Bonus Features – March 3, 2024 – 75% of healthcare leaders expect widespread implementation of AI in 3 years, 78% of orgs lack knowledge on how to train employees to use AI, plus 18 more stories
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.
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Roughly 75% of healthcare leaders expect widespread implementation of AI within three years, according to a BRG survey. Additionally, 60% believe current AI regulations provide adequate safety measures.
While healthcare...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Amazon Web Services AnalyticsIQ Belong.life Berkeley Research Group Brand Engagement Network care.ai CharmHealth CHIME Deloitte Center for Health Solutions eClinicalWorks FHIR GE Healthcare Greenway Health hc1 Ins Source Type: blogs
Next frontier in radiation free Cath lab : Fibro-optic guided Catheterization
It is a 120-year challenge. Can anyone replace Rontgen’s X-ray discovered in 1895 for medical imaging? The Nobel winning Invention redefined the way we looked at our body and management of diseases for over a century. However, the fact remained it is an invasive and injuring investigation. What is the alternative for the X-radiation ?
CT scan was a great invention, but it turned out to be a gigantic 360-degree clone of X-ray machine. Today’s cath lab, however sophisticated , is like spending hours together inside a hot Chernobyl coffee shop. MRI was a true game changer. With zero radiation, MRI came close i...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - March 1, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized FORS cardiac catheterisation ice intra cardiac echocardiography ivus mri oct proton mri imaging radiation saftety ultrasound imaging Source Type: blogs
Why Flight Emergency Medical Kits Need A Digital Health Upgrade
A few weeks ago a doctor used an Apple Watch to aid an elderly woman who suffered a medical emergency on a flight. NHS doctor Rashid Riaz, from Hereford, borrowed the device from a flight attendant to check the patient’s oxygen levels.
“The Apple Watch helped me find out the patient had low oxygen saturation,” the medic explained. Later, he also called on all airlines to consider having emergency physician kits as standard, which would ideally include tools to take basic measurements, diabetic and blood pressure meters, and an oxygen saturation monitor.
We all know that aircraft have some medical su...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers portable diagnostics emergency medicine Healthcare technology flight medicine wearables Source Type: blogs
Fetal aortic valvuloplasty
is considered for fetuses with severe valvar aortic stenosis and echocardiographic features suggesting a risk of progression to hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Though surgical options are available for infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, morbidity and mortality are high. So if progression to hypoplastic left heart syndrome can be prevented by fetal aortic valvuloplasty, that would be theoretically a great boon. But centers which offer fetal aortic valvuloplasty are very few and cases suitable for fetal aortic valvuloplasty are quite rare. Hence there is difficulty in attaining good case volumes for optimal proc...
Source: Cardiophile MD - February 22, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Structural Heart Disease Interventions Source Type: blogs
Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging
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Source: Cardiophile MD - February 17, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: Echocardiography Source Type: blogs
What is Ultrafast Ultrasound Imaging?
Ultrasound techniques currently used in echocardiography uses frame rates from 30-150 frames/s. This limits its temporal resolution for very short lived events, especially in pediatric and congenital heart disease with faster heart rates compared to adults [1]. While conventional ultrasound uses focused beam transmission, ultrafast ultrasound uses unfocused plane-wave ultrasound which can result in very high temporal resolution with frame rates up to 100 times faster [2]. Potential lower spatial resolution while using plane-wave is taken care of by using multiple plane-waves transmitted at slightly different angles with a ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - February 16, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: Echocardiography Source Type: blogs
Who to Blame for Health Costs: The Poisoned Chalice of “ Moral Hazard ”
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
How the Search for Perfect Markets has Damaged Health Policy
Sometimes ideas in healthcare are so powerful that they haunt us for generations even though their link to the real world we all live in is tenuous. The idea of “moral hazard” is one of these ideas. In 1963, future Nobel Laureate economist Kenneth Arrow wrote an influential essay about the applicability of market principles to medicine entitled “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care”.
One problem Arrow mentioned in this essay was “moral hazard”- the enhancement of demand for something people us...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Care Costs Jeff Goldsmith Kenneth Arrow Medicare Moral Hazard Source Type: blogs
Can collaboration build subject matter expertise? We think so.
At my [Resa] first emergency medicine position leading a clinical ultrasound section, I noticed the impact of organizing a monthly educator series. It started out as a fun way to invite friends to visit me in New York City. Win-win: I could amplify their expertise, they met my team who expanded their networks, and my
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Can collaboration build subject matter expertise? We think so. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 5, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Resa E. Lewiss, MD and Adaira Landry, MD Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
Want to Build A Sequencer? 454.bio Opens Up Their Plans
Just as the AGBT hype cycle was firing up (with me contributing multiple sparks), serial entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg's latest sequencing startup 454.bio fully de-stealthed their technology this weekend, going so far as to release open source plans to build an instrument prototype. 454.bio is aiming to build a Keurig-sized device to retail for $100, with sequencing runs in the $20 range. To accomplish this, they're attempting a novel twist on sequencing-by-synthesis. It's an unconventional strategy by someone who has succeeded twice before in DNA sequencing (454 and Ion Torrent) and has multiple oth...
Source: Omics! Omics! - February 5, 2024 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Keith Robison Source Type: blogs
Healthcare AI – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared):
John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC 2024 Health IT Predictions Authenticx Availity Cara Brant care.ai Carenet Health Chakri Toleti Christopher Rogers Source Type: blogs
Noisy, low amplitude ECG in a patient with chest pain
Written by Colin Jenkins. Colin is an emergency medicine resident beginning his critical care fellowship in the summer with a strong interest in the role of ECG in critical care and OMI. Edits by Willy Frick.A patient in their 40s with type 1 diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia presented to the emergency department with 5 days of “flu-like” illness. They had difficulty describing their symptoms, but complained of severe weakness, nausea, vomiting, headache, and chest pain. They denied fever, cough, dyspnea, and sick contacts. They described the chest pain as severe, crushing, and non-radiating. It was not wo...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 15, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – January 14, 2024 – Epic Research shows telehealth results in more follow-up visits that in-office care, Elevance Health to offer smartphones to qualified Medicaid beneficiaries, plus 21 more stories
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.
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Follow-up rates for telehealth and in-office visits have remained consistent since 2020, according to analysis from Epic Research. That said, telehealth visits are more likely to result in follow-ups at the 7-, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 14, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Abbott Alliance for Pediatric Device Innovation American Telemedicine Association Atropos Health Butterfly Network Caregility Cedar Gate Technologies Childre Source Type: blogs
Three normal high sensitivity troponins over 4 hours with a " normal ECG "
Written byWilly FrickA 46 year old man with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to urgent care with complaint of " chest burning. " The documentation does not describe any additional details of the history. The following ECG was obtained.ECG 1What do you think?The ECG shows sinus bradycardia but is otherwise normal. There is TWI in lead III, but this can be seen in normal ECGs. No labs were obtained. The patient was given a prescription for albuterol and a referral to cardiology.Smith comment:No patient over 25 years of age with unexplained chest burning should be discharged without a troponin rule out, no matt...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 5, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – December 24 , 2023 – 74% of orgs automating RCM operations, per-physician revenue exceeding expenses at U.S. hospitals, plus 19 more stories
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.
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Median hospital margins rose to 2% in November, according to the latest data from Syntellis, and per-physician revenue growth is outpacing per-physician expenses.
Nearly 3 in 4 (74%) healthcare organizations ar...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accelecom Akasa Avel eCare Ayble Health Boston Children's Hospital Brightside Health Butterfly Network Cancer Moonshot Clarify Health Commure Engage Data Dimensions Digital Medicine Society Greenway Health Healthc Source Type: blogs
Concerning EKG with a Non-obstructive angiogram. What happened?
CONCLUSION: Given resolution of severe CP in association with the above marked improvement of ST-T wave abnormalities in virtually all leads during the less than 1 hour between the recording of ECGs #1 and #2 — this strongly suggests reopening of a " culprit " vessel (whichever vessel this was) — regardless of the fact that " no obstructive lesion was seen " at the time the cardiac catheterization happened to be done.The more than doubling of Troponin (even though " normal limits " for Troponin were not surpassed) — is consistent with a brief OMI, with only...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 19, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
