Featured Health IT Job: Project Director, Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Project Director, Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yale New Haven Health and is in Connecticut. Here’s a description of the position: Overview The Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) is a leading national outcomes research center dedicated to transforming healthcare for the betterment of people and society by leveraging data, analytics, and technology. We have as...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Healthcare Quality Measurement and Outcome Job Seekers Project Director Yale New Haven Health IT Jobs Yale New Haven Jobs Source Type: blogs

Technology of Digitized Patient Intake Forms
This article has shown the techniques used by one company to make it simple. (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Cam Holt Forms Healthcare APIs Healthcare Forms Healthcare Intake Healthcare Waiting Room Patient Intake patient registration Source Type: blogs

More on Transcriptional Noise in Aging
As a companion piece to a recent article questioning whether transcriptional noise actually exists as envisaged, this review paper covers what is known and unknown in this part of the field. Transcriptional noise is random variation in the first stage of gene expression, and it is thought to increase with age. It seems likely to be a consequence of the broad variety of changes and dysfunctions that occur in cellular biochemistry in old tissues, an accompaniment to faltering quality control of protein synthesis and altered epigenetics. While easily defined at the high level, transcriptional noise is challenging to measure i...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Illustrating that Inflammation is Important in the Progression of Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis is a condition of macrophage dysfunction. Macrophages are responsible for clearing the excess and oxidized cholesterol that finds its way into blood vessel walls, but they falter at this task with advancing age. In part this is due to the inflammatory environment, which induces changes in the behavior of macrophages, tipping the balance of activities away from repair and towards further amplication of inflammatory signaling. The research noted here demonstrates the relevance of chronic inflammation to the progression of atherosclerosis in a population of patients on statins, looking at risk of subsequent ca...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

N of 1 studies – great examples
This study examined whether it’s more fruitful to expose people to many activities they’ve previously avoided, or instead, to limit the number of activities each person was exposed to. This is SUCH an important component of therapy where people have avoided doing things that bother them because they anticipate either that their pain will go to untolerable levels (or interfere with other important things like sleep) or because they’re worried they’ll do harm to themselves. Why? Because doing things in one safe space is not life. We do lots of activities in lots of different spaces, and most of them a...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 12, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Low back pain Research Science in practice pain management single case experimental design Source Type: blogs

Detecting Unusual Score Patterns in the Context of Relevant Predictors-Joel Schneider on a neuropsych assessment issue
Anytime Dr. Joel Schneider drops an article that provides " smart " routines/software to help solve some of the persistent and complex problems in cognitive test interpretation, I make sure to pay attention.  Progress is and can be made. Detecting Unusual Score Patterns in the Context of Relevant Predictors | SpringerLink  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40817-022-00137-x Abstract Neuropsychological assessment requires integrating new information with what is already known about an examinee. In constructing a case conceptualization, it can be helpful to quantify how unusual a pattern of scores is ...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - March 8, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs

Arguing with ChatGPT
TL:DR – When asked ChatGPT refers to itself as an artificial intelligence language model, but there are so many reasons not to describe these statistically based, text autocomplete tools as AI. I repeatedly prompted ChatGPT with questions and statements until it produced a more realistic definition itself. There’s been a lot of talk about weird and inflammatory responses from the Bing chat bot in the last couple of weeks. By contrast, it’s difficult to get a rise out of ChatGPT. It always gives you a diplomatic response. Even if you push it with contrary questions and statements. I spent a few minutes tr...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs

Featured Health IT Job: Healthcare Data Analyst
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. Here’s a description of the position: New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State. Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Data Analyst Health IT Jobs Healthcare Data Analyst Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs

The Ohio Train Derailment, Safety Regulation, and the Historical Improvement in Rail Safety
David Kemp andPeter Van DorenEarlier this month, a Norfolk Southern freight trainderailed in East Palestine, Ohio, causing a large fire, releasing hazardous materials, and prompting emergency crews to conduct a controlled release and burn of toxic vinyl chloride. Fortunately, no lives were lost, but up to two thousand nearby residents were evacuated from their homes for nearly a week, and there are still concerns about pollution. Sober analysis is rarely welcomed after an accident like this. We believe it is worthwhile, however, to illuminate some journalistic errors and place the derailment in the context of increasing fr...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David Kemp, Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – February 26, 2023 – Accenture says more adequate Medicaid networks could save $912 million annually, InterSystems named data partner of NCQA, and more
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 A new report from Accenture, US health inequity: beyond the statistics, indicated that inequity in care contributes to an additional 3,400 Black infant deaths and an additional 9,200 Black cancer deaths annually. Proposed f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accenture Accenture Healthcare AHIOS Augusta University Health System Bart Howe Bicycle Health Biofourmis Boomi BrightInsight D14.AI Dhealth directtrust Ellipsis Health FEI Systems FutureRx Google Cloud Grac Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 27th 2023
This study tested the hypothesis that ischemic vascular repair in aging by Ang-(1-7) involves attenuation of myelopoietic potential in the bone marrow and decreased mobilization of inflammatory cells. Young or Old male mice of age 3-4 and 22-24 months, respectively, received Ang-(1-7) for four weeks. Myelopoiesis was evaluated in the bone marrow (BM) cells by carrying out the colony forming unit (CFU-GM) assay followed by flow cytometry of monocyte-macrophages. Expression of pro-myelopoietic factors and alarmins in the hematopoietic progenitor-enriched BM cells was evaluated. Hindlimb ischemia (HLI) was induced by ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 26, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

How to Discover Better Insurance Coverage, Together
Streamlining and improving revenue is hyper-important for healthcare organizations right now. One challenge is finding the right patient payer information. Technology can help organizations identify more billable insurance coverage for self-pay patients, maximizing revenue, increasing efficiency and improving patient experience. The following is a guest post from Inovalon. Many healthcare providers find themselves wondering whether a revenue cycle management (RCM) partner would benefit their organizations. When providers can find the right partners – partners that add value to the organization’s industry expertise by d...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management billable coverage Healthcare Scene Featured Inovalon insurance discovery Medical Bills patient co-pays patient deductibles Source Type: blogs

What's new in midwifery - 23rd February 2023
First, some research that has been picked up by the media:A study of school performance in 12 year olds, looking at performance in children who were born following an induced labour. Thestudy is open access andgot coverage in the Guardian. Then, some things about breastfeeding:Claims made on formula milk are not backed up by evidence,a study in the BMJ finds,discussed in the Guardian and by the BBC.TheGuardian ’s coverage of a new series ofopen access articles in the Lancet.Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, statistics on breastfeeding at 6-8 weeks after birth, quarterl...
Source: Browsing - February 23, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: breastfeeding midwifery Source Type: blogs

6 Healthcare Examples Of Virtual, Augmented And Mixed Reality
Lately, there has been a tendency in the tech world to adopt “new” realities in their midst. Meta has a branch dedicated to developing virtual reality (VR) hardware and software; earlier this year HTC unveiled its new augmented reality (AR) glasses; while Apple is reportedly gearing up to launch a mixed reality (MR) headset.  Collectively, VR, AR and MR fall under the umbrella term of extended reality (XR), which analysts believe holds the potential to be the next major computing platform. Such potentials have spillover effects into the medical field through digital health approaches, and healthcare practice is...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Augmented Reality Virtual Reality MR XR VR AR mixed reality extended reality Source Type: blogs

Insufficient Water Intake May Correlate with Increased Arterial Stiffness
As a companion piece to a recent discussion of whether mild dehydration is both quite prevalent and meaningfully impacts aspects of aging, one might look at this study of water consumption and vascular health in hyperuremic individuals. A relationship between lower water intake and arterial stiffness was only significant in women, but nonetheless it is interesting to see data that suggests at least some populations are harming themselves over the long term via too little water intake. Hyperuricemia is defined as an elevated serum uric acid (sUA) level in the blood and is well-known as an independent risk factor fo...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs