This Disorder Strikes Most People After Mild COVID Infection (M)
Over 76 percent of patients recovering from mild COVID-19 found to experience this problem. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: COVID19 Sleep subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Catastrophising – and controversy
There are few constructs more widely known in pain psychology than catastrophising. Defined as “an exaggerated negative mental set brought to bear during actual or anticipated pain experience” (Sullivan et al., 2001), catastrophising is associated with poor outcomes including greater pain intensity, distress and disability in almost every situation where pain is experienced (Sullivan & Tripp, 2024). Cognitive biases associated with catastrophising include interpretive bias, attentional bias and attentional fixation – in other words negatively interpreting situations, attending to the negative in a situation, ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 21, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Coping Skills Pain Pain conditions Research Science in practice catastrophising catastrophizing Chronic pain pain-related worry Source Type: blogs
I Suspect We Have A While To Go Before We Can Declare Total Victory Over COVID-19 And Its Sequelae.
This appeared last week as a bit of a
reminder.
Long Covid expert backs
dedicated care clinics over seeing GPs
ExclusiveBy Milanda Rout Deputy editor of The Weekend Australian's Travel + Luxury 8:37PM April 19, 2024 The nation ’s leading expert in Long Covid care has urged the federal government to back dedicated treatment clinics and abandon plans to shift the burden of patient care to GPs. (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Evolution of Healthcare at Home, the Technology Driving this Change, and It ’ s Impact on the World of Healthcare
The world of healthcare is ever-evolving, especially when new technology is being adopted. One such new area is healthcare at home. Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact. So let’s take a deeper look into healthcare at home to see how it has evolved over time, the technology that is driving this change, and how it is impacting ou...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Academy Medtech Ventures Alaina Victoria Brenden Hayden Cara Lunsford Carrie Nelson Cindy Gaines Digital Communication Discern He Source Type: blogs
Venture-backed telemental health care companies are creating a new opioid epidemic
More Americans are seeking mental health care than ever before, but many people receiving treatment have never met their psychiatrist in person—or even at all. Telemedicine has been growing in popularity for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic sent tele-health care utilization rates through the roof. Now, after sharp increases brought by COVID-19 lockdowns, American telehealth utilization
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Venture-backed telemental health care companies are creating a new opioid epidemic originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tamir Aldad, MD, MBA Tags: Meds Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Harnessing Digital Innovation to Unlock Cancer Discoveries
By DOUG MIRSKY & BRIAN GONZALEZ
What if digital innovations could be the key to reducing the burden of cancer? CancerX was founded in 2023 as part of the Cancer Moonshot to achieve this goal. By uniting leading minds across industries such as technology, healthcare, science, and government, we are breaking down silos and leveraging digital innovation in the fight against cancer. With ambitious goals to cut the death rate from cancer by at least 50% and to improve the experience of people who are affected by cancer, digital innovation is critical.
As a public-private partnership co-hosted by Moffitt Cancer Center ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Brian Gonzalez CancerX Digital Medicine Society Doug Mirsky Moffitt Cancer Center Source Type: blogs
Data Governance and Privacy Challenges in the Digital Healthcare Revolution
This study investigates the accelerated shift towards a digitally-enhanced... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 16, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: REGAIN Team Responds to Criticism with Unconvincing Defenses of Methodological Missteps
By David Tuller, DrPH In recent weeks, I have been urging The BMJ to correct a flawed University of Warwick trial of an online mental and physical health rehab program for people with prolonged symptoms at least three months after hospitalization for Covid-19. The primary outcome was health-related quality of life, assessed with a measure … Trial By Error: REGAIN Team Responds to Criticism with Unconvincing Defenses of Methodological Missteps Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 12, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized BMJ Long Covid mcgregor REGAIN Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: A New Study from Exeter on “ Brain Training ” for Treatment of Post-Covid Cognitive Problems
By David Tuller, DrPH The University of Exeter is now recruiting for a study of “brain training” as a treatment for prolonged cognitive dysfunction after a bout of Covid-19. I found out about this via a post on X. The post highlighted a message that had been sent to an unidentified patient from their medical … Trial By Error: A New Study from Exeter on “Brain Training” for Treatment of Post-Covid Cognitive Problems Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 10, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized brain fog brain training Exeter Long Covid Source Type: blogs
2023 Cover Art Honorable Mentions
Editor’s note: If you are interested in submitting to our next call for cover art, stay tuned for details coming later this year.
In response to our third call for cover art in 2023, we received an overwhelming number of submissions. We were thrilled with the number and quality of submissions, and we are grateful for and humbled by the authors’ artwork, insights, stories, and reflections. Because we can print only a fraction of the cover art we received, we wanted to acknowledge the artists whose work we loved but cannot publish. The following artists received an honorable mention:
Missing Pieces, by Alicia As...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - April 9, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: Call for Cover Art humanities in medicine medical education scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
Availity Fills in Staff Knowledge at the Point of Engagement with Patients
Health care is not one single system, but multiple systems offering a bewildering variety of diagnostic and treatment options, backed by a plethora of payment systems that vary from patient. According to Krisi Hutson, Senior Director of Solutions at Availity, AI can help administrative staff from the front desk to the billing office negotiate the maze.
Hutson points out that the average turnover of clinical administrative staff is 12-18 months. In this video, she lays out a typical scenario where a patient arrives for treatment and wants to know what the likely payment is. How can you expect an administrator to collect and...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Security and Privacy Availity Healthcare AI Ethics Healthcare Automation Healthcare Billing Healthcare IT Video Inte Source Type: blogs
How COVID Affects Your IQ Long-Term (M)
COVID's impact on cognition varies based on factors like illness duration and virus variant, scientists find. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: COVID19 Intelligence subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Responsibility, burnout, and self-care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We welcome Mary Braun, an internal medicine physician. Mary shares her insights on how perceptions of responsibility for patient outcomes have evolved throughout her career, particularly in light of systemic challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic. Through candid reflections and real-life experiences,
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Responsibility, burnout, and self-care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 7, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: My Letter to Scientific Reports about New Study of Physical Activity and Long Covid
By David Tuller, DrPH The other day I posted a blog about yet another problematic Long Covid study published by a major journal. The study concluded that physical activity (PA) can “reduce” symptoms in young women with prolonged medical complaints after Covid-19, or what the authors call post-COVID condition (PCC). The problem: the study design … Trial By Error: My Letter to Scientific Reports about New Study of Physical Activity and Long Covid Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 7, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Long Covid physical activity Semmelweis University Source Type: blogs
More on Freeze Peach
This is a topic I address from time to time, but it seems a new post is needed now because of various nonsense that ' s going on. First, let me make one thing perfectly clear, as a man we would all like to forget used to say: free speech and academic freedom are not the same. Legally, the only meaning of Free Speech ™ is the First Amendment, as interpreted by the courts. Originally it applied only to the federal government, but the 14th Amendment extended the protections of the Bill of Rights to the States, so it now applies to all government entities within the United States, and that includes your small tow n Board of ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 4, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
