GE HealthCare Announces Agreement to Acquire MIM Software
The Anticipated Acquisition Aligns to GE HealthCare’s Precision Care Strategy with the Goal of Strengthening the Company’s Digital Solutions Across Care Pathways MIM Software Provides AI-Enabled Image Analysis and Workflow Tools Across Multiple Care Areas, Including Oncology, Urology, Neurology, and Cardiology Today’s Agreement Reinforces GE HealthCare’s Commitment to Integrate Medical Imaging Products in Order to Deliver More Precise, Connected, and Efficient Care Across Disease States GE HealthCare today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire MIM Software, a global provider of medical imaging analy...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Andrew Nelson GE Healthcare Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A MIM Software Peter Arduini Taha Kass-Hout Source Type: blogs

Prostate cancer privacy vs. public right to know: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ’ s dilemma
First, a disclaimer. I do not know Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and I am not involved in his medical care. As an academic infectious disease physician, I am ignorant of the internecine hierarchy of the Defense Department. However, I listen to the news and thus am aware of his recent prostate cancer diagnosis and Read more… Prostate cancer privacy vs. public right to know: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s dilemma originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 18, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Urology Source Type: blogs

Pharma IT and AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions
Discussions will focus on the nuanced packaging and delivery requirements for MABs, emphasizing the commitment to safety standards while ensuring the drugs’ effectiveness. AI/Automation in Pharma and Healthcare In 2024, the pharmaceutical landscape can expect a continued shift as AI continues to reshape drug development and healthcare practices. Across genomics, proteomics, and patient data, AI algorithms are beginning to decipher vast datasets to discover new drug targets, refine clinical trials, and tailor treatments to individual patients. The application of machine learning and deep learning is enhancing the crea...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 8, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations 2024 Health IT Predictions Abpro Adhere Health Angie Franks Archana Hedge BioPhy Curavit Clinical Research Dave Latshaw Definitive Healthcare Dr. Kate Sasser Ian Ch Source Type: blogs

Uncovering the truth behind my father ’ s tragic end
I was the “stranger” at my father’s bedside. Shortly after his 84th birthday, my father fell and landed in the hospital with a split scalp. His metastatic prostate cancer was an incidental finding, and superimposing this wildly invasive tumor on his Parkinson’s-compromised body marked his first steps onto his death path. I came to my Read more… Uncovering the truth behind my father’s tragic end originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – October 29, 2023 – 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care, and 28 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 CMMI released the 2022 performance results for the direct contracting value-based care model, which has since been redesigned and renamed the ACO REACH Model. All told, participating entities achieved net savings of more t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 1upHealth ACO REACH AGS Health Avenda Health Bluefin California HHS Carestream Dental CB Insights Cedar Gate Technologies CMMI CORE eClinicalWorks Fivetran Found Freshpaint FutureRx GSR Ventures Healthcare Source Type: blogs

The Dietary Habit That Prevents Prostate Cancer And Speeds Recovery
The nutrients that may halt one of the deadliest cancers in men and speed up their recovery after radiotherapy. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - August 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs

THCB 20th Birthday Classic:  As I’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
By MATTHEW HOLT Our 20th birthday continues with a few classics coming out. Back in 2005 I was really cutting a lyrical rug, and would never miss a chance to get that Cambridge training in Marxism into use. This essay about whether health care should be a public or private good has always been one of my favorites, even if I’m not sure Starbucks is still making Frappuccinos. And 18 years later the basic point of this essay remains true, even if many of you will not have a clue who Vioxx or Haliburton were or why they mattered back then! Those of you who think I’m an unreconstructed commie will correctly suspec...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Communism Frappuccinos Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 7th 2023
In conclusion, here, we demonstrate a novel mechanism for ESC-EVs to protect cells from senescence. However, whether ESC-EVs rejuvenate aged mice via miR-15b-5p and miR-290a-5p remains unknown. Next, we plan to use miR-15b-5p and miR-290a-5p antagonists while treating aged mice with ESC-EVs to further investigate the mechanism by which ESC-EVs resist aging in vivo. « Back to Top Fatty Acid Metabolism as a Commonality in Different Approaches to Slowing Aging https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/08/fatty-acid-metabolism-as-a-commonality-in-different-approaches-to-slowing-aging/ It seem...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 6, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Rutin Suppresses the SASP of Senescent Cells
Senescent cells accumulate with age and cause harm via a sustained, energetic production of signal molecules, the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), that disrupts tissue structure and function. In addition to the search for senolytic drugs that can selectively destroy senescent cells by pushing them into programmed cell death, researchers are also looking for senomorphic drugs that can suppress some or most of the SASP by interfering in its regulatory mechanisms. This seems to me a poor alternative to clearance of senescent cells, as a senomorphic drug must be taken continually, but nonetheless a great many ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 2, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Opinion Piece from Pharmacists United for Truth & Transparency ( " PUTT " )
Pharmacists United for Truth& Transparency ( " PUTT " ) is a non-profit advocacy organization founded by independent pharmacists and pharmacy owners devoted to exposing what they describe as anti-competitive tactics deployed by the largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs - aka Pharmacy Benefit Companies or PBCs as the trade organization known as the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association or PCMA has tried to rebrand its industry since the acronym PBM has become toxic) recently published an opinion piece with an interesting title: " The Deadliest Addiction in the U.S. Isn ' t What You Think It Is " (read it athttps:...
Source: Scott's Web Log - July 12, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 drug prices PBM Pharmacists United for Truth & Transparency PUTT Source Type: blogs

The Diet That Prevents Prostate Cancer And Speeds Recovery
The nutrients that may halt one of the deadliest cancers in men and speed up their recovery after radiotherapy. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - June 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 15th 2023
In this study, we examined the average telomere length and telomerase activity, as well as the formation of telomere associated foci (TAFs) and the mRNA expression levels of the shelterin components in cultured primary cells of Spalax, a long-lived, hypoxia-tolerant, and cancer-resistant blind mole-rat species. We showed that with cell passages, Spalax fibroblasts demonstrated significant shortening in telomere length, similar to rat cells, and in line with the processes observed earlier in tissues. We also demonstrated that the average telomere length in Spalax fibroblasts was significantly higher than the average ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 14, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

The deadly consequences of a shortage: The Pluvicto crisis leaves metastatic prostate cancer patients in limbo
You’ve recently been diagnosed with metastatic cancer. You started the recommended first-line therapy, but it isn’t cutting it. There is another available treatment, but your hopes are crushed upon learning that you will have to wait at least three months before the life-extending medication can be produced for you and reach your location. All the Read more… The deadly consequences of a shortage: The Pluvicto crisis leaves metastatic prostate cancer patients in limbo originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Meds Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs

Measures of Biological Age Largely Correlate with Cancer Risk
Cancer is an age-related condition. With age, there is a greater background of mutational damage that spreads throughout tissues. Greater inflammatory, pro-growth signaling by lingering senescent cells makes the environment more hospitable for cancerous growth once it is underway. The aging immune system becomes ever less able to destroy precancerous and cancerous cells rapidly enough to stop a cancer in its earliest stages. Thus we should expect people who show an accelerated biological age to exhibit a greater risk of cancer, and this is largely the case. Most measures of biological age have quirks, however, as th...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Immunotherapy Implant to Treat Pancreatic Cancer
Researchers at Houston Methodist have developed an implant that can provide localized and sustained release of immunotherapies to treat pancreatic cancer. Their device is tiny, at approximately the size of a grain of rice, and they have termed it a “nanofluidic drug-eluting seed”. Pancreatic cancer is particularly difficult to treat, and current therapies have problems penetrating the tumor while resulting in significant side-effects elsewhere in the body. This device is intended for implantation in the tumor, where it releases monoclonal antibodies that can prime the immune system to begin to destroy the tumor...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Oncology Urology HoustonMethodist prostate CA prostate cancer Source Type: blogs