Digital Health IPOs – 2 Down 2 to Go
It had been a while since any digital healthcare company had tested the IPO waters. Part of that is due to the downturn in the economy and other factors which led most digital health companies to sell rather than going public. The other part is that the average age of a company that IPOs is […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 22, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Change Healthcare Digital Health IPO eClinicalWorks eCW Epic Health Catalyst Livongo Meditech Phreesia Source Type: blogs
Saving Cities from Bad Federal Policies
Since 1992, federal taxpayers have helped fund construction of urban rail transit lines through a program calledNew Starts. This program is due to expire in 2020, and today the Highways and Transit Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a hearing on whether or not to renew it.No doubt most of the witnesses at the hearing will be transit agency officials bragging about how their expensive projects have created jobs and generated economic development. But a close look at the projects built with this fund reveals that New Starts has done more damage to American cities than any other fe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 16, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Randal O ' Toole Source Type: blogs
Suicide Rates Are Rising, But Nobody Really Knows Why
Suicide rates appear to be at all-time highs, with the latest research suggesting rates are one-third higher than they were in 1999.
Among people ages 16 through 64, the rate of suicide climbed from about 10 per 100,000 to 14 per 100,000 people. That’s a significant increase during a period of time where, by all outward measures, stigma about mental health issues and depression has been significantly decreasing. More than ever, it is safe and people are encouraged to talk about — and seek help for — a mental health concern.
So why this significant rise in the suicide rate?
Thoughts of suicide are usually...
Source: World of Psychology - June 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Children and Teens General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychology Suicide Depression suicidal rate Source Type: blogs
Fika: What Can We All Learn From This Swedish Coffee Tradition
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If you’re not from Sweden, chances are you won’t be familiar with the word fika. However, if you were to visit Sweden at some point, you would probably hear it on a regular basis. So, what is fika? In lack of a better phrase, Swedes coined this one, which literally means to sit down and have coffee, alone or with company. Of course, you could have other drinks, like tea, or any other non-alco...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Leila Dorari Tags: creativity featured happiness productivity tips benefits of coffee coffee break coffee facts fika Source Type: blogs
The Fed's Shifting Goalposts
When I publishedFloored!last October, I thought I ’d said all I could say concerning the adverse consequences of the Fed’s then decade-old decision to adopt a “floor”-type operating system. In the new arrangement, the Fed pays interest on bank reserves, and uses changes in the rate it pays, instead of adjustments to the available quantity o f bank reserves, to regulate other interest rates. Among other things, I explain in my book, as I’ve also done to some extent here atAlt-M, thatdecision contributed to the U.S. economy ’s deep downturn in late 2008, thatit undermined banks ’ incentives to monitor each othe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 16, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
April Is Stress Awareness Month
April is Stress Awareness Month. When I first read that in a local newspaper, my response was “Really? As if we’re not all very well-aware that we are stressed — sometimes to the max. Do we really need a month to focus on it? Then I read what it’s actually about: April as Stress Awareness Month was initiated by the Health Resource Network in 1992 to encourage health organizations to develop and distribute educational materials and hold public events about stress.
Okay. That makes sense. But as I looked at internet articles on stress, most of them stress (pun) things one can do about stress. Look and you’ll fi...
Source: World of Psychology - April 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. Tags: General Habits Happiness Health-related Self-Help Stress National Stress Awareness Month Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
April 4, 2019 Edition.-----Trump has had a wonderful week or two from his perspective with the pressure on him from the Democrats being somewhat reduced and no obvious political issues threatening to derail the 2020 election. However there seems to be a looming recession in the US and that would be bad news for Trump!Brexit has gone utterly pear-shaped and we have no idea what happens next.By the time you read this we will know what happened. The big news was----- Major Issues.https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/financial-services/short-bets-on-banks-point-to-slump/news-story/fd329fd852f7acd5690950761466222aShort bet...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 3, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
“Closing the Border” Is a Terrible Idea
President Trumpreiterated his threat Saturday to “close the border” or “large sections of it” next week. To put it mildly, “closing the border” is a terrible idea. The president cannot close the border to illegal immigration. What he can do—and is already doing—is slow the flow of legal crossings.Mexico is America ’s2nd largest export market and 3rd largest total trading partner.U.S. border crossings with Mexico handle ahalf a trillion dollars in trade each year. Nearly half enters through Texas wheretwo thirds of illegal border crossings have occurred this year.Each year, U.S.-Mexico border crossings per...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 1, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
The Continuum of Nurse Career Growth
The growth of your career as a nurse can be consciously self-generated, or simply a result of happenstance and alaissez-faireattitude towards professional development. Neither of these options are necessarily bad in and of themselves, but a thoughtfully sculpted career is definitely fodder for a much richer, satisfying, and rewarding trajectory.Whereas employment can often feel like a means to an economic end (ie: survival), there is also the notion that work is an avenue to self-awareness, a sense of personal pride, contribution to community and society, and a more full engagement in life.Work, Fear and StruggleIt is true...
Source: Digital Doorway - March 25, 2019 Category: Nursing Tags: career nurse nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
Trends in life expectancy in EU and other OECD countries
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -This paper reports on trends in life expectancy in the 28 EU countries and some other high-income OECD countries, and examines potential explanations for the slowdown in improvements in recent years. The slowdown in improvements in life expectancy since 2011 has been greatest in the USA, where life expectancy has fallen in recent years, and the UK, but France, Germany, Sweden and Netherlands have also seen a sharp slowdown. The report also considers wider contributing factors. Although some risk factors, such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, high blood press...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 1, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
China Is Building The Ultimate Technological Health Paradise. Or Is It?
How could a country keep around 1.4 billion
people healthy when the system struggles with corruption, lack of resources and
an aging population? China, the emerging giant with a strong central leadership
fostering technology and innovation, places its bets on artificial
intelligence, telemedicine, cloud-based hospitals, and WeChat. While that could sound like
an ultimate technological paradise, the question is, what are they going to do
with the vast amount of data or to what interests are they going to leverage
their state of the art A.I. systems? Generally, how will we speak about digital
health in China: a healthcare dy...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers AI chatbot china digital digital health Healthcare Innovation smartphone technology telehealth telemedicine Source Type: blogs
How Stupid Do They Think We Are? - Plutocrats Using Logical Fallacies to Defend the Health Care Status Quo
In the early 21st century, the debate about health care reform in the US ramped up. The result ultimately was thePatient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, ACA, " Obamacare " ), which arguably improved access to health care, made some reforms in the regulation of health care insurance, but did not affect the fundamental reliance of the US on employer-paid, for-profit health care insurance to finance health care for many patients. Nor did it really affect the issues we discuss on Health Care Renewal (lookhere for details).After the tumultuous election of President Donald Trump, the debate started up agai...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 14, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: dark money disinformation health care reform logical fallacies ppaca propaganda stealth health policy advocacy Source Type: blogs
More Than Just Dander
First, a sort of meta-comment in the form of a shout-out to HCRenewal ' s intrepid editor, Dr. Roy Poses, for his just-published analysis of what we might call " blogging: rise and fall. " He sees decline reflected in publications long devoted to health and health policy, yet now flaking off.Methinks, however, despite the usefulness of his overview of recent decades, Dr. P need not fret excessively. Water spilling out of the barrel ' s lip will slow down once folks come along and punch a whole bunch of little mid-section tweet-holes in it. Information still flows. (Sort of.) In any case, surely there ' s overla...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 25, 2019 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. News Relevant To E-Health And The Health Sector In General Among Other Things.
January 10, 2019 Edition.-----Is has been a pretty messy week for Trump with the Democrats taking over in the House. He wants a wall, they do not and so the Government is shut down still!The Brexit vote in Parliament happens soon now and the outcome is not at all clear!In Australia the care-taker LNP Government continues to pretend it is in power and makes all sorts of decisions and remarks most just choose to ignore.Ugly racist riots in Victoria are both bad and sad. That they are happening at all is a genuine worry I believe.----- Major Issues.https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/financial-downturn-signals-flas...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Deep and Lasting Damage
Individual 1 ' s tantrum over his inane border wall has real consequences.It will cause substantial economic damage in the short run, and further damage the legitimacy and reputation of the federal government in the long run. The latter, I suppose, is a feature, not a bug, for many conservatives.The political discourse about immigration is very much about cultural resentment vs. inclusiveness and compassion. It isn ' t very much about facts. The Balance is a web site that offers financial advise, but it covers issues of economic importance with accessible fact sheets.Their discussion of immigration seems to me pretty well ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 26, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
