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You’re listening to Certify It, a healthcare education podcast powered by The Mason Center for Healthcare Education. Hear certification program news, updates, and discussions from thought leaders around advancing your career in healthcare by continuing your education.
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What happens when robots, AI, and big data enter the hospital? Glenn Cohen (a professor and deputy dean at Harvard Law School) is unpacking that question in this exploration of biotechnology, ethics, medical law, and health care policy. Each week, he’ll interrogate a single technology – such as digital pills, AI-powered decision support algorithms, or digital health apps – through the lens of ethical concerns like informed consent, liability, and privacy.
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The Well of Life Center for Holistic Healthcare Senior Clinician, Victoria, shares her insights into holistic living and wellness.
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Join Doug Bryant In this episode of Certify It, as he sits down with Dottie Lyvers, director at the CAC Office on Aging, to talk about the impactful work of the Office on Aging and the growing need for resources for aging adults. Dottie highlights the challenges and needs created by a growing senior population, from aging in place to preventing eld…
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Join Doug Bryant In this episode of Certify It as he welcomes back Lavonda Cantrell, Vice President of the Hillcrest Foundation. Lavonda discusses the Hillcrest Foundation's impact on Knoxville's healthcare community, its mission to support education, and efforts in providing opportunities for Knox County. Listen as they also highlight inspiring su…
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Join Doug Bryant and Abby Gibbons as they discuss the relationship between the efforts of Mobility Mentors like Abby and the Mason Center for Healthcare Education. Hear an inspiring conversation about how the two come together to create brighter futures for Knox County residents. Learn more about United Way Learn more about The Mason Center for Hea…
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Join Doug Bryant as he sits down with Barry Davis, President & CEO at Hillcrest Healthcare Communities, and Bill Mason, Board Member, to discuss how The Mason Center for Healthcare Education got its name, and how they helped make this dream a reality. Learn more here Produced by Solinity MarketingΑπό τον The Mason Center for Healthcare Education
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Join Doug Bryant as he talks with his two friends, Brandi Miller (Executive Director of The Mason Center) and Lavonda Cantrell (Vice President of The Hillcrest Foundation) to discuss what The Mason Center is and how it can help kickstart your healthcare career.Από τον The Mason Center for Healthcare Education
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Welcome to Certify It, a new podcast from the Mason Center for Health Care Education. Join your host, Doug Bryant (Senior Vice President of Learning, Diversity, and Talent at Hillcrest Healthcare), each month as he walks you through practical ways to advance your career in care.Από τον The Mason Center for Healthcare Education
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Professor Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School interviews Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Senior Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center. They discuss Dr. Walensky’s career as an infectious disease clinician focused on HIV/AIDS, her experience lead…
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Should Social Robots be Used to Provide Emotional Support? PARO is a cuddly baby seal used as an emotional companion robot in elder care. Emotional companion robots provide some of the benefits of therapy animals, without the attendant challenges of a live animal. But while emotional companion robots can provide comfort to older adults, they might …
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How Should We Regulate Digital Health Technology? The current digital health marketplace has been described as a wild west. Every day, consumer products making strong claims are brought to market without sufficient evidence and often withdrawn only when enforcement actions are brought against them. There are already apps that claim to detect melano…
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How AI Bias Is Affecting Health Care—And What We Can Do About It People are biased, and people build AI, so AI are biased, too. When AI is used in hospitals to treat patients, that bias comes to health care. For example, a 2019 paper in Science found that a commercial risk-prediction tool was less likely to refer equally sick Black people than whit…
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How secure is data collected by digital pills? Ingestible electronic sensors (IESs or “digital pills”) can be taken with or as a part of a drug in order to collect and record patient data, such as medication adherence or physiological metrics. This information can then be shared with relevant parties, including the patient, family members, and heal…
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Who Is Liable When AI Injures a Patient? Medical errors happen; doctors are only human. And when doctors make mistakes, the law pertaining to who is liable is usually clear-cut. But what happens if the mistake was made by an AI, included one embedded in a device or a robot? This episode will explore who is liable. Is it the hospital? The developer …
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Do You Own Your Personal Health Data? Every time you visit the doctor, heaps of personal health data are stored in electronic medical records, a mainstay of the modern health care industry. The rise of big data in healthcare comes with risks, however. Health data is now being sold to external companies and researchers. So, can you own your personal…
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Should We Tell Patients When AI is Being Used in Their Care? Increasingly, AI is being used in hospitals without patients’ knowledge of its use in their care, let alone their consent. For example, AI is being used to predict the likelihood that a cancer patient will die within the next six months. Hospitals and clinicians are deploying this technol…
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In episode 6, Victoria discusses why buying organic products is so important. She also gives tips on how to successfully buy organic without breaking your budget.Από τον Well of Life Center
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Welcome back to Parasites: The Mystery of Stealth Proteins! In Part 2 of this podcast, Victoria and Well of Life Center Owner and Critical Care Clinician, Cynthia Hofmann-Coale continue their discussion about stealth proteins.Από τον Well of Life Center
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In episode 4 part 1, Victoria is joined once again by Well of Life Center Owner and Critical Care Clinician, Cynthia Hofmann-Coale, to discuss parasites and the sudden popularity of the topic among health influencers and what the truth behind the mystery of stealth proteins really is. Make sure not to miss Part 2 of this conversation coming soon.…
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In episode 3, Victoria is joined by Well of Life Center Owner and Critical Care Clinician, Cynthia Hofmann-Coale, to discuss fad diets and why they don’t work long term and how lifestyle changes can better impact your health and weight.Από τον Well of Life Center
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In Part 2 of Healthy Beginnings Victoria continues her discussion on how to jumpstart your journey to better health with simple changes you can make around your home and kitchen. In episode 2, Victoria discusses why you should limit your exposure to plastics and aluminum foil, popular home cleaning and health and beauty products, and other products…
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In the 1st episode of our podcast, Healthy Beginnings Part 1, Victoria shares some simple tips and tools on how to get started on your journey toward better health. She shares some simple first steps to help get you to the 1st level of healing and start getting your body into a better state of health. In this episode Victoria covers the kitchen and…
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Senior Clinician Victoria describes what topics will be covered in our new podcast, Come Draw from The Well.Από τον Well of Life Center
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Harry is a 72-year-old with diabetes and hypertension but no primary event with LDL-C 110 mg/dL and 1-year ASCVD risk score of 43%. Although he is a candidate for high-intensity statin therapy, atorvastatin 10 mg daily is the highest dose he tolerates.Από τον Annenberg Center for Health Sciences
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Patients who receive a prescription for statin therapy often remain at increased cardiovascular risk due to elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Organizations such as the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and National Lipid Association have developed algorithms to guide the management of patients with LDL-…
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Mateo is a 68-year-old male treated with moderate-intensity statin therapy who needs treatment intensification for secondary prevention. Treatment options are discussed based on clinical trials such as IMPROVE-IT, ODYSSEY Long Term, FOURIER, and GLAGOV.Από τον Annenberg Center for Health Sciences
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Jessica is a 24-year-old with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia with LDL-C hyperlipidemia despite high-intensity statin therapy. The benefits and limitations of the addition of ezetimibe or a PCSK9 inhibitor are discussed.Από τον Annenberg Center for Health Sciences
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Anisa is a 54-year-old with hypertension and stage 3 chronic kidney disease (but not diabetes mellitus) and LDL-C <190 mg/dL despite high-intensity statin therapy. Results of clinical trials show that reducing atherogenic lipoproteins to very low levels (LDL-C <50 mg/dL) is beneficial in reducing the risk of a cardiovascular event compared to highe…
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