CIO Podcast – Episode 67: Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation with Inderpal Kohli
For the 67th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Inderpal Kohli, Vice President and CIO at Englewood Health about cybersecurity and digital transformation! We kick this episode off by discussing Kohli’s approach to cybersecurity, where he then shares a personal recommendation about cybersecurity for all healthcare CIOs. Then Kohli tells us all about his journey in digital transformation. From his personal experience, we discuss what it takes to successfully drive digital transformation. Next, we talk about generative AI. Kohli shares his views on generative AI and we debate how...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Healthcare CIO Podcasts Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy CIO Leadership Cybersecurity Digital Transformation Englewood Health Generative AI Generative AI in Healthcare Source Type: blogs

Care Continuity Secures $10M in Funding to Fuel Growth in Patient Navigation
Today, Care Continuity, a leader in data-driven patient navigation serving some of the country’s largest health systems, payers, and ACOs, announced the close of $10 million in Series A-3 funding co-led by Empactful Capital and Viewside Capital Partners with participation from Flat Creek Capital and Loop 289 Limited Partners. The funding will enable Care Continuity to further its mission of helping health systems, payers and ACOs employ an efficient patient and member-centered care journey, as well as make strategic investments in growth, product development, and further enablement of AI to enhance Care Continuity...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Brad Prugh Care Continuity Empactful Capital Flat Creek Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Loop 289 Limited Partners Sal DeTrane Viewside Capital Partners Source Type: blogs

Dressing to inspire confidence: How the clothes you wear can change perceptions
There are a lot of things that I’ve forgotten since 1984, the year I started medical school. But I will never forget the Dean of Students’ proclamation on the very first day of class: “You must dress to inspire confidence,” he thundered. But that wasn’t the last of it. Over and over, our dapper dean Read more… Dressing to inspire confidence: How the clothes you wear can change perceptions originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs

Mechanisms for the Benefits to Long Term Vascular Health Provided by Exercise
The vascular system responds favorably to exercise at any age. A large portion of the benefits of exercise derive from improvements to vascular function throughout the body, and physical fitness can be maintained further into old age than most people believe to be the case. The flip side of this point is that a sizable fraction of the declines of later life are a matter of disuse, people living a more sedentary life than is optimal for the health and function of muscles, heart, and brain. These the most energy-hungry tissues and those that see the worst outcomes from a decline in vascular function and consequently reduced ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 29, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Book review: Your Pain Playbook by Helen Roome
There is an enormous missing link in pain management today. That link is, as I see it, how to translate from theory (decontextualised ideas) to daily life. To my life, to your life, to the unique and varied lives people living with pain had before their pain arrived. Your Pain Playbook is written by Helen Roome, pain occupational therapist living and working in South Africa. The South African vibe runs through her book, giving this Kiwi a lovely taste of Helen’s country via the metaphors she uses – ever heard of the ‘Go-away bird’? It’s a bird that warns impala of impending danger and Hele...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 28, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Book reviews, site reviews Coping strategies Chronic pain Occupational therapy pain management Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 29th 2024
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter, please visit: https://www.fightaging.org/newsletter/ Longevity Industry Consulting Services Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 28, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

How to lose your compassion: the brutal reality of medical internship
Not all at once, just slowly enough that you don’t notice. “I’m having a rough go at it,” Mr. Robinson confesses. He was listening to me use choppy, challenging vocabulary to piece together what’s landed him in the hospital. But I know what he’s talking about. The mass in his chest that’s been compressing on Read more… How to lose your compassion: the brutal reality of medical internship originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 27, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Education Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Is the MCAT still vital for medical school admissions?
I recently concluded my application cycle with an acceptance, and I’ve been catching up on the news regarding medical school admissions. Admittedly, I’m disappointed. Also shocked by how much can happen while being occupied. It kind of felt like Neo getting out of his “bubble.” Simply put, the MCAT is still important and should remain Read more… Is the MCAT still vital for medical school admissions? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 27, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs

A talk with Andy Bell on thriving with diabetes
Andy Bell:Experiencing diabetes beyond just numbers I recently had the privilege of catching up with Andy Bell. A good friend and part of the diabetes community, Andy shared his story, which is packed with perseverance and resilience.Andy was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1994 at the age of 14. His experience, like that of many others living with diabetes, has been a rollercoaster ride. During our conversation, Andy touched on his diagnosis story, how living with diabetes has impacted his life, his unique career path, and how he manages now that heâ€...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - January 26, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs

Health IT Leadership ’ s Role in Patient Data Security and Privacy
Moving towards an entirely digital world of healthcare can be very appealing in a lot of ways. Having everything digital means better interoperability, increased patient access, and more. However, with the ever-increasing cybersecurity threats and attacks moving more digital can also be very scary. And it is in these uncertain and scary times that people turn to their leaders for guidance. This leaves us with the big question of what role Health IT leadership plays in ensuring the security and privacy of patient data, and what strategies can leaders employ to address emerging cybersecurity threats. We reached out to some f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Security and Privacy Caryn Hewitt CenTrak Chris Toth Cybersecurity Edifecs hc1 Insights Health IT Leadership Healthcare Leadership John Johnson Ordr patient data Patient Dat Source Type: blogs

Sunoh ’ s Ambient Clinical Voice Automates Clinician Note Creation
According to Saurabh Singh, VP of Sunoh, the success of ambient clinical voice depends on much more than the accuracy of the recording. Sunoh “checks the boxes” when it comes to meeting the needs of physicians’ workflows and differences. Sunoh’s solution can take input from many different sources: mobile devices, and laptop or desktop computers. This makes it easy to deploy in different rooms and settings. At the end of a clinical session, Sunoh generates a structured note tailored to the EHR within 30 to 60 seconds. Note generation is fully automated. The doctor can edit the note manually or using ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Clinical Voice Automated Clinical Documentation Digital Assistant eClinicalWorks eCW EHR AI Assistant Healthcare IT Video Interviews Saurabh Source Type: blogs

The Big Consult: Bringing Technology to Life
The previous articles in this series looked at differences between digital settings and clinical ones, along with criteria for choosing technologies. This final article looks at practical evaluation of vendors, and how to plan for a deployment. Evaluating the Vendor The traits of the vendor you work with are at least as important as the technology they offer—even more important, according to Aaron Neinstein, chief medical officer at Notable. He points out that products will change quickly along with the environments where they are used. Therefore, you must make sure that the clinicians and vendors are “aligned on...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Aaron Neinstein Arcadia AvaSure care.ai Christine Vogel Cindy Koppen Clever Care Health Plan Equality Health Health IT Vendors Kate Behan Kh Source Type: blogs

Vita Health Announces $22.5M Series A Funding Round
Supports National Expansion of Critical Mission to Address Suicide Epidemic Vita Health, the first provider of clinically validated suicide prevention through innovative care management, announced today the close of a $22.5M Series A funding round. The funding will support the rapid expansion of life-saving services targeting youth and adults nationwide. The Vita behavioral health care pathways are based on the founding team’s successful clinical trials published in JAMA, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and thousands of patient encounters demonstrating reductions in suicide attempts by more than 60% and deaths by up ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Athyrium Capital Management Connecticut Innovations CU Healthcare Innovation Fund CVS Health Ventures Flare Capital Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HopeLab LFE Capita Source Type: blogs

Quantifying the Effects of Time Spent Sitting on Mortality
The study noted here provides an interesting addition to the debate over whether time spent sitting is harmful to health independently of its contribution to time spent being sedentary. Time spent sitting increases mortality, while time spent active or undertaking exercise decreases mortality. The results of this large epidemiological study quantify how much additional exercise is required to mitigate the mortality increase resulting from time spent sitting. The results also have the look of common sense at the end of the day; the intuition that one should compensate for a desk job with additional exercise outside work tur...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

An Interview with Andrew Steele on the Need for Advocacy for Aging Research
Those of us who have been involved in advocacy for aging research and the development of therapies to treat aging as a medical condition for long enough will remember the early 2000s, a time in which a million dollars of new funding for a specific project or specific non-profit was an amazing, novel, rare event. Given that $3 billion, a sizable fraction of all investment into all forms of medical biotech in 2022, was invested into one entity focused on one approach to the treatment of aging, Altos Labs, we might forgive advocates who think that the job is done, that the argument has been made and heard, that it is time to ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs