When Death Becomes Therapy: Canada ’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of LifeWhen Death Becomes Therapy: Canada’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of Life
Trudo Lemmens (University of Toronto), When Death Becomes Therapy: Canada ’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of Life, 23 Am. J. Bioethics (2023): In a recent article in the American Journal of Bioethics, Daryl Pullman contrasts the assisted suicide... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 10, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Medical care, medical costs
Thanks to
the Affordable Care Act, something like 90% of Americans have some form of
health insurance. Great news! That means we can all afford the medical services
we need and nobody has to go broke because they get sick or are injured in a
car crash or by somebody exercising their Second Amendment rights! Err, no. Sadly
it does not mean that. In the first place, for the 50% of people who get their
insurance through employment, it ’s costing them more and more for the premiums –
by three times the rate of inflation, since 1999. With that, plus
deductibles, copays, and payment denials by in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 2, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Is the Future of Healthcare Modular?
When most of us think of modular buildings, we picture those trailer-like structures on construction sites – the ones with panel walls and the electrical wire that dangles outside. Modern modular buildings are a far cry from those flimsy seventies-era trailers.
Modern modular buildings are marvels of technology and engineering. To learn more, Healthcare IT Today went to visit Fero International, a company that fabricates advanced modular buildings for the healthcare, education and municipal markets. We sat down with Fero’s CEO, Sabrina Fiorellino to learn more.
Modular Buildings for Healthcare
For healthcare providers,...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Fero International Healthcare Buildings Healthcare Construction modular clinics modular construction modular OR Sabrina Fiorellino Source Type: blogs
Zombie Viruses of the Permafrost
By KIM BELLARD
We’ve had some cold weather here lately, as has much of the nation. Not necessarily record-breaking, but uncomfortable for millions of people. It’s the kind of weather that causes climate change skeptics to sneer “where’s the global warming now?” This despite 2023 being the warmest year on record — “by far” — and the fact that the ten warmest years since 1850 have all been in the last decade, according to NOAA.
One of the parts of the globe warming the fastest is the Arctic, which is warming four times as fast as the rest of the planet. That sounds like good news if you run a ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Climate Change Kim Bellard Viruses Source Type: blogs
Religion and morality
A commenter asks about the relationship over time between religiosity, and crime and " sexual deviance. " You got it!If you will refer to my previous post on declining religiosity in America (or just take my word for it) the trend toward fewer people claiming religious affiliation began in about 1992. What a coinkydink! That ' s exactly when the crime rate began to decline. Here are property crimes (data is from the Bureau of Justice Statistics andI cribbed it from the Wikipedia article): And whaddya know, that ' s also exactly when the homicide rate started to decline! (Note that it first started to go up sharp...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 17, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Suffolk Wildlife Trust – Lackford Lakes
In our pursuit of nature’s wonders, we do sometimes leave the county of Cambridgeshire and head into Norfolk, that’s our usual modus operandi. Occasionally though we head east into Suffolk instead. One of the closest nature destinations in that county is the SWT site of Lackford Lakes not far from Bury St Edmunds.
Male Siskin feeding in an alder tree
I should point out that we’re quite lucky living near Cambridge. We have some decent wildlife spots close by, we’re centrally placed almost with various reserves within a 20-minute drive. We’re quite central to many others that are no more than 40...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 15, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Busting a myth
A common right wing trope is that illegal drugs are coming across the southern border, carried by illegal immigrants. You may even have seen the political ad featuring people climbing a wall wearing backpacks, implying that they were what are called " drug mules. " The whole thing was, of course, faked. I have written here before that this is not true, that is not how illicit drugs come into the country, butnow there is a very rigorous study proving it. Unfortunately, unless you have institutional access, you can only read the abstract, which is not very informative. (NBER used to be open access, this is apparently a new p...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 9, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
People Will Exercise For Cash: What Happens When Money Stops? (M)
The study involved over half-a-million Canadians who were paid to increase their step count over about six months. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 5, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Exercise Motivation subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Harmony Healthcare IT Partners with Novacap to Accelerate Innovation and Growth in Healthcare Data Management
Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT), a leading health data management and platform solution provider, today announced a significant investment from Novacap, one of North America’s premier private equity firms. This strategic partnership will accelerate HHIT’s technological contribution and expansion in health information technology.
Renowned for its pioneering offerings and industry expertise, HHIT develops HealthData Platform™, an enterprise-wide, cloud-hosted infrastructure that secures patient, employee, and business records for healthcare delivery organizations in the United States and Canada. This HITRUST CSF®-cer...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT David Brassard Harmony Healthcare IT Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HHIT Novacap Tom Liddell Triple Tree Inc. Source Type: blogs
Lifestyle matters: What we can do in 2024 to optimize cognition and life, delaying cognitive problems even dementia
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
News in Context:
Solving the Brain Fitness Puzzle Is the Key to Self-Empowered Aging
What are cognitive abilities and how to boost them?
The post Lifestyle matters: What we can do in 2024 to optimize cognition and life, delaying cognitive problems even dementia appeared first on SharpBrains. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - December 14, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alzheimer’s biological Brain-Fitness cognition cognitive engagement cognitive-abilities cognitive-reserve dementia depression exercise inflammation lifestyle neuroplasticity optimize cognition Stress Source Type: blogs
Plant-Based Soft Medical Robots
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have developed plant-based microrobots that are intended to pave the way for medical robots that can enter the body and perform tasks, such as obtaining a biopsy or performing a surgical procedure. The robots consist of a hydrogel material that is biocompatible and the composite contains cellulose nanoparticles derived from plants. The researchers can tune the orientation of the cellulose nanoparticles such that they respond in predictable ways when exposed to certain chemical cues such as changes in pH. This includes changing the shape of the tiny robots so that they are...
Source: Medgadget - December 11, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Medicine Surgery UWaterloo WaterlooENG Source Type: blogs
Mari Ruddy and Extreme Healing
Today, I have the pleasure of sharing an incredibly inspiring conversation with one of my heroes, Mari Ruddy. If you are not familiar with Mari, buckle up – her story is one of profound resilience, strength, and healing. Like me, Mari lives with type 1 diabetes. She was diagnosed in 1981, and in addition to dealing with diabetes, Mari has also courageously overcome several other life challenges.
Mari discovered her love for distance cycling at the age of 39. TeamWILD, one of the organizations she created, played a crucial role in my journey, and it...
Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - December 10, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Physician well-being: Overcoming administrative hurdles
Representatives of a battered and stressed Canadian medical profession gathered in Montreal and virtually last week for the 7th annual Canadian Conference on Physician Health (CCPH) – the first such meeting in four years and the largest to date. One of the main pain points identified as facing individual physicians is the burden of administrative
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Physician well-being: Overcoming administrative hurdles originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Pat Rich Tags: Policy Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Real-Time Clinical Note Generation from Mutuo Health Solutions
Mutuo Health Solutions serves the Canadian market with automated clinical note generation (ambient clinical voice as it is often called), and plans to enter the U.S. market or international markets are in the works. In this video, co-founder and CEO Noah Crampton, MD, describes the company’s service and its success so far.
Mutuo has enhanced the standard natural language processing to make it more accurate, such as by integrating clinical knowledge tuned to the 33 medical disciplines they currently support.
The system takes input from a microphone in the room or from a mobile device and generates output within about ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ambient Clinical Voice Canadian Ambient Clinical Voice EHR Canada EHR Integration Healthcare AI Healthcare IT Video Interviews Mut Source Type: blogs
