Could smartphones and ride-sharing apps solve transportation in healthcare?
Patients living in rural, suburban or urban areas with poor infrastructure often don’t have the proper means to get to the doctor’s appointment on time. In extreme cases, they have to wait even for emergency situations so much that they can call an ambulance and receive care in a hospital.
Ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft offer non-emergency medical transportation services, while start-ups, such as Circulation or Ride Health also promise to deal with the issue. Could smartphones and networked services solve transportation in healthcare?
Why is getting to the doctor such a hassle?
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Source: The Medical Futurist - September 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Health Insurance Healthcare Design Telemedicine & Smartphones Hospital patient startup transportation uber lyft ride-hailing medical transportation NEMT Circulation Kaizen Helth Veyo Ambulnz RoundTrip Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 23, 2021 Edition ----- The big news in the US, UK and OZ is rhe new AUKUS alliance and its implications – along with the fury that has been provoked with France. Just how this will all play out is hard to work out and I suspect it will take many years to become clear – given the change in the way OZ is planning to be in the world! ----- Major Issues. ----- https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/nursin g-crisis-in-australia-can-no-longer-be-ignored-20210912-p58qwe.html Nursing crisis in Australia can no longer be ignored By Kylie Ward September 12, 2021 — 11.55pm Nursing, already under pressure, is reaching break...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Eight Reasons For Ending Joe Biden ’s Travel Bans
Ryan Bourne and Brad SubramaniamBack in July, Ioutlined why Joe Biden ’s crude COVID-19 travel bans on non-Americans coming from Europe, India, and a few other countries no longer made any sense from a public health perspective.Talk in Washington at the time was of lifting these restrictions by September. Well, here we are, mid-way through that month and the restrictions are going strong. Officials and diplomats now seem to think October or even Thanksgiving are the earliest potential dates for their removal. Some ponder whether the political incentives might point towards inactionuntil the mid-terms...which would mean b...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne, Brad Subramaniam Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 16, 2021 Edition ----- In the US we see the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack, while the divisions in the US society seem to be just getting worse. Pleas for unity from both Bush and Biden seem to be largely unheeded so far – lets see if any change can emerge. In the UK COVID19 it still edging up with deaths at about 1000 a week – hardly controlled just yet! In OZ we are seeing keenness to open up with plans that it is hard to believe will work – as per our recent poll. Time will tell as always. And in late breaking news we have the new AUKUS alliance where OZ will start building...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Syncope in a young man
Written by Pendell MeyersLet ' s say a young person presented with exertional syncope. They are now at baseline, asymptomatic, normal vital signs, and they have this ECG at triage:What do you think?Below are two other variations of this patient ' s resting ECG from different time periods:Answer: Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular CardiomyopathySee the end of the post for review and details on ARVC and it ' s ECG findings, but suffice to say that this patient has sinus rhythm, small epsilon wave in some of his ECGs, and R waves in V1-V3 with TWI.Here is a close up of V1-V3:Notice the very subtle micro-voltages at the J ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - September 16, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
More Laughing, More Thinking
By KIM BELLARD
There was a lot going on this week, as there always is, including the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the beginning of the NFL season, so you may have missed a big event: the announcement of the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Awards (no, those are not typos).
What’s that you say — you don’t know the Ig Nobel Awards? These annual awards, organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, seek to:
…honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in scie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Research health research Ignobel Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Health Profile for England: 2021
Public Health England -The 2021 edition of the Health Profile for England provides aa overview of the health of people in England and updates indicators presented in previous reports. It also contains a summary of the wider impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on many aspects of health and health inequalities. In addition, the report makes comparisons with health in a selection of other countries (US, Canada, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland) where possible.Statistical reportPublic Health England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 15, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
The Future of Digital Therapeutics: Prescribing Apps, Sensors and A.I.
Digital health, digital pills, digital therapeutics… With the ‘digital’ suffix being increasingly used in the digital health industry, the meaning behind some terms might not be so evident at a glance. For instance, one might think that ‘digital therapeutics’ and ‘digital pills’ are interchangeable terms; but they are in fact totally different digital health tools.
While we discussed digital pills in depth last year, we have yet to talk about digital therapeutics. And this is exactly what we have set out to do with this article; as the latter might very well be a viable option in your future treatment.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - September 14, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Medical Education Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones cybersecurity apps applications treatment health management Source Type: blogs
The Future of Digital Therapeutics: Prescribing Apps Or Sensors A Reality?
Digital health, digital pills, digital therapeutics… With the ‘digital’ suffix being increasingly used in the digital health industry, the meaning behind some terms might not be so evident at a glance. For instance, one might think that ‘digital therapeutics’ and ‘digital pills’ are interchangeable terms; but they are in fact totally different digital health tools.
While we discussed digital pills in depth last year, we have yet to talk about digital therapeutics. And this is exactly what we have set out to do with this article; as the latter might very well be a viable option in your future treatment.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - September 14, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Medical Education Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones cybersecurity apps applications treatment health management Source Type: blogs
Health Tech And Smart Habitats For People With Special Needs
No matter whether it’s about the problems of ageing, vision, hearing, disabilities or other permanent conditions, modern urban environments or residential places often disregard people with special needs. Luckily, technology and smart design might offer solutions on how to make cities more accessible, more inclusive and entirely suited for everyone in the future.
Smart cities helping people with disabilities
According to the United Nations, by 2050 70% of the global population will live in cities, of which at least 15% will be people with disabilities. Moreover, 360 million people worldwide have moderate to pro...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 9, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Innovation technology health technology smart city smart design inclusive accessible people with special needs disability Source Type: blogs
Subsidies and Misplaced Shipbuilding Nostalgia
Colin GrabowReading some of the commentary, one could be forgiven for believing that the United States was a major commercial shipbuilding force in the post‐World War II era until it was brought low by the end of a particular subsidy in the early 1980s. Known as construction differential subsidies (CDS), they were meant to encourage domestic shipbuilding by bridging the difference in price between constructing ships in the United States and abroad (up to a maximum of 50 percent). With these subsidies in place, some argue, the country’s shipyards were in a vibrant state.The Brookings Institution ’s Aaron Klein...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 2, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 30th 2021
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter, please visit:
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out mo...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 29, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
95% of Centenarians are Frail
Survival to 100 years of age is a rarity at the present time, but if the present slow upward trend in life expectancy continues, most people born today will live to 100 or more. That trend will, of course, not continue as-is. The past trend was due to incidental effects of public health measures and general progress in medicine on the mechanisms of aging. The trend in life expectancy will leap upwards with the advent of rejuvenation therapies that deliberately target the reversal and repair of those mechanisms. But that is a topic for another post.
Here, let us focus on what actually happens at the present time to p...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 27, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Poor Diet and Lack of Exercise Correlate with Risk of Cognitive Decline and Dementia
It is not surprising to find data showing that a poor diet and lack of exercise correlated with an increased risk of later neurodegeneration and dementia. Plenty of studies exist to note that correlation. The question is the degree to which it is correlation versus causation. There are good reasons to believe that regular exercise slows the onset of neurodegeneration, quite clear mechanistic links that are demonstrated to be causal in animal studies. Equally, a poor diet and lack of exercise correlate with many other potential contributing factors in human populations, not least of which is frailty and other manifestations...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
poem
SaintI ’m no hero, certainly not anyone’s idea of a saint. That twisted bowel was dead and needed to come out. Didn ’t take a genius. I know the steps. I ’m merely well-trained. Capable of following instructions. Dozens are clamoring to replace me. Anyone would do the same. No one is irreplaceable. This is the sudden recognition of the inescapable anonymity of moderate accomplishment. The real heroes are more like my seventh grade science teacher, Ms. France. (Her name was either Ms. France or Mrs. Krantz.) She told me I had a “terrific personality” just in t...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - August 23, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
