Return to the reserves
TL:DR – Tick list of wildlife from my return to the reserves.
Finally, managed a half-decent walk (4km) around a local nature reserve with Mrs Sciencebase this morning after weeks of sporadically atrocious weather, work commitments, and a crippling rip in my Achilles tendon. Nice to be back among the reeds and water espying and hearing all kinds of wildlife:
Birds
Fenland Flyby – Bittern over reed beds at RSPB Ouse Fen
Bittern (flypast), Black-headed Gull, Buzzard, Canada Goose, Cetti’s Warbler (calls from three), Coot, Cormorant, Crane (very distant), Great Crested Grebe, Greylag Goose, Heron, Kestrel, ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
DC Area Startup HSR.health Receives Second Patent For Solution to Prevent Pregnancy-Related Death, Amongst Most Recent Round of Funding
HSR.health’s GeoMD Platform curates health, social, and environmental data to provide a consistent view of the current and future health situation on a global, national, and regional scale
HSR.health, a leading provide of health-related geospatial data analytics, announced today that they have received the next phase of funding to support continued development of their GeoMD Platform. This GIS (Geographic Information System) solution is provided to health systems, the emergency response community, and global public health leaders to streamline and improve decision-making. This continued funding comes at the onset of thei...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ajay K Gupta Disasters Pilot 2023 Federal Geographic Data Committee FGDC Geographic information system GeoMD gis Health Equity Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HSR.health Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
This edition is a special dispatch from HIMSS 2023, which returns to Chicago for the first time in eight years. As always, there have been a lot of new products and partnerships announced at the event, with a heavy emphasis on g...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Source Type: blogs
The culture of my health care organization is broken. Is there hope?
A strong organizational culture is considered the secret sauce of successful organizations. But the Latin term, “Abyssus Abyssum Invocat” (“One Hell Calls Forth Another”), explains perfectly why it is increasingly difficult to maintain optimized organizational cultures in health care organizations. Hell #1: Pre-pandemic, health systems and their workers in both Canada and the United States
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The culture of my health care organization is broken. Is there hope? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 3, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Robert Allan Bear, MD Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Government ‐Run Business Fails
Chris EdwardsHolman Jenkinsdiscusses problems with the air traffic control (ATC) system today in theWall Street Journal. He mentions failures stemming from government ownership, somethingI ’ve documented with many federal activities. If activities such ATC and postal services can be supported by private revenues, theyshould be privatized.Private businesses fail all the time —everything from Silicon Valley Bank to neighborhood restaurants. They should be allowed to fail, and they will be replaced by better‐run enterprises. The problem with government is that the failings are continual but the agencies are not repla...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 29, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 27: Deposit Insurance
ConclusionPart 27: Deposit Insurance_____________________[1] To this list we might add a fourth item, noted by Golembe in a subsequentinterview, to wit: that the deposit " insurance " provided for by the 1933 Banking Act wasn ' t really insurance at all. Unlike genuine insurance policies, it covers depositors for losses regardless of whether the losses were due to recklessness on their or their banks ' part. And unlike genuine insurance funds, the FDIC ' s insurance " fund " is an accounting fiction, the truth being that the " premiums " it collects from banks go into the federal government ' s general coffers. " The gover...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The northern lights aren ’ t in my eyes – Aurora borealis
Lots of lucky locals, by which I mean people a bit further north in Norfolk saw the northern lights, the Aurora Borealis, in Norfolk and elsewhere. There is a slight possibility of seeing them in Cambridgeshire although finding somewhere with little light pollution around here is a tough call, but more to the point it’s been cloudy and wet when other places have had their lightshow these last couple of nights. In recent years they have been observed from Devon and Cornwall.
Aurora borealis at Vestrahorn, Southern Iceland (Credit: Simaron)
So, what are the northern lights?
The northern lights are a natural phenomenon ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Astronomy Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Director, Information Technology and Security
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director, Information Technology and Security position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is located in Windsor, Canada.
Here’s a description of the position:
Director, Information Technology & Security
Position Summary
The Director Information Technology & Security understands the business of healthcare, the importance of quality patient care, the utilization of technology in a health care setting and th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Canadian Health IT Jobs Director Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Information Technology and Security Job Seekers TransForm Jobs Source Type: blogs
Breaking the stigma: Addressing the struggles of physicians
The state of health care in the U.S. is widely considered to be inadequate. I recently learned in an online class that family doctors in Canada only have 10 minutes per patient. I am unsure who sets or enforces this rule and it is unclear why anyone would choose such a job. As an introvert,
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Breaking the stigma: Addressing the struggles of physicians originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jean Antonucci, MD Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Access to Post-secondary Education in Canada for Students with Disabilities
Laverne Jacobs (University of Windsor), Access to Post-secondary Education in Canada for Students with Disabilities, Int ' l J. Discrimination& L. (Forthcoming): Article 24(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) provides a commitment to... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 19, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Breaking down the barriers to effective bar-code medication administration
According to the Commonwealth Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the health care system in the United States continues to rank the highest in health spending, has the highest rates of avoidable deaths, and rates of infant and maternal deaths compared to other high-income countries. These countries include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the
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Breaking down the barriers to effective bar-code medication administration originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Amy Dang Craft Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
The Case for Expanded Shipbuilding Subsidies Remains Wanting
Colin GrabowThe United States, warns anew essay inThe Atlantic, is turning its back on the world ’s oceans with deleterious consequences for the country’s national security. While much of the piece focuses on U.S. naval power, author Jerry Hendrix also highlightsde minimis U.S. commercial shipbuilding as symptomatic of American maritime deterioration. To place the industry back on a solid footing, the former Navy captain urges the adoption of a reinvigorated subsidy regime. Past experience, however, suggests that simply throwing more money at U.S. shipbuilders is unlikely to elevate the industry beyond mediocrity. Equa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 16, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Canada ’s health workers are sounding the alarm. We must act, now.
It is no longer hyperbole to say that we are witnessing our health system moving slowly but surely to a point where it will be very difficult to return. Despite the weighty First Ministers’ meeting with the Prime Minister on health care, complete with many promises, health workers continue retreating from the system, as they
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Canada’s health workers are sounding the alarm. We must act, now. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Criminality and Inequity under Canada ’s Legalization of Cannabis: A Study of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Stephanie Lake (University of California, Los Angeles), Margot E. Young (University of British Columbia), Criminality and Inequity under Canada ’s Legalization of Cannabis: A Study of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2023): The origin of this essay reminds us of the importance of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 11, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
CNN Segment Illustrates the Iron Law of Prohibition and the Need for Harm Reduction
Jeffrey A. SingerCNN ’sAnderson Cooper 360 program ran a powerfulsegment on March 7 that focused on how xylazine ‐infused fentanyl is harming intravenous drug users in the Kensington District of Philadelphia. Drug dealers mix the veterinary tranquilizer, which users call “Tranq,” with fentanyl because the tranquilizer enhances the potency of opioids, thus making it easier to smuggle in smaller sizes a nd subdivide into a greater number of units to sell. As I explained in mywritten andoral testimony before a March 1 House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Governme...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 8, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
