What Do People Think Of The Idea Of Command Centres At Major Hospitals?
I noticed this a while ago and there now seems to be a few more springing up! This seems to be a growing trend here and overseasWA ’s East Metropolitan Health Service deploys Philips’ Clinical Command Centre solutionByDean KohDecember 16, 2020 12:00 AMDutch healthcare giant Philips announced the successful deployment of its Clinical Command Centre solution with Western Australia ’s East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS) to improve patient care and proactively detect the risk of patient deterioration.WHAT ’S IT ABOUTAs a cornerstone of EMHS ’s Health in A Virtual Environment (HIVE) program, the Clinical Command C...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Face Mask Detects Respiratory Viruses, Alerts User
Scientists at Shanghai Tongji University in China have created a face mask that can alert the wearer to the presence of respiratory viruses in the surrounding environment, including the viruses behind COVID-19 and influenza. The mask includes aptamers, which are short sequences of DNA or RNA that can bind to protein targets. When viral particles bind to the aptamers, ion-gated transistors boost the signal so that the mask can sensitively detect small amounts of virus. The mask sends a message to the wearer’s smartphone within 10 minutes of detecting the virus. The technology could be very valuable for healthcare staff or...
Source: Medgadget - September 22, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
When Medical Error Becomes Personal, Activism Becomes Painful
BY MICHAEL MILLENSON
In the mid-1990s, researching a book about the quality of medical care, I discovered how the profession had for years been ignoring evidence about the appalling death toll from preventable medical error. Though I’d never myself experienced an error, I became an activist.
Recently, however, a relative was a victim, and the frustrating persistence of error became personally painful.
Thanks to my relative being acutely aware of the need to be alert (and a bit of luck), no harm was caused by what could have been a serious medication mistake. That was the good news. The bad news is that even...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Education Medical Practice medical error Michael Millenson Patient Safety World Patient Safety Day Source Type: blogs
Smartphone Camera Measures Blood Oxygen
At the University of Washington a research team has developed a smartphone system that can measure blood oxygen levels. The technology uses the camera and flash of the phone to take the measurement, and the system is so easy to use that it may be well suited for at-home use. A person presses their finger over the camera, which gets illuminated by the flash, and the camera measures how much light from the flash the finger absorbs, which a deep-learning algorithm can then correlate with blood oxygen levels. The system could be useful for COVID-19 patients who wish to monitor their progress at home and receive early warning o...
Source: Medgadget - September 21, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Diagnostics Emergency Medicine Telemedicine UW Source Type: blogs
What The Government Has Said So Far About Future Of #myHR
Joint press conference, Parliament House, CanberraNoteJoint press conference withSenator the Hon Katy GallagherMinister for WomenMinister for FinanceMinister for the Public ServiceSubjects: Queen Elizabeth II, Final Budget Outcome, Russia oil price cap, fuel excise, October Budget Relevant Paragraph:KATY GALLAGHER:Thanks very much, Jim. So just taking off where Jim ' s left. He ' s giving you an outline of the FBO - that ' s in a sense, looking back. Looking in the 2022-23 financial year, we ' ve already had to make provision for costs in the order of five and a half billion dollars. These are costs that no provision ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Experiment with Your Coping Strategies for Better Results
Earlier this year, I admitted to myself that my current coping strategies weren’tfighting off my depression as effectively as they were before. Had they simply stopped working, or had something fundamental changed inside of me? The answer was complicated.Obviously, my coping strategies weren’t working since I spent more than half of the days each week struggling to keep my spirits up, but for the longest time, I was too sick to do anything about it. I just limped along waiting to get better. The problem with that plan was that I wasn’t getting better. My depression was fueled by chronic illness. Waiting t...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - September 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 19 September, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Other than ads for mHHealthRecord training in obscure regional spots from the ADHA there seems little happening much at all.Is there any critical news I have missed?-----https://www.itnews.com.au/news/adha-starts-turning-cyber-security-strategy-into-reality-585047ADHA starts turning cyber security strategy into realityByRichard Ch...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
This ECG is nearly pathognomonic. What is it? (hint: it's not Wellens')
I was texted this ECG:What did I say?My response: " takotusubo "Even without a history, this is the likely diagnosis. Later, I obtained the history: 60-something woman who presented with agitation and had taken a benzodiazepine overdose. There was no report of chest pain. She had a respiratory alkalosis, with venous pH of 7.56 (equivalent to an arterial pH of higher than 7.60 and possibly contributing to the long QT and ECG abnormalities). Electrolytes were normal. She was also on Duloxetine, which can prolong the QT, and on Lithium (but her level was very low).This is almost certainly ta...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - September 19, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 19th 2022
Conclusion
Use of the Khavinson peptides and melatonin in combination in this way, at this dose, negatively impacts the thymus, producing a reduction in active tissue and increase in atrophy to fatty tissue. The degree to which this atrophy occurred is greater than one would expect to take place over nine months of aging at this stage of life.
Why did this outcome occur, given the animal studies showing thymic regrowth, and the studies showing reduced later life mortality following use of thymogen? We can only speculate. Firstly, the dose makes the poison, and the dosing here may have been too high, too frequ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 18, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
TWiV 936: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses detection of a highly divergent type 3 vaccine-derived poliovirus in a child with a severe primary immunodeficiency disorder, severe respiratory illnesses associated with rhinoviruses and/or enteroviruses including EV-D68, effects of vaccination and previous infection on Omicron infections in children, COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among vaccinated and unvaccinated adults 18 years or older in 13 US states, effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines over time prior to Omicron emergence in Ontario, Canada, nasal IgA wanes 9 months after hospitalization with COVID-19 an...
Source: virology blog - September 17, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern Source Type: blogs
Aging Diminishes Mucociliary Clearance of the Lung
Countless processes operating in the body progressively fail with age, each one an inconvenience at the outset, and many turning from that to an ultimately fatal reduction in vital capabilities over the decades of later life. The defense against pathogens offered by innate immune functions, including generation of mucus to trap and expel pathogens, holds up relatively well with advancing age, in comparison to many organs, but it is nonetheless is reduced in capacity with age. Researchers note here that the mucosal systems of the lung suffer detrimental changes with aging, with the consequence of increased vulnerability to ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 15, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Warrantying Health Equity
Heather Payne (Seton Hall University), Jennifer D. Oliva (University of California), Warrantying Health Equity, 70 UCLA L. Rev. (Forthcoming): The United States is experiencing a significant rise in the prevalence of asthma and other debilitating respiratory and cardiovascular ailments that... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 15, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Why mandating boosters for college kids is a no good, very bad, dumb idea 
This study reinforced prior research that measured these responses up to 12 months. The stimulation of an immune response after a mild infection can even be demonstrated in the absence of actual seroconversion (detectable prior infection by antibodies) at the level of T-cells. The presence of effective immune memory, both humoral (antibody) and cellular components, after even a mild SARS-CoV-2 infection is no longer a matter of debate. One might be tempted to argue that repeated boosting can permanently suppress infection. Unfortunately, all available evidence suggests that this increased protection from infection is ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka COVID-19 vaccine Viral Myalgia Source Type: blogs
Alveoli on a Chip to Reveal Airflow Characteristics in Disease and Drug Delivery
Researchers at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have developed a microfluidic-style chip that models the alveoli present in our airways. The tiny air sacs in our lungs are crucial for gas exchange, but they can be difficult to study and model. A better understanding of airflow patterns in these structures could be very useful in informing the design of inhalable medications, understanding respiratory threats in the form of inhaled particulate pollutants, and also in understanding respiratory diseases. This new device models a branching point of the airways using a flexible polymer that has been molded into small...
Source: Medgadget - September 13, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Materials Medicine Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 694
Hello Readers! I ' m back after some busy weeks and an overseas holiday, and am pleased to announce that I have a guest author for this and next week ' s post, Mr. Jacob Rattin. Our case for this week was donated by Dr. Susan Butler-Wu, Dr. Ria Vergara, and Lowel Ordono. They noticed this intriguing findings in a wet preparation of BAL specimen from an immunocompromised patient and worsening respiratory status. The specimen had been stored refrigerate for>24 hours. Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - September 12, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
