Nuance Health CMIO on EHRs and the role of speech recognition (podcast)

In this podcast interview, Dr. Nick van Terheyden, Chief Medical Information Officer of Nuance Healthcare discusses the state of EHR adoption and the impact that speech recognition solutions are having on clinical workflow. Share

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Continua?s Chuck Parker on connected health

Continua Health Alliance is focused on creating an ecosystem where personal connected health devices can communicate using common standards. In this podcast interview, Continua’s Executive Director, Chuck Parker and I discuss the meaning of “connected health” and the “connected home,” progress in demonstrating return on investment, and the link between Continua’s activities and emerging delivery [...]

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Live from Abbottabad

Sohaib Athar unknowingly live-tweeted yesterday’s raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad. If you click and scroll down, you’ll get his reports on the operation, with random info about and photos of the region mixed in (like this one). On the other side of the world, here’s a photo from Times Square.

Source: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/86577

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Dog versus treadmill: no contest

A dog-loving colleague pointed me to Forget the Treadmill. Get a Dog in today’s New York Times. The gist of the story: Several studies now show that dogs can be powerful motivators to get people moving. Not only are dog owners more likely to take regular walks, but new research shows that dog walkers are [...]

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Probiotics to Cure Celiac?

Could probiotics and prebiotics lead to a cure for Celiac Disease? It turns out that scientists from the National Spanish Research Council in Valencia, Spain are researching whether dietary changes that include probiotics and/or prebiotics may help alleviate the severity of celiac disease for some patients.

I was just reading a summary news article about this Celiac research, and found it quite interesting how the researchers were essentially simulating, outside of the body, the human intestinal environment / mucosa - and the effects of gluten exposure on that environment with and without the presence of probiotic bifidobacteria (for a source of such probiotic bacterium, consider any yogurts with active cultures -- and, probiotic bacteria are naturally present in your intestinal tract and aid with digestion).

The summary findings of the study were as follows:

"According to a new research study appearing in the May 2010 print issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, differing intestinal bacteria in celiac patients could influence inflammation to varying degrees. This suggests that manipulating the intestinal microbiota with dietary strategies such as probiotics and prebiotics, could improve the quality of life for celiac patients, as well as patients with associated diseases such as type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune disorders."

This conclusion was arrived at after observations noted that bifidobacteria up-regulated the expression of anti-inflammatory cytokines (which is a good thing -- reducing inflammation). It was also noted that this evidence could be the first step toward changing how celiac disease is treated and possibly prevented, but that (as always, and as we would expect of any real treatment possibilities), human clinical trials are necessary.

I have wondered for quite some time whether consuming yogurts with active cultures (like bifidus, acidophilus, bulgaricus, thermophilus, lactobacillus, etc.) would be helpful. Many persons with Celiac Disease, gluten-intolerance, or wheat-allergies, may also have some intolerance to dairy products - including yogurt. But, perhaps the dairy intolerance is due to an intestinal tract lacking sufficient levels of probiotic bacteria? If so, restoring that symbiotic relationship with these beneficial "bugs" in our intestines may help bring some positive outcomes with regard to minimizing the impact and damage of Celiac Disease.

Time will tell, and personal experiences will certainly vary... but, I found this research quite interesting. It is rather widely accepted that probiotics and prebiotics (like inulin e.g., - which we use in our high-fiber gluten-free bread recipes) already are helpful in many ways and with regards to many conditions (even diabetes), and if Celiac Disease can benefit from pro-biotics, count me in on the yogurt eating!

Source: http://gluten-free-blog.blogspot.com/2010/05/probiotics-to-cure-celiac.html

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Don?t Frighten the Children

In 2005, the National Academy of Sciences announced what many already knew: there?s no safe dose of ionizing radiation. The late John Goffman had been saying this for years, but the National Academy brought that knowledge right into the mainstream. Why is it then that both ordinary and extraordinary exposures are discussed in terms of [...]

Source: http://www.yourownhealthandfitness.org/blogs/2011/03/15/don%e2%80%99t-frighten-the-children/

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My Perfect Healthy Breakfast

Breakfast today is very different than it was back in the days of the four food groups. With the invention of low-carbohydrate diets and the food pyramid, what we eat has changed. We are no longer eating as many fried foods, fat or pork as we once did. Overall, the amount of food we eat [...]

Source: http://yourbodyyourtemple.net/health/my-perfect-healthy-breakfast/

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