Featured Health IT Job: Sr. Infrastructure Engineer
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Sr. Infrastructure Engineer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in either the Albany, New York or Manhattan, New York office.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Engineering Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Sr. Infrastructure Engineer Source Type: blogs
Attacking Cancer by Disabling Macrophage Recognition of CD47 " Don't Eat Me " Marker
CD47 is a "don't eat me" decoration found on the surface of cells. This is a necessary mechanism for the prevention of autoimmunity, but it is also subverted by cancer in order to prevent the innate immune system from attacking tumor cells. The cancer research community has investigated a range of approaches to prevent CD47 from holding back the immune response to cancerous cells. One possibility, demonstrated here, is to engineer the innate immune cells known as macrophages in order to block the CD47 interaction and thus ensure an aggressive response to cancerous cells.
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 20, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Current resources about COVID-19
(Last updated 19th June 2023)IntroductionDuring lockdown I maintained a set of blogposts linking to resources about COVID. I have not updated those for some time, and have now decided that they are no longer needed. I have added the word " Archived " to the start of each page title, and tried to make it clear that they are no longer updated. Of course, COVID-19 has not gone away, and has become one of the infectious diseases that is with us always. So, I think although those older posts are no longer useful, a current list of resources might be. So, here is a shorter...
Source: Browsing - June 19, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
Lab-Created Mini Lungs to Study Respiratory Infections
Researchers at Rockefeller University have developed a cell culture platform in which to grow ‘lung buds’ from human embryonic stem cells. The tiny structures are similar to the lung buds that form during fetal development, and they contain tiny airways and alveoli. The researchers create the structures in a bio-reactor style device that is furnished with microfluidic chips in which the lung buds grow. The team developed a cocktail of growth factors that can stimulate the embryonic cells to differentiate into the lung buds, and they hope to use the system to test how respiratory infections behave and to discover new tr...
Source: Medgadget - June 19, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Pathology Public Health RockefellerUniv Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 19th 2023
In conclusion, among Swedish middle-aged subjects, nearly two-thirds showed complete fatty degeneration of thymus on CT.
Age-Related Dysfunction of Water Homeostasis
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/06/age-related-dysfunction-of-water-homeostasis/
Dehydration can be an issue in older people. As in every complex system in the body, the mechanisms by which hydration is regulated become dysfunctional with advancing age. Researchers here look at the brain region responsible for regulating some of the response to dehydration, cataloging altered gene expression in search of the more important mechan...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Senolytic Treatments as a Strategy to Improve Immune Function in Late Life
Senescent cells accumulate in tissues throughout the body with age. Cells become senescent constantly throughout life, largely by reaching the Hayflick limit on replication, but a small number due to potentially cancerous mutations, or other forms of damage and stress. Senescent cells are rapidly removed by the immune system in youth, keeping their numbers low, but the balance between creation and destruction is disrupted with aging. There is greater stress, but perhaps more importantly the immune system becomes less efficient, less able to clear senescent cells in a timely fashion. Since senescent cells actively secrete p...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 14, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Ask and Tell: Family Caregiving as a Social Determinant of Health
I sat in front of my doctor for the first time since before the pandemic. She was concerned: “You’re way overdue for a couple of screening tests and a vaccination.” I explained that between Covid waves and caregiving for my mom, I’d had to cancel and reschedule the most the screening test at least 3 times. And, caregiving for my mom was becoming more intense, which was going to create more challenges. She asked if anyone was helping me. I explained that my husband is a huge help. But I’m the only adult child who lives within driving distance. And just within the past few months there’s been a couple of falls, a...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Geri Lynn Baumblatt Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System care partner family caregiver patient clinician relationship patient engagement SDOH Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: IT Intern, Corporate Support Services
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the IT Intern, Corporate Support Services position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in the Albany, New York office.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Intern Position IT Intern Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Source Type: blogs
Air, Air, Everywhere, and Not a Breath Safe to Take
BY KIM BELLARD
If you live, as I do, anywhere in the Eastern half of the country, for the past week you’ve probably been thinking about something you’re not used to: wildfires. Sure, we’ve all been aware of how wildfires routinely plague the West Coast, particularly Oregon and Washington, but it’s novel for the East. So when the smoke from Canadian wildfires deluged cities through the East and Midwest, it came as kind of a shock.
For a day last week, New York City supposedly had the worst air quality in the world. The next day Philadelphia had that dubious distinction. The air quality index ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Non-Health Climate Change East Coast Kim Bellard West Coast Wildfires Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: Unveiling the transformative shifts in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us as we chat with medical writer Steven Marshall about the evolving health care landscape during the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss the transformative effects on health care delivery, the availability of testing, vaccination, and therapies, and the upcoming changes as the public health
Read more…
COVID-19: Unveiling the transformative shifts in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Better Health Care Tests, Faster
This article looks at some specific problems and solutions.
Speeding up Test Development
We’ve seen with COVID-19 how quickly a virus can evolve and how hard it is to design both tests and vaccinations that accommodate different variants. Virax Biolabs uses data from the World Health Organization and others to develop tests quickly. For instance, new viral variants tend to spread in the southern hemisphere before hitting the northern hemisphere in our Winter, so Virax can check existing data to prepare better tests for the North.
The company is developing a T-cell diagnostics and profiling platform called Virax Immu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability CLIA COVID-19 Hydreight Immunexpress ixlayer Laboratories Labs Rolland Carlson Sepsis Sepsis Lab Tests Septicyte Shane Madden testing Tomasz George Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in the Albany, New York office.
Here’s a description of the position:
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Administrator Jobs Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New York eHealth Collaborative New York Health IT Jobs NYeC Policy and Compliance Program Administrator Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 5th 2023
In conclusion, higher BMR might reduce lifespan. The underlying pathways linking to major causes of death and relevant interventions warrant further investigation.
Betting Against Progress Turns Out Poorly, But Can Work in the Short Term in a Slow Field
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/06/betting-against-progress-turns-out-poorly-but-can-work-in-the-short-term-in-a-slow-field/
Setting oneself up as a spokesperson for "we will not achieve this goal", as the fellow noted here is choosing to do, is a bet against technological progress. A glance at any few decade period in the past two hundred yea...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – June 3, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Healthcare Innovation: Disrupting Traditional Models and Understanding Regulations. We asked the Healthcare IT Community to talk to us about what it takes to stand out and get your innovation funded. It’s important to address a meaningful need, find collaborators in the pharma or provider markets, and validate proof points for customers and regulat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official
Surecripts is a company that is synonymous with e-prescribing. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are using the company’s platform to exchange more than prescription information. Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Surescripts recently announced its intention to become a QHIN, firmly positioning the company a player in the interoperability space. Why would they do this?
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Justin McMartin, Product Manager at Surescripts to get an answer to that question…and to learn more about the company’s interoperability efforts, their QHIN plans, and th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability 2022 National Progress Report e-prescribing EHR Healthcare Information Exchange HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Justin McMartin Medication History QHIN SureScripts Tara Dragert TEFCA Source Type: blogs
