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One family ’s disastrous experience with a growth-driven long-term care company
by “E-PATIENT” DAVE DEBRONKART
Continuing THCB’s occasional series on actual experiences with the health care system. This is the first in a short series about a patient and family experience from one of America’s leading ePatients.
I’ve been blogging recently about what happens in American healthcare when predatory investor-driven companies start moving into care industries because the money’s good and enforcement is lax. The first two posts were about recent articles in The New Yorker on companies that are more interested in sales and growth than caring. I now have permission ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care ePatient Dave Patient Experience Respite care Source Type: blogs
Clinical Research 101: Lecture 2
Editor ' s note: Only about 15 million people so far have gotten the new bivalent Covid booster that ' s specifically formulated against the Omega variants that are currently circulating. I got it a few days ago, Walgreen ' s was offering appointments the same day! I got the flu shot at the same time, both absolutely free. Do it!So, picking up where we left off, to determine whether an intervention is beneficial, harmful or basically useless you ordinarily need a comparison group. There are actually exceptions. You don ' t need a randomized controlled trial for parachutes when jumping out of airplanes because you alr...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 15, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – October 9, 2022 – Optum completes Change Healthcare acquisition, interest in flu shots is declining, and more
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.
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UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum closed its acquisition of Change Healthcare for $13 billion following an unsuccessful U.S. Department of Justice challenge of the deal. Optum first announced its intention to acquire Chan...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Advata ahrq Alinea Ben Grabski BeneTalk Brigham and Women's Hospital Brightside Health CARIN Alliance Change Healthcare Communicare eClinicalWorks eCW FinThrive Forward Adv Source Type: blogs
TLC Todd-versations: Todd Linsky in Conversation with Dr. Alan Greene
Todd Linsky, a food and organic industry veteran, hosts the podcast Todd-versations. He interviews guests from around the globe — influencers, leaders, and innovators in their respective fields. In this episode, Todd and Dr. Greene discuss the pediatric roots of longevity, the importance of nutrition in health, Dr. Greene’s reasons for creating DrGreene.com, his next projects, and a whole host of side topics.
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Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - October 6, 2022 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 15 August, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Interesting to see ongoing funding for the #myHR announced to help Accenture keep is all going. Not sure why?Lots of NBN news with the Annual Report released.-----https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/ransomware-attacks-on-the-rise-report.htmlThursday, 11 August 2022 15:33Ransomware attacks on the rise: reportBy Staff Write...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Hackers, Breaches And The Value Of Health Data: 2022 E-Book Update
As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D printing disrupts the normal supply chain and the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (A.I.) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era. This was to come sooner or later, but the pandemic accelerated the process by years.
However, along with the enhanced healthcare landscape that digital health brings along, there is the pressing issue of privacy. To put it bluntly, there is no digital health without sacrificing a part of our privacy. The advanced techno...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Personalized Medicine Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones amazon dev Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 28, 2022 Edition-----Sadly the war drags on, Biden seems to be pretty impotent on most policy fronts and the US seems to be heading into a recession. Not good,In the UK the choosing the next PM is off and running as the country and Europe are cooling down after a heatwave (for them) of biblical proportions!In OZ Parliament is meeting which is when the rubber will really hit the road as a new virus wave runs out of control still! We need to do more to control it as we realise just how bad long COVID is!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/how-a-nobel-laureate-got-australian-economists-offside-...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 28, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Vortioxetine for Post-COVID Brain Fog
If you ' re relatively young and healthy, is a mild case of COVID-19 really “mild”, like a cold or the flu? Are you still at risk forlong COVID— a persistent state of fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, exercise intolerance, and “brain fog” (impairments in memory, attention, and concentration)— even if you ' re fully vaccinated?If you have post-COVID brain fog and live in Toronto, you might beeligible for a clinical trial run by the Brain and Cognition Discovery Foundation. The study will assess the effects ofvortioxetine (brand name Trintellix), an FDA-approved antidepressant thatmay improve cognitive function in peop...
Source: The Neurocritic - January 17, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Reflections on HLTH2021: The Lens of the Patient and Carepartner
By GRACE CORDOVANO
Attending HLTH 2021 in-person in Boston solidified that there is no comparison between attending live vs. virtual conferences. While content and presentations can be solid both virtually or in-person, it is the energy of the connections that are made between scheduled presentations and the conversations that are shared throughout that move the needle. Kudos to the organizers of HLTH 2021 for prioritizing the safety of all in-person attendees with COVID-19 vaccination requirements, proof of negative PCR testing within 3 days of arrival, and mask requirements on-site.
After reflecting on all th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Grace Cordovano HLTH Patient advocates patient centered innovation Source Type: blogs
Selfish Much?
By KIM BELLARD
In a week where we’ve seen the bungled Afghan withdrawal, had Texas show us its contempt for all sorts of rights, watched wildfires ravage the west and Ida wreak havoc on a third of the country, and, of course, witnessed COVID-19 continue its resurgence, I managed to find an article that depressed me further. Thank you, Aaron Carroll.
Dr. Carroll – pediatrician, long-time contributor to The New York Times, and now Chief Health Officer of I.U. Health — wrote a startling piece in The Atlantic: We’ve Never Protected the Vulnerable. He looks at the resistance to public health measur...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy health equity Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Google ’ s Masterplan for Healthcare
With 7% of Google searches – or 70,000 per minute – being health-related, it was only a matter of time before the search giant aimed to be a healthcare giant. Google hasn’t been particularly shy at expressing these ambitions either. It purchased Fitbit for $2.1 billion and had a dedicated healthcare offshoot from its A.I. branch, Deepmind.
In this new article series exploring the latest moves by tech giants into healthcare, we will look at recent developments coming from Google. Previous entries looked at the moves of Google’s competitors Amazon and Apple, and provided insights into the trends that those companies ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy AI genetics google Healthcare Innovation technolog Source Type: blogs
Could COVID-19 infection be responsible for your depressed mood or anxiety?
Doctors told you that your COVID-19 virus infection cleared months ago. However, even though you no longer struggle to breathe, and your oxygen levels have returned to normal, something doesn’t feel right. In addition to constant headaches, you find yourself struggling with seemingly easy tasks. The fatigue you experience makes moving from the bed to the kitchen feel like an accomplishment. But most troubling for you is a feeling of dread, a nervousness so severe you can feel your heart pounding. Constant worries now keep you from sleeping at night.
What are the mental health effects of COVID-19?
We are still learning ab...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Collier, MD, MPH Tags: Behavioral Health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Mental Health Prevention Stress Source Type: blogs
American Industrial Policy in Action
Scott LincicomeIn case you haven't noticed, U.S. industrial policy is having (yet another) moment. Armed with the latest data and cross-country comparisons, a large and bipartisan cadre of industrial policy advocates in Washington are eager to shovel billions of taxpayer dollars into the open arms of American manufacturers of "essential goods" and "critical technologies." The risks (China, pandemics, whatever), so the theory goes, greatly outweigh any harms that a few, scattered industrial policy failures might cause along the way, so whynot just throw money at the (perceived) problems? These advocates, however, rarely ack...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 1st 2021
This study may have important implications for preventing cell senescence and aging-induced tendinopathy, as well as for the selection of novel therapeutic targets of chronic tendon diseases.
Our results showed that the treatment of bleomycin, a DNA damaging agent, induced rat patellar TSC (PTSC) cellular senescence. The senescence was characterized by an increase in the senescence-associated β-galactosidase activity, as well as senescence-associated changes in cell morphology. On the other hand, rapamycin could extend lifespan in multiple species, including yeast, fruit flies, and mice, by decelerating DNA damage ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 22nd 2021
In conclusion, long term LRIC could decrease blood pressure and ameliorate vascular remodeling via inflammation regulation.
The Damage of a Heart Attack Causes the Immune System to Overreact
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/02/the-damage-of-a-heart-attack-causes-the-immune-system-to-overreact/
Researchers here note a mechanism that causes T cells of the adaptive immune system to spur chronic inflammation and tissue damage following a heart attack. As the researchers note, not all inflammation is the same. Some is maladaptive, and this is particularly the case in older individuals. The aged immune...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 21, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
