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A Four Step Plan For the Value-Based Transformation of the Health Care System
By ALEX AZAR
HHS Secretary Alex Azar spoke earlier this week at the American Federation of Hospitals, giving a widely reported speech that offered new details on the Trump administration’s plans for Accountable Care Organizations, the CMS quality measurement program, and a new drive for patient access to medical records. The full text of his remarks follows. – The Editors.
It’s a pleasure to be here with all of you today. I want to thank Chip [Kahn] and all of the Federation’s members for inviting me to share our vision for HHS and America’s healthcare system, and how we hope to work with all of you to ma...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Alex Azar Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 5th 2018
In this study, we tested the hypothesis that Gbp1 plays a role in regulating immunometabolism and senescence of macrophages. We found that Gbp1 was mainly expressed in macrophages, but not adipocytes in response to IFNγ/LPS stimulation; Gbp1 expression was significantly decreased in inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT) of high-fat diet (HFD)-fed and aged mice. We also observed that downregulation of Gbp1 in macrophages resulted in M1 polarization and impairment of mitochondrial respiratory function possibly via disrupting mitophagy activity. Moreover, macrophages with downregulated Gbp1 displayed dampened glycolysis and e...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 4, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Preble and Dorminey: What to Expect from Pentagon ' s First Audit
The Pentagon is on track for its first-ever agency-wide audit, but will the audit hold any surprises? In case you missed it,Christopher Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, and Caroline Dorminey, research assistant, had an op-ed inDefense One this week, discussing the audit and what it may uncover. Beyond the obvious accounting of assets —an estimated $2.4 trillion worth, including everything from infrastructure to personnel to weapon systems—an audit will create opportunities for careful consideration about the best use of military dollars.Why has it taken this long for the Pentagon to be...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 10, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Cato Editors Source Type: blogs
FDA Approves Planmed ’s Budget Friendly, but Attractive Clarity 2D Mammography System
Planmed, a Finnish company specializing in breast cancer radiography systems, won FDA approval for its Clarity 2D digital mammography device. The Clarity 2D is a budget mammography system that has a lot of the features that exist in more expensive sy...
Source: Medgadget - January 9, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Ob/Gyn Radiology Surgery Source Type: blogs
Assessing a President ’ s Mental Health
Just as the President of the United States undergoes an annual checkup and physical every year, it makes sense that they should undergo an annual checkup for their mental health too. Since mental health is of equal importance to one’s physical health, it makes little sense to ignore it and pretend it’s not important.
Or worse, to act as though a person’s mental health either doesn’t exist or can’t be objectively measured.
It’s time for the President to undergo annual mental health checkups, coinciding with their physical exams.
It goes without saying that most actual smart people don...
Source: World of Psychology - January 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy Psychology Donald Trump fitness for office litmus test mental exam Mental Fitness president's fitness president's mental health should we Source Type: blogs
Heart Rate Variability, A Real-Time Method of Health Monitoring: An Interview with Jason Moore of Elite HRV
Elite HRV, creators of a heart rate variability (HRV) app and platform, has recently launched CorSense, their new HRV device, on Kickstarter that raised $100,000 within the first 48 hours. The company’s popular HRV app is available for download...
Source: Medgadget - December 27, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Cardiology Exclusive Medicine Net News Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Aubrey de Grey, Focused on the Science of Rejuvenation Therapies
Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Research Foundation needs little introduction to the audience here. His efforts and those of his allies have gone a long way towards ensuring that we will benefit from the first generation of rejuvenation therapies to emerge over the years ahead. The interviewer here is focused on the science of SENS, the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, a recipe for the control of aging through periodic repair and reversal of its root causes. I encourage you to read the whole interview rather than just the snippets below; it is fairly long.
Feinerman: The past five years have been remark...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 25, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 18th 2017
In this study, we asked people in an open-ended way about their desire for longer life: Would you like to have more time? What age would you like to become? This was something more specific than asking about a preference for survival without reference to any length of time; about one's plans for the future; or whether people see the future as open or limited, as in studies of future time perspective. Our attempt was to discover whether there were preferred temporal spans with which older adults framed their futures and plans.
The two-question series about extra years and desired age ("How old would you like to becom...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 17, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Sci-Fi Contest 2017: Meet The Winning Stories
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the moment you have all been waiting for – the day that the winners of the Medgadget Medical Sci-Fi Competition are announced and their fantastic stories are published!
First, we would like to thank Eko Devices, th...
Source: Medgadget - December 15, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Idle Thinking on the Outcome when the Political Establishment Notices that Rejuvenation Therapies are Imminent
The political establishment is a plague upon the land; this is generally true of any era. We are fortunate to live in an age in which the level of impact is less brutal and more bureacratic than it has been, and in a region in which the level of wealth is high enough to allow most people to live comfortably despite the constant wars and vast waste of the powers that be. There is, importantly, sufficient space in our society left unpillaged and uncontrolled for technological development to take place at a fair pace. Technology determines near everything about our lives, the degree to which they are worth living, the shape o...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 14, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Politics and Legislation Source Type: blogs
The Implementer ’ s Dilemma
By DAVID SHAYWITZ, MD
One word: implementation.
Increasingly, I’m convinced that the underappreciated challenges of implementation describe the ever-expanding gap between the promise of emerging technologies (sensors, AI) and their comparatively limited use in clinical care and pharmaceutical research. (Updated disclosure: I am now a VC, associated with a pharma company; views expressed, as always, are my own.)
Technology Promises Disruption Of Healthcare…
Let’s start with some context. Healthcare, it is universally agreed, is “broken,” and in particular, many of the advances and conveniences we now take for ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 12, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Daimler Benz AG David Shaywitz Innovation Source Type: blogs
It Looks Like The New National Cancer Registry Is Still Struggling!
This appeared last week:13 November 2017Data delays hinder cancer registerPosted by Ruby Prosser Scully As the Department of Health delays the rollout of the National Cancer Screening Register yet again, clinicians are being urged to be aware that women ’s clinical histories may be separated between state and national registers for several months. The transition from two-yearly Pap smears to five-yearly HPV testing has been almost universally praised as life-saving and cost-effective, but the rollout has been beleaguered by repeated delays and cost blowouts. Now another partial delay to the program has been con...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 24, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Urine Testing: The Next Shoe to Drop?
Opioids have been a topic of discussion for months now, and every week it seems as though a new company or individual is in hot water over opioid prescribing practices, or over alleged opioid prescribing practices.
One facet of the opioid epidemic that has not been touched upon is the requirement many pain management physicians and others have that when a patient is under their care and receiving opioids and/or habit-forming prescriptions, the patient must affirm that they are not seeing other physicians for prescriptions and/or that all prescriptions are being filled at the same pharmacy. To that end, the patient typical...
Source: Policy and Medicine - November 22, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Technologies Change Health Insurance: The Most Innovative Ventures
The accumulation of medical data enables health insurance companies to move from the 100-year-old concept of reactive care to preventive medicine. The future points to simple, fast and highly personalized insurance plans based on information from the healthcare system and data from health sensors, wearables, and trackers. Here is the changing health insurance scene and its most innovative solutions!
Health insurance systems are unsustainable partly due to costly chronic diseases
According to OECD predictions, exceeding budgets on health spending remains an issue for OECD countries. Maintaining today’s healthcare systems...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 31, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design big data chronic illness digital digital health gc3 health data health insurance healthcare data technology trackers wearables Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 30th 2017
In this study, the researchers showed a causal link between dynamic changes in the shapes of mitochondrial networks and longevity.
The scientists used C. elegans (nematode worms), which live just two weeks and thus enable the study of aging in real time in the lab. Mitochondrial networks inside cells typically toggle between fused and fragmented states. The researchers found that restricting the worms' diet, or mimicking dietary restriction through genetic manipulation of an energy-sensing protein called AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), maintained the mitochondrial networks in a fused or "youthful" state. In add...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 29, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
