Face Mask Detects Respiratory Viruses, Alerts User
Scientists at Shanghai Tongji University in China have created a face mask that can alert the wearer to the presence of respiratory viruses in the surrounding environment, including the viruses behind COVID-19 and influenza. The mask includes aptamers, which are short sequences of DNA or RNA that can bind to protein targets. When viral particles bind to the aptamers, ion-gated transistors boost the signal so that the mask can sensitively detect small amounts of virus. The mask sends a message to the wearer’s smartphone within 10 minutes of detecting the virus. The technology could be very valuable for healthcare staff or...
Source: Medgadget - September 22, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 22, 2022 Edition-----We will see the closure on the Mourning Period for QE!! In Australia tomorrow, We can then move on to the next big issue, which will surely be the progress in the Russo-Ukrainian war and the associated issues with China and Russia.The US seems – with the rest of the world – to be moving into recession.King Charles has now been to all his UK Realms and will now quietly let PM Trass get back to running the UK. God help her …In Australia we have to now get on with life and the economic disaster we seem to be facing.-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/oddly-enough-th...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Smartphone Camera Measures Blood Oxygen
At the University of Washington a research team has developed a smartphone system that can measure blood oxygen levels. The technology uses the camera and flash of the phone to take the measurement, and the system is so easy to use that it may be well suited for at-home use. A person presses their finger over the camera, which gets illuminated by the flash, and the camera measures how much light from the flash the finger absorbs, which a deep-learning algorithm can then correlate with blood oxygen levels. The system could be useful for COVID-19 patients who wish to monitor their progress at home and receive early warning o...
Source: Medgadget - September 21, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Diagnostics Emergency Medicine Telemedicine UW Source Type: blogs
Can Amazon Capitalize on its Purchase of One Medical? Four Steps Toward Analytical Success
There’s naturally a lot of buzz over the acquisition of One Medical by Amazon.com. All the big tech companies are convinced they can fix our health care system. Perhaps they will start serving up appropriate treatments the way they choose the movies we view or the political diatribes we consume. But I recently talked to Gus Malezis, CEO of the digital identity company Imprivata, to explore what Amazon has to do to make its investment pay off.
Malezis pointed out that healthcare landscape is strewn with high-tech failures such as IBM Watson and Google Health. Patient data is just too scattered, too inaccurate, and too...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Amazon Amazon Healthcare Google Health Gus Malezis Healthcare Data IBM Watson Imprivata One Medical patient data Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 15, 2022 Edition-----The death of QE2 has rather dominated the news for the last week or so and will probably pass after the funeral today.Otherwise the war in Ukraine seems to be in a turning phase. I hope that continues into the eventual getting rid of the Russians from Ukrainian territory!In OZ life goes on much as usual just awaiting the mourning period to pass,-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/what-australia-should-do-about-taiwan-20220904-p5bf7iWhat Australia should do about TaiwanCanberra cannot be silent if US policy on Taiwanese independence changes. Quiet diplomacy is cal...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers
ConclusionBorder enforcement will not stop fentanyl smuggling. Border Patrol ' s experience with marijuana smuggling may provide even clearer evidence for this fact. Marijuana is the bulkiest and easiest-to-detect drug, which is why it was largely trafficked between ports of entry. Despite doubling the Border Patrol and building a border fence in the 2000s in part to combat the trade, the only thing that actually reduced marijuana smugglingwas U.S. states legalizing marijuana. It is absurd to believe that interdiction will be more effective against a drug that is orders of magnitude more difficult to detect.The DEA plainly...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 14, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?
We described above how changes in opioid policy aimed at reducing Washington State’s Medicaid and Workers Compensation costs contributed to an increase in methadone deaths between 2003 and late 2014 (23-25). Focusing on similar cost reductions, the Centers for Medicar e and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rules for 2019 including several directives intended to reduce " Opioid Overutilization, ” including adoption of the “90 morphine milligram equivalent (MME) threshold cited by the 2016 CDC Opioid Guideline (147, 148). Simply put, reduced prescribing reduces costs for prescribed medications.Chou received research fu...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 12, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: health policy judy kollas opioids research schechtman Source Type: blogs
Reproductive Health Data: Open Standard Offers Access Control, Revocation, and Other Traits
This article isn’t about the politics or morality around abortion; it’s about the current state of health care privacy and the right of the individual to control their data. The reproductive health app itself, SecureCycle, is not yet ready for use. It was created in a recent hackathon held by Virtru to promote OpenTDF, which they created and put under an open source BSD license.
Few healthcare apps truly protect privacy. The Mozilla Foundation, which has rigorously upheld online privacy for years, rates applications related to reproductive health for privacy. They reveal a wide divergence in privacy protection....
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Apple Watch Cassandra Bailey Cryptography Dana Morris Data Privacy DEF CON Encryption Health Data Privacy Healthcare Privacy Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –10th September, 2022.
This article is adapted fromVoices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made,out Sept. 8 from Russell Sage Foundation Press.In May 2021, I got a call I never expected. I was working on abook about A.I. ethics, focused on the algorithm that gives out kidneys to transplant patients in the United States. Darren Stewart —a data scientist from UNOS, the nonprofit that runs the kidney allocation process—was calling to get my take: How many decimal places should they include when calculating each patient’s allocation score? The score is an incredibly important number, given it determines w...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Tissue Oximetry
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Zaleski KL, Staffa SJ, Kussman BD. A Survey of the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society on the Use and Clinical Application of Near- Infrared Tissue Oximetry in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 Sep;36(9):3617-3625. doi...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 9, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Precautions for cardiac catheterization in a cyanotic child
Pediatric diagnostic cardiac catheterizations have come down with the availability of better imaging modalities which can give most of the details needed for management non-invasively. Still cardiac catheterization may still be needed in selected cases, leave alone the catheterization prior to pediatric cardiac interventions. Cyanotic child presents more challenges during cardiac catheterization, mostly due to the presence of hypoxia and polycythemia.
Hospitalization on the previous day will be desirable along with 3-4 hour fasting prior to procedure. As there is a chance for hemoconcentration during fasting, adequate hyd...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 9, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: Angiography and Interventions Source Type: blogs
We Should Channel People Into Medicare Advantage Plans Where They Won ’t Have Amputations or Go Blind (Part 2)
By GEORGE HALVORSON
Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All post-COVID. He wrote a piece in Health Affairs last year arguing with the stance of Medicare Advantage of Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan (Here’s their piece pt1, pt2). We also published his criticism (Part 1. Part 2. Part 3) of Medpac’s analysis of Medicare Advantage. Now Medpac is meeting again and George is wondering why they don’t seem to care about diabetic foot amputation...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medicare Uncategorized CMS George Halvorson Medicare Advantage Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - September 06, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
History of PCI : Listen to Gruentzig ’ s prediction, that were spot on !
It brings a unique sense of greatness and gratitude to hear the voice of the father of Interventional cardiology decades after his demise.
Almost 4 decades ago, Andreas Gruentzig described "the ideal catheter" to me. He foresaw the development of FFR, hi-pressure balloons, aspiration catheters, stents, & more. His thoughts on physiologic measurement both during & post-procedure are thought-provoking. #AngioHistory pic.twitter.com/AiBKU6Tjxp— Angioplasty.Org (@angioplastyorg) September 3, 2022
The invention he made has evolved so much. Though, Dr. Gruentzig didn’t live to see any of them, the...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - September 5, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: history of cardiology Histroy of medicine Dr Gruentzig Source Type: blogs
Medicare Advantage Saves Lives, Limbs, Sight, And Major Amounts of Money – (Part 1)
BY GEORGE HALVERSON
Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All post-COVID. He wrote a piece in Health Affairs last year arguing with the stance of Medicare Advantage of Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan (Here’s their piece pt1, pt2). We also published his criticism (Part 1. Part 2. Part 3) of Medpac’s analysis of Medicare Advantage. Now Medpac is meeting again and George is wondering why they don’t seem to care about diabetic foot amputations. We are publishing part one today with part two com...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Medicare Amputations Blindness George Halverson Medicare Advantage MedPAC Source Type: blogs
