Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off
This article explains the complexities that makes it so hard to implement electronic prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), summarizes the intended impacts of the bills, and introduces Imprivata digital identity technology, which has been used in health care for such purposes for many years.
Calling the Cops
Health care advocates and reformers can show off plenty of war stories and wounds just from dealing with regulations and bureaucracies in health care. When it comes to controlled substances, toss in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for extra suspense. State governments are also roped in thanks to thei...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability Regulations American Telemedicine Association ATA Colin Banas Controlled Substrances DEA DrFirst Electronic Prescribing Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances EPC Source Type: blogs
A people-first approach to cardiac rehabilitation
How do you change the paradigm in a rigid system? When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, my team and I didn’t have a choice. We had built our hospital’s in-person cardiac rehabilitation program from the ground up, but this was a moment of reckoning. Our program would need to incorporate virtual care. Completing cardiac rehabilitation
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A people-first approach to cardiac rehabilitation originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 7, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Melissa Tracy, MD Tags: Conditions Cardiology Source Type: blogs
The Evolution of Patient Communication: Trends and Technologies
The following is a guest article by Stephanie Maharjan, Director of Operations at WellReceived.
While COVID-19 sparked many challenges for healthcare providers across the USA, it highlighted technology’s essential role in patient communication and engagement. In fact, in 2020, research found that just under half of the US population used tech to communicate with their healthcare providers. And this statistic is set to rise as more and more healthcare providers invest in new technology to support, monitor, and diagnose their patients.
So, what does the future of patient communication look like, and what role can we exp...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 30, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Healthcare IoT Healthcare Scene Featured HIPAA Medical An Source Type: blogs
Intellectual Property and “The Lost Year” of COVID-19 Deaths
Madhavi Sunder (Georgetown University), Haochen Sun (The University of Hong Kong), Intellectual Property and “The Lost Year” of COVID-19 Deaths, Harv. Int’l L.J. (2023): Protecting intellectual property (IP) is a question of life and death. COVID-19 vaccines, partially incentivized by... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 29, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What ’s trying to start the next pandemic? AI drug discovery and the quest for a pan-antiviral drug
As the world continues to navigate the challenges posed by respiratory viruses, recent developments have highlighted the urgency of advancing our therapeutic arsenal, particularly in the realm of broad-spectrum antivirals. 1. Winter is here. It is winter again in the northern hemisphere, and with it come the known respiratory viruses like flu, RSV, and COVID-19.
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What’s trying to start the next pandemic? AI drug discovery and the quest for a pan-antiviral drug originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 28, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Davey Smith, MD Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 29th 2024
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Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 28, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Who Could (Possibly) Be the Ideal “ Chief Patient Officer ” ? (And Other Ideas that Sound Better on Paper than in Practice)
By JONATHON S. FEIT
If ideas presented in essays on The Health Care Blog and other healthcare forums are meant to be rhetorical, without intention of turning notions into reality on behalf of patients who need genuine, intimate, desperate help…then feel free to ignore this essay entirely.
Some among us—the State of Washington’s Co-Responder Outreach Alliance; Lisa Fitzpatrick’s Grapevine Health, which specializes in “street medicine” and advocacy in and around Washington, D.C.; Thorne Ambulance Service, an inspirational ambulance entrepreneur bringing both emergency and nonemergency medical transpor...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Chief Patient Officer CIVITAS EMS First Responders Interoperability Jonathan Feit Kat McDavitt Lisa Bari Medicaid Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Andrew Steele on the Need for Advocacy for Aging Research
Those of us who have been involved in advocacy for aging research and the development of therapies to treat aging as a medical condition for long enough will remember the early 2000s, a time in which a million dollars of new funding for a specific project or specific non-profit was an amazing, novel, rare event. Given that $3 billion, a sizable fraction of all investment into all forms of medical biotech in 2022, was invested into one entity focused on one approach to the treatment of aging, Altos Labs, we might forgive advocates who think that the job is done, that the argument has been made and heard, that it is time to ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
The Big Consult: Major Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service
This article, and the next, lay out criteria for choosing a solution.
Even once you know what you need in your clinical setting, demonstrating the value of a new technology is hard. Dr. Omar Manejwala, chief medical officer at DarioHealth, looks for real-world evidence of outcomes. A study by the vendor is nice to see, but is it peer reviewed by a neutral party? Dr. Tim Church, chief medical officer at Wondr Health, similarly recommends checking that the app follows modern, evidence-based treatment guidelines.
“During the COVID-19 quarantine, literally thousands of new apps sprung up, particularly related to weight l...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 24, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Aaron Neinstein athenahealth AvaSure BrainCheck care.ai Cindy Gaines Cindy Koppen Clever Care Health Plan Colin Banas DarioHealth DrFirst Source Type: blogs
What Will Blood Testing Look Like In The Near Future?
The traditional process of blood draw is familiar to everyone. It typically involves visiting a healthcare facility where a professional, such as a nurse or phlebotomist, draws the blood. Patients then wait for results that are often challenging for non-professionals to interpret.
This analysis aims to explore how this universally recognized procedure has evolved recently and how it is expected to change in the next 5-10 years, especially in the context of digital health.
Initially, blood draw was a purely manual process, requiring skilled professionals for both the drawing and the analysis. The procedure and e...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 23, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF lab test blood draw Source Type: blogs
Empowering the Behavioral Health System with Home-Based Technology Solutions
Conclusion
In many ways, home-based health technology is the natural next step in the evolution of behavioral healthcare. Individuals who face the daunting challenges of mental health conditions and substance use disorders need ongoing support, but they also need a sense of control over their own lives. A person-centered, technologically-supported, home-based approach not only allows people to manage their well-being independently, it provides a more cost-effective and efficient model of care for a healthcare system under strain.
As technology continues to advance, the potential for home-based care to make a lasting impact...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Altruix behavioral health Eric Elliott Home Health Home Healthcare Home-Based Care Medherent Medication Manage Source Type: blogs
AusHealthIT Poll Number 730 – Results – 21 January, 2024.
Here are the results of the
poll.
Are You Concerned About A New Outbreak Of COVID-19 In The Next Few Weeks?
Yes (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 21, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting. Check out our community’s predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
All of this year’s 2024 health IT predictions (updated as they’re shared):
John and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 18, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC 2024 Health IT Predictions Aasim Saeed Amenities Health Andrew Harding Ankit Gupta Anthony Hare Ash Wellness Availity Bicycle Health Source Type: blogs
Disease-Preventive Behaviors and Subjective Well-Being in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Matthew Tokson (University of Utah), Hadley Rahrig (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Jeffrey Green (Virginia Commonwealth University), Disease-Preventive Behaviors and Subjective Well-Being in the Covid-19 Pandemic, 11 BMC Psych. (2023): Safety precautions and activity restrictions were common in the early, pre-vaccine phases... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 18, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Covid-19: A Disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Opeyemi Naimot Dawodu (Wayne State University), Covid-19: A Disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act?(Wayne State U. L. Sch. Rsch. Paper) (2023): The Americans with Disabilities Act has as its mandate to prohibit all forms of discrimination against persons living... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 17, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
