For Texas health system Houston Methodist, the major challenges to obtaining completed advance care directives included the time constraints of primary care physicians in addressing advance care planning with their patients. THE PROBLEM In addition, patients too often crash during a hospitalization with no advance care directives in place to guide care. “We were seeking
Northwell Health is expanding a new burn triage telehealth service to help doctors assess whether burn patients that present in emergency rooms can be treated onsite or need to be transported via ambulance or helicopter to the health system’s burn ICU. WHY IT MATTERS Staten Island University Hospital’s burn center specialists now provide teleburn consults
The World Health Organization signed an agreement with HL7 to jointly develop guidelines and advance the adoption of open interoperability standards that WHO says are critical to the development of equitable and evidence-based digital health. WHY IT MATTERS As part of its global digital health strategy, “There is a call for WHO to provide global guidance
In the December 2022 AI & Analytics Study of 250 health system leaders, the Advisory Board depicted how artificial intelligence had shifted from transformational in nature (as reported in their 2018 study) to merely adding incremental value to healthcare. The incremental value in healthcare came in the form of narrow AI, focused on solving individual
With Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services covers emergency medical response providers transporting patients to an alternative facility, such as a primary care office or community mental health center. ET3 also covers emergency responders to initiate treatment in place with a qualified healthcare partner – either at the
A graduate student at Southern Methodist University (SMU), has developed a miniature pH sensor that can detect when food has spoiled in real-time. The 2-millimeter long and 10-millimeter wide flexible pH sensor is designed to be incorporated into food packaging, such as plastic wrapping. Traditional pH meters are too bulky to be included in every
Newly Weds Foods, Inc., of Chicago, IL, is recalling over six million pounds of various products, ranging from batter and breader mixes to seasoning rubs and marinades, because products may contain Salmonella. According to the details posted online by the FDA, the recall was initiated on May 26, 2023, and is ongoing. The 6,465,115 pounds
Cyclospora parasite under extreme magnification. More than 100 people are sick in a new outbreak of infections caused by the microscopic Cyclospora parasite, but federal officials have not yet determined the source. As of July 6, the Food and Drug Administration reported 105 patients had been confirmed in the outbreak. The agency has not reported
An outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite that sickened hundreds in Florida in 2022 is just now being reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC report did not say why the agency delayed revealing information about the outbreak, which it attributed to an unnamed brand of packaged salad. In
A government program has found that foodborne illnesses have increased to pre-pandemic levels. In a preliminary report, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) says that enteric infections from food have returned to or exceed levels logged from 2016-2018. FoodNet is made up of public health staff from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and