“Academic Creep” in the Health Care Workforce
Shirley SvornyGiven my concerns about the growing requirements for a doctoral degree in every medical profession – audiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, pharmacy, etc., it was refreshing to read the comments after anarticle posted to Facebook about requiring a doctorate of all Physician Assistants. The author had written, “PAs are literally being left behind. Every other healthcare provider has already made the change. Physical therapists have the DPT, nurse practitioners have the DNP, audiologists have the AuD, etc.”Here is a comment by Rob Cee, a physician assistant at the Maine ‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Shirley Svorny Source Type: blogs
Lab move to ETH Zurich, the job search and fixed term PI positions
ETH Zurich (credit) Next January, after 9 years at the EMBL, I will be joining ETH Zurich as a tenured faculty of the Department of Biology with my research group hosted at the Institute for Molecular and Systems Biology (IMSB). I am really excited about this move and I think the IMSB is a perfect fit for the type of research that we do. We primarily use computational approaches to study the relation between genotype and phenotype with a specific focus on post-translational regulatory systems (more on theEBI website or myGScholar page). IMSB has a long tradition of method development in large scale measurements o...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - May 21, 2021 Category: Cytology Tags: academia group Source Type: blogs
Funding Opportunity: Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) Program
I’m pleased to share that the Academic Research Enhancement Award for Undergraduate-Focused Institutions (R15) funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) have been reissued (PAR-21-155 and PAR-21-154). The FOAs continue NIH efforts to support small-scale research grants at institutions that do not receive substantial funding from NIH. The grants emphasize providing biomedical research experiences for undergraduate students and enhancing the research environment at grantee institutions. Eligible institutions must award baccalaureate degrees in biomedical sciences, have a greater undergraduate student enrollment than graduat...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 20, 2021 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities AREA Source Type: blogs
Tackling Covid-19: a case for better financial support to self-isolate
Nuffield Trust - Asking people with Covid-19 to self-isolate is vital to keep the pandemic under control as lockdown measures ease, yet only 52 per cent of people who have symptoms isolate. This briefing, written together with the Resolution Foundation, argues that financial support through schemes similar to furlough should be expanded so that workers isolating can continue to receive their full wages.BriefingMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 17, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Source Type: blogs
Let's Talk About Hospitals And Rural Healthcare (Particularly Mother-Baby Care): My Letter To The NC Government Commission/NC State Treasurer In Support Of Randolph County's Application For A Loan To Save Randolph Health
Author ' s Note: The lawyers have a saying, " Res Ipsa Loquitur " " . Translated from Latin, it means, " The thing speaks for itself " . This is the text of the letter I sent to theNC Local Government Commission (embellished with a few links and additional comments in red) . . .in support of the state of North Carolina granting a loan to Randolph County (via the NC Rural Healthcare Stabilization Act) . . . for purposes of assisting in the " rescue " of Asheboro ' s Randolph Health - in a bankruptcy Court-approved buy-out of Randolph ' s assets by American Healthcare Systems, LLC.On May 4th, afte...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 7, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: Asheboro Atrium Health Bankruptcy Cone Health Duke Lifepoint LGC Medical Whistle-blower Mother-Baby Care NC Rural Heatlh NCDHHS Non-profit Randolph Health UNC Health Wake Forest Baptist Source Type: blogs
Best and Worst States for Entrepreneurs
Chris EdwardsMy new Catostudy examines state and local regulations that create barriers to startup businesses. It looks at occupational licensing, marijuana laws, alcohol licensing, minimum wages, rules on home ‐based businesses, and much else. It ranks the 50 states based on an index of 17 variables. The table shows the overall results.The state ranking should be considered a rough guide. Theresults may be biased toward regulatory factors that can be measured with available data. Another caveat is that the climate for startup businesses is affected by numerous factors in addition to regulations, including taxes and...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 14: Fear Itself (Conclusion)
Conclusion)_____________________[1] See,inter alia,Pindyck (1991),Dixit and Pindyck (1994),Bachmann and Bayer (2013), andStokey (2016).[2] One wonders, for starters, about the index ’s failure to allow for approximate synonyms for “uncertainty” and “uncertain,” such as “fear,” “fearful,” “afraid,” and “worried,” as well as phrases like “low business confidence.”[3] The Harrison and Weder model also predicts a less severe decline in consumption than actually took place.[4] In his figure, Mathy transposes the dates of the Anschluss and Munich Agreement.[Cross ‐posted from Alt-M.o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 5, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Healthcare AI, Limiting Biases, and Gold Standard Data Sets: Exclusive with Vatsal Ghiya, CEO of Shaip
Shaip is an online platform that focuses on healthcare AI data solutions and offers licensed healthcare data designed to help construct AI models. It provides text-based patient medical records and claims data, audio such as physician recordings or patient/doctor conversations, and images and video in the form of X-rays, CT scans, and MRI results.
Like most algorithms, healthcare AI requires diverse data to train machine learning algorithms to identify clinical anomalies, diseases, or cancers more accurately.
Vatsal Ghiya, co-founder and CEO of Shaip, is an expert in improving healthcare AI by using diverse...
Source: Medgadget - May 4, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Informatics Source Type: blogs
#Healthin2Point00, Episode 203 | Privia goes public, Vocera acquires PatientSafe Solutions & more
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess hardly knows the value of $100 million anymore – is it a salary, is it an entire fund, is it one single round? On Episode 203, Jess and I cover Vocera buying PatientSafe Solutions and Privia going public with a $3.7 billion market cap. Cash-paid healthcare services company Sesame gets $24 million in a Series B, Ceribell gets $53 million in a Series C for its portable EEG, and Summus Global gets $21 million in a Series B providing virtual specialist care. —Matthew Holt (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health in 2 Point 00 Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Ceribell IPO Patient Safe Solutions Privia Sesame Summus Global Vocera Source Type: blogs
On Med Mal Reform, Democrats Are More Libertarian than Republicans
Michael F. CannonIn a recentpost, I announced the release of and provided excerpts from Cato’s latest health policy book,Medical Malpractice Litigation: How It Works, Why Tort Reform Hasn ’t Helped, by Bernard S. Black,David A. Hyman, Myungho S. Paik, William M. Sage, andCharles Silver (foreword by former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle).Medical Malpractice Litigationcompiles original research from states that capped damages in “med mal” cases to show that such reforms do not have the effects that physicians and other supporters claim. If anything, damage caps benefit physicians and insurance companies at th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 3, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Michael F. Cannon Source Type: blogs
Central American Illegal Migration Tracks US Job Openings, Mexican Illegal Migration Tracks Visas
David J. BierThe U.S. Border Patrol could arrest as many immigrants from Central America ’s Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras this year than any year in its history. Several causes have combined to create this historic migration, but one that has received little attention so far is the state of the U.S. economy. Contrary to the perception that the labor market is doing poorly, U.S. employers actuallyhad more unfilled positions in February of 2021 (seasonally adjusted) than in February of 2020 before the pandemic.U.S. employers need workers, and Central Americans are helping fill those positions. I...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 3, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
How Anti ‐Immigrant and Anti‐Gun Advocates Make the Same Bad Arguments
Trevor BurrusThe Biden administration has made priorities of both immigration reform and gun control, the latter being given particular salience by recent mass shootings in Atlanta, Boulder, and Indianapolis. Yet if those in the administration want to make better policy in both areas, they should realize that bad arguments against immigration —ones often used by the previous administration—are very similar to bad arguments for gun control.First, both argue anecdotally from the most recent incident and ignore broader data. In the previous administration, Trump and his conservative supporters latched on to specific insta...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 3, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Trevor Burrus Source Type: blogs
A couple of recommended reads and critical thinking lesson #79
First, I commend to your attentionJohnathan Gruber and Simon Johnson on infrastructure. You may have noticed that the Republican response to the administration ' s infrastructure proposal is that " infrastructure " only means roads and bridges and therefore the rest of it is unworthy of federal support. That ' s an example of argument by vocabulary, a type of fallacy that I ' ve noted before. e.g.:" Organic " means carbon compounds.All food consists of carbon compounds.Ergo the concept of organic food is meaningless.QEDIf I need to explain to you what ' s wrong with that, you probably should give someone your power of atto...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 30, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Middle Class Tax Hikes: Political Rhetoric vs. Economic Reality
Scott LincicomePolitical rhetoric:Dylan MatthewsWould lowering the 6 percent [payroll tax] rate but extending it to higher incomes (up to $50,000 or $100,000, or what have you) violate Joe Biden ’s pledge to not raise taxes on couples earning under $400,000? The tax is formally paid by businesses; does that make the individual tax pledge by Biden not applicable?Ron WydenYeah, we don ’t think that’s applicable, because [the] $400,000 [pledge] is on the individual side.Economic reality:[F]or the payroll tax, virtually all applied incidence studies assume that both the employee share and the employer share are born...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 29, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
