Should Someone With Asthma Get a COVID-19 Vaccine Before Someone With Cancer? The Next Big Challenge in the Vaccine Rollout
In an ideal world, there would be enough vaccines to inoculate everyone who wanted to get immunized against COVID-19. People would get their shots on a first come, first serve basis, we’d achieve herd immunity in a matter of months and COVID-19 would become a soon-distant memory. But with some 240 million people over age 16 who need a COVID-19 vaccine (and two doses at that), and just over 42 million administered by early February, supply is far below demand, and will likely remain that way for months to come, despite vaccine makers pushing production lines as hard as they can. As the U.S. works through the vaccine ...
Source: TIME: Health - February 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Study Finds People With Dementia Are Twice as Likely to Get Covid
The analysis of nearly 62 million electronic medical records in the U.S. also found that Black people with dementia were at an even greater risk. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - February 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Pam Belluck Tags: your-feed-science Dementia Alzheimer ' s Disease Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Research Elderly s Assn Case Western Reserve University Source Type: news

Abuse-deterrent extended-release oxycodone and risk of opioid-related harm - Paljarvi T, Strang J, Quinn PD, Luciano S, Fazel S.
AIM: To establish and quantify the association between abuse-deterrent formulation (ADF) oxycodone and 1-year risk of opioid-related harm. DESIGN: Propensity score-matched cohort study of electronic medical records for years 2014 - 2018, with pat... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Nashville (TN) Bombing Spotlights Vulnerable Voice, Data Networks
By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications. The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local wireless, internet and video service and connects to regional networks. Backup generators went down, which took service out hours after the blast. A fire broke out and forced an evacuation. The building flooded, with more than three feet of water later pumpe...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - December 31, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Communications & Dispatch 911 Tennessee Source Type: news

Nashville (TN) Bombing Spotlights Vulnerable Voice, Data Networks
By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications. The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local wireless, internet and video service and connects to regional networks. Backup generators went down, which took service out hours after the blast. A fire broke out and forced an evacuation. The building flooded, with more than three feet of water later pumpe...
Source: JEMS Latest News - December 31, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Communications & Dispatch 911 Tennessee Source Type: news

Nashville (TN) Bombing Spotlights Vulnerable Voice, Data Networks
By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications. The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local wireless, internet and video service and connects to regional networks. Backup generators went down, which took service out hours after the blast. A fire broke out and forced an evacuation. The building flooded, with more than three feet of water later pumpe...
Source: JEMS Operations - December 31, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Communications & Dispatch 911 Tennessee Source Type: news

Nashville (TN) Bombing Spotlights Vulnerable Voice, Data Networks
By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications. The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local wireless, internet and video service and connects to regional networks. Backup generators went down, which took service out hours after the blast. A fire broke out and forced an evacuation. The building flooded, with more than three feet of water later pumpe...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - December 31, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Communications & Dispatch 911 Tennessee Source Type: news

Nashville (TN) Bombing Spotlights Vulnerable Voice, Data Networks
By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications. The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local wireless, internet and video service and connects to regional networks. Backup generators went down, which took service out hours after the blast. A fire broke out and forced an evacuation. The building flooded, with more than three feet of water later pumpe...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - December 31, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Communications & Dispatch 911 Tennessee Source Type: news

Nashville (TN) Bombing Spotlights Vulnerable Voice, Data Networks
By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications. The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local wireless, internet and video service and connects to regional networks. Backup generators went down, which took service out hours after the blast. A fire broke out and forced an evacuation. The building flooded, with more than three feet of water later pumpe...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - December 31, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Communications & Dispatch 911 Tennessee Source Type: news

Nashville (TN) Bombing Spotlights Vulnerable Voice, Data Networks
By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications. The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local wireless, internet and video service and connects to regional networks. Backup generators went down, which took service out hours after the blast. A fire broke out and forced an evacuation. The building flooded, with more than three feet of water later pumpe...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - December 31, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Communications & Dispatch 911 Tennessee Source Type: news

Nashville (TN) Bombing Spotlights Vulnerable Voice, Data Networks
By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications. The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local wireless, internet and video service and connects to regional networks. Backup generators went down, which took service out hours after the blast. A fire broke out and forced an evacuation. The building flooded, with more than three feet of water later pumpe...
Source: JEMS Special Topics - December 31, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Communications & Dispatch 911 Tennessee Source Type: news

COVID-19 and psychiatry: can electronic medical records provide the answers?, Lancet Psychiatry
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for health-care professionals, researchers, and policy makers, particularly in the area of serious mental illness. From the beginning of the pandemic, psychiatric symptoms have complicated medical care and contributed to morbidity and mortality.1 Conversely, individuals with serious mental illness are known to have a high prevalence of comorbid conditions associated with symptomatic COVID-19, including obesity, hypertension, smoking, and diabetes.2 Many individuals with psychiatric disorders also live in social conditions that result in high exposure to respiratory v...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - November 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Prediction of suicide-related events by analyzing electronic medical records from PTSD patients with bipolar disorder - Fan P, Guo X, Qi X, Matharu M, Patel R, Sakolsky D, Kirisci L, Silverstein JC, Wang L.
Around 800,000 people worldwide die from suicide every year and it's the 10th leading cause of death in the US. It is of great value to build a mathematic model that can accurately predict suicide especially in high-risk populations. Several different ML-b... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

How sustainable is remote health at scale?
With the crisis in healthcare resulting from COVID-19 also come opportunities.  One of these opportunities is the mass adoption of remote healthcare and a new appreciation of its many advantages for healthcare providers and patients alike.  But the pressing question is: Can this innovative model of care weather the post-pandemic future? After all, remote healthcare isn ’t new and unsuccessful attempts have been made to scale it in the past.  The overriding feeling is that remote healthcare is here to stay, having proved its worth to providers, payers, pharma, digital health firms, and patients. So, what is so diffe...
Source: EyeForPharma - October 28, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Nicola Davies Source Type: news

Conditional unnecessity of head CT for whole-body CT of traffic accident victims: a pilot study - Azuma M, Nakada H, Kitatani K, Shinkawa N, Khant ZA, Ochiai H, Hirai T.
PURPOSE: To investigate whether head CT should be included in whole-body CT in road traffic accident victims. METHODS: A review of electronic medical records identified 124 patients (81 males, 43 females; age 4 to 92 years, mean 47.7 years) involved in... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news