Closing the Gender Health Gap: How Digital Technology Can Support Better Women ’s Health
The following is a guest article by Juliet Bauer, Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Livi
I’m often asked where I believe digital technology can make the biggest impact in healthcare. My answer? Women’s health. Today, women spend around a quarter of their lives in poor health or disability, compared with one fifth for men. In a health system that has historically been geared towards men, a gender health gap persists where you are more likely to receive poorer medical advice and diagnosis if you are a woman.
When I look at that gap, I see a key space for digital healthcare in helping us overcome many of the obstacles...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Digital Technology FemTech Healthcare Discrimination Juliet Bauer Livi UK Health IT Women's Health Source Type: blogs
You Need Some Smarter Clothing
BY KIM BELLARD
Much as I’d love to write about Instagram’s feud with the Kardashians over changes to the Instagram feed, and how that and proposed changes to Facebook’s feed reflect Meta’s efforts to combat TikTok’s growing influence, I’ve already given healthcare plenty of warnings about TikTok. Instead, I’ll write about something else that the Kardashians care about: fashion.
Well, not fashion per se, but clothing. If the old, sexist statement was “clothes make the man,” then soon we may be saying “clothes make your health.”
The Washington Post got my attention when it report...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A man in his 60s with dizziness, nausea, chest pain, and LBBB
Submitted and written by Parker Hambright MD, peer reviewed by Meyers, McLaren, Grauer, SmithA man in his late 60s called EMS for acute dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and chest pain shortly after beginning his morning exercise. The symptoms lasted for only about 15 minutes and then resolved spontaneously. He was brought to the ED and evaluated in less than one hour from onset of symptoms. His history included known CAD, HTN, HLD, prior MI with LAD stent, AAA repair, and reported dizziness/vertigo.Here are his EMS and ED triage ECGs (unclear whether symptoms still present or resolved at time of these ECGs, but it seems that s...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 1, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Ways to stop good clinicians leaving pain management (i)
After the heartbreaking post last week that seemed to resonate with so many around the world, I thought I’d look at what we can do to stop good clinicians leaving pain management.
While our jurisdictions have differences in pay rates, reimbursement approaches and treatment codes, at the heart of good healthcare is good people who want to help. So why, when healthcare is populated with caring clinicians, do we strike bullying, lack of support for one another, non-existent teamwork, and poor career pathways? What is going on?
I’ll tackle these in bite-sized chunks, starting with the funders. And of course, ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - July 31, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Interdisciplinary teams Professional topics Science in practice Clinical reasoning Health healthcare Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – July 31, 2022 – House passes bill to extend telehealth flexibility to 2024, only 60% of practices hit their 2021 revenue goal, 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
The U.S. House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021, which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the e...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 31, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AmerisourceBergen ArchWell Health athenahealth Availity Caption Health CHESS Health Clarify Health Digital Diagnostics Faitility Ful Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – July 30, 2022
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.
A Vision for the Hospital Room of the Future: Part 1. Jeff Fallon, Chairman and CEO at eVideon, shared with John Lynn some of his big ideas for what the hospital room could look like not long from now. Think improvements to the nurse call button, a virtual whiteboard, and actions triggered by activity in the EHR. Read more…
A Vision for the Hospita...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Oncoustics Closes New Funding to Advance its AI Innovations in Ultrasound and Address Huge Unmet Clinical Needs in Liver Disease
Oncoustics’ SaMD Works on Any Ultrasound System Making AI-Driven Diagnostics, Surveillance and Treatment Monitoring Available and Accessible at Point of Care
Oncoustics (http://www.oncoustics.com), the leader in ultrasound-based tissue characterization solutions announces the initial close of a $5 million+ seed round of funding to advance its SaMD (software as a medical device) technology for the low-cost assessment of structural diseases at point of care. Oncoustics’ first products will focus on liver disease, one of the fastest-growing causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. The round is co-led by Cre...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Beth Rogozinski Creative Ventures Dr. Chen Fong Fraser Kearney Capital Corp. Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment James Wa Source Type: blogs
Not a cancer survivor, not a cancer previvor: Am I a cancer preventer?
I recently had a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy with an esthetic flat closure (no reconstruction). My decision took months of questions, discussion and reflection. My journey began during the final four weeks of 2021. It included: four mammograms, four ultrasounds, three MRIs, two needle biopsies, two radioactive seed placements, two excisional biopsies (aka lumpectomies), two surgeonRead more …Not a cancer survivor, not a cancer previvor: Am I a cancer preventer? originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/nanette-elster" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Nanette Elster, JD, MPH < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Cardiac Holography : Lets get ready to welcome, in our cath lab soon !
Medical science has evolved over 2000 years and moved far away, from the spiritual cure times at the temple of health at Kos islands to the Imaginations of Davicini. We are now in an era, where we can, not-only take stunning live photographs of individual organs but also go inside, assisted by X RAYs, Ultrasound, CT MRI, and Optical fiber. Now, a new kid is entering ie Holography. (We may expect haptics very soon).
How about a cardiologist operating with a virtual 3D beating heart hanging in front of him?
Yes, it is possible in a scientific fiction movie . No. it’s real. True view,...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - July 7, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Multimodality Imaging Newer cardiac Imaging acc aha esc scai guidelines agumented reality in heart artificial intelligence cardaic 3d printing Cardaic mri cardiac holography carto ep future of cardiology medical Imaging senti AR COMM Source Type: blogs
Point-of-Care Ultrasound? How Butterfly Network ’ s Hand-Held Devices Make Scans On-Demand Diagnostics
BY JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Butterfly Network (NYSE: $BFLY) is working to make its pocket-sized, smartphone-directed ultrasound as “ubiquitous as the stethoscope” – hoping to give docs and nurses at the point-of-care the ability to easily perform any type of scan and instantly see the results. Dr. John Martin, Butterfly’s Chief Medical Officer, talks us through the technology behind the $2,400 hand-held device and how the company is working with healthcare orgs to integrate ultrasound into their workflows — completely shifting the paradigm for where-and-when scans are performed and able to be utilized. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Hand-Held Devices Jessica DaMassa Source Type: blogs
Self-Powered Implant Tracks Spinal Fusion Healing
Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh created a self-powered implant that can track spinal healing while also providing mechanical support. The device can be 3D printed so that it fits a given patient perfectly and the mechanical properties can also be easily tuned to customize for each situation. The spinal fusion cage contains a triboelectric nanogenerator that creates electricity when it is pressurized by the spine. This powers an on-board sensor that measures the pressure on the cage, which is indicative of spinal healing.
Spinal fusion cages are often inserted by surgeons to provide support after fusion surgeri...
Source: Medgadget - July 5, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Orthopedic Surgery PittTweet Source Type: blogs
Bifurcation PCI : Physics & Philosophy of kissing & crushing strategy
Bifurcation PCI is a modern-day Cardiologist’s fascinating professional adventure within coronary arteries. Of course, the Intention is to do good for the patient. Bifurcation lesions (BFL) are a special subset of lesions, that looks challenging, more because of the potential biological aftermath following the delicate construction of a grade separator at a critical site. Mind you, it’s done within a live flowing artery and subsequently needs lifelong maintenance.
Strategies for BFL
Strictly committed* single stent strategy (Irrespective of what may come, LCX or LAD pinching let me tak...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - July 5, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized bbc 1 definition nordic bifurcation pci carina cullotte dk crush mini crush pot ptca scai acc aha guidlines Source Type: blogs
Bifurcation PCI : Physics & Philosophy of DK crush technique
Bifurcation PCI is a modern-day Cardiologist’s fascinating professional adventure within coronary arteries. Of course, the Intention is to do good for the patient. Bifurcation lesions (BFL) are a special subset of lesions, that looks challenging, more because of the potential biological aftermath following the delicate construction of a grade separator at a critical site. Mind you, it’s done within a live flowing artery and subsequently needs lifelong maintenance.
Strategies for BFL
Strictly committed* single stent strategy (Irrespective of what may come, LCX or LAD pinching let me tak...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - July 5, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized bbc 1 definition nordic bifurcation pci carina cullotte dk crush mini crush pot ptca scai acc aha guidlines Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – June 26, 2022 – Walgreens gets into clinical trials, ONC offering SDOH grants, 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
Walgreens has launched a clinical trial business; the company is focusing specifically on increasing racial and ethnic diversity in clinical trials, as nearly half of its 9,000 are in areas defined as “soc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Biofourmis Cardiologs CarePort Centene CipherHealth Clinical Trials DiA Imaging Analysis Health Net Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HealthCorum Healthy Alliance HIXNY Source Type: blogs
One-Step Manufactured Meta-Bots with Medical Potential
Engineers at the University of California Los Angeles have developed “meta-bots,” which are fingernail sized robots that can move, sense, and navigate their environment. Strikingly, the robots are essentially ready for use when they emerge from the 3D printer, and consist of piezoelectric actuators that can respond to or generate electricity. The robots consist of an intricate structure of piezoelectric components that allow them to rapidly flex and rotate. The researchers hope that the technology will lead to a variety of medical robotics, such as self-steering endoscopes or drug delivery robots that can navigate to s...
Source: Medgadget - June 22, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Surgery Vascular Surgery ucla Source Type: blogs
