Patients Want Customizations – Just Not Too Much!
The following is a guest blog post by Cristina Dafonte, Marketing Associate of Stericycle Communication Solutions as part of the Communication Solutions Series of blog posts. Follow and engage with them on Twitter:@StericycleComms
Everything around us is customizable: your laptop background, the layout of applications on your phone, any product dashboard you have access to. Customization sells, and consumers crave it. Consumers love to think that something is unique or special for just them, even if they know in their hearts that isn’t the case.
Patient engagement, especially appointment reminders, shouldn’t be the ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 10, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Digital Health Healthcare HealthCare IT Patients Communication Solutions Series Health Care Communications Patient Appointment Reminders Patient Experience Stericycle Stericycle Communication Solutions Source Type: blogs
How Regulations Impede Economic Mobility
Why are Americans less likely to move to better opportunities than they used to be? TheWall Street Journal reports:When opportunity dwindles, a natural response —the traditional American instinct—is to strike out for greener pastures. Migrations of the young, ambitious and able-bodied prompted the Dust Bowl exodus to California in the 1930s and the reverse migration of blacks from Northern cities to the South starting in the 1980s.Yet the overall mobility of the U.S. population is at its lowest level since measurements were first taken at the end of World War II, falling by almost half since its most recent peak in 198...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 4, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Fresh Thinking on Occupational Licensing
Occupational licensing started with the idea that jobs with serious consequences – doctors being the prototypical example – require some sort of government certification and oversight. But that rather innocuous motivation has ballooned into a harmful and unsustainable state of affairs.From laws requiring licenses tobraid hair to ones requiring licenses forfloral design andcasket manufacturing, occupational licensure has put barriers in the way of people who wish to do non-dangerous jobs and has done little to protect consumers. Instead, it ’s frequently used as a way for politically well-connected people and state li...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 3, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro Source Type: blogs
The Failed MMR Vaccine Policies on College Campuses
Conclusions
The current policy on most college campuses requires verification that incoming students have received two doses of the MMR vaccination. The goal of this policy is to prevent the diseases measles and mumps. A longstanding federal trial against Merck, the pharmaceutical company responsible for making the MMR vaccine, accuses Merck of manipulating data to show the MMR to be more effective against mumps than it is.
Recent outbreaks of mumps on college campuses by students vaccinated with the MMR vaccine provides additional evidence that the MMR vaccine is ineffective. Data from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting...
Source: vactruth.com - July 25, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Michelle Goldstein Top Stories college vaccination Mandatory Vaccination MMR vaccine truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
Largest Fraud Takedown Announced by AG Sessions
On Thursday, July 13, 2017, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force. The action charged 412 defendants across forty-one federal districts for their alleged participation in health care fraud schemes involving $1.3 billion in false billings.
The 412 defendants include 115 doctors, nurses, and other licensed professionals. Of the 412 defendants, over 120 of them were charged for their roles in prescribing and distributing opioids and other danger...
Source: Policy and Medicine - July 19, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Medical Device Coating Points To and Kills Bacteria
Researchers at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) in Saudi Arabia, not to be confused with KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), have developed a special nanoparticle coating that can be used to give the surfaces of medical devices antibacterial properties.
The coating is made of gold nanoclusters containing lysozyme enzymes, an antibacterial agent, fused into a polymer matrix. The nanoparticles also contain kanamycin, an antibiotic. This formulation keeps the nanoparticles from leeching into the body while only being triggered to release the kanamycin in the presence of b...
Source: Medgadget - July 17, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
CMS Releases 2016 Open Payment Data
Conclusion
Visitors to the CMS Open Payments website can look up individual clinicians and hospitals to see what they have received from drug and device makers and compare their payments to national and specialty averages.
Related StoriesOpen Payments Starts Review and Dispute…On A SaturdayChicago Releases Pharmaceutical Representative Disclosure Log DraftCalifornia Gift Ban Bill to be Heard Tomorrow (Source: Policy and Medicine)
Source: Policy and Medicine - July 3, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
CMS Releases 2016 Open Payments Data
Conclusion
Visitors to the CMS Open Payments website can look up individual clinicians and hospitals to see what they have received from drug and device makers and compare their payments to national and specialty averages.
Related StoriesOpen Payments Starts Review and Dispute…On A SaturdayChicago Releases Pharmaceutical Representative Disclosure Log DraftCalifornia Gift Ban Bill to be Heard Tomorrow (Source: Policy and Medicine)
Source: Policy and Medicine - July 3, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Health Affairs Web First: Significant Racial Disparities Found In Hospital Readmissions
This study will also appear in the July issue of Health Affairs.
(Source: Health Affairs Blog)
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 21, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lucy Larner Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Web First Source Type: blogs
Collecting Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity Information On Older Americans Is Good Public Policy
Editor’s note: Measures of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) have been added to several federal surveys over the years, but recently the SOGI measure was eliminated from the National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants conducted by the Administration for Community Living. Kathy Greenlee, former US Assistant Secretary for Aging, and administrator of the Administration for Community Living, reacts to this development.
In 1984, a lesbian friend much older than me gave me very specific advice: “You should never come out to your doctor. And if you do, you should make sure they never write it down.” My f...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Kathy Greenlee Tags: Featured Health Equity Quality LGBT issues older americans act Source Type: blogs
Once Upon A Time, I Was A Healthy Person
I have many friends who, after cancer, get back to their old lives for the most part. I ' m not talking about that ' new normal ' bull, but just doing normal things like going back to work, taking part in all their family activities and all sorts of regular, every day life things.Me, I did not get to go back to my regular life after breast cancer. My body had other plans for me. It decided it was time to fall apart.After breast cancer, I got gall stones and had my gallbladder out six months after radiation ended. That winter I slipped on the ice, landed on my left hand and started all my lymphedema crap.The following fall ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 31, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: ailments being healthy being me Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 29th 2017
In this study, we utilized an imaging-based assay to monitor the ability of disease-associated amyloid assemblies to rupture intracellular vesicles following endocytosis. We observe that the ability to induce vesicle rupture is a common feature of α-synuclein (α-syn) assemblies, as assemblies derived from wild type (WT) or familial disease-associated mutant α-syn all exhibited the ability to induce vesicle rupture. Similarly, different conformational strains of WT α-syn assemblies, but not monomeric or oligomeric forms, efficiently induced vesicle rupture following endocytosis.
The ability to induce vesicle rupt...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 28, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Distractions
I realize I haven ' t been blogging much for the past month or so. We went away for a weekend, we are on our second set of houseguests. This one came with a dog who freaked out one of our cats (who should have stood his ground and growled at the dog and he would have hid because he is really scared of cats).I have also been dealing with lots of fatigue. What is fatigue? When you need 12 hours of sleep each day and then make it through. I also keep getting myself in places where all of a sudden I am so tired I can ' t function.An example is this past Thursday. I got up and went to the grocery store and library in the mornin...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 28, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: distractions family quality of life Source Type: blogs
How to Build Your Side Business While Working Full Time
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Building a business is hard.
What about building a business on the side while working full time?
I built a freelancing business while studying dentistry, and I'm just 20 years old.
And I forgot to mention that my GPA was 3.92 during my first 2 years.
It seems impossible to a lot of people, but I did it.
And the secret is rather simple. I know what I need to do, and I do it. But there's a bit more ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: ahmedsafwan10 Tags: confidence featured self improvement best self-improvement blogs follow your passion How to build a business motivation tips pickthebrain side business side hustle Source Type: blogs
In Essence, All Aging Research Revolves around the Science and Advocacy of SENS, the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence
Today's popular science article for consideration is the usual mix of frustrating and interesting remarks that result when various researchers are convinced to talk to the press on the subject of SENS rejuvenation research. I in no way exaggerate when I say that all approaches to the research of aging, all of the intent in aging research, all of the fundamental disagreements in the field, ultimately revolve around SENS, the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence. The advocacy and the science of SENS are the moral and technological sun in this solar system, for all that many of those orbiting it apparently would ra...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 25, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
