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Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed
There are a lot of rules and regulations in place in the world of healthcare. These are put into place in order to protect patients and organizations. However, the world of healthcare is constantly changing and evolving as we come up with new ideas and solutions. Have the regulations done the same though? Or are there areas that are missing regulations? Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back? In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update re...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations 1upHealth 4medica Amanda Heidemann Andrea Mazzoccoli Andrew Norden MD Bill Charnetski Cheryl Cheng Commur Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – September 10, 2023 – 77% of clinicians see RPM outpacing traditional inpatient care within five years, Microsoft partnering with Paige on pathology and oncology AI models, 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. News Executives for Healthcare Innovation is transferring its assets to the American Telemedicine Association, and ATA will extend engagement opportunities to current EHI members through its various Special Interest Groups. More...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Adrian Agostini Alo American Telemedicine Association Andrea Rowe Anki ATA AVIA Black Book Research Canopy Edifecs Experity Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HITRUST Ibex Medical Analytics iMerit Inovalon K Source Type: blogs

Hopes and Questions raised by Alzheimer ’s drug Leqembi (lecanemab)
The FDA has approved Leqembi, the first disease-modifying treatment for early-stage Alzheimer’s and a precursor condition, mild cognitive impairment. Medicare has said it will pay for the therapy. Medical centers across the country are scrambling to finalize policies and procedures for providing the medication to patients, possibly by summer’s end or early autumn. It’s a fraught moment, with hope running high for families and other promising therapies such as donanemab on the horizon. Still, medical providers are cautious. “This is an important first step in developing treatments for complex neurodegenerative disea...
Source: SharpBrains - August 17, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Judith Graham at Kaiser Health News Tags: Brain/ Mental Health cognition early-stage Alzheimer’s Eisai FDA lecanemab Leqembi Medicare mild-cognitive-impairment Source Type: blogs

The ultimate sanction
Some while back I discussed the death penalty here, in response to a couple of atrocious crimes that happened in Connecticut and provoked a lot of controversy. The first person to be executed in the state following the Supreme Court moratorium was a man named Michael Ross, who raped and murdered young women in what is now my neck of the woods as it were, a bit before I moved out here. He asked his attorneys to stop trying to prevent it, in other words he went to his death willingly, evidently preferring it to life in prison. So in that situation one has to ask, what ' s the point? One element of controversy was whether his...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 3, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Republican Misbehavior Promoted Health Professional Activism
By MIKE MAGEE If you wanted to create a motto for the summer of 2023 – one that would stand the test of time from the medical exam room of Ohio to the gilded bathroom of Mar-a-lago – it would have to be Jack Smith’s “Facts matter!” If that is true on a national scale, it is equally true in states across the nation where doctors increasingly are coming out from behind a self-imposed clinical curtain and going public. As reported in ProPublica last week, “Doctors who previously never mixed work with politics are jumping into the abortion debate by lobbying state lawmakers, campaigning, forming polit...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion Activism health care providers Mike Magee Physicians Trump Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 24th 2023
In this study, we tested the hypothesis that periodontal disease (PD) as a source of infection alters inflammatory activation and Aβ phagocytosis by the microglial cells. Experimental PD was induced using ligatures in C57BL/6 mice for 1, 10, 20, and 30 days to assess the progression of PD. Animals without ligatures were used as controls. Ligature placement caused progressive periodontal disease and bone resorption that was already significant on day 1 post-ligation and continued to increase until day 30. The severity of periodontal disease increased the frequency of activated microglia in the brains on day 30 by 36...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

5 Ways Data (and Storage) are Powering the Evolution of Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Doug McLoughlin, Regional Manager at Western Digital Healthcare technology is finally catching up with a digital revolution that’s been well underway for over a decade in other industries. The transformation was accelerated in the last three years when confined to our homes for months on end, doctors and patients alike turned to technology to try and stay healthy and connected. From medical to consumer-grade devices, millions of new endpoints emerged, generating new volumes of data. Ranging from improving individual health to better patient outcomes to enabling more advanced research, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops AI Data Storage Doug McLoughlin Healthcare Data Healthcare Data Storage Improving Patient Outcomes ML Reducing Costs RPM Western Digital Source Type: blogs

Will Success in Reversing Aging Shape the Regulatory System to Accommodate It?
A sizable fraction of the therapies produced by the medical industry are, not to put too fine a point on it, garbage. The benefit is not worth the cost of diverting the resources into the full scale production of the drug, versus those resources going towards some better form of medical research and development. Giving a cancer patient an extra month or two of life, reducing fibrosis in the liver by 10% over a year of treatment, incrementally improving mitophagy to half the degree that exercise achieves, and so forth. Small molecule development in particular excels at producing this sort out outcome, as the effects on gene...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry 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

Hit by Scandal, Petro Can Still Ruin Colombia
Daniel RaisbeckLess than a  year ago, I wrote of the almost certain regret that awaited the prosperous, urban, multiple ‐​degree‐​holding types who voted for Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s Chavista president. They thought they had supported a Nordic‐​style social democrat—failing to notice that they had helped to elect a tropical socialist who, given his past as a guerrilla group member and Hugo Chávez supporter, was also a potential autocrat.Caveat emptor (or rathersuffragator) indeed. But I  never thought that voter’s remorse would set in so quickly. Or so extremely.According to poll data from June 1...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 11, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel Raisbeck Source Type: blogs

In an Ideal World, How Much Would We Spend on Health Care? – Part 1
BY BEN WHEATLEY We have heard it said before, and it is no longer shocking to say, that in 2021 the United States spent $4.3 trillion on health care. To put this gaudy number in some perspective, we measure it as a share of our economy and report that health care comprised 18.3% of our gross domestic product. CMS projects that health care will approach 20% of GDP in coming years—one-fifth of everything we buy and sell in this country.  In a recent report, the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value said that “it is unclear what percentage of GDP would represent the ideal level to devote to healt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ben Wheatley Health care spending medical debt Patent Source Type: blogs

In an Ideal World, How Much Would We Spend on Health Care?
BY BEN WHEATLEY We have heard it said before, and it is no longer shocking to say, that in 2021 the United States spent $4.3 trillion on health care. To put this gaudy number in some perspective, we measure it as a share of our economy and report that health care comprised 18.3% of our gross domestic product. CMS projects that health care will approach 20% of GDP in coming years—one-fifth of everything we buy and sell in this country.  In a recent report, the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value said that “it is unclear what percentage of GDP would represent the ideal level to devote to h...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ben Wheatley Health care spending medical debt Patent Source Type: blogs

Preventing Genetic Testing Fraud: 5 Actions for Health Plans
The following is a guest article by Erin Rutzler, Vice President of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at Cotiviti In Delaware, more than 250 Medicare patients underwent unnecessary genetic testing based on telehealth consultations that often lasted less than two minutes—costing Medicare thousands of dollars per patient. Meanwhile, an emerging scheme for fraudulent and unnecessary cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing allegedly resulted in $174 million in false and fraudulent Medicare claims. These are just two examples of what the Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership describes as a surge in fraud, waste and abuse associated...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Genomics-Precision Medicine Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Revenue Cycle Management Cotiviti CPT Codes Erin Rutzler Fraud Waste and Abuse FWA Genetic Testing Genetic Testing Fraud Healthcare Fraud Prev Source Type: blogs

Nutrition: Major Government Fail?
Chris EdwardsAmericans are getting used to failures by government experts. Government economists have a  dismal forecasting record. Government actions and advice during the pandemic were often misguided. And dozens of former government intelligence experts got the Hunter Biden laptop storywrong.A less recognized but also important failure may be in nutrition. Federal experts appear to have issued faulty advice for decades, even as American obesityexploded from 15 percent in the 1970s to 42 percent today. Federal guidance on nutrition has a  large influence on health practice across society. Some researchers argue that Am...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 26, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs