La Isla Incantada
Tomorrow I ' m going to Puerto Rico for a conference, returning Wednesday night. It ' s the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare. I ' m doing a poster and an oral presentation, and moderating three sessions, so I ' ll be busy. I should still have time to post however and if there are any interesting highlights you ' ll get them.My own talk is about experiences of people with substance use disorder with health care. The technical term for my finding is that they are treated like shit. There ' s much more than I can fit in there but I ' ll give you a few quotations from my interviews. These are people who ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 21, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 21, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Driving Patient Behavior and Connecting Patients With Care Teams. Patients are embracing the notion of monitoring their health every day, but health systems aren’t, John Lynn discovered in a chat with Rich Steinle and Scott Pradels at Carium. The conversation also covered how to remove barriers to adoption of remote monitoring technology. Read more...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Netsmart Advances Substance Use Disorder Solution Offerings Through Acquisition of Netalytics
Netsmart today announced the acquisition of Netalytics, a South Carolina-based addiction treatment software and practice management company, dedicated to developing technology for substance use disorder (SUD) providers focused on opioid addiction treatment. This acquisition will further extend the Netsmart CareFabric platform by enabling interoperable data sharing between opioid treatment program (OTP) facilities and the providers that treat and coordinate other types of care for individuals with SUD.
“Now more than ever it is critical to integrate Netalytics clients’ SUD treatment and recovery facilities and their i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Houlihan Lokey Mark Essex Mike Valentine Netalytics Netsmart Netsmart CareFabric Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing
This article delves deeper into various aspects of data handling, and who is working in these fields.
Defining SDoH
Lyd Paull-Flores, senior director, healthcare at GCOM, summarizes the social determinants of health in an article:
Economic stability
Economic access and quality
Social community and context
Healthcare access and quality
Neighborhood and built environment
A few different organizations have undertaken to categorize SDoH. The most comprehensive initiative, cited by several of my interviewees, is the Gravity project. Dr. Marc Rabner, chief medical officer of the nonprofit CRISP Shared Services (CSS), is on t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Care Management Clinical Architecture CRISP GCOM Gender Harmony Gravity Project HDUs Source Type: blogs
Just say no
I just finished reading Dopesick, by Beth Macy. You don ' t need to take my word that it ' s worth your while, the book was a huge bestseller. However, it does have a fairly narrow focus. It tells the story of the opioid epidemic largely within the confines of a region of rural Virginia, but this is a disaster of national scope that manifests somewhat differently in different places. Here ' s the really sad news: source:U.S. Department of Health and Human Services I know it ' s a little small but you can see it full size if you click the link. The short version of the story is that deaths from opioid ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Codeine cough syrup: a controversial classification
Did you know that promethazine with codeine cough syrup had a high risk of diversion and high risk of addiction? I didn’t. From my experience, this is the only effective prescription cough medicine available. Sure, you can prescribe what is essentially over-the-counter dextromethorphan. But be ready when the patient throws a fit because that’s what
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Codeine cough syrup: a controversial classification originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Meds Medications Source Type: blogs
Unlocking the power of doctors in addiction treatment [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Jack McGeachy, an emergency physician and expert in addiction medicine. Discover how doctors possess a hidden superpower when it comes to addiction treatment and how they can effectively address the biological, psychological, and social aspects of substance use disorder. Explore the world of
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Unlocking the power of doctors in addiction treatment [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Balancing medical ethics in opioid treatment
What is a legitimate medical reason to prescribe an opioid medication today? For pain or addiction? Who decides which patients are worthy of treatment? This question is not just of academic interest. Any prescribing medical provider today must constantly live in fear that a law enforcement agent somewhere will disagree with the prescriber’s answer to
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Balancing medical ethics in opioid treatment originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Physician Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Addressing dual diagnosis needs in addiction treatment
An excerpt from Slow Dancing with the Devil: A Son’s Substance Use Disorder, A Mother’s Anguish. The only time my anxiety was gone, or at least on pause, was when Luke was in a treatment center or sobriety house. I knew he was safe and surrounded by those who understood the game. Neurobiology is a
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Addressing dual diagnosis needs in addiction treatment originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 3, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Susan Hertz Berrick, EdD Tags: Conditions Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Vague criteria can lead to misdiagnosis and prison
The definition of addiction, now called substance use disorder, has varied greatly over time. The first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, from 1952, didn’t include specific diagnostic criteria for this condition. Over the next sixty years, the DSM went through six revisions, with a slow evolution of the terms “substance abuse” and “dependence.”
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Vague criteria can lead to misdiagnosis and prison originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Conditions Pain Management Source Type: blogs
A New Portal To Assist Those With Mental Health And Addiction Problems.
I noticed this
a week or two ago.
11 September
2023
Online portal for mental health and addiction
Mental Health Technology
By Harriet Grayson
The eCLiPSE
tool promises free 24-hour access to evidence-based clinical resources and
services.
University
of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute have launched a new digital
health tool offering real-time treatment for mental (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Navigating The New A2P 10DLC Regulations in Healthcare: A Guide for Healthcare Text Messaging
The following is a guest article by Dr. Lea McMahon LPC, EdD, Chief Clinic Officer at Symetria Recovery
Even in the sensitive healthcare industry, most patients prefer to communicate with their providers via text message instead of email, calls, or app messages.
New A2P 10DLC regulations require all businesses to register both their company and their specific text messages.
Quick note: A2P stands for Application-to-Person and essentially applies to all text messages that aren’t sent directly from a phone.
Starting September 1, 2023, A2P text messages that were not approved through this new process were blocked. For ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Regulations A2P 10DLC Brand Registration Campaign Registration Dr. Lea McMahon Source Type: blogs
Balancing pain management and legal realities [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join L. Joseph Parker, a research physician, as we dive into the intricate world of medical practice and legal challenges faced by health care professionals treating patients with pain and addiction. Joseph sheds light on the complexities of opioid prescriptions, the impact of legal
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Balancing pain management and legal realities [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Pain Management Source Type: blogs
