Matthew ’s health care tidbits: Is Covid over for the health care system?
Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt
I am beginning to wonder, is COVID over? Of course no one has told the virus that it’s over. In fact infection rates are two to three times where they were in the post-omicron lull and new variants are churning themselves out faster and faster. We still have 300 people dying every day. But since we went past a million US deaths, no one seems to care any more....
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Economics Hospitals Matthew Holt COVID Hospital at Home Hospital staffing Telehealth Source Type: blogs
Trend: Esports teams harness cognitive tests to better match player to task and to identify training opportunities
I Took An Esports Brain Test. I’m Not Even Close to Being a Pro Gamer (CNET):
NeurOlympics is a deceptively simple test.
The 60-minute assessment guides people through four uncomplicated video games. One involves remembering disappearing icons. Another is an exercise in rapid reaction time. A person’s performance on the test is then run through an algorithm that evaluates performance in memory, speed and other characteristics.
Team Liquid, a pro esports team with headquarters in California and the Netherlands, thinks NeurOlympics results may hold the key to winning matches in League of Legends, Valorant and more than a...
Source: SharpBrains - June 15, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Peak Performance Technology & Innovation brain--test Cognitive-Training intelligence NeurOlympics NeuroTracker situational awareness video-games Wonderlic test Source Type: blogs
Retail Pharmacy Paranoia is Understandable –But Patients Are The Real Victims
Jeffrey A. SingerThere is already ample evidence that the war on opioid prescribing has intimidated many pharmacies and pharmacists intorefusing to dispense legally ‐prescribed opioids. This is tragic for patients, but an understandable result of incredulouslawsuits brought by state attorneys general against pharmacy retailers CVS, Walgreens, and others for allegedly contributing to the opioid overdose crisis by filling opioid prescriptions —even as overdose deaths continue to mount while opioid prescribing continues to drop precipitously. (87 percent of those overdose deaths involve illicit fentanyl, more than a&nb...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 25, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
People prone to mind-wandering are better at shifting between tasks
By Emma Young
Letting your mind wander while you’re meant to be working on a task doesn’t sound like a particularly good idea. Indeed, psychologists have viewed mind-wandering in this context as a failing — specifically, a failure of executive control to maintain focus. Evidence that mind-wandering worsens performance on tasks that tap into working memory, for example, supports this idea. However, the full picture is not so neat…
Though older adults generally have poorer executive control than younger people, they tend to report less mind wandering. And some studies that required young adults to switch betwe...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition Source Type: blogs
The Common Drink That Helps Treat ADHD (M)
It may help to increase both attention and retention capacities, but is less useful for hyperactivity. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: ADHD subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
ADHD – I Forgot that I Was Dating Somebody?
Can you be so forgetful that you’d forget that you were dating somebody? For a few groggy moments, I was convinced that I had.As I dealt with forgotten bills, paperwork unearthed from the Jurassic era, and various and sundry things I had meant to get to sometime around last September, I wondered if maybe, perhaps possibly, I was forgetful.Oh, everybody forgets things! It’s perfectly normal. For example, my mother routinely forgets my name. After bringing me into this world many long and hoary decades ago, you’d think she’d have gotten the hang of it by now, but there she goes again, calling me by na...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - May 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Goodreads Source Type: blogs
Smartphone App to Diagnose Neurological Disorders
A team at the University of California San Diego has developed a smartphone app that can precisely measure changes in pupil size as a potential method to assess a variety of neurological conditions and disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease and ADHD. The technique relies on the near-infrared cameras that newer smartphones use for facial recognition. The system is simple to use, and could let people participate in at-home diagnostics of conditions previously diagnosed in other ways. The researchers consulted older adults while designing the system, to ensure that it is suitable for independent use by this group of patie...
Source: Medgadget - May 5, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Neurology Ophthalmology Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
#HealthTechDeals Episode 26: Hello Heart, Concert Health, Vivian Health, Curebase, Mendel.ai & Blue Spark
It’s the May the 4th be with you day! In Episode 26 of #HealthTechDeals, Jessica is huddling in Boston after the American Telehealth Association conference, and has Star Wars-related trivia. There’s gossip there, there’s more gossip about Cerebral & its ADHD med strategy. Meanwhile a lot of copy cats in deals today with Hello Heart ($70m) for hypertension, Concert Health ($40m) for mental health, Vivian Health ($60m) for nurse staffing, Curebase ($40m) for DCTs, Mendel.ai ($40m) for NLP & Blue Spark ($40m) for RPM — all joining very crowded markets. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Deals Blue Spark Cerebral Concert Health Curebase Headspace Health HealthTechDeals Hello Heart Jess DaMassa Matthew Holt Mendel.ai Vivian Health Source Type: blogs
Blind as an ADHD Bat
Ever been so ADHD that you can ’t see what you’re looking for, even when it’s right in front of your face?Given that ADHD has as many flavors as a bag of jelly beans, you might not all relate with ADHD tunnel vision. I, unfortunately, can’t say the same. If I had a jelly bean for every time something I was looking for was found right there in front of me, I could go into business and give Jelly Belly a run for their money.Today, the missing item was my iPhone. I got up from the table, left the kitchen, then wondered where my iPhone had gone. I went downstairs and searched for it. My daughter called it. I visite...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - April 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Goodreads Source Type: blogs
ADHD: Here Are Five Steps I Use to Rein In My Focus
A lack of focus is the one common trait that all adults with ADHD seem to have, but focus isn’t as elusive as you might fear.The other day, a friend texted me out of the blue. He wanted a list of some of the things that I do to maintain focus. Initially, I panicked. I’ve been chronically ill since getting COVID–19 last October. I haven’t blogged in four months, so my ADHD advice muscles were all out of shape. Fortunately for my friend, I haven’t met a topic yet that I didn’t have an opinion on, so I worked up my courage and sent a list to him.Finding focus is a complicated issue foradult...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - April 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Goodreads Source Type: blogs
Debate: Will digital therapeutics gain the required levels of awareness, adoption, reimbursement and fulfillment to become sustainable?
Can digital therapeutics become profitable? (MedTechDive):
In 2020, the Food and Drug Administration cleared Akili Interactive’s video game to improve attention in kids with ADHD. It was the first time that a video game for treatment was cleared by the agency, and is one example of a digital therapeutic, a class of software-based treatments with FDA indications.
Now, as the market is further developing, these companies have built up big ambitions.
Corey McCann, the CEO of Pear Therapeutics, which has three FDA-cleared digital treatments, hopes to make them the standard of care and garner widespread insurance coverage. Af...
Source: SharpBrains - April 21, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Akili Interactive digital therapeutic digital therapeutics Food and Drug Administration Pear Therapeutics Source Type: blogs
The Common Drink Linked To ADHD (M)
Only one drink each day was enough to increase the risk by 20 percent. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: ADHD subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
A Little-Known Sign Of ADHD (M)
ADHD stands for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and involves restlessness and problems concentrating. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 2, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: ADHD subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based cognitive & mental healthcare: Time for quality and accountability
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring timely brain & mental health news, two excellent new books and a few fun brain teasers.
#1. From “Eminence-based” to Evidence-based mental healthcare: Time to focus on quality and accountability
“The real challenge is not finding a therapist, it’s finding a therapist who knows how to provide the treatments that work. In the early 2000s, Myrna Weissman was trying to understand why so few therapists use scientifically based treatments. She found that over 60 percent of professional schools of psychology and master’s level social work prog...
Source: SharpBrains - March 31, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning SharpBrains Monthly eNewsletter Technology & Innovation adhd ADHD-symptoms alvaro-fernandez behavioral health screening Brain Teasers BrainHealth Cajal cognitive-abilities DARPA Source Type: blogs
6 Signs You May Have Adult ADHD
8.2% of people have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, double the previously reported rate. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: ADHD Source Type: blogs
