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Long Term Data on Particulate Air Pollution and Dementia in a US Population
There is plenty of evidence for particulate air pollution to have a negative effect on long-term health, particularly those derived from Asian populations that are exposed to more coal and wood smoke than tends to be the case in the US and Western Europe. While the relative importance of the various mechanisms involved are up for debate, the most plausible are those involving raised inflammation as a result of interactions between particles and lung tissue. The chronic inflammation of aging drives near all age-related conditions, and more inflammation means more dysfunction. As researchers note here, not all particu...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 7, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

What the Pandemic Taught Us About Value-based Care
By RICHARD ISSACS You’ll recall that we ran a long piece (pt 1, pt 2) about Medicare Advantage from former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson earlier this year. Here’s a somewhat related piece from the current head of the Permanente Medical Group about what actually happened there and elsewhere during the pandemic–Matthew Holt The COVID-19 pandemic has provided important lessons regarding the structure and delivery of health care in the United States, and one of the most significant takeaways has been the need to shift to value-based models of care. The urgency for this transformation was cle...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medical Practice Physicians Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Pandemic Richard Isaacs value-based care Source Type: blogs

New Cancer Care Navigator Thyme Care Starts Out with $22M Series A & Big Name Backing
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Thyme Care is a cancer navigation platform that is looking to use technology to make the kind of high-touch care coordination usually only found at Centers of Excellence available to oncology practices across the country. The navigation we’re talking about is typically quarterbacked by experienced oncology nurse navigators, and is known to have a direct impact on a patient’s experience and their health outcomes. Thyme Care’s platform not only scale-ups this expertise, but also augments it with analysis of claims data and EMR data to help those navigators quickly detect which patients...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech WTF Health Andreesen Horowitz Bobby Green Cancer Jessica DaMassa Thyme Care Source Type: blogs

Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part one)
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 week arguing with the stance of Medicare Advantage of Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan (Here’s their piece pt1, pt2). Here’s a longer exposition of his argument. We are publishing part one today with part two coming soon – Matthew Holt The evidence for Medicare Advantage being a superior program compared to standard fee-for-service Medicare is so overwh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medicare Don Berwick George Halvorson Medicare Advantage Rick Gilfillan Source Type: blogs

New Wearable Detects Respiratory Exacerbations: Interview with Dr. Maria Artunduaga, CEO of Respira Labs
Respira Labs, a medtech company based in California, created the Sylvee sensor, an adhesive patch that the user wears on their lower rib cage, and which monitors respiratory health. The device works through acoustic resonance, whereby it emits sound ...
Source: Medgadget - December 21, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Exclusive Medicine respiralabs Source Type: blogs

What is the “ Right ” to Health Care Worth? It Depends
By MIKE MAGEE In my course this Fall at the University of Hartford, titled “The Right to Health Care and the U.S. Constitution”, we have concentrated on the power of words, of precedents, and the range of interests with which health has been encumbered over several hundred years. The topic has been an eye-opener on many levels. On the most basic level, it is already clear that the value of this “right” depends heavily on your definition of “health.” We’ve highlighted three definitions worth sharing here.  The first is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1948, as lead for the United Nations De...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Public Health health care health care access Mike Magee right to health WHO 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

American Primary Care is a Big Waste of Time (When …)
By HANS DUVEFELT Before Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450, books in Europe were copied by hand, mostly by monks and clergy. Ironically, they were often called scribes, the same word we now use for the new class of healthcare workers employed to improve the efficiency of physician documentation. Think about that for a moment: American doctors are employing almost medieval methods in what is supposed to be the era of computers. Why aren’t we using AI for documentation? The pathetically cumbersome methods of documentation available (required) for our clinical encounters is only one of several a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 27th 2021
This study provides causal evidence of a lipoprotein-Aß /capillary axis for onset and progression of a neurodegenerative process. The Staggering Ongoing Cost of Failing to Aggressively Pursue the Development of Rejuvenation Therapies https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/09/the-staggering-ongoing-cost-of-failing-to-aggressively-pursue-the-development-of-rejuvenation-therapies/ No feasible amount of funding that could be devoted to the research and development of rejuvenation therapies would be too much. If near all other projects were dropped, and institutions radically retooled on a short term basis...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 26, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

The Staggering Ongoing Cost of Failing to Aggressively Pursue the Development of Rejuvenation Therapies
No feasible amount of funding that could be devoted to the research and development of rejuvenation therapies would be too much. If near all other projects were dropped, and institutions radically retooled on a short term basis, then the world might be able to devote $300 billion per year into medical research and development aimed at aging. That is an unachievable upper bound, of course. Given a few decades in which to train new researchers while rapidly and radically expanding existing institutions, then humanity might start to approach that scale of expenditure. Realistically it will take 20-30 years following the first...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs

George Halvorson HIMSS Changemaker Lifetime Achievement Award Acceptance Speech, Part 2
Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably last year with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All post-COVID. This month he was given a lifetime achievement award by HIMSS and we are running his acceptance speech in two parts. We ran part one last week, and here’s part two– Matthew Holt We also initially have an important and continuously improving sense of the epigenetic processes that exist in all of us to develop our own responses to the world we are in at a biological level, and we should be able to use that information to improve ou...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Early Childhood Education George Halvorson HIMSS Changemaker Lifetime Achievement Award payment models Source Type: blogs

George Halvorson HIMSS Changemaker Lifetime Achievement Award Acceptance Speech, Part 1
Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably last year with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All post-COVID. This month he was given a lifetime achievement award by HIMSS and we are running his acceptance speech in two parts. Here’s part one — Matthew Holt Thank you for giving me this first ever HIMSS Changemaker In Health Care Lifetime Achievement Award. You are honoring an extremely impressive set of other current changemakers at this particular national meeting for 2021 and I am very honored and pleased to be the first person to b...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology George Halvorson HIMSS Changemaker Lifetime Achievement Award Source Type: blogs

Cancer Centers Rebounding From COVID-19 Can Grow By Making the Most of New Technologies for Clinical Trials
For community cancer centers that rely on patient reimbursement to stay afloat, a smart data-driven approach to clinical trials provides a foundation for future growth. Brenda Noggy Dr. Tandy Tipps By TANDY TIPPS and BRENDA NOGGY Covid-19’s tragic, devastating impact on cancer treatment is now well documented. Cancer screenings dropped by almost 90 percent at the peak of the pandemic. Billing for some leading cancer medications dropped 30 percent last summer. Studies found a 60 percent decrease in new clinical trials for cancer drugs and biological therapies. Cancer centers, like every part of the US healt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology brenda noggy cancer centers cancer research Clinical Trials tandy tipps Source Type: blogs

Localized Prostate Cancer Therapy: Interview with Shyam Natarajan, CEO of Avenda Health
Avenda Health, a medtech company based in Santa Monica, California has developed the Focal Therapy System. It provides AI-powered prostate cancer therapy with the aim of treating only tumorous tissues, while reducing side-effects compared with conven...
Source: Medgadget - June 7, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Informatics Oncology Urology Source Type: blogs

If Lawmakers Really Want to “Follow the Science” They Will Repeal Codified Opioid Guidelines
This study documents a relationship between opioid prescribing and opioid overdose in a large, national, prospective cohort of individuals receiving opioid therapy for a variety of medical conditions. The risk of opioid overdose should continue to be evaluated relative to the need to reduce pain and suffering and be considered along with other risk factors.University of Alabama Professor of Medicine Stefan Kerteszpointed out thatfollow up research led by Bohnert found the median overdose dosage was 60 MMEs and 86 percent occurred under 90 MMEs. Yet he cautioned policymakers:Reliance on a simple binary dose metric is an ext...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 24, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs