Women of color face biases in endometriosis diagnosis and surgical treatment
March is endometriosis awareness month. Endometriosis, a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside of the uterus, affects 1 in 10 women, or 190 million individuals worldwide. Although endometriosis leads to chronic pain and fertility issues and can impact bowel, urinary, and sexual function, it may take up to
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Women of color face biases in endometriosis diagnosis and surgical treatment originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 21, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Taytum Kahl Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Visana Health Raises $10.1 Million Seed Round to Bring Comprehensive Virtual Healthcare to Women Nationwide
Team of Women’s Healthcare Visionaries Builds a Comprehensive Virtual Clinic through a Whole-Person Care Model for Menstruation through Menopause
Available through Health Plans and Employer Benefit Plans, Visana Leapfrogs Narrowly Focused Women’s Health Point Solutions with Quality Longitudinal Medical Care from Visana-Trained Doctors and Nurse Practitioners
Visana’s Best-in-Class Clinical Model Caters to Complex Women’s Health Conditions without Driving Unnecessary Spend for Patients and Payers
Flare Capital Partners and Frist Cressey Ventures Co-Led Oversubscribed Seed Financing
Visana Health, a v...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 8, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bill Frist M.D. Dr. Barbara Levy Flare Capital Partners Frist Cressey Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment inHealth Ventures Joe Connolly Margaret Malone Olivia Capra Source Type: blogs
Dancing around the hexaflex: Using ACT in practice 2
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be slippery to describe. It’s an approach that doesn’t aim to change thought content, but instead to help us shift the way we relate to what our mind tells us. It’s also an approach focused on workability: pragmatic and context-specific analysis of how well a strategy is working to achieve being able to do what matters. Over the next few posts I want to give some examples of how non-psychologists (remember ACT is open for anyone to use it!) can use ACT in session.
Self as context
From my experience, this process is possibly the least well understood of the ACT hexafle...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 27, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Coping strategies Pain conditions Professional topics Science in practice acceptance and commitment therapy Clinical reasoning Occupational therapy Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Dancing around the hexaflex: Using ACT in practice 2
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be slippery to describe. It’s an approach that doesn’t aim to change thought content, but instead to help us shift the way we relate to what our mind tells us. It’s also an approach focused on workability: pragmatic and context-specific analysis of how well a strategy is working to achieve being able to do what matters. Over the next few posts I want to give some examples of how non-psychologists (remember ACT is open for anyone to use it!) can use ACT in session.
Self as context
From my experience, this process is possibly the least well understood of the ACT hexafle...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 27, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Coping strategies Pain conditions Professional topics Science in practice acceptance and commitment therapy Clinical reasoning Occupational therapy Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Does Tubal Ligation Cause Problems Or Side Effects?
If you have had a tubal ligation procedure and are now experiencing problems or side effects then you are not alone. Read this article for more information.
The post Does Tubal Ligation Cause Problems Or Side Effects? appeared first on A Personal Choice. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - June 4, 2023 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: Tubal Reversal Surgery can tubal ligation cause problems endometriosis essure fallopian tube pelvic pain tubal ligation problems Source Type: blogs
Medical errors and the power of apologies [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we talk to Amber Gipson-Fine, a project manager, about her personal experience with a medical error and the importance of medical apologies. March was Endometriosis Awareness Month, and Amber shares her journey with the disease and how a medical error nearly
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Medical errors and the power of apologies [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 31, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Hospital-Based Medicine Malpractice Source Type: blogs
‘ Women ’ s pain ’ – not just ‘ women ’ s pain ’
Women really do get a rough deal when it comes to pain. We live with the myth that because women experience pain in childbirth and (often) with periods of course women can ‘deal with it.’
Until recently women and female animals haven’t been included in pain research, and guess what? Women and female animals don’t have the same biological system for processing nociception.
Men are told ‘don’t be a girl’ about their pain.
Women are told they ‘look too good’ to be experiencing pain.
Women don’t get taken seriously when they ask for help with their pain &#...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - April 20, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Pain Pain conditions Chronic pain gender gender disparity Health healthcare Research sex women Source Type: blogs
Why an apology matters in medicine
March was Endometriosis Awareness Month, and my journey with the disease involved a medical error. The apology I received restored trust in my care, a pivotal moment I hope can occur between more patients and physicians. Medical error disclosure to patients, where a medical professional reports and explains a medical mistake to a patient, is
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Why an apology matters in medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 5, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Amber Gipson-Fine, MPH Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 5, 2023 – Two-thirds of patients connect with regular docs when they need medical care when traveling, half of clinical workflow automation users plan to expand their use, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Research
With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency due to end on May 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed restrictions on the remote prescription of controlled substances, with only buprenorphine and Sch...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Abridge Alan Swenson ATA Biofourmis canon medical CareCloud Carequality Chugai Phmarceutical DEA Derek Shaw Dustin Spencer eClinicalWorks eCW emt Source Type: blogs
Extra Hot Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy
Researchers at Oregon State University created a new type of hyperthermic magnetic nanoparticle that is intended to assist in destroying tumors through localized heating under an alternating magnetic field. Previous iterations of such technologies could heat up to about 44 degrees Celsius (111 F), which was only effective in easy-to-access tumors that can be reached with a hypodermic needle, allowing a clinician to inject a large number of the nanoparticles directly into the tumor. For difficult-to-access tumors, intravenous delivery of the nanoparticles is required, but this typically only results in a small number of par...
Source: Medgadget - November 18, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
I Have To Say I Really Do Find This App Pretty Worrying As It Is At Present
This appeared
last week:
App: Tracking menses and
more for endo, adeno and PCOS patients
Siobhan Calafiore
9 November 2022
Unlike most period apps available, QENDO not
only helps patients track their menstrual cycle, pain and mood but is also a
tool to manage chronic illness.
It is aimed at people with endometriosis, adenomyosis and polycystic ovarian
syndrome who are after an easy way to (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Endometriosis is often misdiagnosed. How to get the right diagnosis.
The six to ten percent of women in the U.S. who are living with endometriosis have to deal with not only the pain and complications the disease causes, but often also with exceptionally long delays before receiving a diagnosis—an average of 8.5 years from first seeking care to diagnosis. One study revealed that more than
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Endometriosis is often misdiagnosed. How to get the right diagnosis. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Miles J. Varn, MD Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Closing the Gender Health Gap: How Digital Technology Can Support Better Women ’s Health
The following is a guest article by Juliet Bauer, Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Livi
I’m often asked where I believe digital technology can make the biggest impact in healthcare. My answer? Women’s health. Today, women spend around a quarter of their lives in poor health or disability, compared with one fifth for men. In a health system that has historically been geared towards men, a gender health gap persists where you are more likely to receive poorer medical advice and diagnosis if you are a woman.
When I look at that gap, I see a key space for digital healthcare in helping us overcome many of the obstacles...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Digital Technology FemTech Healthcare Discrimination Juliet Bauer Livi UK Health IT Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Virtual Clinical Trials: Interview with Ivan Jarry, CEO at ObvioHealth
Decentralized and virtual clinical trials are gaining prominence, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic which made it difficult for trial participants to attend in-person appointments. However, conducting clinical trials remotely has a host of potential benefits beyond reducing COVID-19 transmission, including improved patient compliance, real-world data, real-time data, and reduced costs.
ObvioHealth is championing this approach to clinical trials, and through a partnership with Renovia, completed the first fully virtual clinical trial in urogynecology, which investigated the leva Pelvic Health System. The leva devi...
Source: Medgadget - May 16, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Ob/Gyn Urology clinical trials ObvioHealth Source Type: blogs
Underfunding Research Of Female Health Leaves Huge Amounts Of Money On The Table
“Did you know that at least one-third of women have lower back pain before their periods every month, and yet, nobody seems to fully understand why?” – asked a Medical Futurist team member a little while ago. The question led to a discussion about the differences in research, funding and understanding of male-only and female-only health issues, and consequently, to this article.
It is a well-known fact that some diseases or conditions dominantly affect one gender or the other. There are the trivial ones, like prostate cancer or ovarian, cervical, uterine cancers. But there is a long list of diseases and condit...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Medical Education women female health under-reseached gender gap in healthcare Source Type: blogs
