Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 19 September, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Other than ads for mHHealthRecord training in obscure regional spots from the ADHA there seems little happening much at all.Is there any critical news I have missed?-----https://www.itnews.com.au/news/adha-starts-turning-cyber-security-strategy-into-reality-585047ADHA starts turning cyber security strategy into realityByRichard Ch...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 15, 2022 Edition-----The death of QE2 has rather dominated the news for the last week or so and will probably pass after the funeral today.Otherwise the war in Ukraine seems to be in a turning phase. I hope that continues into the eventual getting rid of the Russians from Ukrainian territory!In OZ life goes on much as usual just awaiting the mourning period to pass,-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/what-australia-should-do-about-taiwan-20220904-p5bf7iWhat Australia should do about TaiwanCanberra cannot be silent if US policy on Taiwanese independence changes. Quiet diplomacy is cal...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
North Korean Artillery to Russia
Eric GomezEarlier this week the United States revealed that it possesses intelligence showing thatRussia reached out to North Korea to purchase artillery shells and unguided rockets. While American officials have not provided more details, they have been quick to argue that the Russian request demonstrates theeffectiveness of sanctions and export controls levied against Moscow in response to its invasion of Ukraine.The effectiveness of sanctions argument may have some merit, but in a roundabout way. Russia has reportedly asked North Korea forunguided rockets and howitzer shells. These types of artillery are fairly eas...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 8, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
SOC Telemed Expands Behavioral Health Offering with Acquisition of Forefront Telecare
Company Renamed Access TeleCare
SOC Telemed, the largest national provider of specialty acute care telemedicine, announced its acquisition of Forefront Telecare, a leading virtual behavioral health company serving vulnerable adults nationwide across the care continuum. The acquisition significantly expands SOC Telemed’s existing behavioral health offering, provider network, and clinical capabilities. In conjunction with the acquisition, SOC Telemed is being renamed Access TeleCare to reflect the critical role the company plays in providing access to patient care across a wide spectrum of medical specialties in hospit...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Access TeleCare behavioral health Dr. Chris Gallagher Forefront Forefront Telecare Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Kirkland & Ellis LLP MTS Health Partners L.P Source Type: blogs
In Liz They Truss ‑t: Britain’s New Prime Minister
Ryan BourneToday Liz Truss becomes the UK ’s fourth Prime Minister in just over six years. She will be the third female Prime Minister in the country’s history (after Conservatives Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May).Earlier this summer, Conservative members of Parliament (MPs) toppled incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson. First they forced a Tory MP confidence vote on his leadership, which he survived. Soon after, a slew of high‐profile Cabinet resignations made his position untenable.Notionally, the triggers were revelations of several COVID-19 related lockdown breaches and then a government sex scandal in...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 5, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 21: Happy Days
George SelginBy the start of 1948, there could no longer be any doubt: the Great Depression wasn ' t coming back. Instead of collapsing at war ' s end, as many feared it would, combined government and private spending (as measured by nominal Gross Domestic Product) hardly budged between 1945 and 1946, and started climbing again thereafter. Consequently, as we ' ve seen, the unemployment rate ended up being as low as it had been in the latter 1920s; and the consumer price level, far from falling again as many feared it would, rose at alarming rates once controls were lifted, settling down by the end of the decade.Nor was th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 31, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Director/Sr Director of Finance
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director/Sr Director of Finance position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Rochester RHIO and is in Rochester, New York.
Here’s a description of the position:
Job Title: Director/Sr. Director of Finance
Reports To: Chief Executive Officer
Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt
Location: Rochester, NY area
Hybrid Work Options Available. Some on-site work required.
As the trusted data steward for secure health information exchange, Rochester RHIO is one of the most r...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 31, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health IT Jobs Healthcare CFO Healthcare CPA Healthcare Finance Healthcare IT Jobs HIE Jobs Job Seekers RHIO Jobs Rochester RHIO Source Type: blogs
Disabilities and Accessibility in Health IT: The Need Is Constant – Part 1
Of all industries, health care above all should provide accessible web sites to support people with disabilities or special needs. Our field deals disproportionately with the elderly and with people who suffer a range of disabilities, physical and mental. Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible.
Caroline Jerome, a designer who is a partner and chief creative officer at TBGA, pointed out to me that digital technologies have expanded the options available to disabled people. Accommodati...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC accessiBe Accessibility Ada Brandon Cooper Caroline Jerome Digital Health Accessibility Disability Dylan Barrell Get Source Type: blogs
Using Public Support to Lobby for Greater Public Funding of Aging Research
I don't pay a great deal of attention to the political lobbying efforts that take place in the community of supporters of aging research, as governmental funding is usually the last to the table, arriving long after the hard work of opening up a new field is done. There are a number of lobbying groups actively working in the US political system, and some single-issue political parties in Europe performing an analogous function. The material here is an example of the work taking place amongst those who lobby, the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives in this case. It is the business of persuading politicians that it is in thei...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 17, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 20: The Phantom Depression
George SelginIt was supposed to be a debacle.As the Second World War drew to a close, the nation’s leading economists feared that, once the armed services demobilized, at least 8 million men and women, perhaps many more, would be unemployed. That meant an unemployment rate of 12 percent—almost as high as the rate before Hitler raided the Low Countries, setting off the “ wartime boom.” If their forecasts were reliable, they meant that the postwar economy could end up being no closer to recovery than the prewar economy had been.A Worst ‐Case ScenarioOf course, such dire predictions weren ’t unconditional....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 8 August, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Really just a lot of bits and pieces this week. Not a great deal of inspirational stuff!Sadly we see lots of spurious emissions from the ADHA wanting to tell people living at the extremities of Australia how to tweak the privacy settings of the #myHR that they don ’t care about. Staggering that this is all we hear from such an a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
At the Core, Tuskegee Has Never Been Resolved
BY MIKE MAGEE
July 25, 1972 was fifty years ago this week and it is a day that all AP Science journalists know by heart. As Monday’s AP banner headline read: “On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked the nation. Based on documents leaked by Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower at the U.S. Public Health Service, the then 29-year-old journalist and the only woman on the team, reported that the federal government let hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis for 40 years in order to study th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 27, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Bill Clinton Elisabeth Holmes Mike Magee Theranos Tuskegee Source Type: blogs
Management of PPE contracts
This report identifies ‘significant failings’ in the management of PPE contracts that have led to a stockpile of almost four billion items that are not needed. It finds little evidence of action being taken against potentially fraudulent suppliers despite the Department of Health and Social Care's estimate that as much as five per cent of PPE expenditure may have involved fraud. The report urges that more robust and transparent practices should be put in place to prevent such losses in the future.ReportHouse of Commons Public Accounts Committee - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 21, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Politics, Not Economics, Motivates Semiconductor Subsidies
Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo ObregonAmidstmounting pressure from the Biden administration and led bySenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the Senate last night began a final push to fast‐track$76 billion in new taxpayer subsidies for domestic semiconductor manufacturers. (The initial subsidy proposal wasa mere $16 billion, but —unlike in the real world—inflation hasalways been a problem in Washington.) House Democratic leadership has alsosignaled their desire to quickly approve the subsidies, should the Senate send them a final package.Politically, Democrats ’ intense motivation to deliver these ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - July 19, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
