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American Lung Association in Wisconsin is Lying About Health Effects of Smoking
It used to be that the tobacco industry lied to the public in order to downplay the severe health effects of cigarette smoking. Today, it is the Wisconsin branch of the American Lung Association (ALA) that is lying about the risks of smoking.According to the director of tobacco control and public policy for the ALA in Wisconsin:" there ’s still aperception that e-cigarettes are less harmful than regular cigarettes and so for some kids who never would have tried smoking cigarettes they get the idea this might be a safer alternative. "Clearly, the ALA is telling the public that kids are actually mistaken and that e-cigaret...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - June 17, 2017 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Follow the Money: Non-Profit Hospital CEOs Quietly Collect Their Millions While US Health Care Reform Battle Rages
ConclusionsThe current inflamed discussion of " Obamacare " and Republican attempts to " repeal and replace " it focuses on the costs of care and how they affect individual patients. Examples include concerns about health insurance premiums that are or could be unaffordable for the typical person; insurance that fails to cover many costs, and thus may leave patients at risk of bankruptcy due to severe illness; poor people unable to or who might become unable to obtain any insurance, and perhaps any health care. Yet there is little discussion of what really drives high and ever increasing health care costs (whil...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 22, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: boards of trustees executive compensation health care reform hospital systems hospitals non-profit organizations Source Type: blogs
And You Think You Can Trust The Government With Your Private Health Data?
This appeared last week.Alan Tudge urged to act following Department of Human Services fraud allegationsSteven Trask Published: August 31 2017 - 2:45PMThe need for a Senate inquiry into bungled government IT projects has been vindicated following allegations of fraud at the Department of Human Services, the Labor party says.On Thursday Fairfax Media revealed that as many as 50 IT subcontractors were under investigation in a fraud probe at the government's largest department.The allegations related to fake invoicing practices and the use of false CVs and qualification records to secure government contracts.Linda Burney...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 6, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Croaky Posts A Fascinating Article On How To Make The Absolute Most Of The Health Data You Have!
This appeared last week:Using the data revolution to agitate for health policyEditor: Dr Ruth Armstrong Author: Alan Lopez on: September 15, 2017 In: global health, health inequalities, public health, rural and remote healthA themed edition of The Lancet, published today, marks the 20th anniversary of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, and presents the findings for 2016.Over the years, you will have seen much of the output of this study, which is the world ’s largest scientific collaboration on population health, currently including data from more than 130 countries and territories.The study tracks life expectancy...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 22, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Croakey Posts A Fascinating Article On How To Make The Absolute Most Of The Health Data You Have!
This appeared last week:Using the data revolution to agitate for health policyEditor: Dr Ruth Armstrong Author: Alan Lopez on: September 15, 2017 In: global health, health inequalities, public health, rural and remote healthA themed edition of The Lancet, published today, marks the 20th anniversary of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, and presents the findings for 2016.Over the years, you will have seen much of the output of this study, which is the world ’s largest scientific collaboration on population health, currently including data from more than 130 countries and territories.The study tracks life expectancy...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 22, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
What I've Learned From 'Log for Life'
Alan Johnson was part of the team at start-up company Gnoso Inc. that won the DiabetesMine Design Challenge in 2008, with an online tool called LogforLife. We've stayed in touch, and I've asked Alan, who is not diabetic, to share his journey with ...
Source: Diabetes Mine - August 4, 2010 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Amy Tenderich Source Type: blogs
It Looks Like The Human Services Minister Has Been A Little Less Than Frank About Medicare Number Leaks Onto The Dark Web!
This appeared last week:11:00pm, Nov 21, 2017 Updated: 11:09pm, Nov 21Revealed: Alan Tudge ’s department knew of Medicare breach prior to bombshell reportExclusiveJohn Power The Department of Human Services flagged the illegal sale of Medicare details on the dark web almost a fortnight before the illicit trade was exposed in a bombshell media report, The New Daily can exclusively reveal .Internal emails, obtained under freedom of information laws, reveal that department officials discussed the security issue as early as June 22 – nearly two weeks before revelations that Medicare numbers were being sold online.On July 4...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 1, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Interest on Excess Reserves: The Hobie Cat Effect
Forty years ago, in the spring of 1978, I had no intention of becoming an economist. Instead, I was studying marine biology at Duke University ’s Marine Lab at Pivers Island, on the beautiful North Carolina Coast. There, when the wind was up, my classmate Alan Kahana and I enjoyed going out on his Hobie 16, with Alan manning the tiller and myself hiked-out on the trapeze. We weren’t, truth be told, especially prudent sailors. On the co ntrary: we were so inclined to push things to the limit that one day we took the Hobie out just as a gale was getting up, and ended up…well, that’s a long, sad story. Suffice to say ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 4, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The AmWell – Avizia Merger and the Evolution of Telehealth
By ALAN PITT
Last week Avizia, where I’ve been the Chief Medical Officer since 2014, was acquired by American Well (AmWell). From my perspective, the merger made perfect sense. Avizia has been focused on chronically and acutely ill patients—those more directly attached to a hospital system. AmWell, on the other hand, has been the dominant solution for community-based care; it’s an online consultation service for folks who might otherwise have gone to an urgent care for problems like fever, headache, or a sore throat. Combining these entities provides a solution that spans the spectrum of care, which aligns with the n...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health 2.0 American Well Avizia Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Technology ought to save lives. So why aren’t we using it better?
Technology can be both a blessing and a curse and nowhere is this more painfully evident than in the U.S. health care system. If technology is to be used to improve the patient-doctor relationship, its systems should be designed by physicians who understand these needs, not by regulators and health care conglomerates for whom business objectives are paramount. When it’s all about billing and meeting documentation checkboxes and hospital requirements, clinicians are diverted from their core mission and patient care suffers.
A good use of technology would be the creation of a single compatible medical record system that en...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/alan-kadish" rel="tag" > Alan Kadish, MD < /a > Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs
Affordable Fertility Care from the Glow Fertility Program: Three Perspectives Interview
For couples dealing with infertility, the cost of fertility treatment can be significant. While numerous variables need to be considered when estimating the cost of treatments like in vitro fertilization (IVF), estimates put the price on the order of...
Source: Medgadget - September 11, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Ob/Gyn Reproductive Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Financial And Political News Relevant To E-Health And The Health Sector In General.
October 18, 2018 Edition.The big news is the rather large share market crash in the US with Trump saying his economic plans were great – and that the US Fed Reserve was the problem.Alan Kohler explained it best:There were three triggers for this week’s sell-off:US interest ratesChina/US cold warRising oil pricesI reckon No 2 is the biggie and still underestimated grossly. There is a real war brewing I fear. Read about it here:h ttps://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/alan-kohler/us-declares-cold-war-on-china/news-story/a506fe2625f63ea470c8c6c880eff9dfOf course Australia was also caught up in the Global sell do...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 18, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Veinplicity Makes Veins Fatter for Easier Access (Interview)
Venous access is famously difficult in many patients, and devices have been developed in the past to make veins easier to see. Seeing narrow veins doesn’t make it much easier to get inside of them, but the Veinplicity device from Physeon, a Sw...
Source: Medgadget - October 30, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Emergency Medicine Exclusive Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Bernard L. Ginsborg (1925 – 2018). A tribute.
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If you are not a pharmacologist or physiologist, you may never have heard of Bernard Ginsborg. I first met him in 1960. He was a huge influence on me and a great friend. I’m publishing this here because the Physiological Society has published only a brief obituary.
Bernard with his wife, Andy (Andrina).
You can download the following documents.
Biography written by one of his daughters, Jane Ginsborg.
Bernard’s scientific work, written by Donald H. Jenkinson (who knew him from jis time in Bernard Katz’s Department of Biophysics).
A tribute by Randall House, who collaborated with Berna...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 2, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Biography Obituary Bernard Ginsborg Source Type: blogs
More on Commodity Price Targeting
In a previous post, I argued that Paul Volcker didn ’t put a stop to inflation by having the Fed systematically increase interest rates when commodity prices rose, and lower them when commodity prices fell. While commodity-price targeting, aka a “price rule” for monetary policy, had some prominent proponents back in the 1980s, neither Volcker n or any other Fed chair embraced the idea.Today ’s post has to do with two things that Ididn ’t say in that earlier one. I didn ’t say that commodity price movements played no part at all in the Fed’s decision-making. And I didn’t say whether they should or shouldn’...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 9, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
