How Change is Ushered in Healthcare
Pre pandemic, it is said that among service industries, change is predictably most difficult in the healthcare profession. There are several reason for this, but because processes in healthcare are already often complex, and sometimes ambiguous, embedding a new culture happen at a very slow pace. Take the pre pandemic research to standards of care policy change and implementation. It usually takes a decade for new promising research result to become standards of care in clinical medicine. This is even longer in the field of surgery.
Interestingly, it took us a pandemic to change some of our long held beliefs and practic...
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - February 25, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Remo Aguilar Tags: Uncategorized change management healthcare change leadership Leadership & Management Learning & Development Medicine policy policy making tweetchat Source Type: blogs
How Change is Ushered in Healthcare
Pre pandemic, it is said that among service industries, change is predictably most difficult in the healthcare profession. There are several reason for this, but because processes in healthcare are already often complex, and sometimes ambiguous, embedding a new culture happen at a very slow pace. Take the pre pandemic research to standards of care policy change and implementation. It usually takes a decade for new promising research result to become standards of care in clinical medicine. This is even longer in the field of surgery.
Interestingly, it took us a pandemic to change some of our long held beliefs and practic...
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - February 25, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Remo Aguilar Tags: Healthcare Policy Leadership & Management Learning & Development Medicine Tweetchat change management healthcare change policy making Source Type: blogs
A COVID-19 vaccine exemption letter
BY ANISH KOKA
I recently saw a young man who came to see me because his place of future employment, a large health system was requiring him to complete the 1º series of his COVID-19 vaccination. He was concerned because he had chest pain after his first mRNA vaccine and was uncomfortable with the risks of a second mRNA dose. He attempted to get a Johnson and Johnson vaccine and was told by pharmacists he was not allowed to mix and match this particular vaccine as he had already received an mRNA dose. With no other option, he came to ask me whether I thought a vaccine exemption was reasonable in his case. He already had...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka COVID-19 vaccine exemption vaccines Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 24th February 2023 - research
Some things you may want to know about:Effectiveness evaluation of anantenatal care intervention addressing disparities to improve perinatal outcomes in Denmark: A nationwide register-based analysis of a cluster randomised controlled trial (MAMAACT), Meperidine compared with nitrous oxide forintrapartum pain relief in multiparous patients: a randomized controlled trial.Nurses ' and midwives ' perceptions and strategies to cope withperinatal death situations: A systematic literature review.Vitamin D supplementation for the outcomes of patients with gestational diabetes mellitus and neonates: a meta-analysis and systema...
Source: Browsing - February 24, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
NextGen COVID-19 Antibodies Destroy Spike Protein
Researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia have developed a new generation of antibodies to treat COVID-19. So far, the antibodies have been shown to neutralize several of the viral variants behind COVID-19, and the researchers hope that they will form an effective treatment for at-risk patients. Previously developed antibody treatments for COVID-19 have been rendered largely useless as the virus has mutated. Such antibodies have focused on binding to the most obvious site on the viral spike protein, the ACE2 receptor binding site, but their efficacy in destroying the virus has waned with new vira...
Source: Medgadget - February 23, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Propelling Rare Disease Research for More Than 50 Years
Vials of samples from the NIGMS HGCR. Credit: Coriell Institute for Medical Research.
The year 2022 marked 50 years since the creation of the NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository (HGCR) at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research in Camden, New Jersey. The NIGMS HGCR consists of cell lines and DNA samples with a focus on those from people with rare, heritable diseases. “Many rare diseases now have treatments because of the samples in the NIGMS HGCR,” says Nahid Turan, Ph.D., Coriell’s chief biobanking officer and co-principal investigator of the NIGMS HGCR. She gives the example of a rare disease advocacy group wh...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Genes Injury and Illness Diseases Genomics Scientific Process Source Type: blogs
TWiV 984: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses the political polarization of COVID-19 treatments among physicians and laypeople in the United States, seven alternatives to evidence-based medicine, Malawi’s cholera death toll crosses 1,300 in its deadliest outbreak on record, impact of coronavirus infections on pediatric patients at a tertiary pediatric hospital, maternal mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 18, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern viruses Source Type: blogs
TWiV 984: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses the political polarization of COVID-19 treatments among physicians and laypeople in the United States, seven alternatives to evidence-based medicine, Malawi’s cholera death toll crosses 1,300 in its deadliest outbreak on record, impact of coronavirus infections on pediatric patients at a tertiary pediatric hospital, maternal mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during … TWiV 984: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 18, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern viruses Source Type: blogs
Retrieving Billions in Overpayments by CMS
This article focuses on the relatively young technologies that enable CMS to uncover overbillings, whether they be errors or fraud. The article is based on an interview with Kel Pults, chief clinical officer and vice president of MediQuant. A future article will explain how Medicare Advantage plans are trying to improving data collection and reporting, and how AI helps.
Challenges of Investigating Overpayments
Undeserved payments are needles lurking in the haystack of 135 million Americans enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). But the needles pile up fast. Improper payments f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Revenue Cycle Management #COVID19 CMS COVID Reimbursement Healthcare AI Healthcare Analytics Kel Pults MAOs Medicare Advantage MediQuant Overp Source Type: blogs
The Path Forward for Healthcare ’s People Matching Problem
The following is a guest article by Rachel Podczervinski MS, RHIA, Vice President of Professional Services at Harris Data Integrity Solutions.
Efforts to identify the right path forward for healthcare’s patient matching problem are gaining a foothold as stakeholders from across the spectrum come together to remove obstacles and implement effective solutions. Most notably, in 2022, efforts by industry organizations like Patient ID Now led to the temporary removal of Section 510 from the U.S. House and Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS) appropriations bills. While it was ul...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Black Book Research EHR Electronic Health Records EMPI Enterprise Master Patient Ind Source Type: blogs
Electrochemical Sensor for Detailed SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Data
Researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute have developed an electrochemical device, called the eRapid sensor, that can assist clinicians in quickly characterizing someone’s COVID-19 infection, including identifying the infecting viral variant and the nature of someone’s immunity to the virus in terms of whether it is vaccine-mediated or natural immunity. Monitoring these characteristics could help to personalize treatment for individuals and also provide data for drug development and inform government decisions on the best way to manage COVID-19 in the community. When antibodies from a blood sample bind within the devi...
Source: Medgadget - February 14, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
How Omnichannel Messaging Can Solve Headaches for Healthcare Communications
The following is a guest article by Sandro Stupar, Product Management Director at Mitto.
Navigating the healthcare system in America can be byzantine and time-consuming. Despite the many advances in telehealth, mobile apps and walk-in health clinics, patients and caregivers frequently find themselves waiting (often impatiently) in long phone queues to make an appointment, renew a prescription or obtain lab results. There should be a better way.
There is. Increasingly, medical providers are borrowing from the classical marketing playbook and weaving omnichannel messaging into their communications. And, just as it has in o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Automation Group Communication HealthGrades Improve Patient Outcomes Mitto N Source Type: blogs
Online Appendix for Selection Effects and Covid-19 Mortality Risk after Pfizer vs. Moderna Vaccination: Evidence from Linked Mortality and Vaccination Records
Valdimir A. Atanasov (William and Mary), Paula Natalia Barreto Parra (Northwestern University), Jeff Whittle (Independent), John Meurer (Medical College of Wisconsin), et. al. Online Appendix for Selection Effects and Covid-19 Mortality Risk after Pfizer vs. Moderna Vaccination: Evidence from Linked... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 14, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 13th 2023
This study investigated whether taller Polish adults live longer than their shorter counterparts. Data on declared height were available from 848,860 individuals who died in the years 2004-2008 in Poland. To allow for the cohort effect, the Z-values were generated. Separately for both sexes, Pearson's r coefficients of correlation were calculated. Subsequently, one way ANOVA was performed.
The correlation between adult height and longevity was negative and statistically significant in both men and women. After eliminating the effects of secular trends in height, the correlation was very weak (r = -0.0044 in men and ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Viral Infection in Middle Age Correlates with Later Dementia Risk
A range of evidence suggests that persistent viral infection contributes to the risk of suffering neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. This may be due to mechanisms relating to amyloid-β accumulation, in its role as an anti-microbial peptide, a part of the innate immune system. It may have more to do with lasting chronic inflammation subsequent to infection. Researchers here note another addition to the epidemiological data on this topic, in this case linking severe infections requiring hospitalization with later dementia risk. The effect sizes here are large and last for a long time following infecti...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
