As COVID worsens, don ’t forget about the opioid crisis
For the past seven months, an epidemic in our country has spiraled out of control, claiming thousands of lives that could have been saved. It has been met by an inadequate, meandering national response that has often lacked urgency. It has disrupted families, and at times has overburdened our health care system grappling with limited […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 13, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/vishal-khetpal-and-nishant-shah" rel="tag" > Vishal Khetpal, MD and Nishant Shah, MD, MPH < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Medications Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Loneliness and Litigation: A Lawyer ’ s Case Study
Chronic loneliness is on the rise. But how can this be when we’re more connected now than ever? In today’s show, Dr. J.W. Freiberg, a social psychologist-turned-lawyer, explains that loneliness is not an emotion like happiness or anger. It’s a sensation like hunger or thirst.
Join us for an in-depth discussion on the cost of feeling disconnected even when we’re surrounded by people.
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Guest information for ‘Loneliness’ Podcast Episode
J.W. Freiberg studies chronic loneliness through the unique lens of a social psychologist (PhD, UCLA) turned lawyer (JD, Harvard). A former...
Source: World of Psychology - December 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Interview Psychology The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Dementia and Death (video)
The Hemlock Society of San Diego recently broadcast a terrific webinar on dementia and death.As the population ages the possibility of a dementia epidemic increases. This panel explores what one can do to determine how long you would want to live if yo... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 8, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Why There ’ s Hope In 2021
ALMOST THEREWe’re finally about to leave this dreadful 2020 behind! This year was stacked with natural and man-made disasters, economic and mental collapse, bleeding healthcare and the untimely and unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands. No wonder we are all waiting for the year to end and find some peace of mind that it will all be over soon – and that 2021 will be better.
And hope, indeed, is what we have. Because throughout 2020, amazing advances have given hope that rose in science, technology, digital health, leadership and in basic human care and kindness. Anti-racist books topping the lists. More people ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 3, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Forecast Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy science fake news politics 2020 leadership jumanji lockdown vaccine hope 2021 pfizer BioNTech Source Type: blogs
RWJF Emergency Response Challenges Video
On November 19, 2020 Catalyst @ Health 2.0 hosted the finals of the RWJF Emergency Response Challenges, one for tools for the General Public and the other for the Health System. The promise of the tools that have been built as part of these challenges is immense in the battle against this COVID-19 pandemic and the ones yet to come. The finalists for the General Public challenge were:
Binformed Covidata– A clinically-driven comprehensive desktop + mobile infectious disease, epidemic + pandemic management tool targeting suppression and containment of diseases such as COVID-19. The presenter was veteran health IT expert...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Health Tech Binformed covidsms RWJF Innovation Challenge Source Type: blogs
How to avoid a relapse when things seem out of control
There is no one who would deny that this has been a stressful year. As the Grateful Dead said, “If the thunder don’t get you, the lightning will.” If you manage to avoid catching COVID, then you are probably at least contending with some mixture of financial and childcare stress, the nail-biting political divisions we see daily on television and social media, and a constricted social universe. Our society already suffers from an epidemic of loneliness that has been cruelly worsened by the physical distancing required to keep the pandemic at bay.
Even people not struggling with addiction are finding their drug and alc...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Peter Grinspoon, MD Tags: Addiction Alcohol Coronavirus and COVID-19 Mental Health Stress Source Type: blogs
Can the Government Mandate a Covid-19 Vaccine? Will It Have To?
Conclusion
As governments assess how to contend with reaching effective levels of vaccination, they are preparing to tread carefully around vaccine skepticism while transparently and apolitically addressing common concerns about safety and due process. Attitudes could change as vaccines are distributed to the public and, hopefully, demonstrate safety and effectiveness, encouraging individuals to rapidly vaccinate.
For government, a heavy-handed approach could backfire, fueling further anti-government/anti-science sentiment, but not pursuing vaccination with ample vigor could mean a prolonged timeline for co...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy COVID-19 vaccine Phillip Meylan Source Type: blogs
RWJF Emergency Response Challenge Results!
by MATTHEW HOLT
Yesterday Catalyst @ Health 2.0 hosted the finals of the RWJF Emergency Response Challenges, one for tools for the General Public and the other for the Health System. It was a great session, sadly virtual and not at a conference with cocktails afterwards. But the promise of the tools that have been built as part of these challenges is immense in the battle against this COVID-19 pandemic and the ones yet to come.
The finalists for the General Public challenge were
Binformed Covidata– A clinically-driven comprehensive desktop + mobile infectious disease, epidemic + pandemic management tool targ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Binformed Catalyst @ Health 2.0 COVID-19 covidsms FreshEBT Pathcheck Propel Qventus RWJF Innovation Challenge Tiatros Source Type: blogs
How COVID-19 Catalysed Digital Health Trends
Coronavirus has shattered our world and changed nearly all aspects of our lives. It has also changed our relationship to healthcare. It is slowly becoming a cliché to say that COVID-19 has catalysed healthcare trends – but nevertheless, it’s true. Everyone in the world has seen what devastating impact healthcare can have on our daily lives and how underfunded healthcare systems depend on the heroic frontline workers, who are holding the walls from falling apart.
The windfall of the era of digital health is unquestionable, but it has always been. The hurdle was the adoption of these changes, for they posed infrastru...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 19, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Forecast Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education AI MIT covid19 Source Type: blogs
Interregnum
Despite trying to overturn 222 years of the constitutional regime and have himself declared President for Life, the Great Orange Turdblossom has evidently vacated the actual office of the presidency. Other than firing the top Pentagon leadership and replacing them with racist lunatics, he has taken no official action and hidden from the public for the past week. Meanwhile, mysteriously, Hunter Biden ' s laptop has disappeared. What has not disappeared, however, is the viral epidemic which is currently infecting most of the top White House staff, not to mention most of the Midwest. There has been a weird com...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 12, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
RWJF Emergency Response Innovation Challenges: Virtual Pitch Event on 11/19!
By ELIZABETH BROWN
As COVID-19 brought to light the lack of emergency response preparedness in the health care system, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and Catalyst @ Health 2.0 saw an opportunity to highlight digital health’s potential to support health care stakeholders and the general public. RWJF and Catalyst partnered to launch two Innovation Challenges on Emergency Response for the General Public and Emergency Response for the Health Care System.
The Emergency Response Innovation Challenges asked innovators to develop a health technology tool to support the needs of individuals as well as healt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Health Tech emergency response RWJF Innovation Challenge Source Type: blogs
It is overwhelming hopelessness that crushes caregivers ’ collective souls
I started my medical training in the late 1990s. This was after the AIDS epidemic; that is to say, by that time, the human immunodeficiency virus was known, and there were already proven treatments. So, for doctors of a certain age, this is the first time we have battled an emerging disease. This has created […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/brian-rifkin" rel="tag" > Brian Rifkin, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Nephrology Source Type: blogs
Four Seasons Total Landscaping
A few thoughts on the present moment.It is fitting that the last hurrah of the Ronald T. Dump re-election campaign was a news conference given by a demented lunatic in the parking lot in an industrial park in Philadelphia next to a porno store (having a blow-out sale on dildos) and a crematorium. How they came to select this spot is a matter of much speculation, but it ' s emblematic of the total incompetence of the administration and the campaign. Actually the 2016 campaign was widely viewed as incompetent also, and yet it wound up installing Mr. Dump in the presidency. Given the incompetent campaign, it is all...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 8, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What Will Shape Joe Biden ’s Health Care Agenda?
I’m thrilled to have health futurist Jeff Goldsmith back on THCB, and given Biden was only confirmed as President-elect this morning, his article on what to expect is extremely timely!–Matthew Holt
By JEFF GOLDSMITH
The Trump administration’s health care journey began with a trillion dollar near miss–the failed Repeal and Replacement of ObamaCare- and ended with a full-on train wreck, the catastrophically mismanaged COVID epidemic that will have claimed 300,000 lives by the time he leaves office. After four years of posturing and lethal incompetence, it will be a relief to see caring and pr...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy OP-ED Politics THCB ACA Biden Jeff Goldsmith States Unions Source Type: blogs
Breaking my rule
As I often say here, I try avoid making predictions, especially about the future. (Yes, highly original.) However, to the extent I have relevant expertise and there is good enough information to fit into the model, it is sometimes helpful. Joe Biden will assume the presidency on January 20 confronting enormous problems. Right now, it ' s conceivable that Democrats will effectively control the Senate, which would make a huge difference, but that will require winning two head-to-head Senate races in Georgia. That seems a less than 50/50 bet, but without the Dumpster on the ticket it ' s hard to say how motivated G...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 6, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
