Is getting people off weight loss medications the right move?
By RICHARD FRANK
Demand for GLP-1 medications soared last year and shows no signs of stopping in 2024. Employers and health plans are understandably anxious about how long they should expect to pay for these pricey drugs. They’re itching for an easy off-ramp.
Some solutions are cropping up to pave the way. Many of them claim they can help patients reap the benefits of GLP-1s within a short time frame, and get them off the drugs within 12 months to save costs. But the data doesn’t support that promise. In fact, studies suggest some patients may need to stay on the drugs indefinitely to sustain outcomes while other...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice GLP-1s Obesity Richard Frank vida health Source Type: blogs
Lean Digital: Behavior Change for Weight and Obesity
This article, part of a series about obesity, interviews a number of experts to explore the philosophy and practice of behavioral therapy for obesity.
Medical and Behavioral Interactions
Dr. Luke Twelves, medical director of the contract research organization Lindus Health, says, “Obesity is a multifactor disease.” He believes that technology helps people take control of their own treatment. For instance, a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) allows patients to decide what food or medication they need at each moment in the day.
A similar viewpoint was cited by Eric Bormel, a director in the Healthcare Group at S...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 1, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 9amHealth Amwell Avantika Waring Behavior M Source Type: blogs
Lean Digital: How AI Drives Treatment Recommendations for Weight Loss
The first article in this series laid out what we know about body weight and obesity today. The rest of the Lean Digital series will look at some contributions that digital technologies are making toward solutions.
The best contribution that information can make to weight management is to find more effective, personalized treatments: to match the right person to the right treatment, whether it be surgery, drugs, diet, exercise, or some combination. AI is turning up intriguing successes in this endeavor.
I talked to Dr. Ronald Razmi, co-founder and managing director at Zoi Capital and author of the book AI Doctor: The Rise ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 30, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Genomics-Precision Medicine Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Andres Acosta apree health Behavior Management Behavi Source Type: blogs
Lean Digital: How Apps and Services Can Help Control Weight
Is anyone not obsessed with weight? The health care field certainly is. Researchers have found ties between high body weight and an oversized list of unhealthy conditions. Payers have invested enormous amounts of money in decreasing individuals’ body weights. A Congressional bill would promote behavioral therapy for obesity and extend Medicare coverage for drugs treating obesity.
And yet weights continue to rise around the world, and the phenomenon starts at very young ages.
The rapidly expanding use of GLP-1 drugs has been life-altering for many, but brings its own disappointments: They’re extremely expensive, req...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Behavior Management Behavioral Change GLP-1 Healthcare Motivation Lean Digital Weight Loss S Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – April 28, 2024 – 22% of employers fully trust chronic condition management vendors, Common Agreement v2.0 requires support for FHIR API exchange, plus 29 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.
News
ONC released Common Agreement 2.0. Updates that require support for FHIR-based APIs should allow TEFCA participants to more easily exchange information directly, and enable individuals to more easily access their own infor...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT All of Us Research Anatomy IT Augmedix Go Availity AvaSure Biofourmis BioIntelliSense Branch Brigham and Women's Hospital Charles Colligan Clark Curtis Cohere Health Community Health Network Connect America CorV Source Type: blogs
poem
White NoiseWhite noise machinesDissolve distracting soundsClinking through the house Into an ambient soundless balmWhich helps us go to sleep.Poetry is the white noiseHumming beneath the birdsong,Hovering in the space between your arrivalAnd the look that flashes on my face.It is the binaural beatThat wakes us upThe instant its tone is heard4/28/24 (Source: Buckeye Surgeon)
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - April 28, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Day Time Sleepiness Triples Risk of Heart Failure!
Daytime sleepiness is not that uncommon. There are many who fall asleep while at work or while reading. Wait before taking it so lightly. It may mean something more sinister.
The Sleep Heart Health Study found that obstructive sleep apnea with excessive daytime sleepiness triples the chance of heart failure and doubles the risk of a heart disease event.
Obstructive sleep apnea known in short as OSA is transient stoppage of breathing while sleeping due to obstruction of the upper air passages. The obstruction is manifest as noisy breathing or snoring. Poor quality of sleep at night leads to daytime sleepiness.
The Sleep Hea...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 27, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
This Disorder Strikes Most People After Mild COVID Infection (M)
Over 76 percent of patients recovering from mild COVID-19 found to experience this problem. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: COVID19 Sleep subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
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
