Rural America is a Fertile Field for Digital Health
BY ERIC LARSEN and TOMMY IBRAHIM
Eric Larsen
Tommy Ibrahim
Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. Beginning with these challenges, rural providers have been harder hit by the pandemic than just about any other health care sector.
Juxtaposed against this struggle is the optimism for digital health – one of the few bright spots of the pandemic. We have witnessed ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health Basset Healthcare COVID-19 digital health Rural America Source Type: blogs
How doctors can regain control of their software
I spent a year as a UCSF postdoc with the leaked tobacco documents. And this article is taken directly from the tobacco-control playbook. In the tobacco wars, we learned that: when a disease is caused by a for-profit industry, the only successful approach is regulation first, followed by treatment. Here is exactly how and why
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How doctors can regain control of their software originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Drea Burbank, MD Tags: Physician Health IT Source Type: blogs
My new moths of 2022
UPDATE: 2 Sep 2022 We (I) took the LepiLED with a portable trap to the New Forest in August and added 12 or so moths to the list, when we returned from our trip, first night lighting up we saw a Convolvulus Hawk-moth turn up to nectar on the Nicotiana (garden tobacco plants) before diving into the home garden moth trap. Another turned up later that evening and another on night of 1st September.
One of 2 or 3 seen in the garden this year for the first time – Convolvulus Hawk-moth
It was four years in July 2022 that I had been mothing in our back garden with a 40W actinic/UV trap. In that time I’ve photographed w...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 8 August, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Really just a lot of bits and pieces this week. Not a great deal of inspirational stuff!Sadly we see lots of spurious emissions from the ADHA wanting to tell people living at the extremities of Australia how to tweak the privacy settings of the #myHR that they don ’t care about. Staggering that this is all we hear from such an a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 8th 2022
In conclusion, aging research will benefit from a better definition of how specific regulators map onto age-dependent change, considered on a phenotype-by-phenotype basis. Resolving some of these key questions will shed more light on how tractable (or intractable) the biology of aging is.
Does Acarbose Extend Life in Short Lived Species via Gut Microbiome Changes?
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/08/does-acarbose-extend-life-in-short-lived-species-via-gut-microbiome-changes/
Acarbose is one of a few diabetes medications shown to modestly slow aging in short-lived species. Researchers here take a...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 7, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Lou Lasagna and the MIC “Integrated Career Ladder” – More Than Just A “Revolving Door.”
BY MIKE MAGEE
The New York Times recently shinned a light on the FDA’s top science regulator of the tobacco industry, Matt Holman, who announced his retirement after 20 years to join Phillip Morris. As they noted, “To critics, Dr. Holman’s move is a particularly concerning example of the ‘revolving door’ between federal officials and the industries they regulate…”
As a Medical Historian, I’ve never been a fan of the casual “revolving door” metaphor because it doesn’t quite capture the highly structured and deliberate attempts of a variety of academic medical scientists over a number of decade...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Interviews on Aspects of Aging with Judith Campisi and Dena Dubal
Today I'll point out a pair of interviews with researchers Judith Campisi and Dena Dubal, in which they discuss quite different aspects of aging. Campisi's research has a heavy focus on cellular senescence in aging. Cells become senescent constantly in the body, most because they hit the Hayflick limit on replication imposed upon the somatic cells that are the overwhelming majority of cells in our tissues. Cells can also become senescent because of damage, or encouraged into senescence by the signaling of other, nearby senescent cells. Once senescent, cells are normally quickly removed by the immune system or programmed ce...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 4, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Preventive, Proactive, Productive: Digital Care for Managing Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
The following is a guest article by Subhro Mallik, SVP and Head of Life Sciences business unit at Infosys.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) claims more lives than any other ailment. In 2019, it accounted for about one-third of total deaths globally. CVD also takes an enormous economic toll – US$ 1 billion per day in the United States alone. What makes it worse is that more than 80 percent of cardiovascular disease is preventable. Patients have the biggest role in CVD prevention, by eliminating as many lifestyle-related risk factors as possible, such as smoking, unhealthy eating, and physical inactivity. But the healthcar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Cardiovascular Disease CVD Detection Digital Healthcare Infosys Management prevention Subhro Mallik Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 1st 2022
In this study, we used the recently released Infinium Mouse Methylation BeadChip to compare such epigenetic modifications in C57BL/6 (B6) and DBA/2J (DBA) mice. We observed marked differences in age-associated DNA methylation in these commonly used inbred mouse strains, indicating that epigenetic clocks for one strain cannot be simply applied to other strains without further verification. Interestingly, the CpGs with highest age-correlation were still overlapping in B6 and DBA mice and included the genes Hsf4, Prima1, Aspa, and Wnt3a. Furthermore, Hsf4, Aspa, and Wnt3a revealed highly significant age-associated DNA methyla...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 31, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 30th July2022.
Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment-----https://ehrintelligence.com/news/internal-email-outlines-changes-to-oracle-cerner-ehr-business-unitInternal Email Outlines Changes to Oracle Cerner EHR Business UnitUpon its acquisition, the Cerner EHR business is now called Oracle Health, one of Oracle ’s global industry units (GIUs).ByHannah NelsonJuly 22, 2022 - An internal email from an Oracle executive...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Suggesting that 40% of Dementia is the Result of Lifestyle and Environment
Researchers here run the numbers to suggest that as much of 40% of the incidence of dementia is the result of lifestyle choices and environmental factors, and thus amenable to prevention. A lot of these line items are known to contribute to the chronic inflammation of aging, and evidence increasingly leans towards an important role for unresolved, lasting inflammation in the progression of neurodegenerative conditions. Much of the focus is on hypertension, the raised blood pressure that is very damaging to fragile tissues such as those of the brain. Hypertension can be controlled to a large degree via changes in diet, weig...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 25, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
A man in his 50s with hypoxemic respiratory failure from COVID pneumonia develops chest pain
Submitted by anonymous, written by Parker Hambright, MD, peer reviewed by Meyers, Smith, McLarenA man in his 50s with a past medical history of hypertension and tobacco use disorder, who tested COVID positive 11 days prior, presented to the emergency department with worsening shortness of breath over several days. He was tachypneic and hypoxemic down to as low as 44% with reportedly good SpO2 waveform before EMS applied noninvasive ventilation with improvement to 85-89%. Although history was limited by extremis, the report is that there was no chest pain at initial presentation, only shortness of breath.Here is his ECG on ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - July 25, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 18 July, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Aged Care had a good run this week with lots of discussion on just how useful it could be and where the priorities lay. Some fools were wittering on about how helpful the #myHR can be in this setting!Telehealth went and came back!The James Webb Telescope humbled us all with images for an age!-----https://itwire.com/science-news/he...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research - 8th July 2022
Librarian intervention (or a subscription) may be needed for some of these.Perinatal depressionThe effectiveness of telemedicine interventions on women with postpartum depression: A systematic review and meta-analysisEffectiveness of Internet-based psychological interventions for treating perinatal depression: A systematic review and meta-analysisSmoking cessationEconomic analysis of financial incentives for smoking cessation during pregnancy and postpartumPreterm birthDoes vaginal progesterone prevent recurrent preterm birth in women with a singleton gestation and a history of spontaneous preterm birth? Evidence from a sy...
Source: Browsing - July 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
The Impact of Smoking Bans in Bars and Restaurants on Alcohol Consumption and Smoking
Anne Burton (Cornell University), The Impact of Smoking Bans in Bars and Restaurants on Alcohol Consumption and Smoking, SSRN (2022): Governments implemented bar and restaurant smoking bans to target smoking-related externalities, but these bans may also affect drinking. This paper... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 6, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
