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Stellar Sleep Raises $6M to Help End Sleeplessness With the First Digital Sleep Therapy Platform for Chronic Insomnia
Stellar Sleep, which provides the first digital solution for chronic insomnia management, announced today a $6 million seed round, led by Initialized Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Lombardstreet Ventures, Switch Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Scrum Ventures, 8vdx, and Goodwater. More than 25 million Americans suffer from chronic insomnia – meaning sleep problems 3+ nights a week for 3+ months. The condition can lead to both mental and physical health issues, ranging from trouble concentrating to sleep apnea and heart attacks. For people suffering from chronic insomnia, superficial care advice (e.g. cutt...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 8vdx Edrei Chua George Wang Goodwater Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Initialized Capital Lombardstreet Ventures Moonfire Ventures Parul Singh Scrum Ventures Stellar Sle Source Type: blogs

Living with pain is social: The Chronic Pain Couple book review
Over the past year or so I’ve kept returning to ‘the social’ part of our multifactorial pain experience.* Pain can be extraordinarily isolating, and our current sociopolitical emphasis maintains a focus on ‘what the individual should do.’ In New Zealand, our accident compensation legislation is a no-fault, 24/7 everywhere, all-the-time innovation but it falls short in critical areas. One is the continued focus on ‘physical findings’ to validate a diagnosis (and to show that the resultant impact on an individual is entirely due to a personal injury caused by accident), and the other...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - February 25, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping strategies Professional topics Health pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 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. News U.S. Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024, which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into cer...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accenture Authenticx Availity AXYS Biofourmis Brightside Health Dandelion Health Digital Health Collaborative Edifecs EHR Association Experity FHIR API Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Healthcare Legislation H Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 26th 2024
In conclusion, mTORC1 signaling contributes to the ISC fate decision, enabling regional control of intestinal cell differentiation in response to nutrition. « Back to Top Reviewing the Development of Senotherapeutics to Treat Aging https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/02/reviewing-the-development-of-senotherapeutics-to-treat-aging/ Senescent cells accumulate with age and contribute meaningfully to chronic inflammation and degenerative aging. Destroying these cells produces rapid and sizable reversal of age-related diseases in mice, demonstrating that the presence of senescence cells ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

An Appraisal of Policy for Employment of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs)
Agha Ghulam Haider (Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training), An Appraisal of Policy for Employment of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) (2024): The present paper discusses the challenges faced by people with disabilities (PWDs) in Pakistan concerning employment opportunities. PWDs... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 25, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

The 10,000 Hours Myth Busted: A Revelation About The Real Power of Practice (M)
Is relentless practice the key to greatness, or is there much more to the story? (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Learning subscribers-only Source Type: blogs

Doctors speak out against toxic work conditions
I’m in a global private physician Facebook group, and I learn a great deal about health care, both good and bad, from other doctors. Because it is private, doctors share a lot of personal practice issues as well as challenging cases from which we all learn. The physician who posted this message from her hospital Read more… Doctors speak out against toxic work conditions originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 24, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Toni Brayer, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention
There are a lot of new ideas and technologies being made to better the world of healthcare. These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. But in a time when our industry is facing high staff overtime and burnout, there’s simply no way that we can be aware of everything happening in health IT. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. So what trend isn’t being talked about enough? What should be trending ri...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Arcadia Ariel Gamiño Bobbi Weber CliniComp Colin Banas Dr. Lawrence Werlin DrFirst Epocrates Health IT Trends Heather Bassett HRC Fertility Joan But Source Type: blogs

Three Ways AI is Preventing Revenue Leakage
The following is a guest article by Dan Parsons, Co-Founder and CPO at Thoughtful Revenue leakage poses a significant challenge to healthcare providers, and the traditional methods used to mitigate these losses are becoming increasingly difficult to scale. Healthcare providers need an adaptable and scalable solution to address these issues permanently. RCM automation, powered by artificial intelligence, can achieve this – saving considerable time and adding millions of dollars to the bottom line. Additionally, automation simplifies adaptation to the evolving payer landscape for healthcare providers. Andreessen Horowitz p...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management a16z Andreessen Horowitz Automation Claims Processing CPT Dan Parsons KaufmanHall ProPublica RCM Revenue Lea Source Type: blogs

Ambience Healthcare Raises $70M to Scale the Most Comprehensive AI Operating System for Healthcare Organizations
Ambience Healthcare, the most comprehensive AI operating system for healthcare organizations, has announced a $70M Series B raise co-led by Kleiner Perkins and OpenAI Startup Fund. The raise also includes existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Optum Ventures. “Healthcare is one of AI’s most promising opportunities to create an outsized positive impact on the world. Ambience Healthcare has built an incredible team to focus on providing a complete ecosystem of products that seamlessly fit into the workflow of practitioners, pushing both AI and medicine forward,” said Brad Lightcap, COO at OpenAI and...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AdvancedMD Ambience Healthcare Andreessen Horowitz athenahealth Brad Lightcap Cerner Dr. Priti Patel eClinicalWorks eCW Elation Epic Eventus WholeHealth GI Alliance Health IT Funding Health Source Type: blogs

Building expertise through collaboration [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! Join emergency physicians Resa E. Lewiss and Adaira Landry as they delve into the power of collaboration in developing subject matter expertise. Discover how their monthly educator series led to unexpected opportunities, and learn valuable microskills that can make a lasting Read more… Building expertise through collaboration [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 23, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Attempting to Determine Harmful versus Adaptive Changes Using Epigenetic Clock Techniques
The largest of the present challenges facing the use of epigenetic clocks to measure biological age is that there is no established causal connection between what the clock measures, meaning the methylation status of specific CpG sites on the genome, and specific aspects of the burden of age-related damage and dysfunction; e.g. which changes are due to chronic inflammation, which due to mitochondrial dysfunction, etc. Thus the results obtained from an epigenetic clock assay, the raw methylation data or the resulting epigenetic age, are not actionable. There is nothing one can do with that information to guide health practi...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 22, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Dr. Craig Joseph Introduces Designing for Health
There are many books about design, but a recent book by Craig Joseph, MD and Jerome Pagani, Designing for Health: The Human-Centered Approach, applies design principles to EHRs and to IT systems in general. In this video, Dr. Joseph, chief medical officer at Nordic, explains some of the experiences and achievements that lay behind the book. His principles include recognizing the importance of design (instead of letting systems evolve haphazardly), bringing “people who do the work day in day out” into the design process from the start, using nudges and defaults to facilitate making the most common choices (̶...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Craig Joseph Designing for Health Health IT Design Healthcare Design Healthcare IT Source Type: blogs

Transforming Chronic Care Management: A Comprehensive, Technology-Driven Approach
The following is a guest article by Kevin Riley, CEO and President at Zyter|TruCare In an era dominated by the complex challenges of chronic diseases, which account for approximately 90% of healthcare costs, a strategic approach to chronic care management (CCM) is essential. This approach should integrate advanced technology with a deep comprehension of healthcare’s fundamental principles, effectively tackling the current challenges and proactively shaping the future of healthcare. Emphasizing patient-centered solutions, this methodology is set to revolutionize the management of chronic diseases, thereby impacting pa...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations ahrq CCM Chronic Care Chronic Care Management Chronic Diseaase Ma Source Type: blogs

75 Good Night Blessings and Images for a Good and Restful Sleep
It’s dark. The moon and stars have come out. Soon the day will come to an end and you can climb into your warm bed for some restful and perhaps well-needed sleep. So in this post I’d like to share the most inspiring and best good night blessings and images. To help you get a bit of positivity at the end of your day, get a good and peaceful night’s sleep and set you up for a motivated start tomorrow. If you want more uplifting blessings for tomorrow then have a look at the this post with good morning blessings and this one with good evening blessings. And feel free to share one of these blessings or image...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - February 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs