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Weekly Roundup – June 17, 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. How Interoperability Saves Lives – and Builds Trust. For FQHCs such as Dallas-area HHM Health, maintaining trust is critical because many patients are new users of the healthcare system. The organization’s Geli Brown sat down with Colin Hung to explain interoperability’s role in building trust: When clinicians know more about a patient&...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs

Notes from the 2023 Age-Related Disease Therapeutics Summit
The former Longevity Therapeutics conference series was renamed to the Age-Related Disease Therapeutics Summit and held its fifth event recently in San Francisco. It was a smaller meeting than in past years, perhaps a result of the recent downturn in the global financial and investment environment. Few investors were present. Nonetheless, one can usually learn something interesting from the presenting biotech founders and executives. I took a few notes while I was there to present on progress at Repair Biotechnologies, and they follow in the order of the conference program. Birget Schilling from the Buck Institute f...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry 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

Career Conversations: Q & A With Physiologist Elimelda Moige Ongeri
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Elimelda Moige Ongeri. A career path in science is rarely clear cut and linear, which Elimelda Moige Ongeri, Ph.D., can attest adds to its excitement. She went from working in animal reproductive biology to studying proteins involved in inflammation and tissue injury. Dr. Ongeri is also currently dean of the Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences and professor of physiology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) in Greensboro. In this interview, she shares details of her career, including a change in research focus to human physiology; her goals for the f...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 14, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Profiles Proteins 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

Bowhead Whales Exhibit Efficient DNA Repair
All large mammals must evolve ways to suppress cancer risk more effectively than their smaller relatives. More mass means more cells, and thus more chances for a cell to suffer the mutations that will lead to cancer. Elephants evolved additional copies of P53 and other tumor suppression genes, for example. Bowhead whales, on the other hand, appear to manage with more efficient DNA repair mechanisms. We can hope that some of these explorations may lead to ways to improve human resistance to cancer. Improved DNA repair in particular is an attractive goal, given that DNA damage is linked to aging in a number of ways, such as ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Against Prioritizing Environmentalism Over Human Health
It is fair to say that the mainstream of environmentalism prioritizes conservation of the environment over human comfort and health. Environmental concerns are high on the list of objections raised against treating aging as a medical condition, because most people believe that this will lead to a larger population, and also believe that population increases cannot occur without degrading the environment. Both of those beliefs are false, the latter evidently so given the improvements in the environment created since the 1950s, over a period of considerable population growth. Models strongly suggest that the future is one in...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs

“We Are Electric” by Sally Adee: Medgadget Interviews the Author
The human body has a deep connection with electricity. The transmission of electrical impulses is responsible for the movement of our limbs, the functioning of our organs, and the formation and recall of memories. The signatures of the various electr...
Source: Medgadget - June 12, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Education etc. Exclusive Source Type: blogs

MA for Tomorrow: Moving Beyond the Status Quo to Advance Concrete Policy Changes for the Future of Medicare Advantage
BY CECI CONNOLLY AND MICHAEL BAGEL Medicare Advantage (MA) has passed the tipping point, delivering coverage and care to more than half of the senior population in the US. The Congressional Budget Office projects more than 60 percent of people 65 years and older will be in the program by 2030. As enrollment soars and interest in value-based health care grows, it is imperative policymakers modernize the program that is expected to cost $7.5 trillion over the next decade. Rather than taking the standard Washington posture of declaring victory or defending the status quo, our provider-aligned, nonprofit member pla...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ceci Connolly MA for Tomorrow Medicare Advantage Michael Bagel Source Type: blogs

One-stop lung cancer clinic
NHS Confederation - Wythenshawe Hospital introduced a one-stop clinic to decide treatment pathways for patients with lung cancer, which has provided a full holistic treatment overview on the same day, improved patient experience, and speeded up the start of treatment.Case study
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 12, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 12th 2023
In this study, we investigated the effect of NXP032 on neurovascular stabilization through the changes of PECAM-1, PDGFR-β, ZO-1, laminin, and glial cells involved in maintaining the integrity of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in aged mice. NXP032 was orally administered daily for 8 weeks. Compared to young mice and NXP032-treated mice, 20-month-old mice displayed cognitive impairments in Y-maze and passive avoidance tests. NXP032 treatment contributed to reducing the BBB damage by attenuating the fragmentation of microvessels and reducing PDGFR-β, ZO-1, and laminin expression, thereby mitigating astrocytes and microglia ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Video Capsule Navigates the Stomach
Researchers at George Washington University have created a swallowable capsule containing a video camera that can assist in identifying lesions in the stomach. However, unlike similar devices that have been developed previously, this capsule can driv...
Source: Medgadget - June 9, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: GI GWToday GWTweets Source Type: blogs

Belong.Life Provides Holistic Online Patient Communities
Patients throng to communities where they can get practical life advice in a depth that only fellow patients can offer. Belong.Life is an online community and app designed to combine many forms of support patients benefit from. According to Irad Deutsch, co-founder and CTO, the average patient engages on the platform 15 times per month, demonstrating its value. The condition for which Belong.Life was created was cancer, but they have branched out into many other conditions. They now allow other organizations, such as pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, create communities there. A patient who receives a diagnosis is oft...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Belong.life Cancer Apps Healthcare AI Healthcare Generative AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Patient Source Type: blogs

How modern lifestyle changes are disrupting our immune systems
In addition to a steep increase in prevalence, in recent decades, we have seen an evolution in the ways our immune system misbehaves: eosinophilic esophagitis, mast cell disorders, and early onset colon cancer, among many others. This data alone should remind us that we are an ever-evolving species. With our rapidly changing lifestyle over the Read more… How modern lifestyle changes are disrupting our immune systems originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Allergies & Immunology Source Type: blogs

Intermittent Senolytic Treatment with Dasatinib and Quercetin Produces Benefits in Non-Human Primates
Researchers here report on the outcome of six months of monthly senolytic therapy in cynomolgus macaques. The results are broadly positive, as one might expect from the established human data. Dasatinib is a chemotherapeutic drug, but senolytic dosing is not sustained as is the case in the treatment of cancer, and side-effects are much reduced as a result. It remains to be seen as to what the optimal dose and dose schedule for this treatment will be. Researchers are trying a range of options, and arguably the human trials conducted by the Mayo Clinic are using too low a dose. Time will tell, but there is a need for more cl...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 9, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs