Deep Questions to Ask: Philosophers and How They Wrestled with These Questions
Conclusion
These are just a few of the many deep questions that philosophers have asked throughout history. As you can see, there are no easy answers to these types of questions.
But that doesn't mean they're not worth asking. In fact, it's often through asking these difficult questions and staring your biggest fear in the face is important.
For more related information, please read this Pick The Brain article “Ancient Philosophy and Modern Personal Development”.
In this way we can gain a greater understanding of ourselves and the world around us. So don't be afraid to ask those tough questions...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jared Levenson Tags: career confidence creativity featured happiness philosophy self-improvement success great philosophers Source Type: blogs
Soft Robot Grows Like a Plant to Travel Through Tight Spaces
At the University of Minnesota, researchers have developed a soft robotic system that can ‘grow’ like a plant. The mechanism allows it to travel through difficult-to-access areas, such as the tortuous gastrointestinal tract or vasculature. The system works by extruding a liquid through an opening in the device, and at the same time a photopolymerization process results in the rapid solidification of the liquid into a solid structure. The device illuminates the extruded liquid monomers, triggering the photopolymerization. This process mimics the way plants incrementally add material to their growing tips and root tips. ...
Source: Medgadget - October 3, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiac Surgery GI Materials Radiology Telemedicine Vascular Surgery UMNews Source Type: blogs
Clinicians and academics should engage users when reviewing mental health apps, study finds
This study aimed to understand the opinions of people with mental health problems on mental health apps and how they differ from established ratings by professionals.
Results: We found low agreement between the participants’ and professionals’ ratings. More than half of the app ratings showed disagreement between participants and professionals … Participants particularly valued certain aspects of mental health apps, which appear to be overlooked by professional reviewers. These included functions such as the ability to track and measure mental health and providing general mental health education. The cost of apps was...
Source: SharpBrains - October 3, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Breethe Calm Headspace Insight Timer Meditation mental health apps MindDoc MindShift Reflectly Remente Sanvello Self-Help for Anxiety Woebot Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – October 2, 2022 – Tech vendors commit to standardizing SDoH data at White House event, 1 in 3 patients using telehealth to manage a chronic condition, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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Last week’s White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health pledged to take action to reduce hunger and diseases related to poor diets in areas such as food access, healthy food choices, physician activity, an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring ACEP AGS Health Andrew Hine athenahealth Avel eCare Babylon Boston Scientific BrightInsight Brightwork Health IT Butterfly Network Clearsense CliniShift CRISP Source Type: blogs
Practical solutions to prevent and prepare for hypoglycemia [PODCAST]
This article is sponsored by the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning, an independently owned and operated full-service medical education company that has been developing certified health care education for nearly twenty years. Visit the tools and a CME quality improvement activity at preventhypotoolkit.org. This activity is supported by an educational grant from Lilly. This activity was
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Practical solutions to prevent and prepare for hypoglycemia [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 26, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Sponsored Diabetes Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
10 Healthcare Organizations Ask HHS to Postpone Information Blocking Deadline
If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set). This is a big change from the requirement to share USCDI. While we’ve known about this deadline for years, it’s not too surprising that many healthcare organizations aren’t ready for it.
Given this reality, 10 healthcare organizations have sent a combined letter to HHS asking for a 1 year delay for this deadline. Here ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability LTPAC Regulations 21st Century Cures Act AHA AMA CHIME DRS ePHI Health Data Sharing Info Blocking Information Blocking Source Type: blogs
Headspace Health ’s Leslie Witt on the future of mental health: Meditation, text-based coaching, teletherapy, telepsychiatry, and community
Q&A: How Headspace Health’s acquisitions alter its mental health product (MobiHealthNews):
Headspace Health has revealed two acquisitions this year, the latest coming earlier this month when the digital mental health company announced the purchase of mental wellness app Shine.
In a crowded field of mental health startups, the company is using acquisitions to augment its product and add new capabilities … Headspace Health also scooped up Sayana, maker of AI-enabled mental health-tracking and sleep apps. And Headspace itself is the result of a merger between meditation app Headspace and virtual mental healthcare comp...
Source: SharpBrains - September 26, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation acute anxiety acute depression digital mental health Ginger Headspace Headspace Health meditation app Sayana Shine Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: West Virginia Families United for Education
Colleen HroncichAs school choice programs expand throughout the country, there ’s often an information gap. Many parents—even in states with a long history of choice—have never heard of these programs This means their children may be missing out on an educational option that would help them thrive.Parents in West Virginia won ’t have this problem if Jamie Buckland has her way. A homeschooling mom of four, Jamie startedWest Virginia Families United for Education (FUE) in March to help families navigate their options in a changing environment.While FUE is new, Jamie ’s efforts helping families find their best e...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 23, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: RISE Hybrid Academy
Colleen HroncichSchool closures, mask policies, and curriculum battles have surely accelerated the growth of education options over the past couple of years. But some parents, teachers, and educational entrepreneurs were ahead of the curve —like Nicholle Anatol, founder ofRISE Hybrid Academy.A veteran teacher of over 20 years, Nicholle was always frustrated because she saw too many kids falling through the cracks and knew there were other ways to teach them. She founded RISE, an online private school, so she could provide another option to children no matter where they live.“So much of life today is individualized...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Severe hypoglycemia: Are your at-risk patients prepared?
This article is sponsored by the Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning, an independently owned and operated full-service medical education company that has been developing certified health care education for nearly twenty years. Visit the tools and a CME quality improvement activity at preventhypotoolkit.org. This activity is supported by an educational grant from Lilly. This activity was
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Severe hypoglycemia: Are your at-risk patients prepared? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Lisa Keckich and Nicolle Rochino, PharmD Tags: Sponsored Diabetes Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?
We described above how changes in opioid policy aimed at reducing Washington State’s Medicaid and Workers Compensation costs contributed to an increase in methadone deaths between 2003 and late 2014 (23-25). Focusing on similar cost reductions, the Centers for Medicar e and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rules for 2019 including several directives intended to reduce " Opioid Overutilization, ” including adoption of the “90 morphine milligram equivalent (MME) threshold cited by the 2016 CDC Opioid Guideline (147, 148). Simply put, reduced prescribing reduces costs for prescribed medications.Chou received research fu...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 12, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: health policy judy kollas opioids research schechtman Source Type: blogs
Wearable Pneumatic Assistive Tech with Logic Gate Control
Researchers at Rice University have developed a textile control system, free of any electronics, for pneumatic wearable technology that is designed to be helpful for people with limited mobility. Medgadget recently covered the pneumatic ‘gripper’ developed by Rice researchers. Now, they have created a textile control system for such wearables, that consists of tubes through which compressed air can pass and a series of logic gates, similar to those used in computer systems, that can control the passage and pressure of the compressed air. The system would allow someone to direct the energy in the system, in the form of ...
Source: Medgadget - September 9, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Rehab riceuniversity Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 08, 2022 Edition-----In the US we are seeing the outcomes of Climate Change really of and running with droughts and fires etc. Biden amped up the partisan divide with a fiery anti-Republican speech!In Russia the last leader of Soviet Russia died.In the UK we have a new PM while in Europe the energy crisis is just getting worse.In OZ we have survived the Jobs and Skills Summit with 36 prearranged outcomes. Stage management +++ in action. The GP crisis is not being addressed fully and worries regarding the Global Economy - esp. China - worsen.-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/educati...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Meet the Editors: Jonathan M. Amiel, MD
What are your roles and responsibilities with Academic Medicine?
I am an assistant editor at Academic Medicine. In this role, I review new submissions to the journal, designate submissions for peer review, work collaboratively with our fabulous editors and editorial staff to determine editorial decisions, and help authors to finalize their work for publication. As part of this process, I also engage in professional development, learning about research methods and participating in team learning and discussions.
What do you enjoy most about your work with Academic Medicine?
For work that is primarily asynchronous an...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 6, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: Meet the Editors scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: Teachers ‐Turned‐Entrepreneurs
Colleen HroncichA recurring theme of the Friday Feature is public school teachers who start their own alternative educational options —such asDeeper Root Academy,Safari Small School,Urban Cottage Educational Collaborative, andValley Troubadours.A new report out of Florida,Leaving a Classroom But Starting a School, highlights the experiences of 10 former public school teachers who ventured out to start new private schools. This diverse group of teachers participated in focus groups led byStep Up for StudentsandEdChoiceto help researchers understand their journeys and what obstacles they faced. The group included...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 2, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
