Hiding in Plain Sight: ERISA's Cure for the $1.5 Trillion Health Benefits Market
Amy Monahan (University of Minnesota), Barak D. Richman (Duke University), Hiding in Plain Sight: ERISA ' s Cure for the $1.5 Trillion Health Benefits Market, Yale J. on Reg. (forthcoming 2024): Since 1974, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) has imposed... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 1, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Au Contraire
By KIM BELLARD
Last week HHS announced the appointment of its first Chief Competition Officer. I probably would have normally skipped it, except that also last week, writing in The Health Care Blog, Kat McDavitt and Lisa Bari called for HHS to name a Chief Patient Officer. I’ll touch on each of those shortly, but it made me think about all the Chiefs healthcare is getting, such as Chief Innovation Officer or Chief Customer Experience Officer.
But what healthcare may need even more than those is a Chief Contrarian.
The new HHS role “is responsible for coordinating, identifying, and elevating opport...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Chief Competition Officer Chief Patient Officer Kat McDavitt Kim Bellard Lisa Bari Source Type: blogs
Anatomy of Trust: Promoting Integrity in A & P Education | Winter Shorts | TAPP 146
Episode 146 of The A&P Professor podcast is one of ourwinter shorts, where I replay interesting segments from previous episodes. In this one, we discuss the importance ofacademic integrity in the Anatomy& Physiology course. We emphasize the need to incorporatediscussions about integrity in the syllabus and course materials and sharereal-life examples of violations in the healthcare field. We highlight how dishonesty can haveserious consequences and discuss strategies for prevention, such as using multiple test versions and unique topics for papers/projects. Providingexamples of acceptable practices and discouraging...
Source: The A and P Professor - January 16, 2024 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Turnarounds are Talent Magnets: University of Chicago Medical Center
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
Like birds of a feather, talent in healthcare management often gathers in flocks. The University of Minnesota, University of Michigan and University of Iowa healthcare management programs are all justly famous for graduating, over many decades, an exceptional number of future transformative healthcare leaders. But sometimes, talent comes from the “street”- challenging healthcare turnarounds that attract risk-taking leaders who, in turn, gather young talent around them. The University of Chicago’s urban academic health center has been one of these places.
The U of C was (and remains) the la...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Jeff Goldsmith talent University of Chicago Source Type: blogs
Punishing Physicians Who Torture: A Work in Progress
Steven Miles (University of Minnesota), Punishing Physicians Who Torture: A Work in Progress, 20 Torture (2023): Background: There are only a few anecdotal accounts describing physicians being punished for complicity with torture or crimes against humanity. A fuller list of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 8, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Chief Health Information Officer
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Chief Health Information Officer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Hennepin Healthcare and is located in Minneapolis, MN.
Here’s a description of the position:
Hennepin Healthcare System (HHS) operates as an integrated care system which includes HCMC, a nationally recognized Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center along with a high-quality acute care hospital. This comprehensive healthcare network includes a 473-bed academic medical center, a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Chief Health Information Officer CHIO Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Hennepin Healthcare Job Seekers Source Type: blogs
Rapid Detection of Misfolded Proteins
Scientists at the University of Minnesota have developed a method to detect misfolded proteins more rapidly and sensitively. The technique could eventually allow clinicians to diagnose diseases that involve misfolded proteins more easily, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The approach involves an enhancement to an existing assay called Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion (RT-QuIC) assay. This assay involves adding a small sample containing misfolded proteins to a larger protein sample, and shaking the mixture for hours. This causes the misfolded proteins to increase in number, allowing...
Source: Medgadget - May 22, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Neurology CJD Creutzfeldt-Jakob universityofminnesota Source Type: blogs
Diversion in Prescription Opioid Supply Chains: Evidence from the Drug Supply Chain Security Act
Jingwen Yang (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Anant Mishra (University of Minnesota), Diversion in Prescription Opioid Supply Chains: Evidence from the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (2023): Problem definition: The opioid crisis has been referred to as the worst drug... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 28, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Career Conversations: Q & A with Evolutionary Biologist William Ratcliff
Dr. William Ratcliff. Credit: Courtesy of Dr. William Ratcliff.
“Being a researcher is special because there aren’t many jobs that allow you to spend the majority of your time thinking about the things you find the most interesting in the whole world,” says William Ratcliff, Ph.D., an associate professor of biological sciences and the director of the interdisciplinary graduate program in quantitative biosciences at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta. We talked with Dr. Ratcliff about his career path, research on yeast, and advice to budding scientists.
Q: How did you first become intereste...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Tools and Techniques Cool Tools/Techniques Evolutionary Biology Profiles Source Type: blogs
We ’ re Disrupting Disruption
By KIM BELLARD
The Sunday Times featured an op-ed by Mark Britnell, a professor at the UCL Global Business School for Health, with the headline Our creaking NHS can’t beat its admin chaos without a tech revolution. Substitute “U.S. healthcare system” for “NHS” and the headline still would work, as would most of the content.
I wouldn’t hold my breath about that tech revolution. In fact, if you’re waiting for disruptive innovation in healthcare, or more generally, you may be in for a long wait.
A new study in Nature argues that science is becoming less disruptive. That seems counterintuitive; it ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech disruptive innovation Kim Bellard Science Source Type: blogs
Engage Venture Partners Announces Lead Investment in VOCxi Health
The Minnesota-based medtech venture capital firm marks continued growth of its research-driven model leveraging deep industry expertise and an inclusive investment vehicle
Engage Venture Partners, a venture capital (VC) firm committed to building a funding community for early-stage medical technology companies and their investors, announces its investment in VOCxi Health. This marks the third investment for Engage since the firm’s launch earlier this year and the first time it has led a funding round.
Engage was founded in July 2022 to provide clients access to extensively vetted investment opportunities in the medical d...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT .SAFE Breath Diagnostics ENGAGE Engage Venture Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Morgan Evans Ping Yeh Simple Agreement For Future Equity Special Purpose Vehicles S Source Type: blogs
Danger Alert: A.I. Is Writing Content, But It ’s Lying – Let Us Show You How
There is a growing number of A.I. text generators around the web, offering more or less the same.
You give a brief of your planned content and maybe some keywordsSet the parameters, like the language, the tone of the text and the creativity levelHit enterVoila, you get your blog post/article/marketing copy/whatever
Isn’t it amazing? Writing a good text takes effort, so outsourcing it to A.I. could save us a ton of time in researching and crafting content.
Before you quickly lay off all your writers, let me show through a few examples of why trusting A.I. with content is dangerous as of now. TLDR spoiler: it ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI AI text generator synthetic media AI in heaalthcare Source Type: blogs
Danger Alert: AI Is Writing Content, But It ’s Lying – Let Us Show You How
There is a growing number of AI text generators around the web, offering more or less the same.
You give a brief of your planned content and maybe some keywordsSet the parameters, like the language, the tone of the text and the creativity levelHit enterVoila, you get your blog post/article/marketing copy/whatever
Isn’t it amazing? Writing a good text takes effort, so outsourcing it to AI could save us a ton of time in researching and crafting content.
Before you quickly lay off all your writers, let me show through a few examples of why trusting A.I. with content is dangerous as of now. TLDR spoiler: it is l...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI AI text generator synthetic media AI in heaalthcare Source Type: blogs
Soft Robot Grows Like a Plant to Travel Through Tight Spaces
At the University of Minnesota, researchers have developed a soft robotic system that can ‘grow’ like a plant. The mechanism allows it to travel through difficult-to-access areas, such as the tortuous gastrointestinal tract or vasculature. The system works by extruding a liquid through an opening in the device, and at the same time a photopolymerization process results in the rapid solidification of the liquid into a solid structure. The device illuminates the extruded liquid monomers, triggering the photopolymerization. This process mimics the way plants incrementally add material to their growing tips and root tips. ...
Source: Medgadget - October 3, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery GI Materials Radiology Telemedicine Vascular Surgery UMNews Source Type: blogs
Required Diversity Statements on Campus: Are They Constitutional?
Walter OlsonRequired statements on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are fast becoming a part of admissions and hiring at universities and professional schools. “A review of the admissions process at 50 of the top-ranked medical schools found that 36 asked applicants their views on, or experience in, DEI efforts,”according to a recent report by Laura L. Morgan for the advocacy group Do No Harm.Controversy has mounted over to the extent to which these requirements,in the words of Princeton's Keith Whittington, function as "political litmus tests, requiring that scholars pledge themselves to believe and advance a set...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 23, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
