The newly updated calculator estimates that 15 million American adults are at high risk for heart failure. Most of them are also at high risk for the heart attacks and strokes than can be caused by plaque-clogged arteries. But 4.3 million of those at high risk of heart failure appear unlikely to develop these other forms of heart and vascular disease, known as atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, or ASCVD.
The VR program UbiSim lets nursing students improve their diagnostic and people skills by practicing on virtual patients. With UbiSim, students wearing inexpensive Meta Quest VR headsets enter an immersive 3-D simulation of a hospital. There, the students learn to treat a diverse array of simulated patients facing a multitude of medical crises. For Shawn Boom, CEO of UbiSim's parent company Labster, It's all about finding a solution to one of the nation's most daunting workforce challenges — a simmering shortage of nurses that's only getting worse as the Baby Boom generation ages. UbiSim is designed to ease the burden of human instructors, allowing nursing schools to serve more students. The company says that nursing schools that have adopted the technology have been able to increase enrollment between 5% and 25%. In addition, UbiSim can simulate a great variety of medical scenarios, enabling students to hone their skills without putting patients at risk.
A new report published on Tuesday is sounding the alarm on the rise of “Uber for nursing” – a growing gig industry in which artificial intelligence is being used by hospitals and other healthcare facilities to aid nurses.
The company reports two deaths in pacemaker-dependent patients implanted with devices from the subpopulation of devices that initiated Safety Mode in an ambulatory setting.
After a UnitedHealthcare executive was gunned down on a New York City sidewalk, an eruption of bitter online commentary celebrated the killer's presumed motive: avenging the denial and delay of health insurance coverage. Many spoke from personal experience. Every year, health insurance companies deny tens of millions of patient claims for medical expense reimbursements, and the tide of those denials has been rising, according to surveys of doctors and other health-care providers. Insurers also have been increasingly demanding that doctors obtain approval before providing treatment, similar surveys show, causing delays in patient care that the AMA says are "devastating."
Democrats are pessimistic that Congress will enact new rules around the health insurance industry, even as they try to appear responsive to growing calls for reform following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, whose murder unleashed a torrent of anger on social media against the U.S. health system, and insurance companies specifically. While politicians have roundly comdemned the violence, the apparent assassination has exposed the deep cynicism with which much of the public, on the right and the left, sees the insurance industry.