Ozempic And Other Weight Loss Drugs Will Only Work With Digital Health
Weight loss injections are now widely used as miracle drugs for effortless skinniness. But without digital health, they just won’t work in the long run. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, approved Wegovy, a semaglutide injection for chronic weight management in adults with obesity or overweight with at least one weight-related condition for use in addition to a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity in 2021.
Semaglutide was originally used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, and was found to have a major lucky side effect: being very effective in assisting weight loss. Semaglutide inject...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Digital Health Research weight management weight loss Ozempic Wagevy Source Type: blogs
Catastrophising – and controversy
There are few constructs more widely known in pain psychology than catastrophising. Defined as “an exaggerated negative mental set brought to bear during actual or anticipated pain experience” (Sullivan et al., 2001), catastrophising is associated with poor outcomes including greater pain intensity, distress and disability in almost every situation where pain is experienced (Sullivan & Tripp, 2024). Cognitive biases associated with catastrophising include interpretive bias, attentional bias and attentional fixation – in other words negatively interpreting situations, attending to the negative in a situation, ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 21, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Coping Skills Pain Pain conditions Research Science in practice catastrophising catastrophizing Chronic pain pain-related worry Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – April 21, 2024 – 89% of physicians said generative AI vendors need to be transparent about where info comes from, 73% of consumers expect a 4-star rating before they ’ ll engage with a provider, plus 21 more stories
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.
Studies
According to a Wolters Kluwer survey, 68% of physicians think generative AI will benefit healthcare – but to trust the technology, 89% said vendors need to be transparent about where information was sourced and wh...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Brand Engagement Network Butterfly Network CharmHealth CHG Healthcare Clarify Health Cured Databricks Donna Boyer eClinicalWorks Epic Research Google Cloud Harvard Medical School HCTec Healthcare IT Today Bonus Fe Source Type: blogs
The Personality Trait Linked To Perfect Sleep
Training this personality trait could improve your sleep. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 20, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Personality Sleep Source Type: blogs
The Time Of Day People Are In Their Best Mood — And Their Worst (M)
Discover the surprising highs and lows of daily mood, from dawn till dusk. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Emotion Sleep subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Difference Between Invasive and Non-Invasive Ventilation
Ventilator is a device used to support breathing. It is used when there is difficulty in breathing or when spontaneous breathing has stopped. Ventilator is an important life supporting device useful in many life threatening conditions.
Invasive ventilator is usually used in the intensive care setting or the operating room. An endotracheal tube is introduced under topical anaesthesia with sedation or general anaesthesia. The endotracheal tube is connected to a mechanical ventilator using appropriate connection tubing. In those who do not tolerate the presence of an endotracheal tube deep sedation and neuromuscular blockade ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 16, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Supported self-management – what are we managing, actually?
One of the words that has been in my vocabulary for decades is ‘management.’ No, I don’t mean the proliferative middle management layer infesting healthcare for about as long as I’ve been working in health. I mean ‘pain management’ or ‘supported self-management.’ As ever, what pops up for me is about what, exactly, is being managed?
Is it pain? Well – not exactly. After all, pain does what it does, and if we focus on pain reduction alone just look where that gets us (Ballantyne & Sullivan, 2015; Cutler & Glaeser, 2021). And quickly, lest anyone think I’...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 14, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Too many older adults are taking risky sedative medications
A recent investigation in Quebec uncovered a concerning trend: benzodiazepines — medications commonly used for sleep or anxiety — are being overprescribed. This investigation has prompted the Quebec College of Physicians to closely examine the usage of these medications. But this issue extends beyond Quebec’s borders; across Canada, these medications are being prescribed at alarming rates.
Read more…
Too many older adults are taking risky sedative medications originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 14, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Wendy Levinson, MD and Christine Soong, MD Tags: Meds Geriatrics Medications Source Type: blogs
Altera Digital Health: Leveraging the Cloud to Address the Needs of Rural and Community Hospitals
Rural and community hospitals face the same challenges as larger health systems. However, with smaller pools of talent and fewer resources, they need more help from their digital partners to address those challenges. Altera Digital Health (Altera) is leveraging the cloud to help this important customer segment.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Pratt, MD – Chief Medical Officer for Paragon at Altera Digital Health to learn more about the company’s efforts for rural and community hospitals.
Outsized Impact
Right from the start of the interview it was clear that Dr. Pratt is deeply passionate ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 10, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Altera Digital Health Ambient Clinical Voice Cloud EHR Community Hospitals Dr. Mark Pratt Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Scene Featured HIMSS HIMSS 2024 Source Type: blogs
Complexity and chronic pain*
*Persistent didn’t alliterate so well!
I’ve been pondering what makes persistent pain so complicated? What is it about this problem that means clinicians use terms like ‘heart-sink’, or ‘problematic’, or ‘difficult’ when they talk about people living with pain?
While nociception and all the associated neurobiological processes associated with pain are undoubtedly complex (and poorly understood), I don’t think this is what people mean when they describe chronic pain is complex. After all, there are loads of body systems and disease processes that are complex.
I...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 7, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Professional topics Science in practice healthcare pain management Source Type: blogs
An Urgent Call to Raise Awareness of Heart Disease in Women
By KELLY CARROLL
There is a dire need to raise awareness about heart disease in women. It is the number one killer of American women, and key data points reveal a lack of cognizance among doctors and women.
An assessment of primary care physicians published in 2019 revealed that only 22% felt extremely well prepared to evaluate cardiovascular disease risks in female patients. A 2019 survey of American women showed that just 44% recognized heart disease as the number one cause of death in women. Ten years earlier, in 2009, the same survey found that 65% of American women recognized heart disease as the leading cause o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice heart disease Kelly Carroll Life Essential 8 prevention Womens health Source Type: blogs
The Best Beauty Advice From Science You Will Get Today (M)
Study tested the effects of poor sleep on two consecutive nights. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 31, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Attractiveness Social psychology subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 1st 2024
This study supports the proposed model that aging-related loss of colonic crypt epithelial cell AMP gene expression can promote increased relative abundances of Gn inflammaging-associated bacteria and gene expression markers of colonic inflammaging. These data may support new targets for aging-related therapies based on intestinal genes and microbiomes.
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A Skeptical View of the Role of Nuclear DNA Damage in Aging
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/03/a-skeptical-view-of-the-role-of-nuclear-dna-damage-in-aging/
It is evident and settled that stochastic nuclear DNA damag...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 31, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Personality Trait Linked To Perfect Sleep
The trait can be increased using psychological exercises. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Personality Sleep Source Type: blogs
Apigenin, Sleep, and Aging
For those following research into efforts to upregulate NAD+ levels to improve mitochondrial function, this paper is an interesting sidebar. Some degree of loss of NAD+ emerges from increased activity of CD38. Apigenin is a dietary supplement that can modestly influence both sleep and pace of aging, the latter in short-lived laboratory species at least. Apigenin can increase NAD+ levels by inhibiting CD38 activity. Like much of metabolism, this is all very interesting, but the effect sizes are nothing to write home about. If upregulating NAD+ levels is the goal, you'll do better by exercising. The fundamental flaw in so mu...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
