The problems with polarity frames in occupational therapy theory
There is nothing quite like starting off a Monday morning with a good theory article. I opened up my Twitter feed to find a link to Taff& Putnam ' s contribution entitled " Northern philosophies and professional neocolonialism in occupational therapy: A historical review and critique. "The authors " suggest with confidence that the current American philosophical landscape in 2021 is a mix of mostly analytic philosophy accompanied by a smaller measure of neopragmatism predisposed to a Continental mindset. " (Taff& Putnam, 2022). I am uncertain if this is a view shared by all, and to any degree that it is...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - February 28, 2022 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: blogs
Is it time to find a new mental health provider?
The stress and hardship of the ongoing pandemic caused an increase in the number of adults, teens, and children who have sought mental health care recently. More than 23 million American adults received mental health care last year and the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Children’s Hospital Association, and the American Academy of Child andRead more …Is it time to find a new mental health provider? originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 25, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/miles-j-varn" rel="tag" > Miles J. Varn, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Challenge ahead: Harnessing technology for good mental health
Making technology an ally in mental health care (Fundación Innovación Bankinter):
Interest in using technology for mental health dates back to the mid twentieth century. “Studies began back in the 1960s, given the growing concern about addiction in children (especially) and adults,” clarifies Álvaro Fernández Ibáñez about the beginning of this discipline.
Sesame Street, the well-known American show, is a project that developed to “master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them“, in the words of its producers. As Fernández Ibáñez points out, these programs appeared to “channe...
Source: SharpBrains - February 25, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Fundación Innovación Bankinter Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation cognitive and mental health Internet mental health care Neurotechnology non-invasive neurotechnology pervasive Pervasive Neurotechnology Sesame Street social networks Source Type: blogs
My Comments on the Draft Proposal for the Revised 2022 Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
Jeffrey A. SingerAs I have writtenhere andhere, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to “update and expand” itsGuideline for Prescribing Opioids For Chronic Pain —United States 2016.Unfortunately, most states and several pharmacies and third ‐party payers, including Medicare, have taken the 2016 guideline more seriously than the CDC intended. In fact, 36 states have concretized in statute hard limits on the amount and dosage of opioids premised on those guidelines which—6 years ago —were largely based on “type 3” or “type 4” evidence:Type 3: “observational studies, or rand...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 22, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Lyra Health, Big Health and Mantra Health raise a combined $332M to commercialize digital therapeutics for mental/ behavioral health
Lyra Health scores $235M and buys employee assistant program ICAS World (MobiHealth News):
Employer-focused digital mental health provider Lyra Health announced a whopping $235 million Series F round led by Dragoneer. Salesforce Ventures and Coatue also participated. This new infusion of cash brings the company’s total raise to over $900 million.
The funding coincided with the news that Lyra Health is acquiring employee-assistant program ICAS World for an undisclosed sum. ICAS was founded in 1987 and provides coaching and counseling services to employees. The service offers phone, face-to-face or web-based treatment.
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Source: SharpBrains - January 20, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Uncategorized Behavioral Health Big Health digital therapeutics Lyra Health Mantra Health mental health Source Type: blogs
Headspace Health acquires AI-driven digital mental health start-up Sayana
JPM 2022: Headspace Health grabs startup Sayana to build out AI-based mental health tools (Fierce Healthcare):
Six months after the $3 billion merger with Ginger, Headspace Health acquired Sayana, an AI-driven mental health and wellness company.
Sayana will expand Headspace Health’s ability to provide personalized self-care content to its 100 million users, executives said … Headspace leverages AI to power a significant percentage of the care the company delivers, [Russell Glass, CEO, Headspace Health] said during the JPM conference, including using natural language processing to extract information from the chats, to ...
Source: SharpBrains - January 18, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation acceptance commitment therapy AI-driven mental health breathing exercises cognitive-behavioral-therapy dialectical behavioral therapy digital mental health Ginger Headspace Health Sayana Source Type: blogs
APA: With digital mental health going mainstream, will/ should psychologists be able to “prescribe” interventions?
Mental health, meet venture capital (APA):
Until recently, mental health was a relative blip on the radar of venture capitalists. But over the past few years, and particularly since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, private investors have made a dramatic run for this space, pouring $3.1 billion into mental health ventures by the third quarter of 2021 alone, according to Rock Health, a seed fund that supports startups working in digital health. That represents a third of all digital health funding for 2021, more than 7 times the amount of funding placed in such ventures in 2015.
The reasons for this boom are clear. The pa...
Source: SharpBrains - January 14, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety APA COVID depression digital mental health FDA FDA-approved insomnia meditation mindfulness prescription Psychology Rock Health substance use trauma venture-capital Source Type: blogs
The Gobal Syndemic, Part Three: Limits
I expect that well-informed people generally are aware of the information in the first two posts of this series, at least in broad terms. However, I don ' t think that nearly as many people know about what I ' m going to discuss today, or are even aware of it at all. Here ' s the basic problem: We cannot triple our use of natural resources, or increase it by any amount. Here is the history of the world, in one snapshot. How are we feeding all those people? Half of the habitable land on earth is now devoted to agriculture, of which more than 3/4 is devoted to livestock.. In order to expand a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 27, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The need for H.O.P.E: victims of human trafficking need better care from health professionals
BY SARAH BETH
I remember the first time I told a doctor that I was being trafficked. That experience was also the last time I told a healthcare professional. My psychiatrist in an acute inpatient psychiatric hospital heard my story and told me that trafficking only happens in third-world countries and in movies. While this professional was the most ill-informed I ever encountered, they were not the only healthcare workers that did not have the training they needed to identify me.
I remember tucking my hospital gown between my legs to hide the bruising on my thighs. I remember explaining away cuts and burns. I r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health disparities H.O.P.E Health Care Reform health professionals human trafficking Sarah Beth Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: Merit Academy
Colleen HroncichOne reason educational freedom is so important is that it allows a variety of learning options to sprout and flourish. In recent years, classical education hasexperienced a resurgence.Last year, a group of parents in rural Colorado wanted to open a classical charter school in their community because they weren ’t satisfied with the local district’s curriculum. The district rejected the charter application.Fortunately for the families involved, they discovered an alternative way to create their school. In Colorado, there are Boards of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) that provid...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 3, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Where ’ s Our National Health Tech Academy
By KIM BELLARD
It has been said that if your company has a Chief Innovation Officer or an Innovation Department, it’s probably not a very innovative company. To be successful, innovation has to be part of a company’s culture, embraced widely, and practiced constantly.
Similarly, if your company has a Chief Digital Officer, chances are “digital” is still seen as a novelty, an adjunct to the “real” work of the company. E.g., “digital health” isn’t going to have much effect on the healthcare system, or on the health of those using it, until it’s a seamless part of that system and their lives.
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Source: The Health Care Blog - November 30, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice workforce Cybersecurity GAO Government Accountability Office health technology National Academy of Medicine updating legacy systems Source Type: blogs
Climate Change: The Future of the Quality Movement
By MARIE DUNN
A little more than 20 years ago, the IOM report To Err is Human catalyzed the profession around the realization that our health care system was killing around 98,000 people a year from medical error. I am part of a generation of professionals that learned to adopt systems thinking; to measure, monitor, and improve; and to ultimately improve quality of care.
Today, we face a different set of challenges. Health care is in the midst of a global pandemic, a reckoning with systemic racism, not to mention the great resignation. But also, we face a climate crisis. Are these things connected? Is there som...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Climate Change Marie Dunn Pandemic Source Type: blogs
The Labor Market in the Conditions of a Pandemic Crisis
Venelin Terziev (Georgi Rakovski Military Academy), Ninov Nikolay (D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics), Ivan Ivanov (Kaneff University), The Labor Market in the Conditions of a Pandemic Crisis, SSRN (2021): This publication amalyzes and examines the changes in the labour... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 7, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
America is failing primary care doctors
While the pandemic sparked a renewed (if only temporary) appreciation of the medical profession, this alone wasn’t enough to induce change in the system overwhelming them– a fact blatantly revealed to me this year at the annual conference of the American Academy of Family Physicians. I admit I was a little disappointed when theRead more …America is failing primary care doctors originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 1, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jen-baker-porazinski" rel="tag" > Jen Baker-Porazinski, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Transcript for Growing Trust in Patient-Physician Relationships
Below is a transcript of the following Academic Medicine Podcast episode:
Growing Trust in Patient-Physician RelationshipsNovember 1, 2021
Read more about this episode and listen here.
Toni Gallo:
Hi everyone, I’m Toni Gallo. I’m a staff editor with the journal. And my cohost for today’s episode is Dr. Colin West, one of Academic Medicine’s deputy editors. And we’ll be talking to Dr. Richard Baron about his article entitled, “A Trust Initiative in Health Care: Why and Why Now.” That article was published in the April 2019 issue of the journal, and it’s available to read for fre...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 1, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast Transcript Audio COVID-19 doctor-patient relationship health care health disparities health equity patient centered care trust Source Type: blogs
