Five Policy Recommendations for the Canadian Federal Government to Accelerate the Growth and Impact of Digital Health
Leah Kelley (University of Toronto), Denise Zarn (Independent), Vanessa Kishimoto (Queen's University), Trevor Jamieson (University of Toronto), Five Policy Recommendations for the Canadian Federal Government to Accelerate the Growth and Impact of Digital Health, Sch. Pub. Pol ’y Pub. (2021): The... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 10, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Pneumatic Prosthesis to Reduce Pressure and Irritation for Amputees
At the University of Waterloo in Canada, researchers have developed a microfluidic-based pneumatic system that adjusts the pressure within the socket of a lower limb prosthesis. The aim is to achieve the ideal pressure and adjust the fit of the prosthesis to compensate for changes in the size of the residual limb because of swelling. Current lower limb prostheses require users to change silicone and fabric liners manually to adjust the fit of their prosthetic device. This is suboptimal, particularly in patients with diabetes who may have limited feeling in their residual limb, leading to chafing and ulceration. This new de...
Source: Medgadget - July 8, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Rehab prosthetics UWaterloo Source Type: blogs
Novavax may be able to provide equitable access to another vaccine alternative
On June 7th, 2022, the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine was approved for use in adults by the Vaccine Advisory Committee of the United States Food and Drug Administration. The vaccine has already been authorized in many other nations, including Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and more, making the U.S. one of the last major nationsRead more …Novavax may be able to provide equitable access to another vaccine alternative originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 7, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/vibhav-prabhakar-tejas-sekhar-and-divya-srinivasan" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Vibhav Prabhakar, Tejas Sekhar, and Divya Srinivasan < /a > < /span > Tags: Meds COVID Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – July 2, 2022
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.
HFMA Recap: Using Data to Do More With Less. John Lynn headed east for the annual HFMA conference. The biggest takeaway was the role of technology in general – and data analytics in particular – to help healthcare organizations automate and outsource administrative financial tasks in a tight job market. This comes with a challenge, though: Ke...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Collision Conference Digital Health Canada Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup HFMA Inovalon Invicta Health Solutions Judy Faulkner NVIDIA SimiTree Source Type: blogs
Collision Conference: Encouraging Signs for Healthcare
Collision #CollisionConf, one of the world’s largest tech conferences, wrapped up last week in Toronto, Canada. Based on the comments from the healthcare keynotes and from the digital health + medtech entrepreneurs roaming the aisles of the exhibit hall – there are encouraging signs that healthcare may weather the economic downturn better than other industries. Why? Because healthcare organizations still need technology to deal with the staffing crisis while still meeting the goals of reducing costs.
Technology + Physician Retention
Dr. Katharine Smart is the President of the Canadian Medical Association and a pedi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Alaffia Health Canadian Medical Association CMA Collision Conference Dr. Brett Belchetz Source Type: blogs
3 Life Experiences That Lead to Entrepreneurial Success
By Margot Machol Bisnow, author of Raising an Entrepreneur- How to Help Your Children Achieve Their Dreams; 99 S%tories From Families Who Did
Entrepreneurs are often asked, “What’s your secret to success?” Answers range from risk-taking and a self-starter mindset to curiosity and imagination. But where did these traits come from, and what conditions enabled the entrepreneurs to develop them to their full potential?
This is the question I set out to answer in writing my book Raising an Entrepreneur- How to Help Your Children Achieve Their Dreams; 99 S%tories From Families Who Did. I interviewed a ver...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 20, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: career featured internet culture self confidence self-improvement success Source Type: blogs
Including Nurses as Members of the Resident Education Team
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests Chirag Bhat, MD, and Warren Cheung, MD, MMEd, join hosts Toni Gallo and associate editor Teresa Chan, MD, MHPE, to discuss their research into nurses’ perspectives about giving feedback on residents’ clinical performance. They share their findings regarding the unique perspective nurses can offer, the barriers nurses face in providing feedback, and some possible ways to overcome these barriers.
This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available.
A transcript is below.
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - June 20, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast clinical performance feedback nurses qualitative research residency training Source Type: blogs
The Infant Formula Crisis Argues for Less Government Intervention, Not More
Scott LincicomeYesterday, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights on the topic of “Baby Formula and Beyond: The Impact of Consolidation on Families and Consumers ” and — given today’stroubling news about continued production problems at Abbott Laboratories ’ plant in Michigan — the hearing couldn’t have been more timely. Everyone at the hearing agreed that shortages in the United States have been caused in no small part by the current concentration of U.S. infant formula production among Abbott and three other companies: when A...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Global Warming and Disease
BY MIKE MAGEE
A study eight years ago, published in Nature, was titled “Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemic.” The study, which analyzed more than 80,000 gene sequences from flu viruses from humans., birds, horses, pigs, and bats, concluded the 1918 pandemic disaster “probably sprang from North American domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.”
The search for origin in pandemics is not simply an esoteric academic exercise. It is practical, pragmatic, and hopefully preventive. The origin of our very own pandemic, now in its third year and claiming more than 1 million ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Uncategorized Bird Ecology Global Warming Source Type: blogs
Say it again:
This study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that, in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic, " a single-payer universal healthcare system would have saved 212,000 lives in 2020 alone. We also calculated that US$105.6 billion of medical expenses associated with COVID-19 hospitalization could have been averted by a Medicare for All system. " This is not exactly news. Health services researchers have been making these sorts of calculations for decades, for as long as I ' ve even been on the periphery of the business, and it always comes out the same. With a universal single payer system we can:I...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Cryptocurrency in the Shadow of the Infrastructure Act: An Update
Nicholas AnthonyIt ’s been over six months since theInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was passed with its cryptocurrency reporting provisions intact. If left unamended, those provisions will require exchanges, miners, and software developers to report the name and address of each “customer” as well asany business engaged in a transaction of $10,000 or more in cryptocurrency to report the customer ’s name, address, taxpayer identification number, amount paid, date, and nature of the transaction. Worse yet, it’s only six months until the reporting requirements will start to go in effect.Much has happened ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Nicholas Anthony Source Type: blogs
Regulation of Health-Related Artificial Intelligence in Medical Devices: The Canadian Story
Michael Da Silva (University of Southampton), Colleen M. Flood (University of Ottawa), Matthew Herder (Dalhousie University), Regulation of Health-Related Artificial Intelligence in Medical Devices: The Canadian Story, U. British Columbia l. Rev. (Forthcoming): Artificial Intelligence (AI) may transform Canadian healthcare.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 5, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
80 Thankful Thursday Quotes to Inspire and Help You Express Your Gratitude
It’s Thursday.
The weekend is pretty much here.
And while Wednesday is often a bit tough to power through, I find that Thursday brings happiness that the work week is almost over and the weekend is here soon.
It brings thankfulness for the things I have experienced during the week so far and for the things that have gone right. And an appreciation for the things that did not go so well but I can learn something from.
So this week I’d like to share 80 of the best thankful Thursday quotes.
I hope they'll bring some motivation and joy to your Thursday and help you reflect on what you can be grateful for in your life this ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - June 2, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Depp v. Heard and uncovering the truth about intimate partner violence
On April 12, 2022, Day One of the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard civil defamation trial began. In the days that have ensued, more than 330 million viewers from the United States, Canada, and the U.K. watched the televised trial. At the core of the trial is the issue of intimate partner violence and itsRead more …Depp v. Heard and uncovering the truth about intimate partner violence originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 27, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/renee-sorrentino-and-susan-hatters-friedman" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Ren ée Sorrentino, MD and Susan Hatters Friedman, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Harris Expands in California with the Acquisitions of Innovative Medical Management and MedBill IQ
Harris, a global vertical market software provider, expands in California with the acquisitions of Innovative Medical Management, LLC (IMM) and MedBill IQ, LLC. Together, IMM and MedBill IQ, with its Conexem Software product suite, offer full-service practice management, electronic health records and revenue cycle management services and software solutions focusing on Workers’ Compensation, Personal Injury, […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Bassel Salloum Harris Health IT Acquisitions IMM Innovative Medical Management Jerry Canada MedBill IQ RCM Source Type: blogs
