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Where Is Digital Health Heading In Denmark?
After reading the Danish digital health strategy, one
of the most forward-looking examples of a government-supported objective to adjust the medical arena to the 21st century,
we looked around what real-life projects aim to transform patients’ and
doctors’ lives for the better in the Scandinavian country. Our findings are
thrilling: the newly established Danish National Genome Center strives to have at least 60,000 whole-genome
sequenced in the next 5 years, while the Copenhagen Healthtech Cluster wants to
set up a network of data registers updated so fast that it might enable helping
doctors real-time – perhaps even...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 7, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy big data Danish Denmark digital health digital health strategy genetics genomics health data healthcare design Innovation technology Source Type: blogs
Innovation Amidst the Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 4 – Resource Allocation and Access
By COLIN KONSCHAK, FACHE and DAVE LEVIN, MD
Dave Levin
Colin Konschak
The opioid crisis in the United States is having a devastating impact on individuals, their families, and the health care industry. This multi-part series will focus on the role technology can play in addressing this crisis. Part one of the series proposed a strategic framework for evaluating and pursuing technical solutions.
A Framework for Innovation
In part one of our series, we declared the opioid crisis an “All Hands-On Deck” moment and made the case that health IT (HIT) has a lot to offer. Given the many different possibilities, having a meth...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Tech Access to care Colin Konschak Dave Levin Divurgent Health IT Sansoro Health Source Type: blogs
Ways to avoid “ othering ”
This study provides an insight into the norms expected as part of “being a proper patient – ready for change”.
Norms are a part of culture, assumptions about what “is done” in a particular context. Just as health professionals learn to “be professionals”, people seeking help for their health are also expected to behave in certain ways. Othering is, as I’ve indicated above, a normal or common part of interactions – some authors suggest we need an “other” in order to for our self to “know itself and define its boundaries” (Krumer-Nevo, 2012). At...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 27, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Clinical reasoning Coping strategies Pain conditions Professional topics Resilience/Health charity Chronic pain othering persistent pain reasonableness understanding Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Talking Parity and Advocacy with Patrick Kennedy
Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy joins our hosts to talk about mental health and addiction parity, both at the federal and state levels. He shares information about new initiatives, dontdenyme.org and parityregistry.org, designed to help consumers file appeals on their own, if they feel they’ve been wrongly denied coverage by their insurance companies. They speak candidly about the problems faced with regard to parity by those who live with mental health or addiction issues. And finally, they talk about how anyone can become an advocate.
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Source: World of Psychology - January 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Interview Policy and Advocacy The Psych Central Show Gabe Howard Parity Patrick Kennedy Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
A Randomized Controlled Trial for Fan Therapy in Dyspnea
by Bob Arnold (@rabob)Winter suits me just fine since I do not like heat. I have a lot of sympathy for patients with chronic obstructive lung disease who do not have an air conditioner during the summer. I am told that there is nothing worse than sitting in hot, humid weather and not being able to breathe.As a palliative care physician, I love fans. When my patients are short of breath and opiates do not work (1,2) I send their families down to the local ACE hardware store to buy a hand-held fan. Therefore, I was excited tosee an article in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on fan therapy being effective in treati...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 11, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: arnold dyspnea journal article JPSM Source Type: blogs
Choosing Effective, Sticky Health Apps (Part 2)
In a blog post last week, I shared an excerpt from the new book that Paul Cerrato and I just completed,The Transformative Power of Mobile Medicine. Here is a second excerpt from Chapter 3, “Exploring the Strengths and Weaknesses of Mobile Health Apps.”Even patients who are fully engaged in their own care still need access to medical apps they can trust. The IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science has performed a detailed analysis of the clinical evidence supporting mobile health apps, rating their maturity and relative quality. Its rating scale places a single observational study near the bottom of the scale,...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Medgadget ’s Best Medical Technologies of 2018
The year 2018 is nearly over, and it is time for us to reveal what we believe were the most notable developments in medical technology. We considered a technology’s clinical importance, the greatness of the leap that it’s making over exis...
Source: Medgadget - December 28, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Medicine Society Surgery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 24th 2018
In conclusion, we found a gradient of increasing blood pressure with higher levels of BMI. The fact that this gradient is present even in the fully adjusted analyses suggests that BMI may cause a direct effect on blood pressure, independent of other clinical risk factors.
PRRX1 as a Possible Point of Control for Remyelination
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/12/prrx1-as-a-possible-point-of-control-for-remyelination/
Researchers here outline what is possibly a new point of intervention in the processes that maintain the myelin sheath that wraps nerves. This sheath is vital to the correct operatio...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 23, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The crazy science of coronary reperfusion : When TIMI 1 & 2 beats “ TIMI 3 ” in the myocardial salvage race . . . cardiologists get confused !
The prime job of cardiologists is to restore coronary blood flow in an emergency fashion. While we do this with reasonable success ,there is still a missing link between our Initial aim and achieved goal.
It’s all too common situation in any busy cath lab , to see two similar STEMI patients with identical time window & proximal LAD as IRA , in totally different scenarios. In the first patient we find a trickle of flow in LAD , who is relatively comfortable with normal LV function (In whom , emergency primary PCI might appear redundant.) While the other patient , even after rapidly established TIMI 3 flow , LV...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - December 8, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Conference on Drug Pricing Injects New Statistics Into Debate, Few New Insights (Part 1 of 2)
The price of medications has become a leading social issue, distorting economies around the world and providing easy talking points to politicians of all parties (not that they know how to solve the problem). Last week I attended a conference on the topic at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
On one level, the increasing role that drugs play in health care is salutary. Wouldn’t you rather swallow a pill than go in for surgery, with the attendant risks of anesthesia, postoperative pain opiates, and exposure to the increasingly scary bacteria that lurk in h...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 8, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Healthcare Reform Medical Economics Personalized Medicine Precision Medicine Drug Pricing Healthcare Costs Medication Pricing Source Type: blogs
Facts, Conclusions, and More Questions on the Road to Solving Disparities
By SCOTT COOK, PhD
We tested whether new payment mechanisms could be harnessed in health care delivery reform to reduce health and health care disparities. Here’s what we found.
First, there were facts that couldn’t be ignored:
#1: Children in rural Oregon on Medicaid suffered more health-related dental challenges compared to children with private insurance, including the pain, systemic health problems and disruptions to education that come with them. Advantage Dental, the state’s largest provider of Medicaid services, was determined to do something about it.
#2: New mothers on Medicaid in a New York City hospital we...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health disparities Medicaid Uncategorized health care delivery reform health care disparities Health care payment reform Source Type: blogs
A man in his 80s with chest pain
Written by Pendell MeyersA male in his 80s with history of colon cancer, HTN, and CAD with a newly placed LAD stent approximately 1 month ago, presenting with acute shortness of breath and chest pain. No prior ECG.Here is his ECG at 07:08:There is STE in V2, I and aVL, but it does not meet STEMI criteria because there are no two contiguous leads with STE meeting criteria. There is also STD in V3-V6, as well as II, III, and aVF. There is likely lead misplacement involving V2 explaining the R-wave progression. These findings and their associated morphology are definite evidence of transmural ischemia of the anterior and late...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 22, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Quell Non-Medication Solution for Chronic Pain: Interview with CEO Shai Gozani
Chronic pain affects 100 million Americans and is the most common cause of long-term disability. Long-term use of pain medications has significant risks, and chronic pain is a major contributor to opioid overuse.
NeuroMetrix hopes to offer effective,...
Source: Medgadget - October 19, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Exclusive Medicine Neurology OTC Pain Management Rehab Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Navigating back pain treatments: Can a physiatrist help?
If self-care steps for back pain such as gentle activity, local heat, or massage don’t ease discomfort within a few weeks to a month, or if you struggle with chronic low back pain, a physiatrist can help you navigate the dizzying number of treatment options. These range from conservative therapies (such as medicines, physical therapy, and chiropractic care) to more invasive options (such as spine injections and spinal surgery).
What is a physiatrist?
Physiatrists are medical doctors who specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation. We focus on holistic, nonsurgical care aimed at improving function for people who ar...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Edward N. Wei, MD Tags: Back Pain Bones and joints Health Pain Management Source Type: blogs
On “ us ” and “ them ” : what if we ’ re one of “ them ” ?
Over the past few years I’ve been pondering the presumed gap between people living with pain and the people who “treat” or work with them. Most of my readers will know that I live with widespread pain (aka fibromyalgia) or pain that is present in many parts of my body, and the associated other symptoms like DOMS that last for weeks not a day or two, and increased sensitivity to heat, cold, pressure, chilli, sound and so on.
I first “came out” with my pain about 15 years ago: that is, I first disclosed to people I worked with that I had this weird ongoing pain – and finally joined the...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 7, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Professional topics Research Therapeutic approaches inclusion inequality Source Type: blogs
