🩺 Virtual hospitals are happening

Good morning. This is Scrubs, the Healthcare Newsletter that’s like the sound of a chilled La Croix cracking open. Quick, satisfying, and oh-so refreshing. P.S. I just cracked the ‘orange’ flavor and it’s great - would recommend.

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What’s in today’s rounds? Great question.

• 🤳 Zoom Doctors

• 🥶 Egg-cellent Work

• 🧠 On this day

• 📚 Interesting Reads

• 🚿 Shower Thoughts

🤳 Zoom Doctors

Physician labor shortages are leading to unique workarounds.

Increasing demand for medical professionals is making virtual rounds more common. Virtual rounds are when a medical professional meets with patients via telehealth - while they are in the hospital. Think of this as a Zoom meeting for medical professionals and their patients. However, virtual rounds need to be done on HIPAA-compliant software to protect patient data.

According to Healthcare Dive, here are the benefits:

• One doctor can do rounds at multiple facilities

• Easier to loop in team members and share information

• Simplifies access to electronic health records (EHR)

Learn more here.

🥶 Egg-cellent Work

IVF: This company is freezing the competition in its tracks. Here is how.

Fierce Healthcare states, TMRW Life Sciences is a fertility technology company that built technology to improve the traditional method of storing eggs in drums, which is a process prone to failure and errors.

The practice of freezing and storing eggs came out of necessity. Oncologists (cancer doctors) and patients needed a way to ensure cancer didn’t take away patients’ ability to conceive children.

Today, the standard practice for IVF clinics is to keep eggs in cryo drums, inside the clinic. However, the typical storage method was thrown together quickly and is often not designed to hold up for the 10 years it could take before the eggs are needed.

TMRW’s Cryobank has all the bells and whistles of an Apple product, but, for IVF. It scans the retinas of the person who does the manual checks, holds a backup generator and nitrogen tanks to prevent thawing, and soon, it will send pictures of the eggs to the owner via the TMRW app.

Basically, TMRW’s Cryobank makes IVF more transparent, assuring, and secure.

🧠 On This Day (April 18th)

• In 1005, Bolesław Chrobry became the first King of Poland

• In 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes rode from Charlestown to Lexington warning their comrades "The regulars are coming out!"

• In 1783, George Washington announced the end of hostilities with Britain

• In 1906, a large San Francisco earthquake (and pursuing fires) killed nearly 4,000 people and destroyed 75% of the city

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📚 Interesting Read

• 5 Interesting Studies Released in 2022

• 9 in 10 Americans Want Legal Marijuana

🚿 Shower Thoughts

• Therapists and counselors know so many lonely people, all located in the same area, but can’t introduce those lonely people to one another without violating patient confidentiality rules. Source

• The increased popularity and acceptance of tattoos are making it easier for cops to ID people. Source

• ChatGPT confidently presenting false information as true and making up statistics is its most human trait yet. Source

• It’s weird how 71% of the earth is water and humans don’t have any distinct body parts for swimming. Source

• When you bury your feet in the sand at the beach, you are briefly wearing the Earth as shoes. Source

🎥 Video

😆 Funnybone

That’s a wrap for today! If you enjoyed this edition of Scrubs, make sure you forward it to a friend see we can grow together.

See you tomorrow,

Miles Beaudoin

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