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| Latest Cyberattack Affects at Least 10M; UCLA Wins Data Breach Case
New York-based insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has disclosed a cyberattack that could have compromised the personal records of more than 10 million individuals. Meanwhile, a California judge ruled that UCLA Health is not responsible for the unapproved release of a woman's medical records. Health Data Managementet al.
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| HIMSS Releases Top Health IT Policy Priorities for Congress
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has published its annual "congressional asks," naming interoperability, cybersecurity and telehealth as the top policy priorities that lawmakers should address in the next year. Healthcare IT News,Politico's "Morning eHealth."
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| Researchers Build Genomic Database To Analyze Millions of Variants
A team of researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is using data analytics to identify millions of genetic variants in the human exome, which is the 1% of the genome that codes for proteins. The researchers say such analysis could help improve diagnoses for individuals with complex conditions. The Atlantic.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
What Are a Hospital’s Costs? Utah System Is Trying to Learn - The New York Times
Do you know about the accepted notion that emergency department visits are so expensive.
Recently the University of Utah Health Center began to analyze real costs with a complex set of algorithms.The linchpin of this effort at the University of Utah Health Care is a computer program — still a work in progress — with 200 million rows of costs for items like drugs, medical devices, a doctor’s time in the operating room and each member of the staff’s time. The software also tracks such outcomes as days in the hospital and readmissions. A pulldown menu compares each doctor’s costs and outcomes with others’ in the department. The hospital has been able to calculate, for instance, the cost per minute in the emergency room (82 cents), in the surgical intensive care unit ($1.43), and in the operating room for an orthopedic surgery case ($12).
The big question is why does an emergency room visit cost hundreds or thousands of dollars An ER visit of one hour adds up to about $ 500.00/ hour.
What Are a Hospital’s Costs? Utah System Is Trying to Learn - The New York Times
Recently the University of Utah Health Center began to analyze real costs with a complex set of algorithms.The linchpin of this effort at the University of Utah Health Care is a computer program — still a work in progress — with 200 million rows of costs for items like drugs, medical devices, a doctor’s time in the operating room and each member of the staff’s time. The software also tracks such outcomes as days in the hospital and readmissions. A pulldown menu compares each doctor’s costs and outcomes with others’ in the department. The hospital has been able to calculate, for instance, the cost per minute in the emergency room (82 cents), in the surgical intensive care unit ($1.43), and in the operating room for an orthopedic surgery case ($12).
The big question is why does an emergency room visit cost hundreds or thousands of dollars An ER visit of one hour adds up to about $ 500.00/ hour.
What Are a Hospital’s Costs? Utah System Is Trying to Learn - The New York Times
Monday, September 7, 2015
Stanford MedX: The Continuity Coefficient
The Continuity Coefficient
The more handoffs, the more fumbles are possible
Jordan Shlain discusses the workflow of every doctor and how the experience of every patient is dependent on how information is presented, to whom it is presented to and it's temporal and spacial sequence. Healthloop has developed a Patient Continuity Engine which enables information to be packaged, in context, to all interested parties who may have inputs. The subsequent output is presented to the key decision
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Health Care Social Media is developing new possibilities by offering more international cooperation among health institutions.
Health Care Social Media is developing new possibilities by offering more international cooperation among health institutions.
Doctor wins international award for social media and healthcare research — University of Leicester
The Challenge is a joint venture by Stanford University and healthcare social media analysts Symplur. The competition aims to encourage research into social media, healthcare and the benefits this can offer to patients.
Department of Health Sciences, has won an international award for his research into social media and healthcare.
Dr Damian Roland (pictured), Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences, has won an international award for his research into social media and healthcare.
The consultant in paediatric emergency care at Leicester’s Hospitals has been awarded first prize in the Stanford Medicine X | Symplur Signals Research Challenge 2015 and will present his work to the Medicine X conference at Stanford University in California on Sunday 27 Sept
Doctor wins international award for social media and healthcare research — University of Leicester
The Challenge is a joint venture by Stanford University and healthcare social media analysts Symplur. The competition aims to encourage research into social media, healthcare and the benefits this can offer to patients.
Dr Roland, who is part of the SAPPHIRE (Social Science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) group teamed up with Dr Daniel Cabrera, of Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and Jesse Spur BN, of the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, to secure the top prize. The trio impressed judges with their research which used social media analytics to interrogate Twitter data and give credence to an online healthcare community – to the extent that it can be defined as a community of practice.
The team focused on the Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM) community of healthcare professionals who collaborate online to share knowledge. They interrogated the Twitter #FOAMed hashtag using Symplur Signals analytics tool.
Sir William Osler, one of the first progenitors of Social Media
Dr Roland said: “The analytics showed millions of impressions recorded over a set period and also revealed it is a community that is growing. The #FOAMed community has proved very popular and uses the power of social media. It is truly what a community of practice can be defined as. It shows that through Twitter healthcare professionals are educating each other and this is benefiting the patients they work with.”
Why FOAM?... Facts, Fallacies and Foibles
- 1. FREE OPEN ACCESS MEDUCATION
- 2. h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/foam/
- 3. h"p://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/03/flipped-‐classroom-‐future-‐medicine.html
- 4. “…and to teach them this art — if they desire to learn it — WITHOUT fee and covenant” h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/from-‐hippocrates-‐to-‐osler-‐to-‐foam/
- 5. Photo from h"ps://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/osler/oslerbio
- 6. Taking the world by STORM (in a small way) Photo by JD Hancock
- 7. 230 EMCC blogs in 24 Countries h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/emcc-‐blog-‐update-‐2013/
- 8. IT KEEPS GETTING BIGGER… >30,000 page views daily
- 9. Your students will leave you behind
- 10. FOAM = Social Media
- 11. FOAM = Social Media
- 12. FREE OPEN ACCESS MEDUCATION
- 13. A waste of Mme?
- 14. Photo from smacc.net.au
- 15. #Hashtags Ce tweets together #FOAMed #FOAMcc #smaccGOLD
- 16. #smacc2013
- 17. No Peer Review = Bad?
- 18. Image from h"p://raMonallyspeaking.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/radical-‐reform-‐for-‐peer-‐review.html
- 19. Publish then Filter
- 20. Translate and disseminate knowledge
- 21. Source unknown
- 22. Flip the Classroom h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/web-‐20-‐for-‐emergency-‐physicians/
- 23. That’s just in time…
- 24. Tacit knowledge sharing Photo credit: stefan
- 25. Nothing replaces the bedside mentor Photos of Sir William Osler from www.collecMonscanada.gc.ca
- 26. License Image credit: zipckr
- 27. Filter Failure h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/informaMon-‐overload/
- 28. “I don’t have Cme not to use social media” Bertalan Mesco h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/07/informaMon-‐overload/
- 29. CAVEAT EMPTOR Think criMcally
- 30. Lobotomise, blood let, and perform EGDT!
- 31. A jackass in the real world will be a jackass online Photo by publicenergy
- 32. Photo by MisterSnappy
- 33. Photo from The MAtrix
- 34. TO GET #FOAMed
- 35. h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/blog-‐news/li]l-‐review/
- 36. h"p://googlefoam.com
- 37. h"p://iteachem.net/2013/06/ten-‐Mps-‐for-‐foam-‐beginners/
- 38. InfoamaMca.org
- 39. It is up to us to save the world! The 22nd of Peter Safar’s Laws for the NavigaCon of Life h"p://lifeinthefastlane.com/2009/04/laws-‐for-‐the-‐navigaMon-‐of-‐life/
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Oliver Sacks Dies at 82; Neurologist and Author Explored the Brain’s Quirks - The New York Times
Oliver Sacks as portrayed by Robin Williams in "The Awakening"
Oliver Sacks Dies at 82; Neurologist and Author Explored the Brain’s Quirks - The New York Times
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