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Hotlines Aren ’ t Enough to Help People at Risk of Suicide
By CARA ANGELOTTA MD Contrary to popular belief, the risk of suicide does not increase around the holidays. But, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, annual suicide rates in the U.S. have risen nearly 30 percent since 1999. Much of the media coverage following the high-profile suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain has followed recommended best practices to reduce risk of suicide contagion or “copycat” suicides by including warning signs a person may be at risk of suicide due to depression and contact information for the national hotline for suicide prevention. This overly simplistic approa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Patients Cara Angelotta public health suicide epidemic suicide hotlines suicide prevention Source Type: blogs

I Think This Is Pretty Big News And Is A Pointer To Things To Come.
This appeared last week:Apple in Talks to Give Veterans Access to Electronic Medical Records Under plans being discussed, Apple would create software allowing veterans to transfer health records to iPhones By Ben Kesling and Tripp Mickle Updated Nov. 21, 2018 3:28 p.m. ET Apple Inc. AAPL -0.05% is in discussions with the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide portable electronic health records to military veterans, a partnership that would simplify patients ’ hospital visits and allow the technology giant to tap millions of new customers, according to people familiar with the effort and emails reviewed by The Wall Str...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Are EMRs alleviating preventable medical errors yet?
In the decade-and-a-half since the startling “To Err is Human” report, it’s still hard to discern whether billions invested in electronic medical records are improving patient safety. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - November 20, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Source Type: blogs

Process Re-engineering Can Produce Results, Lumeon Finds
A rigorous look at organizational processes, perhaps bolstered by new technology, can produce big savings in almost any industry. In health care, Lumeon finds that this kind of process re-engineering can improve outcomes and the patient experience too–the very Triple Aim cited as goals by health care reformers. A bad process, according to Robbie Hughes, Founder and CEO for Lumeon, can be described as, “The wrong people have the wrong information at the wrong time.” One example is a surgery unit that Lumeon worked with on scheduling surgeries. The administrative staff scheduled the surgeries based on minim...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 19, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Health Care Healthcare HealthCare IT Fee for Service Fee-For-Value Longitudinal Care Operations Management Optimization Patient Engagement Process Re-engineering Source Type: blogs

Perfecting The Power to Talk – The Future of Voice And Speaking
Talking, conversing, exchanging words: for more than 10 million people, this seemingly simple act cannot be imagined without assistive technologies, such as voice generating devices, touch screens or text-to-speech apps. What does the digital future bring for them? How could innovations turn around the translation industry or the medical administration process? Here’s a glimpse into the future of voice and speaking. Speaking, identity, voice stereotypes Give me the key! – This simple sentence carries much more information when it’s pronounced. A weary Philippino mother could instruct her little child as she cannot op...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients apps assistive technology Health Healthcare Innovation speaking speech speech generating voice voice generating device Source Type: blogs

Teleneurology works. Here ’s why.
Teleneurology is the new and vastly expanding practice of neurology involving the use of technology and/or video chat to improve access to services. With an ever-increasing aging population there is and will continue to be a shortage of neurologists in the United States. Teleneurology has increased patient access to neurologists especially in rural areas but also in urban and suburban areas. Practicing as a teleneurologist for the last two years I can log on to secure video chats compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). I see patients in Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina,...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 21, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/puja-aggarwal" rel="tag" > Puja Aggarwal, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Mobile health Neurology Source Type: blogs

Why physicians should embrace fitness trackers
I mused while staring blankly towards the electronic tracking board, where I foresee reading the triage call “My tracker said, I have AFib.” I delved into what is in my armamentarium to handle this crisis of the digital age. The stethoscope around my neck suddenly seemed archaic. We the physicians have resigned to the redundant clicks on the electronic medical records (EMR). While still recovering from this inescapable occupational hazard of the new digital documentation, a technological surge of broadband-enabled technology has inundated us. These have surfaced as ingestible, wearable and embeddable based on t...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/nita-k-thingalaya" rel="tag" > Nita K. Thingalaya, MD < /a > Tags: Tech Cardiology Mobile health Source Type: blogs

National Digital Health Strategies Around the World
As healthcare systems struggle with unsustainability, a shortage of medical professionals, while technological development is soaring, digital health seems to be a viable path toward making healthcare feasible. We looked around the world, which countries have the same idea in mind trying to put it into practice. The following national digital health strategies are the examples we found. Why does every country need a digital health strategy? Three reasons necessitate the urgent introduction of a digital health strategy in every country. (1) First and foremost, healthcare systems are unsustainable. According to OECD projecti...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 16, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy australia Denmark digital health strategy healthcare system healthcare systems Innovation Israel new zealand rwanda Source Type: blogs

When doctors leave clinical medicine, don ’t blame the victim
I don’t want to be unclear here. I don’t want to mince my words. But I’m mad about an interaction I had on Facebook. I was commenting on the Physician Side Gigs group page when someone riffed on one of my statements. They mentioned that my opinions could be a slippery slope towards a future where doctors no longer see patients. The insinuation was that we as physicians owe it to our community to continue practicing medicine. As many of you know, with my half retirement, I am planning to leave patient visits behind. Being financially independent is allowing me to escape a work environment laced with fe...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/docg" rel="tag" > DocG, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs

MedAware Uses AI to Detect Potential Medication Errors: Interview with Dr. Gidi Stein, CEO
Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in the US and they are probably the most common and preventable. MedAware, an Israeli company, is using the power of artificial intelligence to detect potential errors before they happen. The company was started by Dr. Gidi Stein, MD, PhD, who had spent several years in the tech industry before deciding to use his background in algorithms to make a larger impact. He subsequently obtained his MD from Tel Aviv University Medical School and a PhD in computational biology from Tel Aviv University. He started MedAware in 2012. MedAware is currently being used at two hospitals ...
Source: Medgadget - October 9, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Exclusive Informatics Medicine Pediatrics Public Health Source Type: blogs

How Autocracies Could Misuse Digital Health Innovations
How long do you think it will take for authoritarian governments, dictatorships or tyrannies until they realize the vast potential in digital health technologies and until they learn how to harness their powers? Twenty years? Ten years? We have to warn you, the era of 24/7 surveillance and intrusion into the innermost secrets of human life is even closer than that. Watch out! Dystopic worst case scenario-alert! Digital technologies are double-edged swords: they promised social change… On 17 December 2010, a Tunisian vegetable vendor set up his cart on the street in Sidi Bouzid to sell goods that he obtained the day befor...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 22, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine Security & Privacy AR artificial intelligence big data biotechnology black mirror dystopia genes genetics genomics Health health sensors Healthcare insurance MR Personalized medicine scifi Source Type: blogs

Health IT Or Digital Health? The Gary-Rule Helps!
When it’s difficult to draw a line between health IT and digital health, the “Gary-rule” as a general rule of thumb could help. It means that any tech-related issue in a healthcare setting that Gary, the IT guy can solve belongs to health IT. On the other hand, problems in the medical-technological universe, which cannot get resolved without the involvement of other stakeholders of healthcare constitute the terrain of digital health, writes Dr. Meskó in his article published in the latest edition of the Journal of Clinical and Translational Research. The Gary-rule It’s hard to draw a definitive line between health...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 11, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Digital Health Research Policy Makers Researchers digital technology future health IT Healthcare online security wannacry Source Type: blogs

Is Universal Health Care Socialism?
By ETIENNE DEFFARGES The November midterms elections are approaching, and one of the major topics is health care. Democrats are campaigning on retaining Obamacare, in many cases advocating that we move towards universal health care. That would be pure socialism, retort Republicans, who would rather repeal the Affordable Care Act as they attempted in 2017, even if this leads to 20 million Americans losing coverage. Is Universal Health Care Socialism? Only if we believe that every other developed market-based economy in the world is socialist since the U.S. is the only one without universal coverage. We spend almost $10,...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Economics Socialism Universal Health Care UntanglingtheUSA Source Type: blogs

EHR evidentiary mayhem
A short post.I am encountering, in my legal work, electronic medical records systems that either allow ex post facto note alterations by clinicians - for example, after a catastrophe - and/or alteration of the apparent date/time a note was entered. The alterations (e.g., a version history) or fake times don ' t appear on the printed records, and usually are not in the audit trails as well.Some of the systems don ' t even bother saving prior versions of edited notes, AND/OR defense attorneys make production of the the note version history and actual times of entry very difficult to obtain, AND/OR judges do not understand th...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 2, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs