Adipose Tissue – Information on Adipose Tissue

Posted on December 26, 2011 by

Article by Peter Hutch

Adipose tissue is infiltrated with macrophages, and its content of long-chain triacylglycerols and ceramides is increased in subjects with increased LFAT compared with equally obese subjects with normal LFAT content. Ceramides or their metabolites could contribute to adverse effects of long-chain fatty acids on insulin resistance and inflammation.

Adipose tissue is specialized connective tissue that functions as the major storage site for fat in the form of triglycerides. Adipose tissue is found in mammals in two different forms: white adipose tissue and brown adipose tissue. The presence, amount, and distribution of each varies depending upon the species. Most adipose tissue is white, the focus of this review.

Adipose tissue is primarily located beneath the skin, but is also found around internal organs. In the integumentary system, which includes the skin, it accumulates in the deepest level, the subcutaneous layer, providing insulation from heat and cold.Connective tissue composed of adipocytes that stores energy in the form of fat and cushions and insulates the body.

Brown adipose tissue is sometimes mistaken for a type of gland, which it resembles more than white adipose tissue. It varies in color from dark red to tan, reflecting lipid content. Its lipid reserves are depleted when the animal is exposed to a cold environment, and the color darkens. In contrast to white fat, brown fat is richly vascularized and has numerous unmyelinated nerves which provide sympathetic stimulation to the adipocytes.

Fat also serves a structural purpose. Approximately four percent of body weight is made up of fat in the organs, skeletal muscles, and central nervous systems. This fat is sometimes referred to as “essential fat” because these organs will stop functioning if it is depleted. Having too little fat is a health hazard. The risk of premature death begins to mount when body mass index (BMI) drops below 18. (BMI is calculated by multiplying weight in pounds by 700 and dividing the product by the square of height in inches.)

Adipose tissues at the L3 vertebra were quantified by magnetic resonance imaging. With weight reduction there was a significant decrease (P < 0.05) in body mass index, waist circumference, and visceral adipose tissue. The plasma concentrations of total cholesterol, triglyceride, insulin, and lath sterol also significantly decreased.

Tissue and cellular investigations, driven by the analysis of transcriptional interactions, revealed an increased amount of interstitial fibrosis in obese WAT, associated with an infiltration of different types of inflammatory cells, and suggest that phenotypic alterations of human pre-adipocytes, induced by a pro-inflammatory environment, may lead to an excessive synthesis of ECM components.

Adipose tissue requires lipolytic enzymes. Dysfunctional lipolysis affects energy homeostasis and may contribute to the pathogenesis of obesity and insulin resistance. Until now, hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) was the only enzyme known to hydrolyze triglycerides in mammalian adipose tissue. Here, we report that a second enzyme, adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL), catalyzes the initial step in triglyceride hydrolysis. It is interesting that ATGL contains a “patatin domain” common to plant acyl-hydrolases. ATGL is highly expressed in adipose tissue of mice and humans.

White adipose tissue (WAT), now considered as a pivotal endocrine organ, contributes to the systemic inflammation by producing biomolecules, including pro-inflammatory mediators, whose estimated number grows constantly and whose synthesis is altered along with the expansion of the adipose tissue. These molecules are delivered into the blood stream and exert metabolic and immune functions, as illustrated by the extensively studied adipose hormones leptin and adiponectin. Their functions are essential for inter-organ cross-talk, body weight homeostasis and probably in linking adipose tissue to the downstream complications associated with obesity.

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Digital audio tracks Recorders buying Information

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

Article by Cross Crouse

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Digital audio tracks Recorders buying Information

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

Article by Cross Crouse

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Faster, Cheaper, Better: Recycle Meaningful Information to Deliver Incomparable Student Services

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

Article by Jim Thumma

Humans have hunted from the earliest times. Maybe that’s why we often accept the burdensome quest for information. We’re accustomed to the chase-even fooled into thinking we’re doing something valuable. Yet time lost in pointless pursuit means something is sacrificed. In the case of college enrollment, a drawn-out chase can mean losing top candidates to other institutions and ending up with a mediocre catch.

During peak season, enrollment office employees frenetically pursue information and answers, compiling scattered documentation in the hope of making quick, prudent decisions. Admissions, student aid, registrar, scholarship committees and other areas each have separate forms requiring distinctive information.

Yet as each department collects what it needs, useful information that could be shared is often requested again…and again. Information that could move decisions forward sits idle, garnering little or no attention.

Regrettably, as processes are deferred, institutions risk losing top candidates to other institutions.Make informed decisions, quickly

Whether we’re considering undergraduate or graduate admissions, student financial aid, scholarship applications, or faculty search, the overriding goal is to garner and retain top people. Even though roles and responsibilities differ among departments, most draw vital information from transcripts, applications, test scores, essays, and references. Often, specific data found on forms is valuable in multiple places. Unfortunately, departmental software systems that store this precious information create data silos, resulting in information that is unknowingly collected multiple times for varying purposes.

Gathering information several times-even if it’s done efficiently-wastes resources, results in redundancy, generates errors, and causes delays.

Why not re-use your information to satisfy current needs and anticipate what lies ahead? Enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) software, integrated meaningfully with your business systems, redefine efficiency. By centralizing and securing access to content, then pushing and pulling information wherever it’s needed according to your pre-set business rules, ECM and BPM free your staff to work efficiently and focus on the services for which they were hired.

Anyone who has worked in an office has experienced waiting for information, only to discover someone else has had the requisite material for hours, days, or even weeks. It’s exasperating. Roughly one third of organizations have twenty or more content repositories that could be usefully linked,1 yet many remain isolated and disconnected. With the technology, communication, and integration tools available today, there’s no excuse for documented information not being available on demand to authorized persons.Understand the interrelationship of your information

Student information is inextricably interrelated in campus decision making. It should be no surprise that taking advantage of the information you already have leads to better service and tremendous savings. Tapping into ECM as a central information repository helps you make sense of the information you have on file. A name, contact information, and PINs, for example, can match documentation and link records in the Student Information System (SIS) with applications, transcripts, test scores, essays, financial aid forms, scholarship applications, placement documents, and more. Using BPM to orchestrate the flow of new or amended material as it’s received, re-use new or updated information to automatically generate appropriate responses, or initiate requests for review or signatures, keeps critical processes moving.

To get started, take a value inventory of your institution’s information. Identify processes that rely on data you collect so you can maximize its usefulness and ensure that timely, informed decisions result from it.Create an institutional information blueprint

Just as campus architects must carefully consider surrounding spaces when they design a new building, managing information intelligently requires a holistic overview of the processes and decisions that draw on it.

Get to know:

* All types of information your institution collects. * All systems in which information is currently stored (Student Information Systems, student aid, human resources software, etc.) * Where, when, and by whom specific data within the documents and information you collect is needed (grade point average, SAT score, date of birth, etc.). * Each decision and process that relies on each piece of information.

To get started:

* Conduct a thorough document inventory. * Chart the routine business processes for each department, including required documents. * Identify which data drives which decisions and outcomes. * Diagram the touch points between processes within each department to see where data can be re-used meaningfully. * Compare files and processes between departments to identify (and streamline) redundancy and determine where information can be recycled.

Careful analysis lays the groundwork for appropriate planning. Meaningful use can only be achieved when you dedicate adequate resources for both.Example of meaningful use

Let’s say an undergraduate student at your college applies to study at your graduate school. When the application is received, the name, contact information and PIN are matched and ultimately linked to the appropriate record in the SIS. Following prescribed rules for what constitutes a complete application, BPM notices graduate standardized test scores are missing, and immediately generates a letter to the student. Receipt of the test scores reactivates BPM to package the applicant’s materials and forward them to the appropriate person for evaluated. In the meantime, an approved grade change request form is received. BPM notifies the registrar the transcript must be updated and emails the evaluator that new material needs to be reviewed.

Re-using information meaningfully cuts processing times from weeks to days and days to hours. Employees typically can process 15-60% more work, sometimes more. Others suddenly discover they can provide customized services that were previously elusive. Either way, you win.Give employees what they need

ECM and BPM work hand in glove to give people what they need to perform tasks efficiently and make informed, timely decisions. If you’ve implemented ECM and/or BPM in multiple departments, you’ve already taken steps forward, but you’re not realizing your institution’s potential.

Take a step back and look at the big picture. Understand your information needs so you can create a smart blueprint that leads to better and faster processing institution-wide. When you discover the value of your information and learn how to use it efficiently everywhere it has meaning, top applicants-whether faculty, students, or future co-workers-will notice the improvement in service. With a cache of institutional advantages, both you and they will emerge as winners.

1 51 Fast Facts about #ECM, #ERM, and #E20 from the 2009 AIIM Industry Watch research reports.

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Jim Thumma has over 20 years of experience working with industries that use document management software and has leveraged that experience to help businesses and organizations advance not only their technology, but their processes and, ultimately, to be more successful. Thumma is a frequent presenter and has authored numerous articles that can be read in Integrated Solutions magazine, ECM Connection, document, TEQ magazine, and other industry publications.

Improve Your Business Health: Efficient Information Recycling Streamlines Costs and Improves Patient Services

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

Article by Jim Thumma

Every healthcare provider and institution is unique. Yet no matter what services you offer or who your constituents are, you and your peer institutions share at least two common goals:

A. Provide the best quality of care possible.

B. Get paid quickly and appropriately so you can continue offering care.

If only it were that easy.The art of getting paid

Tom Brokaw once wisely said, “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” For healthcare institutions and providers, however, the opposite is often true: all hands are on deck in the effort to help people, but afterward, getting paid is challenging. It all boils down to accountability: having each piece of a patient’s information puzzle in place so you can prove the right services were provided and (finally) get the monies you deserve. Information must be gathered from multiple sources – including third parties – and fully reconciled. Chart deficiencies must be rectified. Unless paperwork is 100% complete and timely, payment may not follow.Deciphering the requirements

Rulings such as the CMS July 13 “Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Payment Program Final Rule on Meaningful Use” raise the bar for patient care as well as professional and institutional accountability. Standards and criteria for achieving meaningful use (of electronic information) have been set, along with mandated timelines. Whether the requirements are for clinical, research, or reimbursement purposes, each depends on something few manage well: the efficient exchange of patient information.

To get paid, patient information must be complete and correct. Few incentives are more effective for getting things right.

Coordinating the efficient, secure, electronic exchange of information – often scattered and on diverse paper and electronic media – is a vital step toward electronic health records (EHRs). Yet as practitioners work toward compliance, they fight another battle: protecting confidentiality of patients’ health information (and proving it).

So what does all of this have to do with enterprise content management (ECM)? Everything.Satisfying mounting expectations

A powerful integration and information management tool, ECM bolts onto existing information systems, giving pre-authorized persons access to interact appropriately with clinical and administrative documents and systems. From doctors’ orders through lab tests, radiology reports, admissions, surgeries, prescriptions, billing, and more, a thoroughly integrated ECM system arches over clinical, HR, accounting, and other systems, providing a holistic view of patients’ treatments and transactions.Make “exchange” happen

Workflow connects the dots, recycling meaningful information that’s available through ECM, wherever it’s needed. Patient information that is otherwise manually collected and replicated is extracted, then pushed or pulled to its intended destination via institutional rules – minimizing human involvement, increasing security, eliminating mistakes, and saving time.

Let’s examine how it works in three critical areas.

1. Deficiency Chart Tracking

Before requests for reimbursement can be made, all required forms must be on file. Missing signatures, insufficient documentation, and other deficiencies must be tagged; someone must be assigned to address them; issues must be resolved.

Workflow simplifies and expedites the process, letting you:

* Dictate which documents and transactions are required for documentation to be complete; * Prioritize work based on deadlines, patient discharge, and other pertinent information; * Electronically pull all relevant documents on demand or at a pre-specified point in the process; * Ensure ECM’s security authorizations are respected; * Automatically tag what’s missing; * Route deficient files to pre-assigned persons for follow-up; * Create prioritized work lists for each doctor so s/he can see what must be addressed; * Compile completed documentation.

By capturing, storing, routing, and handling everything electronically, you also lay the path to meet a future requirement under meaningful use: electronic claims submission.

2. Invoice Processing

ECM and workflow bridge the gap between information stored in your clinical applications and the administrative files that accompany and support patient services. Together, they make invoicing easier, faster, and ensure accuracy by:

* Prioritizing invoices for timely payment; * Matching purchase orders with requisitions and receipts; * Gathering and packaging all pertinent backup documentation for invoice review; * Routing invoices for approval; * Answering vendor inquiries about payment status; * Creating a clear audit trail of transactional activity every step of the way.

3. Keeping patients informed

New legislation acknowledges that patients need timely access to summary care records that they can understand. Information needs to follow each patient so s/he can make informed decisions. Getting information into clinical, ERP, and administrative systems typically isn’t difficult. However, extracting it on demand and into meaningful formats can be cumbersome, challenging, and frustrating for providers and institutions.

Underlying all of your electronic information systems, ECM becomes a pointer to scattered information, letting authorized persons access, view, annotate, report, and manage files according to their permissions. Complete, accurate, timely reporting – another benchmark in the process of enabling meaningful use – is a task designed for ECM.Prepare for Success

Whether or not meaningful use rules directly affect you now, they are a big step toward EHRs, and EHRs are the future. ECM advances your readiness. By taking steps to embrace electronic recordkeeping now, your staff will transition gradually into a digital healthcare environment, and you’ll be positioned for EHR success. Not only will you offer better services and be compliant; you’ll meet your other main objective: to be paid for the quality care you deliver…so you can continue delivering it.

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