Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - August 9, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Stopping COVID19 in Nursing Homes is No Easy Task
My city, Louisville KY, recently had a spike in COVID19 infections. It came from a handful of nursing homes.
That nursing home and long-term care facilities account for large percentages of COVID19 cases has been well documented. In some cities, the majority of cases come from these facilities.
These facts have sprouted platitudes about “protecting our elderly.” What makes this a platitude is that it belies the challenges faced by nursing facilities.
Two recent papers shed light on these challenges.
First is an article by Chris Pope in the City Journal. Second is an academic-like defense of Stoc...
Source: Dr John M - May 26, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
Just Say No: Without PPE, No One Should be Doing Potentially Risky Procedures on Patients with COVID
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
A regular flurry of articles demonstrate the high cost that health care providers pay for their work during the time of COVID: Health care workers are being infected with COVID after caring for patients. In New York City, the current epicenter, doctors are being “redeployed” meaning assigned to work in areas outside of their specialty doing procedures they may not have done since med school or may never have done. Some of the most dangerous specialties right now are pulmonology, respiratory therapy, and anesthesia where you basically are getting close to people’s mouths while performing proced...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 7, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: End of Life Care Ethics Featured Posts professional ethics Professionalism Public Health #covid19 #diaryofaplagueyear COVID-19 PPE Source Type: blogs
BiWaze Cough System Receives FDA Clearance to Help Clear Secretions
ABM Respiratory Care, a company with offices in USA, Singapore, and India, announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its BiWaze Cough System, a device for removing secretions in patients who are unable to cough or clear secretions effectively.
The BiWaze Cough System consists of a touch-screen device connected to a non-invasive suctioning mask. It is a portable alternative to the invasive and more involved process of upper airway suctioning. The system also provides high frequency oscillations, between 5-20 Hz, to break up thick secretions and facilitate their removal from the lungs.
The touc...
Source: Medgadget - April 2, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Cardiology Medicine Neurology Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
VOCSN 5-in-1 Portable Ventilator: Interview with Chris Kiple, CEO of Ventec
Ventilators are used by patients who lose lung function due to complications from a variety of diseases such as spinal cord injuries, COPD, stroke, pneumonia, and ALS. In addition to dealing with a debilitating situation, patients tend to be hooked to several machines that perform mechanical ventilation, oxygen delivery, cough assist, suction, and nebulization. This typically involves wires running all around, multiple software, and hardware equipment that makes it difficult for caregivers to operate the machines and provide quality care. Ventec Life Systems simplifies this experience by offering an integrated ventilator s...
Source: Medgadget - February 19, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Rukmani Sridharan Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Exclusive Medicine Pediatrics Rehab Source Type: blogs
Like the Telephone Game, CDC's Lack of Clarity is Becoming Completely False Facts at the Local Level
Do you recall thetelephone game? Players sit in a circle and the first person whispers a phrase into the ear of the second person, who whispers it to the third person, and so forth, until it gets to the last player, who then repeats the phrase that they heard. Typically, the phrase changes substantially from the beginning because a series of small, progressive changes add up to a completely different phrase at the end.The only way to prevent this is for the first person to deliver such a clear message that it cannot be mistaken.In this commentary, I show how the lack of clarity by the CDC and other health groups in communi...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - October 14, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Capsule Tech Acquires Bernoulli Health: Analysis
On April 30, 2019, Capsule Tech announced that it is acquiring Bernoulli Health for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition combines two market leaders in the medical IoT, IoMT, biomedical medical device integration (BMDI), medical device data system (MDDS), medical device connectivity, or whatever you call this market.
Medical devices are by far the greatest source of data in health care. For many years the vast majority of medical device data simply scrolled off the screen, never reaching clinicians for analysis and alerting. Capturing this data and using it to better diagnose, treat and monitor patients is finally t...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - May 8, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Clinical Alarms Clinical Decision Support Company Profiles Connectivity Remote Monitoring Strategy & Planning Surveillance Monitoring Source Type: blogs
Though Much Maligned, BVM is a Good Tool
I’ve heard for years in emergency medicine circles that it was impossible to preoxygenate with a bag-valve mask (BVM) unless one is actually compressing the bag and forcing oxygen flow to the patient. I recently did an informal survey of my colleagues at work, and the responses varied from confident affirmation that the BVM was an inadequate tool for preoxygenation to quasi-warnings not to tread on this dogma without first consulting anesthesia or respiratory therapy. What started as a simple quest to clarify whether the dogma about BVMs and preoxygenation was true turned into a fascinating review and new personal ins...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - October 5, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
An Explanatory Framework for Comparing Health Care Messaging Systems
Comparing features and capabilities between various health care messaging solutions requires an understanding of how messaging systems do what they do and a common vocabulary so you can talk about it with others. And because health care messaging is a growth market with first or second time adopters, there is not yet a widely accepted or understood framework or terminology for describing how various messaging systems work, let alone comparing them.
In the absence of an accepted organizing principle, vendors and providers both tend to come up with their own unique way of talking about things. When every manufacturer’s...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - July 5, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Messaging Middleware Source Type: blogs
Another Tobacco Control Practitioner Tells Public that Smoking May Be No More Harmful than Vaping
Adding to the long list of tobacco control practitioners who have publicly declared that smoking may be no more harmful than vaping - which involves no tobacco and no combustion - a South Carolina respiratory therapist is telling patients that they should not quit smoking using electronic cigarettes because these devices may be more dangerous than tobacco cigarettes, which kills more than 400,000 Americans each year.On the Greenville Health System blog, a respiratory therapist writes: "I strongly oppose the use of e-cigarettes. It is unregulated and could potentially be more dangerous than a regular cigarette."This respira...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - March 24, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
Patient Management Workflow
A key feature of all connectivity solutions is a database that includes all of the patients associated with the system’s medical devices. This is called a “patient census” or ADT (admission, transfer and discharge), much like the way a hospital’s ADT system manages patient demographics for the hospital information system or EMR. Also referred to as patient management data, these data often include: patient name and ID number (permanent medical record number, episode of care number, or both), current assigned location of the patient, and the device associated with the patient. Depending on the applic...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - November 4, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Tim Gee Tags: connectivity Product Development Source Type: blogs
Study Explains Errors Caused by EHR Default Values - With Only Four Reports of "Temporary" (By the Grace of God) Patient Harm
From Health Data Management and the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority:Study Explains Errors Caused by EHR Default ValueJoseph Goedert Sept. 5, 2013 A new study analyzes errors related to “default values” which are standardized medication order sets in electronic health records and computerized physician order entry systems.The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, an independent state agency, conducted the study. “Default values are often used to add standardization and efficiency to hospital information systems,” says Erin Sparnon, an analyst with the authority and study author. “For example, a...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 5, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Erin Sparnon healthcare IT risk Health Data Management default values Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority HIT Policy Committee Source Type: blogs
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Last night in the ER.......was very busy. And "busy" in a good way. Lots of codes and respiratory distress. Not so much "weak and dizzy" and "TMD (todo me duele)". The kind of night that reminds you why you chose emergency medicine as a specialty, and not primary care.Anyhoo, there was this one guy...A 36 yo morbidly obese Samoan man with a past medical history of diabetes, hypertension, and has lots of 'bad habits', was brought in by paramedics complaining of chest pain which started 10 minutes prior to the 911 call. He was sitting on the sofa watching reruns on TV when he suddenly felt a tightening in his chest. He got u...
Source: EM Physician - Backstage Pass - December 31, 2007 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Taylor Source Type: blogs
