Reasonable Apprehension Under Mental Health Law
Robert Diab (Thompson Rivers University), Jolene Sanderson (Independent), Reasonable Apprehension Under Mental Health Law, Queens L. J. 2022 (Forthcoming): Provincial mental health acts in Canada codify police powers to apprehend or take a person to a health facility involuntarily. The... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 21, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Evidence Calls “Housing First” Homelessness Strategy into Question
Vanessa Brown Calder and Jordan GygiLast month, the Biden administration unveileda new federal plan to address homelessness, with the goal of reducing homelessness 25 percent by 2025. The plan ’s foundation rests on an approach known as Housing First, a philosophy for addressing the issue of homelessness that emphasizes the need for permanent housing before tackling other issues, such as mental health problems or substance use disorder.[1] Proponents of this method advocate providing the homeless with housing whether or not they have a job or overcome other obstacles to stability. Once the need for housing is addres...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 19, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Vanessa Brown Calder, Jordan Gygi Source Type: blogs
Top tip for fellow book authors
Top tip for fellow authors (of books). Register with your national public lending rights organisation (PLR at British Library) and claim the books you wrote or co-wrote. In the UK, an author gets 30 pence every time one of their books is borrowed from a library.
There are about 5000 libraries in the UK lending out 165 million books a year. So it could add up and for some authors probably earns them more than sales!
3D-printed model car and stack of books
I think Ireland and Canada also have this system in place, so worth registering there and with the other countries that do if your books are sold abroad. It’s not av...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Stuff Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – January 14, 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.
2023 Health IT Predictions: Consumerism. Healthcare IT Today kicked off 2023 by asking the experts in our community to offer their thoughts on the year ahead. Our latest round of predictions kicks off with the ongoing consumerization of healthcare. Our experts say retail health and telehealth will continue to make gains as consumers vote with their feet ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Flight Chaos Demonstrates Need for Systemic Changes in Air Traffic Control Policy
Colin GrabowAir travel in the United States was thrown into chaos earlier this week when a key system used by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) went down, forcing over10,000 flights to be delayed and at least 1,300 canceled. While a damageddatabase file may have been the proximate cause of this upheaval, the episode appears yet another indication of systemic flaws in U.S. air traffic control policy.Technological deficiencies in U.S. air traffic control operations arelong-standing. Indeed, Congress mandatedtwenty years ago that the FAA establish a plan for implementing the modernized Next Generation A...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Only 45 Percent of Employment ‐Based Green Cards Went to Workers in 2021
Alex NowrastehThe immigration system of the United States favors family reunification even in the so-called employment-based (EB) green card categories. Under current interpretations of U.S. immigration law, family members of immigrant workers must use EB green cards. The American system isn ’t unusual as Japan is the onlyOECD country with more immigrant workers than immigrant family members. Still, the difference is larger in the United States than in other countries. Instead of a separate green card category for the spouses and children of workers, those family members get a green card thatwould otherwise have gone to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
DE & I Initiatives Can Help Address Healthcare Workforce Challenge According to Deloitte
Implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives and addressing the workforce challenge in healthcare are not mutually exclusive. In fact, improving DE&I may be one of the quickest ways to alleviate the pressure of finding and keeping healthcare talent. How? Indigenous groups, visible minorities, and women are underutilized talent pools. With encouragement and training they could be a great source of healthcare staff.
Shanil Ebrahim, a Partner and the National Life Sciences & Healthcare Consulting Leader at Deloitte Canada, is a firm believer that strategies designed to improve the diversity of ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: C-Suite Leadership Career and Jobs Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Craig Alexander DE&I Deloitte Deloitte Canada Diversity equity Healthcare Jobs healthcare workforce challenge inclusio Source Type: blogs
Care aides in long-term care were traumatized during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on long-term care in Canada. During the first two waves in 2020, over 80 percent of all Canadian COVID-19 deaths happened in long-term care homes. While vaccination and policy changes have helped to reduce the number of deaths, long-term care homes are still experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks and severe staffing shortages.
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Care aides in long-term care were traumatized during COVID-19 originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Carole Estabrooks, PhD, RN Tags: Conditions COVID Geriatrics Source Type: blogs
If SAMHSA Seriously Wants to Destigmatize People with Substance Use Disorder, It Can Start by Destigmatizing How They Receive Treatment
Jeffrey A. SingerIn 2001, the Food and Drug Administration transferred regulation of methadone treatment programs for opioid use disorder (nowadays called Opioid Treatment Programs or OTPs) to the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. DEA and SAMHSA work together to establish and enforce criteria for treating people with substance use disorder and the regulations that govern how health care practitioners prescribe and administer opioids as medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder. The rules govern the dose and number of drugs clinicians prescri...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 3, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Neuroscience Trend Forecasters
As 2022 draws to a close, the SNL Trend Forecasters have agreed to divulge their predictions for the most — and the least— exciting research fads for the New Year.The Neurocritic: How do you guys predict today ' s most popular neuroscience trends? Trend Forecasters: Oh, well we have 4,000 computers, they ' re all big they all make charts and they beep LOUD.TN: Let ' s get started!In:posterior cingulate cortexHey Posterior Cingulate — we see you! You ' re fresh, you ' re mysterious, you ' re misunderstood. But we know you exist far beyond the default fashion mode. Thenew tripartite view proposes......that the bro...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 31, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Fujifilm Announces Asset Purchase Agreement with Inspirata, Inc. to Acquire the Company ’s Digital Pathology Business
Company to expand robust Enterprise Imaging offering with addition of Inspirata’s Digital Pathology technology and team
FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO, Representative Director: Teiichi Goto) today announced the company has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the global digital pathology business of Tampa, Florida-based Inspirata, Inc. Upon completion of this agreement, Inspirata’s Dynamyx® digital pathology technology, employees and customers will become part of Fujifilm. The addition of digital pathology will expand Fujifilm’s robust Synapse® Enterprise Imaging offering to enable th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Cardiology PACS digital pathology Dynamyx FUJIFILM FUJIFILM Corporation FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation FUJIFILM Healthcare Europe FUJIFILM Medical Systems Europe Fujifilm’s Robust Synapse® E Source Type: blogs
What if we asked patients what they want?
Historically, the Canadian health care system has decided what should be done for the care of the population. Who gets care, when and where, what is a priority, what delays are tolerable, and what degree of saturation is acceptable in a Quebec emergency room? This paternalistic approach is obsolete. A modern service company must be
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What if we asked patients what they want? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jean Paul Brutus, MD Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 19th 2022
In conclusion, p16 deletion or p16 positive cell clearance could be a novel strategy preventing long term HFD-induced skin aging.
Association of LDL-Cholesterol with Mortality
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/12/association-of-ldl-cholesterol-with-mortality/
Researchers here report on a study of LDL-cholesterol and mortality risk in older people. As they note, data on this topic is conflicted once one moves beyond the matter of cardiovascular disease. Over a lifetime, higher LDL-cholesterol makes it easier to reach the tipping point at which cholesterol deposited in blood vessel walls produces e...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 18, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Cure to Healthcare Industry Issues – Facial Recognition
The following is a guest article by Anton Nazarkin, Global Development Director at VisionLabs.
Healthcare institutions seek one key thing: delivering the greatest patient outcomes possible. Often technology is relied upon to reduce strain on resources and deliver better patient outcomes. Yet one emerging technology is offering new exciting opportunities to do this: facial recognition.
The scope of facial recognition’s impact on the healthcare industry is vast, spanning insurance fraud and improved admin systems, all the way to reducing drug crime. Facial recognition’s impact should be examined in full in order...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy Anton Nazarkin Drug Diversion Drug Monitoring Facial Recognition Healthcare Facial Recognition Healthcare Fraud Healthcare Fr Source Type: blogs
Career Conversations: Q & A with Biomolecular Engineer Markita Landry
Dr. Markita Landry. Credit: Vilcek Foundation.
“I have a hard time envisioning a career more exciting than science. It’s really magical to see an experimental result and, for a moment, be the only person in the universe to know something about the world,” says Markita Landry, Ph.D., an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. In an interview, Dr. Landry shares with us her scientific journey, research with nanoparticles, and interests outside of the lab.
Q: What sparked your interest in science?
A: I was indirectly exposed to science growing up bec...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 14, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Tools and Techniques Cool Tools/Techniques Profiles Source Type: blogs
