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How Could Digital Technology Make An Impact On Primary Care?
I truly hope that very soon I do not have to make an appointment at the GP when I suspect signs of a disease, but my GP will send me a message that she spotted something irregular in my latest test results and my digital health data, so I’d better visit. Let me show you in detail how primary care should be carried out in the future! Digital health should become an organic part of primary care in the future I live a fairly healthy life. I use data to improve my lifestyle and to make better decisions by optimising my sleep pattern, my physical, my cognitive or my emotional abilities; and I had several genetic tests....
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Digital Health Research Healthcare Innovation technology wearables GP primary care general practitioner Source Type: blogs

Why It Is Important To Understand Multimodal Large Language Models In Healthcare  
The future of medicine is undoubtedly inextricably linked to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Although this revolution has been brewing for years, the past few months marked a major change, as algorithms finally moved out of the specialized labs and into our daily lives.  The public debut of Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT which became the fastest-growing consumer application of all time, has been a roaring success. LLMs are machine learning models trained on a vast amount of text data which enables them to understand and generate human-like text based on the patterns and structures they̵...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine large language models multimodal AI multimodal large language models multimodal LLM Source Type: blogs

75 year old dialysis patient with nausea, vomiting and lightheadedness
Written by Jesse McLaren A 75 year-old patient with diabetes and end stage renal disease was sent to the ED after dialysis for three days of nausea, vomiting, loose stool, lightheadedness and fatigue. RR18 sat 99% HR 90 BP 90/60, afebrile. Below is the 15 lead ECG. What do you think? There ’s normal sinus rhythm, normal conduction, normal axis, normal R wave progression and normal voltages. There’s subtle inferior ST elevation with straightening of the ST segment, reciprocal ST depression and T wave inversion in aVL, and ST depression in V2. This is diagnostic of infero-posterior OMI, but it is falsely n...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 19, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs

OMI Pocket Guide
  📕OMI Pocket Guide TheOMI Pocket Guide (https://omiguide.org) is a user-friendly online resource designed to help healthcare professionals learn how to recognize subtle signs of acute coronary occlusion on the ECG which represent occlusion myocardial infarctions (OMI). Learning to recognize OMIs is an important clinical skill because it helps identify the subpopulation of " NSTEMIs " who are likely to be found with total thrombotic occlusion at the time of cardiac catherization.Although there are more criteria to consider when looking for OMIs compared to STEMIs, anyone can learn them, and this guid...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 3, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Mark Hellerman Source Type: blogs

Effect of Financial Incentives on Hospital-Cardiologist Integration and Cardiac Test Location
Andy Yuan (Northwestern University), Bernard S. Black (Northwestern University), Timea Viragh (Northwestern University), David Magid (University of Colorado), Effect of Financial Incentives on Hospital-Cardiologist Integration and Cardiac Test Location, J. Empirical L. Stud. (2023): Starting around 2006, the Centers for...
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 3, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Preserving Patient Dignity (Formerly Patient Modesty) Volume 127
 A Worthy Posting today on Volume 126 to set off a discussion of  " Preserving Patient Dignity " which should be more acknowledgment that there has been, within the past, some ignorance by the medical profession that the concept of the dignity of the patient exists and should not be attacked and injured. Here is the last posting of our contributor Reginald:Hello,As I pondered why dignity is such a hard concept for healthcare, I mused regarding what has changed – realizing that what happened in the past was not always something better.Thirty years ago I had a cardiologist as a GP. Yes, a cardiologist as a G...
Source: Bioethics Discussion Blog - July 28, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs

Online Appendix for Effect of Financial Incentives on Hospital-Cardiologist Integration and Cardiac Test Location
Andy Yuan (Northwestern University), Bernard S. Black (Northwestern University), Timea Viragh (Northwestern University), David Magid (University of Colorado at Denver), Online Appendix for Effect of Financial Incentives on Hospital-Cardiologist Integration and Cardiac Test Location, J. Empirical Legal Stud. (2023): This...
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 28, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Outpatient Vascular Care: Good, bad or ugly?
BY ANISH KOKA Filling in the holes of recent stories in the New York Times, and Propublica on the outpatient care of patients with peripheral arterial disease Most have gotten used to egregiously bad coverage of current events that fills the pages of today’s New York Times, but even by their now very low standards a recent telling of a story about peripheral artery disease was very bad. The scintillating allegation by Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff is that “medical device makers are bankrolling doctors to perform artery clearing procedures that can lead to amputationsâ€...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka Medical Devices Outpatient vascular care Source Type: blogs

Unmasking the truth about ECMO PODCAST
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join John R. Mehall, a cardiothoracic surgeon and physician executive. We explore the lasting impact of the global pandemic on hospitals in the United States, uncover the underlying financial crisis often overlooked by headlines, and discuss innovative strategies to bolster hospital finances. In particular, Read more… Unmasking the truth about ECMO [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Cardiology Critical Care Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA
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 The Sequoia Project and AHIMA are co-sponsoring the Data Usability Taking Root initiative, which will aim to implement data usability guidance published by a Sequoia Project workgroup with input form more than 260 organizat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accelecom Arcadia AT&T Availity Brightside Health Cerner Christine Swisher ClearDATA CMS CommonWell Health Alliance Cotiviti CVS CareMark Dave Wichmann Dr. Amy Compton-Philips eClinicalWorks eCW eLovu Health Source Type: blogs

63 year old with " good story for ACS " but negative troponins.....
 This was texted to me from a former resident, while working at a small rural hospital, with the statement:" I can ’t convince myself of anything here, but he’s a 63-year-old guy with prior stents and a good story for ACS. "  (Chest pain or discomfort)What do you think?Here was my response:" Suspicious for inferior posterior OMI.  Get serial ECGs "He then sent a previous from 4 years prior:" This is totally normal, which confirms that the first EKG does indeed represent OMI "Then the patient ' s chest pain resolved and he recorded another:The ST depression in aVL is gone and the T-waves are less hyperacu...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - July 2, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – June 25, 2023 – 77% of healthcare workers think burnout will cause a healthcare crisis, 62% of patients want digital communication to match the in-person experience, 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. Surveys More than 75% of healthcare leaders and workers have experienced burnout in the last year, according to a Holon Solutions survey. A similar percentage believe addressing burnout should be a top priority for their organiz...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 4medica Alpha Nodus Andrew Slutsky Atropos Health AvaSure AVIA Marketplace Banyan Medical Systems Carol Boston-Fleischhauer CentralReach CliniComp Datavant Dexcom DrFirst Eldermark Engage Tec Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – June 18, 2023 – 68% of health systems lack the staff to handle another health crisis, 46% of Americans are using consumer health tech, 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. Reports More than two-thirds of health systems lack the nursing staff to handle a large-scale health crisis, according to an Incredible Health survey. A staggering 94% of executives said the nurse shortage at their organization ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Alivia Analytics AnalyticsIQ Barbara Greising Bill Lucia Brightside Health Carenet Health Clarify Advance Clarify Health Clayton Duncan Damyon Smith eClinicalWorks eCW Electronic Caregiver Formlabs Healthcare IT Source Type: blogs

3 myths about ECMO that are costing hospitals and patients
Although the global pandemic is officially over, it has left a permanent mark on the health care landscape, reshaping the dynamics of hospitals in the United States. While staffing crises often dominate the headlines, health care institutions face an underlying financial crisis that remains largely underreported. In 2022, a startling 50% of all U.S. hospitals Read more… 3 myths about ECMO that are costing hospitals and patients originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Carta Healthcare Secures $25 Million in Series B Funding with Additional Investments from Memorial Hermann Health System and UnityPoint Health
Top Health Systems Invest in Innovative Technology Company to Simplify Data Abstraction and Deliver Data Insights to Drive Quality Improvement Carta Healthcare®, a company whose mission is to improve patient care by harnessing the value of clinical data, announced today the final closing of its $25 million series B financing, thanks to additional investments from leading health systems Memorial Hermann Health System and UnityPoint Health. These additional investments follow the initial $20 million series B financing announced in November 2022, which included investors such as Paramark Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures, Ame...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT American College of Cardiology Asset Management Ventures Carta Carta Healthcare Clinical Data CU Healthcare Innovation Fund Feby Abraham Frist Cressey Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings He Source Type: blogs