Cardiophile MD)
Source: Cardiophile MD - June 1, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – May 21, 2023 – 82% of wearable users willing to share data with their physicians, 81% of Americans trust pharmacists and nurses to diagnose minor illnesses, 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 Research
More than four in five (82%) of wearable device owners are willing to share health data with their physicians, according to a poll conducted by the Connected Health Initiative. Additionally, 87% of users said t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AccYouRate BeeKeeperAI Bill Lewkowski Cerner Cognizant Connected Health Initiative Cylera Deloitte Dispatch Health eClinicalWorks eHealth Exchange eHealth Initiative Epic EscrowAI HCTec Hea Source Type: blogs
A Talk with Epic at HIMSS23 Including Their Work to Incorporate Generative AI
Epic started out as a rather inert data repository, but decades of use and growth have allowed it to look beyond the EHR itself. According to Project Manager Erika Koch, they have taken on the pressing challenges of health care: making doctors’ work lives easier, reducing costs, and improving the patient experience. Work with genomics and rare diseases is underway.
Seth Hain, Senior Vice President of R&D, talked about how they are integrating generative AI, in collaboration with Microsoft’s Azure AI. The tool can be used for something as simple as categorizing inbox messages, or on a higher level to draft a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System ChatGPT Epic Epic EHR Erika Koch Generative AI Healthcare ChatGPT Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Video I Source Type: blogs
Preventing Genetic Testing Fraud: 5 Actions for Health Plans
The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti
In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes—costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient. Meanwhile, an emerging scheme for fraudulent and unnecessary cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing allegedly resulted in $174 million in false and fraudulent Medicare claims.
These are just two examples of what the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership describes as a surge in fraud, waste and abuse associated...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Genomics-Precision Medicine Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Revenue Cycle Management Cotiviti CPT Codes Erin Rutzler Fraud Waste and Abuse FWA Genetic Testing Genetic Testing Fraud Healthcare Fraud Prev Source Type: blogs
Photo Quiz: Puzzles in Purple
To make naturally colorless biological structures easier to study, scientists often use fluorescent tags and other tools to color them. Here, we feature images with purple hues and pair them with questions to test your knowledge of basic science concepts.
Visit our image and video gallery for more scientific photos, illustrations, and videos in all the colors of the rainbow.
QUIZ START
This post is a great supplement to Pathways: The Imaging Issue.
The images in this post were captured using some of the techniques described in Pathways.
Learn more in our Educator’s Corner.
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Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Cellular Imaging Cellular Processes Cool Images Cool Videos Quiz Source Type: blogs
In Other Words: Not All Bases Are in the Ballpark
You might first think about sports when you hear the word base, but not all bases are on the baseball diamond. In chemistry, a base is a molecule that reacts with an acid, often by accepting a proton from the acid or from water. Baking soda and dish soap are common bases.
Credit: NIGMS.
A Building Block for Life
Bases are found throughout biological systems and in many molecules critical to life. The pH scale measures how acidic or basic (“alkaline”) liquids, such as water or blood, are. Liquids with a pH less than 7 are acidic, while liquids with a pH greater than 7 are basic. Electrolytes, like sodium, ca...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Molecular Structures DNA In Other Words RNA Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – March 25, 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.
The Ever-Evolving World of Cybersecurity Threats. We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today community to learn about how healthcare cyberattacks have been getting more sophisticated. The experts said the keys to modern cybersecurity including managing assets, access, networks, infrastructure, and data, along with continuous threat monitoring and tried-an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Automating Cellular Image Analysis to Find Potential Medicines
Dr. Anne Carpenter. Credit: Juliana Sohn.
When she started college, Anne Carpenter, Ph.D., never guessed she’d one day create software for analyzing images of cells that would help identify potential medicines and that thousands of researchers would use. She wasn’t planning to become a computational biologist, or even to focus on science at all, but she’s now an institute scientist and the senior director of the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard in Cambridge.
Starting Out in Science
Before beginning her undergraduate studies at Purdue University...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Tools and Techniques Bioinformatics Cellular Imaging Computational Biology Cool Tools/Techniques Profiles Source Type: blogs
When Patients Know Things the Doctor Does Not
The knowledgeable patient can still be seen as a threat, even by a medical resident. While every institution talks about how they much they care about their patients, they still tell patients that they don’t need to see the data collected on them because they’re not equipped to use their own data. And researchers might not pass useful information from trials on to the very patients who provided the input to those trials.
These problems, along with suggestions for positive uses of data, are described in this video with Christine Von Raesfeld, founder of People with Empathy. Von Raesfeld herself has been dealing ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Christine Von Raesfeld Health Datapalooza Healthcare IT Video Interviews patient data Patient Perspective Patients People with Em Source Type: blogs
Slideshow: Circles of Life
Every year on March 14, many people eat pie in honor of Pi Day. Mathematically speaking, pi (π) is the ratio of a circle’s circumference (the distance around the outside) to its diameter (the length from one side of the circle to the other, straight through the center). That means if you divide the circumference of any circle by its diameter, the solution will always be pi, which is roughly 3.14—hence March 14, or 3/14. But pi is an irrational number, which means that the numbers after the decimal point never end. With the help of computers, mathematicians have determined trillions of digits of pi.
To celebrate Pi ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 14, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Molecular Structures Cellular Imaging Cool Images Microbes Research Organisms Source Type: blogs
An inside look at the orphan drug revolution [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us as we explore the history and evolution of the orphan drug revolution with James Geraghty, a health care executive. Discover how the pharmaceutical industry of the 1970s, driven by a pursuit of predictable profitability, led to the neglect of rare diseases and
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An inside look at the orphan drug revolution [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Genetics Medications Source Type: blogs
