Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - August 30, 2022.
This article explores thekey functions of the CISC as outlined on its website.-----https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/living-standards-at-risk-without-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence-20220823-p5bbyt.htmlLiving standards at risk without big data and artificial intelligenceByShane WrightAugust 23, 2022 — 10.30pmAustralian living standards could slip behind those of other countries if the government and businesses fail to use and analyse data or take advantage of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Productivity Commission has warned.As part of its broader examination of ways to lift the nation ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
August 25, 2022 Edition-----The big story this week has been the multiple PM story in Australia with ScoMo. What an amazing saga!In the UK there seems to be an impending collapse of the economy coming unless some-one takes some really smart steps real soon now.Relatively the US has seemed pretty calm this week – just waiting for an impending recession – along with China and Europe.Fair to say things globally are pretty messy!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/markets/equity-markets/every-investing-trend-misfires-as-stock-bears-are-crushed-20220814-p5b9o2Every investing trend misfires as stock bears are crushedD...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - August 16, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Bond Market Can “Fight the Fed” (And Sometimes Win)
Alan ReynoldsA favoriteWall Street Journal columnist,James Mackintosh, quotes an economist saying that because the price ‐earnings ratio for stocks rises when bond yields fall, “The most capitalist valuation metric in the world, the P/E of the S&P 500, is now just completely dominated by monetary policy. ”That would make sense if increases in the Fed ’s policy rates were matched by increases in 10‐year bond yields. On the contrary, bond yields have instead fallen from 3.49% on June 14 when the fed funds rate was 0.33 to 2.78% on August 10 when the funds rate has risen to 2.32%.The red line in the graph ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 12, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Healthcare M & A Landscape
Healthcare is in a really fascinating place right now especially given some of the craziness that’s happening in the world. We see a lot of things happening and they are often hard to reconcile. This is particularly true in the world of healthcare M&A. Plus, this applies to healthcare organization M&A and also health IT company M&A.
Ed Marx, CEO at Divurgent, offered this perspective on what’s happened and is going to happen with M&A on the healthcare provider side of things.
M&A is here to stay. Our team are former hospital leaders who have lived M&A and can partner with you as n...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Divurgent Ed Marx Health IT Funding Health IT M&A Healthcare M&A Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20, Appendix: The Fate of Rosie the Riveter
George SelginInassessing the possibility that a severe downturn occurred at the end of WWII, I took issue with conventional wartime and postwar output statistics, while taking the period ' s unemployment statistics at face value. In so doing I set aside a hypothesis that disputes the unemployment numbers themselves. According to it, large numbers of would-be wartime women workers left the labor force not because they didn ' t want to keep working, but because they faced impossible odds of staying employed. If that was the case, then official figures substantially understate the real extent of unemployment, and whatever act...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 11, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20: The Phantom Depression
George SelginIt was supposed to be a debacle.As the Second World War drew to a close, the nation’s leading economists feared that, once the armed services demobilized, at least 8 million men and women, perhaps many more, would be unemployed. That meant an unemployment rate of 12 percent—almost as high as the rate before Hitler raided the Low Countries, setting off the “ wartime boom.” If their forecasts were reliable, they meant that the postwar economy could end up being no closer to recovery than the prewar economy had been.A Worst ‐Case ScenarioOf course, such dire predictions weren ’t unconditional....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 23rd July2022.
In this study, researchers sought to determine whether differences in occult hypoxemia treatment existed between people of different races.Occult hypoxemia was defined as arterial blood oxygen saturation of less than 88 percent despite a pulse oximetry reading of 92 percent or more.-----https://healthitsecurity.com/news/security-awareness-and-training-crucial-to-preventing-healthcare-phishing-attacksSecurity Awareness and Training Crucial to Preventing Healthcare Phishing AttacksSecurity awareness and training greatly decreased the likelihood of an employee falling for a healthcare phishing attack, KnowBe4 researchers foun...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
The objective most consistent with recent operations is to conquer Luhansk, Donetsk, and Kherson, with a view to their eventual annexation and Russification. But not only are they some way from achieving that (w ith much of Donetsk still in Ukrainian hands and the Russia position in Kherson highly contested) it would also require an explicit Ukrainian surrender for it to serve as the basis for a declaration of victory. That will not be forthcoming.-----https://www.afr.com/world/europe/how-britain-giggled-its-way-into-crisis-20220710-p5b0giHow Britain giggled its way into crisisBoris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 21, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 14, 2022 Edition-----The biggest news this week was the assassination of the ex-PM of Japan – Shinzo Abe – who was a good friend to OZ incidentally.In the US we have had a wind-up to a busy summit season – NATO etc – and the ongoing war in Ukraine which is becoming a deepening, protracted and horrible situation which it seems hard to resolve sadly.In the UK Boris is out but not gone and the battle for the succession is off and rolling.In OZ we have Albo back and we need to work out what to mitigate these various natural disasters and actually get on with it!!!! The response has been pathetic so far I reckon!--...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – July 2, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
HFMA Recap: Using Data to Do More With Less. John Lynn headed east for the annual HFMA conference. The biggest takeaway was the role of technology in general – and data analytics in particular – to help healthcare organizations automate and outsource administrative financial tasks in a tight job market. This comes with a challenge, though: Ke...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Collision Conference Digital Health Canada Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup HFMA Inovalon Invicta Health Solutions Judy Faulkner NVIDIA SimiTree Source Type: blogs
Collision Conference: Encouraging Signs for Healthcare
Collision #CollisionConf, one of the world’s largest tech conferences, wrapped up last week in Toronto, Canada. Based on the comments from the healthcare keynotes and from the digital health + medtech entrepreneurs roaming the aisles of the exhibit hall – there are encouraging signs that healthcare may weather the economic downturn better than other industries. Why? Because healthcare organizations still need technology to deal with the staffing crisis while still meeting the goals of reducing costs.
Technology + Physician Retention
Dr. Katharine Smart is the President of the Canadian Medical Association and a pedi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Revenue Cycle Management Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Alaffia Health Canadian Medical Association CMA Collision Conference Dr. Brett Belchetz Source Type: blogs
The Menace of Fiscal Inflation
ConclusionTo say that“inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” is not to say that fiscal policy doesn ’t matter. “Fiscal inflation” is indeed “a menace,” as Cochrane and others have argued. Few experts predicted the shift from low inflation before the pandemic to nearly 9 percent CPI inflation today. Policymakers largely ignored the implications of the post-2008 operating system, the close dance between cumulative federal deficits and M2 growth, and the risk of adhering to the Fed’s “lower for longer” recipe for its policy rate in the hope of stimulating asset markets and the economy wi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
June 09, 2022 Edition-----The Russian war on Ukraine is now well over 100 days old. The destruction and deaths are just awful and the world is being seriously re-shaped. Where this ends is unknowable but unlikely to be good.In the US we are seeing almost daily mass shootings and no-one seems to know what to do. Just pathetic.In the UK the hangover is slowly lifting after the 4 day royal celebration.In OZ we are having an energy crisis which we hope we will find solutions for soon!-----Major Issues.------https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/australias-labor-government-faces-a-whole-new-economic-ball-game/news...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 18: The Recovery So Far
George Selgin(Although my contributions to this series have so far been more-or-less in their proper order, this one isn ' t: it occurred to me only relatively recently that it would be worthwhile to take stock of the overall progress of the recovery up to the outbreak of the Roosevelt Recession before delving into that episode. Had I done this in the first place, this installment would be Part 10 of the series, with the present Part 10 and all subsequent installments moved up a notch. –Ed.)When it struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act in January 1936, the Supreme Court dropped the final curtain on the original New...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
