Health Care ’s Debt Problem
By KIM BELLARD
Among the many things that infuriate me about the U.S. healthcare system, health systems sending their patients to collections – or even suing them – is pretty high on the list (especially when they are “non-profit” and./or faith-based organizations, which we should expect to behave better).
There’s no doubt medical debt in the U.S. is a huge problem. Studies have found that more than 100 million people have medical debt, many of whom don’t think they’ll ever be able to pay it off. Kaiser Family Foundation estimates Americans owe some $220b in medical debt, with 3 million people owing mor...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Bankruptcy Kim Bellard medical debt Medical Debt RIP Source Type: blogs
A 29 year old male with chest pain, ST Elevation, and very elevated troponin T
By Magnus NossenThis ECG is from a young man with no risk factors for CAD, he presented with chest pain. How would you assess this ECG? How confident are you in your assessment? What is your next step? Note: lead format is CabreraI was sent this ECG in real time. The patient is a young adult male with chest pain. The chest pain was described as pressure like and radiation to both arms and the jaw. Symptoms were on and off. The pain was worse in the night and better when moving. The patient sought medical attention when the pain recurred for a second straight night accompanied by arm numbness as well as radiating pain. The ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 9, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Magnus Nossen Source Type: blogs
Healthy Together Acquires Kinsa Health to Build AI Illness Forecasting & Expand into New Markets
Healthy Together, a leading health technology company specializing in Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for State-level Health & Human Services programs, is excited to announce the successful acquisition of Kinsa Health, a powerful and robust AI platform that provides predictive insights for pharmaceutical companies, retailers, illness product companies, public health agencies, hospital systems, and communities.
The acquisition advances Healthy Together’s mission to improve collective health and make government and enterprises more efficient. By integrating Kinsa’s AI illness forecasting engine into He...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Healthy Together Inder Singh Jared Allgood Kinsa Health Source Type: blogs
Comprehension of Miranda Warnings In Adults with Chronic, Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Jade Mitchell (Vanderbilt University), Malcolm Edwards (College of William& Mary), Kimberly Walsh (Vanderbilt University), Sarah Brown-Schmidt (Vanderbilt University), et al., Comprehension of Miranda Warnings In Adults with Chronic, Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (2024): Introduction: To compare comprehension of Miranda... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 20, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
6 Warning Signs You Are One Step Away From A Burnout Breakdown (M)
A 2020 Gallup poll found that three-quarters of Americans had experienced work burnout at some point. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Stress subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Microplastics, Major Problem
By KIM BELLARD
It’s been almost four years since I first wrote about microplastics; long story short, they’re everywhere. In the ground, in the oceans (even at the very bottom), in the atmosphere. More to the point, they’re in the air you breathe and in the food you eat. They’re in you, and no one thinks that is a good thing. But we’re only starting to understand the harm they cause.
The Washington Post recently reported:
Scientists have found microplastics — or their tinier cousins, nanoplastics — embedded in the human placenta, in blood, in the heart and in the liver and bowels. In one re...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Microplastics Source Type: blogs
NYHER RFA – Addendum #3
Another update was posted today.
a) Here is the direct link to the updated RFA (warning – PDF) ..
b) Here are the addenda (#1,2,3) – just 4 pages – so you don’t have to download the whole RFA again.
Now let’s parse the recent changes:
Section IIThe Applicant must be a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. The type of501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) non-profit must be one of the following entity types: Community-Based organizations (CBO), Independent Practice Associations (IPAs), Health Homes,Behavioral Health Collaboratives, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), orformer/current Deliv...
Source: Docnotes - March 17, 2024 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jacob Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Three Ways AI, If Trusted, Can Transform the Healthcare Landscape
The following is a guest article by Jeanne Greathouse, Healthcare Development Director, AI Regulatory Services at BSI
77% of Healthcare Workers Say They May Be Ready to Let AI Take on Administrative Work
Few industries have been stress-tested as thoroughly as the healthcare system during COVID-19 when, at the worst moments, 22% of US hospitals were reporting staff shortages. Even three years on, the World Health Organization found that 84% of countries were still experiencing some disruption. Amid a period of tremendous medical uncertainty and service disruption, health workers and first responders functioned like a life v...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Artificial Intelligence BSI Healthcare Efficiency Healthcare Transformation Improving Patient Care Jeanne Greathouse Medical Innovation Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features, HIMSS2024 Edition – March 13, 2024 – AI news from AWS, Google, Innovaccer, Microsoft, and Oracle Health, plus 18 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.
This edition is a special dispatch from HIMSS 2024 in sunny Orlando. As always, there have been a lot of new products and partnerships announced at the event, and we wanted to try and cover as much as we could for the Healthcare...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AHIMA Amazon Web Services DocuSign emtelligent First Databank Google Cloud Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS24 Innovaccer James Henderson KeyCare Lightbeam Health Solutions Linus Health Source Type: blogs
Home Health AI: Predicting Illness and Preventing Hospitalizations
The following is a guest article by Shveta Mangal, CEO at VitaWerks
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, the concept of home as an “extension of care” is gaining traction, ushering in a new era of patient-centered support. Traditionally, healthcare was confined to clinical settings, but with advancements in technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the paradigm is shifting.
These cutting-edge technologies are now being harnessed to predict health issues before they escalate, revolutionizing home health care and paving the way for proactive interventions tha...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Healthcare at Home Home Health AI Home Health Care Home Healthcare Hospitalization Prevention Illness Prediction Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 26th 2024
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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
Astrocyte Reactivity in the Development of Alzheimer's Disease
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) consistently shows up in proteomic analyses of age-related neurodegenerative processes, particularly now that more research groups are engaged in building early warning biomarker profiles for the later development of Alzheimer's disease. Such studies are usually focused on Alzheimer's disease because that is where most neuroscience funding is directed, but the presence of GFAP as a marker is more generally applicable to the aging of the brain and its supporting cell populations.
Astrocyte cells exhibit increased expression of GFAP when they become reactive, it is a well-known m...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 20, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Don ’ t Ignore This Surprising Warning Sign Of Depression (M)
Discover the surprising trait that could signal a higher risk of depression. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 7, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Depression subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
The Business Case for a Biosimilar Company to Bring a Copy of Levemir to Market
My readers may recall that in November 2023, I blogged that Novo Nordisk announced it plans to retire (stop making) its first " Lantus killer " known as Levemir (insulin detemir injection) in the U.S. in 2024 (catch my post at https://blog.sstrumello.com/2023/11/novo-nordisk-to-discontinue-levemir-in.html for more). At the time I learned of the announcement, I was on vacation in Amsterdam, so I just made a note of the development and blogged about it a few weeks later upon my return.Like other patients my age, I have endured the company ' s previous insulin " retirements " . Novo Nordisk ' s time-frame for withdr...
Source: Scott's Web Log - January 25, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2024 Biosimilar Levemir Novo Nordisk PBM Source Type: blogs
The 7 Warning Signs Of Intimate Partner Violence (M)
The more often warning signs like these are observed, the more likely violence becomes. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 12, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Relationships subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
