Healthcare AI and Automation: Good or Bad?
There are so many challenges that we are currently facing in the world of healthcare, that possibly adding another one is overwhelming to think about. AI automation is still so new that it’s hard to tell what the exact impact will be. On one hand the automation will solve a lot of problems. It can stop a lot of human error and take mundane tasks off of healthcare’s shoulders. Thus helping lift the burden that so quickly leads to burnout. However, where does the automation end? The thought that a computer can do your job for you makes a lot of people worried that it lead to them being replaced.
So let’s ta...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC 4medica Advata AristaMD Artificial Intelligence Automation 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
What ’ s On Your Plate? Culinary Medicine as an Innovative Nutrition Education Model
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests Courtney Newman and Jaclyn Albin, MD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss culinary medicine and its role in teaching nutrition, nutrition counseling, and hands-on cooking skills to medical students. The conversation also covers how culinary medicine programs build connections and community and improve the well-being of students, faculty, and patients.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available.
A transcript is below.
Read the article discussed in this episode: Newman C, Yan J, Me...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 20, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast culinary medicine medical education nutrition patient care Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer's Disease as a Consequence of Maladaptive Fructose Metabolism
Researchers here discuss the proposal that Alzheimer's disease results from high sugar and glycemic carbohydrate intake. It is certainly possible that this mechanism contributes, but one has to ask why, if this was a dominant mechanism, is lifestyle much less correlated with Alzheimer's incidence than is the case for common metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes? One of the challenges all along with Alzheimer's is that it doesn't have a strong enough correlation with metabolic dysfunction and lifestyle choice to believe that it can be wholly, or even largely, a metabolic condition.
An important aspect of survi...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 20, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
All Three Legs of the Obamacare Stool Are Working Well – Part 2
BY GEORGE HALVORSON
2022 Medicare Advantage data gathering process change made last year just made upcoding for plans irrelevant and impossible, but the critics do not accept that it happened.
CMS just ended that upcoding debate for 2022 by completely killing the coding system for the plans, effective immediately. The plans can’t code risk levels up because the coding system was eliminated entirely for 2022.
RAPS is dead.
The payment approach for Medicare Advantage now has no upcoding components and the government just used their new and more accurate numbers to create the 2023 payment level for the pla...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Affordable Care Act Medicaid Medicare Medicare Advantage Obamacare Source Type: blogs
Testing A Wireless Wearable Glucose Sensor – FreeStyle Libre 2 Review
I have tested over a hundred digital health devices and gadgets over the past 8 years. And by far the most problematic of all these has been the FreeStyle Libre wireless wearable glucose sensor review. Don’t misunderstand me, the technology is brilliant, the sensor works flawlessly, but boy, regulatory hurdles were making it the toughest challenge. But let’s start at the beginning.
I am not diabetic but as a health-conscious person doing what I do (predicting the future of healthcare and medicine), I had been yearning to try continuous glucose monitoring for two reasons. First, I wanted to go through the pr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine blood glucose digital health continous glucose monitoring wireless wearable glucose sensor Freestyle Libre diabetes management Freestyle Libre Review Source Type: blogs
Testing A Wireless Wearable Glucose Sensor – FreeStyle Libre Review
I have tested over a hundred digital health devices and gadgets over the past 8 years. And by far the most problematic of all these has been the FreeStyle Libre wireless wearable glucose sensor review. Don’t misunderstand me, the technology is brilliant, the sensor works flawlessly, but boy, regulatory hurdles were making it the toughest challenge. But let’s start at the beginning.
I am not diabetic but as a health-conscious person doing what I do (predicting the future of healthcare and medicine), I had been yearning to try continuous glucose monitoring for two reasons. First, I wanted to go through the pr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine Freestyle Libre Review blood glucose digital health continous glucose monitoring wireless wearable glucose sensor diabetes management Source Type: blogs
Type 2 Diabetes Alert: Blood Sugar Is Key To Better Brain Function, Study Finds
Type 2 diabetes doubles the risk of cognitive problems and dementia. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Brain Health Diabetes Source Type: blogs
How To Live Longer: The Best Food For Weight Loss, Lower Blood Sugar And Cholesterol
Eating high amounts of this type of carbohydrate makes you live longer. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Revolutionary Diet Change Regulates Blood Sugar In Type 2 Diabetes
Shifting to these type of foods keeps your blood sugar levels steady and increases fat metabolism. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Transforming diabetes education with “ AH-HA! ” moments
"AH-HA!" moments in diabetes education
Welcome to episode 2 of BDI Briefs! Our aim with BDI Briefs is to take a brief look at important issues about the emotional side of diabetes.In this short discussion, Scott, Bill, and Susan discuss innovative ways to transform diabetes education by creating “AH-HA!” moments in group education sessions. I also encourage you to look at more research from the Behavioral Diabetes Institute. Enjoy! And please let us know what you think and what you’d like to hear more about from BDI.And remember to s...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - January 30, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
What High Blood Sugar Does To Brain Health
Prediabetes can be reversed by eating a healthy, well-balanced diet, being active and by maintaining a healthy weight. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Brain Health Diabetes Source Type: blogs
Medicare Advantage UpCoding Has Been Eliminated by CMS Effective 2022
By GEORGE HALVORSON
Medicare Advantage now enrolls almost exactly half the people enrolled in Medicare — and has both significant fans and hardline opponents in the health care policy circles who disagree about its performance.
The biggest attack point that comes from the critics deals with the issues of coding accuracy by the plans. The payment model for the program is capitation — and that capitation is based on the average cost of fee-for-service Medicare in every county. The people who designed the model believed that the country should use the average cost of fee-for-service Medicare in every county as the b...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy CMS George Halvorson Medicare Advantage Source Type: blogs
A Popular Science View of the Development of Senolytic Therapies
Over the last decade, an increasing diversity of research groups and companies are working towards the clinical use of senolytic therapies to reverse aspects of aging in older patients by clearing harmful senescent cells. Of the early senolytic therapies, the dasatinib and quercetin combination is the only one with published data in human clinical trials showing clearance of senescent cells. This treatment is in fact easily accessible to self-experimenters, and even being prescribed off-label by more adventurous physicians. The biotech industry is working to produce a next generation of (probably) better approaches, and ob...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 29, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
