Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 15th October, 2022.
This article uses the one that divides providers into groups depending on the life cycle stage the clinic is at the given moment. According to this classification, medical providers fall into three groups:BeginnersGrowing clinicsWell-established providersHealth care providers are business entities, so their life cycle, like that of any business, consists of the early stage or launch, growth and maturity. At each stage, providers have different priorities and goals, and the choice of medical software solutions should be made accordingly.Medical software for beginnersThe launch phase can be tough. At this stage, the profits ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
I Wonder Why We, In OZ, Do Not Have A Right Like This Right Now?
This appeared last week.Call it data liberation day: Patients can now access all their health records digitally ByCasey RossOct. 6, 2022The American Revolution had July 4. The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders, can rally around a new turning point, October 6, 2022 — the day they got their health data back.Underfederal rules taking effect Thursday, health care organizations must give patients unfettered access to their full health records in digital format. No more long delays. No more fax machines. No more exorbitant charges for printed pages.Just the data, ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Keep Earmarks out of the December Omnibus
Romina BocciaFollowing a decade long earmark ban, members of Congresswent all out on requesting earmarks in the most recent omnibus spending bill. According to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO)report, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 included 4,963 earmarks that spend a cumulative total of $9.1 billion.Lawmakers recently delayed fiscal year 2023 (FY2023) appropriations by extending 2022 spending programs via a continuing resolution (CR) through December 16th. Congress is now preparing an omnibus spending package, comprising all 12 appropriations bills, that will likely span more...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 5, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Romina Boccia Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –17th September, 2022.
This study adds to the evidence showing that expanded access to these services could have a longer-term positive impact if continued.”Roughly 1 in 8 beneficiaries in the pandemic group received OUD-related telehealth services compared with 1 in 800 in the prepandemic group, the research revealed. Access to telehealth services was associated with better treatment retention and lower risk of medically treated overdose in the pandemic group compared to those not receiving telehealth services.-----https://healthimaging.com/topics/management/education-training/ai-deterring-students-pursuing-radiologyConcerns about the future ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Treatments for Cellular Senescence as a Path to Reduced Age-Related Inflammation
The accumulation of senescent cells in aged tissues is an important contributing cause of aging, but it is only one cause of many. Nonetheless, removing even just a third of lingering senescent cells in some tissues produces a degree of rejuvenation in old mice that is large enough to be very interesting. Much of this effect appears mediated by a reduction in inflammatory signaling and thus in the chronic inflammation that disrupts tissue function in later life. We can hope that clinical trials and the ongoing development of first and second generation senolytic therapies to clear senescent cells will demonstrate similar b...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 30, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
MDL Nationalism, Federalism, and the Opioid Epidemic
Abbe R. Gluck (Yale University), MDL Nationalism, Federalism, and the Opioid Epidemic, 70 DePaul L. Rev. (2020): Multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a nationalist animal in a federalist system. It is a pragmatic, creative and modern response to the needs of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 4, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 1st 2022
In this study, we used the recently released Infinium Mouse Methylation BeadChip to compare such epigenetic modifications in C57BL/6 (B6) and DBA/2J (DBA) mice. We observed marked differences in age-associated DNA methylation in these commonly used inbred mouse strains, indicating that epigenetic clocks for one strain cannot be simply applied to other strains without further verification. Interestingly, the CpGs with highest age-correlation were still overlapping in B6 and DBA mice and included the genes Hsf4, Prima1, Aspa, and Wnt3a. Furthermore, Hsf4, Aspa, and Wnt3a revealed highly significant age-associated DNA methyla...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 31, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Q & A with researcher Robb Rutledge on mental health, expectations, decision-making and, yes, holiday planning!
Have you ever looked forward to a concert, beach vacation, or party only to find yourself not enjoying it as much as you thought you would?
You may be suffering from overly high expectations, says psychologist Robb Rutledge of Yale University. Rutledge and his colleagues have been using smartphone-based data collection (via a free app called Happiness Quest, where anyone can play short games and contribute to research) to see how our expectations affect our future happiness. Some of their findings point to novel approaches for increasing our enjoyment of everyday life.
We talked with Rutledge about his research results and...
Source: SharpBrains - July 25, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning cognition Decision-making expectations happiness Happiness Quest perception Robb Rutledge Source Type: blogs
Aubrey de Grey on Progress in SENS Rejuvenation Research
In this recent interview with Aubrey de Grey touches on a number of areas of progress made by the research and development community in recent years, projects that lead towards rejuvenation therapies based on the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS). In the SENS view, supported by a very sizable literature accumulated over the past century, aging is caused by underlying processes of damage accumulation. What we think of as aging is a diverse collection of downstream consequences of that damage. Periodically repairing the underlying damage, allowing the normal maintenance of the body to continue as it woul...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 25, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Abortion ’s Interoperability Trap: How the Law of Medical Records Will Facilitate Interstate Persecution of Contested Medical Procedures, and What to Do about It
Carleen Zubrzycki (Harvard Law School), Abortion ’s Interoperability Trap: How the Law of Medical Records Will Facilitate Interstate Persecution of Contested Medical Procedures, and What to Do about It, Yale L. J. Forum (Forthcoming): There’s a gaping hole in blue states’... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 25, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – July 23, 2022
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.
One Hospital’s Approach to Better Revenue Cycle Efficiency. The unofficial theme of this year’s HFMA conference was how hospitals are dealing with staffing challenges in RCM and collections. Dawn Johnson of Minneapolis-based Hennepin Healthcare spoke to John Lynn about the health system’s partnership with Knowtion Health to outsource so...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the eCQM/dCQM Measure Developer – CORE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yale New Haven Health and is in Connecticut.
Here’s a description of the position:
The Yale/Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) is a leading national outcomes research center dedicated to transforming healthcare for the betterment of people and society by leveraging data, analytics, and technology. We have assembled a talented, multi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers Yale New Haven Health IT Jobs Yale New Haven Jobs Source Type: blogs
Family Law for the One-Hundred-Year Life
Naomi Cahn (University of Virginia), Clare Huntington (Fordham University), Elizabeth S. Scott (Columbia University), Family Law for the One-Hundred-Year Life, 132 Yale L. J. (2022): Family law is for young people. To facilitate child rearing and help spouses pool resources... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 12, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 11th 2022
In this study we employ a transcriptome-wide and multi-tissue approach to analyze the influence of both LTDR and short-term DR (STDR) at old age on the aging phenotype. We were able to characterize a common transcriptional gene network driving inflammaging in most of the analyzed tissues. This network is characterized by chromatin opening and upregulation in the transcription of innate immune system receptors and by activation of interferon signaling through interferon regulatory factors, inflammatory cytokines, and Stat1-mediated transcription. We also found that both DR interventions ameliorate this inflammaging phenotyp...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 10, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Reporting on the Systems Aging Gordon Research Conference
Alex Zhavoronkov, who these days is as much interested in accelerating progress in cryonics as in translational research for the treatment of aging, here reports on his time at the recent Systems Aging Gordon Research Conference, one of a growing number of new conference series serving academic efforts make headway in the matter of treating aging as a medical condition. As a general rule, more successful conference series tend to indicate a larger and more successful field: more researchers, more funding, more attention from the world at large. The proliferation of conferences focused on aging is a good sign.
With...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 7, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
