Friday Feature: eXtend Homeschool Tutorial
Colleen HroncichKym Kent is a busy homeschooling mom with six children who range in age from 13 to 24. But when she had a vision for a new program to help other homeschool families, she didn ’t shy away from stepping up and co‐founding Bridge Elementary Homeschool Tutorial Ministries in 2017. After adding middle and high school classes over the years, the program is now calledeXtend Homeschool Tutorial.While Kym earned an economics degree from the University of Maryland, she says her real education started when she became a homeschooler in 2004. For nine years, Kym and her children participated i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 24, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – March 11, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Why AI Is an Add-on for Healthcare, Not a Replacement. The nuance of healthcare means that AI will never replace the human touch, experts in the Healthcare IT Today said. Relationship management is still a personal process – but even processes such as workflow automation and security threat benefit from a human touch. Read more…
How to Conti...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Using Telehealth to Serve Disparate Populations
The following is a guest article by Josh Wilda, CIO at University of Michigan Health-West.
Armando Ruiz is like many who walk through the doors of Exalta Health: an elderly man greeted in his native Spanish by a bilingual marquee outside the small purple clinic on Grand Rapids’ main thoroughfare. He’s also one of many Exalta patients who took advantage of a partnership with a local hospital to receive needed specialty care through a unique hybrid remote/in-person model.
The partnership between Exalta and University of Michigan Health-West serves a variety of business objectives for both providers. As ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Armando Ruiz Exalta Exalta Health Grand Rapids Hybrid Care Josh Wilda Laura Kass Source Type: blogs
Our OMI Toolbox Application is out now !
We are happy to announce that our " OMI Toolbox " application has just released and ready for your use. As myocardial infarction (MI) and many other diagnoses (for example left ventricular hypertrophy, prior MI etc.) can cause ST-segment elevation (STE) on electrocardiogram (ECG), the distinction between them may be hard and complicated. Furthermore, some ECGs may not meet the STEMI criteria but may still be diagnostic for acute coronary occlusion (ACO). For this purpose, only one set of diagnostic or differentiating criteria (STEMI criteria) is not enough, therefore a bunch of different tools are needed to make a&nbs...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 3, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Emre Aslanger Source Type: blogs
Innovating Education, Outreach, and Mentorship With Organic Chemist Neil Garg
Dr. Neil Garg. Credit: Penny Jennings.
“An important part of being in science is being in a community,” says Neil Garg, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and chair of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). That philosophy has led him to prioritize mentorship, diversity, and inclusion—while maintaining research excellence—as well as re-envisioning what it means to educate students and the public.
Falling in Love With Chemistry
Science was always a part of Dr. Garg’s childhood. He participated in science fairs as a kid but says he did it for the commun...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 1, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Profiles Training Source Type: blogs
BrainHealth Week starts today! Plus: dancing, personalized mental health, brain stimulation and more
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains e‑newsletter, annoucing the kick-off of BrainHealth Week and featuring some stimulating resources and teasers.
#1. BrainHealth Week (February 20–24th) starts today:
Explore many fun events including a daily text challenge, a talk with the always great Dr. Tom Insel, and more!
#2. Without Brain Health, you do not have Health
Important article given that “It typically takes twenty to forty years or more for scientific discoveries to meaningfully benefit human life. We cannot wait that long.” — Wise words!
#3. Sin Salud Cerebral, Usted no tiene Salud –same article, in Spa...
Source: SharpBrains - February 20, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning Alto Neuroscience Alzheimer’s Disease brain stimulation Brain Teasers brain-teaser BrainHealth Week cerebral cognitive-skills dancing mental-fitness personalized salud salud Source Type: blogs
100 Ungrateful Quotes to Help You Deal with Negativity
When you try your hardest and you’re only met with indifference or an ungrateful response then that can knock the wind out of your sails.
And when someone else in your life really steps up and you aren’t appropriately appreciative then that can lead to conflict or to you feeling guilty later on and like you're a bad friend or partner.
So to help you to deal with both sides of this issue I’ve put together 95 of the best ungrateful quotes.
I hope these timeless thoughts and tips will help you live a happier, kinder and more appreciative life where you count your blessings and let the negativity of others roll off...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - February 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 23: The Great Rapprochement
George SelginWhat finally brought the Great Depression to an end? We ' ve seen that, whatever it was, it took place not during the 30s but sometime between then and the end of World War II, when a remarkable postwar revival occurred instead of the renewed depression many feared. We ' ve also seen that, while postwar fiscal and monetary policies weren ' t austere to the point of preventing that revival, they alone can ' t explain it, because they can ' t explain the reawakening of private business investment from its decade-and-a-half-long slumber.Animal SpiritsTo get to the bottom of that reawakening, we must first recall ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 7, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
13 Year Old McAllen
BY IAN MORRISON
As a Scot, obviously I am a whisky fan, and although I prefer the smoky malts of Islay (where my grandfather was from and where I visit my friends there frequently), I am also a huge fan of McCallan 18-year-old whisky, the sticky toffee pudding of single malts.
But as all policy wonks know, McAllen Texas is not famous for whisky but for Atul Gawande’s “Cost Conundrum” article in the New Yorker, in 2009 which is still required reading in medical school and MPH classes and was arguably the cornerstone of Obama health policy and the ACO movement.
Dr. Atul Gawande described overutilization and hi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: The Business of Health Care Affordable Care Act Atul Gawande Ian Morrison McAllen Texas Source Type: blogs
Return to McAllen: A Father-Son Interview
By IAN ROBERTSON KIBBE
You are going to hear a little more about McAllen, TX on THCB Shortly. And before we dive into what’s happened there lately, I thought those of you who weren’t here back in the day might want to read an article on THCB from July 2009. Where then THCB editor Ian Kibbe interviewed his dad David Kibbe about what he was doing as a primary care doc in McAllen–Matthew Holt
By now, Dr. Atul Gawande’s article on McAllen’s high cost of health care has been widely read. The article spawned a number of responses and catalyzed a national discussion on cost controls and t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized David Kibbe Ian Robertson Kibbe McAllen Physicians TX Source Type: blogs
Funded postdoctoral positions at the bcbl- basque center on cognition brain and language (san sebasti Án, basque country, spain)
FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS AT THE BCBL- BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE (SAN SEBASTI ÁN, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN), www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) offers the following positions:FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION – Signal Processing in Neuroimaging GroupFUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION – Neurolinguistics and Aphasia GroupFUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION – Consciousness GroupFUNDED POSTDOCTORAL POSITION – Brain Rhythms and Cognition Group INFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITIONS IN https://www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/job-offers...
Source: Talking Brains - January 19, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION –BRAIN RHYTHMS AND COGNITION GROUP at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain)
FUNDED POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE POSITION –BRAIN RHYTHMS AND COGNITION GROUP at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.euINFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITION Position: Post-docResearcher Profile: R2, Recognised Researcher (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent) / R3, Established Researcher (Researchers who have developed a level of independence)Number of vacancies: 1Project: NeurospeechLocation: Spain> San SebastianResearch Field: Neuroscience> Cognition and LanguageType ...
Source: Talking Brains - January 5, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Artificial conversation
I fed the paragraphs from my recent blog post about our new year trip to the Norfolk coast sequentially to the ChatGPT, artificial intelligence system to see what sort of things it would say in response to my words…its responses put a positive spin on everything, even my complaint about the number of dogs!
It’s also interesting, that it recognises that I said “for starters” and so asked if I saw any other interesting birds. For the most part, it looks like the bot repeats back to you what you’ve said like a vaguely interested and patronising friend might! Be interesting to know from where it g...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs
New Year in Norfolk 2023
As has been our habit for the last few years, we have eschewed the midnight festivities of New Year and escaped to the coast. This time, we straddled the New Year with three nights in a cosy cottage in Wells-next-the-Sea. We enjoyed the local hostelries in the evenings during our trip, but the main focus was to walk as far as we could manage each day (usually 7 or 8 miles) and to take in the birding and other sites of nature en route.
Record shot: Pallid Harrier in flight
Wells, Warham, Titchwell, and Holkham Gap were the main areas, beach, woodland, marsh, and nature reserve. A couple of Muntjac (one deceased), two or thr...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
TWiV 966: 1918 influenza with Jeffery Taubenberger
Vincent travels to the NIH campus to speak with Jeffery Taubenberger about his career, the 1918 influenza pandemic, deciphering the genome sequence of the virus from tissues of disease victims and using it to rescue infectious virus. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - December 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology 1918 influenza pandemic Spanish flu vaccine viral virus viruses zoonosis Source Type: blogs
