ICMR study on sudden unexplained deaths in Covid times : An atypical observation
Conclusion is fair
It is traditional (and acceptable ) to blame the heart for all unexplained sudden deaths. The study suggests that heavy drinking, along with with intense physical activity in the background of positive family history, is behind many of the deaths. It is a fair assumption that they are all cardiac. Sudden neurological and pulmonary deaths are under reported. In fact many of the SCD is an arrhythmic event originating from CNS or electro-ionic triggers in blood with the healthy heart
Is this not a major limitation*
When you want to know whether COVID vaccination is related to sudden death in any ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - November 22, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized covid and sudden cardaic deaths scd in covid Source Type: blogs
Study identifies protective brain structure that delays the onset of frontotemporal dementia symptoms over 2 years
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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Source: SharpBrains - November 17, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health brain fold brain-reserve brain-structure Bruce Willis cognitive advantage cognitive-ability cognitive-reserve dementia frontal-lobes frontotemporal dementia paracingulate sulcus Source Type: blogs
Zealous for Wellness: The Ongoing Quest for Standard Measures
The previous articles in this series showed how payers, providers, and digital health companies try to prove that they’re helping to create healthier patients. Sara Shanti, a partner specializing in health care at law firm Sheppard Mullin, says that organizations in the wellness space are searching for strong algorithms. But they also want to ensure that technology leads to, and clearly reflects, improved and worthwhile outcomes. This is not likely to emerge for some time. But this final article looks at how some organizations are filling the gap.
Rigor at a Weight Loss Clinic
Dr. Brett Osborn, author of the book G...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 16, 2023 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 LTPAC Arcadia Behavior Change behavioral health BPCI Brett Osborn Clinical Source Type: blogs
Zealous for Wellness: How to Replace Hype with Data
This article begins a series that looks at useful measures of health and how the companies that promote wellness programs demonstrate their success. We’ll see measurements of objective outcomes, patient-reported outcomes, and what payers look for when they can’t get direct evidence of improvements in wellness.
You’ll note, as we survey the wellness solutions and measurements used, that the leading organizations in this space are payers, not clinicians. I’m sure that doctors and nurse practitioners truly care for the overall happiness and wellbeing of their patients. But the institutions aren’t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 14, 2023 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 LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring ACOs Avanade Christiana Voelker Cli Source Type: blogs
Wide complex and apparent hyperacute T-waves. Does absence of change from previous ECG mean that it is not New?
By Magnus Nossen, edits by Grauer and SmithThe patient is a 70-something female with DMII, HTN and an extensive prior history of coronary artery disease and myocardial infarctions. She ' s had multiple PCI procedures. She also has sick sinus syndrome (SSS) and intermittent high grade AV block for which she had a dual chamber pacemaker implanted. On the day of presentation she complained of typical chest pain, and stated it feels like prior MI. Just from the medical hx and clinical presentation this patient is very likely to be having an MI. The question is, does she need to go urgently to the cath lab or can she wait....
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 5, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Magnus Nossen Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 30th 2023
In conclusion, reported adherence to a healthy lifestyle is associated with reduced risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality. Adherence to all four lifestyle factors resulted in the strongest protection.
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Source: Fight Aging! - October 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Regulators Will Likely Continue to Make Development Difficult, Even After Aging is Recognized as a Medical Condition
It is the nature of regulators at the FDA to aim for zero risk at any cost, and this is particularly apparent in the case of preventative therapies intended to be deployed widely in comparatively healthy people. Absent unusual political pressure, any number of ongoing deaths while therapies are assessed is treated as an acceptable cost to avoid even small numbers of deaths that may occur due to use of a new therapy. Thus even after aging is recognized as a medical condition by regulators, it is likely that they will make it too expensive to assess potential therapies. Instead, companies will gain clinical approval for trea...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 25, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Hospital secrets that patients don ’ t know
“America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” – Walter Cronkite. Hospitals, revered as places of healing and recovery, hold secrets and harbor mistakes that can take a heavy toll on patients. These hidden truths, often concealed behind the walls of health care institutions, come with dire consequences. Supported by alarming statistics
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Hospital secrets that patients don’t know originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Shakeel Ahmed, MD Tags: Physician Gastroenterology Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
VT? Or Supraventricular tachycardic rhythm with aberrancy?
A 70 something male presented in severe respiratory distress.The patient had altered mental status and so he was prepared for intubation. Before intubation, he became hypotensive.On the monitor patient had wide-complex tachycardia. The following 12-lead was obtained:What do you think?Differential is ventricular tachycardia versus supraventricular tachycardia with aberrancy versus sinus tachycardia with a aberrancy. There are possible P waves in lead II. But these could be an extension of the QRS, so sinus tach is not certain. Certainty could come with the use of Lewis leads. Much easi...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 21, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Specific Types of Help
This is the final article in a series about social determinants of health (SDoH). Previous articles covered the definition, collection, sharing, and use of SDoH. I’ll finish with a look at some specific areas of intervention.
We’ve seen the importance of personal interventions, through interviews and evaluating SDoH, to solve problems. In rural areas, where it might be daunting either to travel to a doctor or to schedule an online visit with poor Internet access, home visits fill the gap. Conduit Health Partners is one organization that does so. A patient can speak to a nurse immediately—as opposed to calling...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Case Management Cheryl Dalton-Norman Clara Lambert Conduit Health Partners Genpact Health Link Adviso Source Type: blogs
The Future of Digital Health: How UX Design is Shaping the Industry
By PARV SONDHI
As the digital health world continues to expand, more and more people are turning to apps to manage everything from diabetes and obesity to depression and anxiety. People rely on these apps for their physical and mental health, so it’s crucial that product developers ensure a safe, effective, and engaging experience for them. Healthcare experts agree.
A team of researchers and health system leaders recently introduced a new framework called “Evidence DEFINED” for evaluating digital health products. This framework offers hospitals, payers, and trade organizations a precise set of guidelines to as...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Design digital health UX vida health Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH
Previous articles in this series introduced the importance of social determinants of health (SDoH) and explained how it can be captured and classified. In this article, I’ll show how many hospitals, payers, and other institutions are acting on that data.
Of course, the staff of a clinic or hospital don’t go around looking for apartments the way they actively look for a long-term care facility. Instead, their case managers partner with community institutions to help patients. But the clinic or hospital is a crucial linchpin in connecting the patient to this help. According to Dr. Victor Lee, vice president of cl...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability AdhereHealth Avanade Case Management CipherHealth Clinical Architecture ClosedLoop Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Depression/Anxiety Not Linked to Negative Outcomes in Patients with Functional Limb Weakness, FND Experts Report
By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Psychosomatic Research has just published a paper called “The Impact of Depression, Anxiety and Personality Disorders on the Outcome of Patients with Functional Limb Weakness – Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.” As I have previously noted, the journal is something of a house organ for seriously flawed research from … Trial By Error: Depression/Anxiety Not Linked to Negative Outcomes in Patients with Functional Limb Weakness, FND Experts Report Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 17, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized depression FND SNSS statistics Stone et al Source Type: blogs
More Evidence for Impaired Hearing to Contribute to Cognitive Decline
In conclusion, cochlear implant use seems to boost cognitive trajectories in the first years after implantation. However, long-term prevention of dementia seems to need far more than restoration of hearing loss. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - October 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction
It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. But only in the past few years have the medical professions tried to quantify and capture these factors. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects.
An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Care Management SDOH Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
