Home Office woes
Overseas healthcare professionals: desperately needed, yet no longer welcomed? Related items fromOnMedica Can medicine be cured? Lessons from Torbay: The journey to integrated care The changing role of community trusts in large geographies RCGP sets out priorities for general practice for new prime minister The future for our students (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - October 7, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
What Do I See Is The Future For Digital Health As The Blog Reaches 6000 Posts?
The blog was started in 2006 (March) with the intent of providing come clarity as to just was happening in e-Health, which has subsequently been renamed Digital Health, in Australia and to a less extent overseas.
To me the progress has been what people term a ‘curate’s egg’ or ‘good in parts’!
The good has clearly been the progress made in general practice and in the information providers (pathology and radiology etc.) as well as the progress made in some States with hospital IT (especially NSW and Vic – with the ACT, WA being major laggards and the others still struggling to some degree.)
As far as Commonw...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 21, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Are PCNs what we all imagined?
Luke Koupparis looks at whether PCNs are turning out to be all they were hyped up to be Related items fromOnMedica Can medicine be cured? RCGP sets out priorities for general practice for new prime minister New Year NHS resolutions How GPs can address Babylon ’s burning platform GPs welcome 'biggest reform to services in 15 years' (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - September 12, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
Do You Reckon The Health Department Will Do Better With Data Collection Third Time Round?
This turned up last week:Report the ‘first step’ towards nationwide primary care data asset The massive data collection program should improve patient outcomes while potentially raising the profile and political leverage of general practice. Matt Woodley
30 Aug 2019According to the consultation report released by the Australia n Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) this week, raising patient awareness and acceptance of the National Primary Health Care Data Asset (Data Asset) will be a specific focus in the second half of 2019.
University of Melbourne academic and member of the RACGP Expert Committee – Research ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 4, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Just visiting
Chris Preece reflects on the risks of home visits in light of the murder of a social worker Related items fromOnMedica Can medicine be cured? Safeguarding: what lies ahead for 2019 GPs to consult via social media and take on more roles 100,000 people in NI wait over a year for hospital treatment RCGP sets out priorities for general practice for new prime minister (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - August 29, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: blogs
Here Are A Range Of Views Regarding Just How Far The #myHealthRecord Has Come.
This appeared last week:Is My Health Record becoming useful to GPs? Five months after the opt-out period ended, has Australia ’s digital health repository hit the threshold for usefulness? Some GPs give an emphatic yes, while others say it is still a work in progress.But that may depend on where GPs are based, with some states seeing far higher hospital uptake than others.Following months of at times tense debate around privacy and security provisions for the digital health record, around 90% of Australians now have a My Health Record, a system built by the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA). Around 90% of gene...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 9, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Understanding primary care networks: context, benefits and risks
Health Foundation - This briefing places primary care network (PCNs) in the context of previous changes to general practice funding and contracting. It examines the rationale for networks, explores relevant evidence and draws out intended benefits and possible risks for the future of PCNs.BriefingMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 7, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Developments in primary and community care Source Type: blogs
The role of the GP in caring for gender-questioning and transgender patients
Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) - This paper provides an overview of the key issues facing gender-questioning and transgender patients, general practice and the broader health system. It establishes the RCGP ’s position on the role of a GP in providing care to patients experiencing gender dysphoria, the policy principles underpinning this position and recommendations for ensuring these patients receive equal access to the highest standard of care.Position statementPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 1, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Developments in primary and community care Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: My Letter to Professor Chew-Graham about the Cost of MUS
By David Tuller, DrPH In multiple venues, Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham of Keele University has misstated the reported cost of so-called “medically unexplained symptoms” to the NHS. Professor Roger Jones, editor of the British Journal of General Practice, recently corrected such a misstatement in a 2017 editorial written by Professor Chew-Graham and several colleagues. (Thank you, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 1, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: BJGP Correction Coming, BMJ Still Stonewalls
By David Tuller, DrPH Today I received an e-mail from Professor Roger Jones, editor of British Journal of General Practice. I’ve been nudging him to correct a false statement in a 2017 editorial about the cost of so-called “medically unexplained symptoms” to the UK National Health Service. The false statement involved a misquotation of a […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 11, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Hey BJGP, Where ’ s That Correction about the Cost of MUS?
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier today (Sunday, June 9th, in San Francisco), I sent the following e-mail to Professor Roger Jones, the editor of the British Journal of General Practice. I first wrote to Professor Jones in early May, seeking a correction to a 2017 editorial about the cost of so-called “medically unexplained symptoms” to […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 10, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Barriers to good pain rehabilitation
This is a long…… readooops, sorry, not.
Low back pain is, we know, the greatest contributor to days lived with disability (Rice, Smith & Blyth, 2016). And no-one anywhere in the world has found a good mix of services to reduce the number of days lived with disability as a result of this problem. And yet billions of dollars are used to fund research into the many contributors to a shift from acute low back pain to ongoing disability associated with low back pain.
At the same time, treatments that directly target disability, rather than pain (a target considered the most important outcome by Sullivan an...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 9, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Low back pain Pain conditions Research Science in practice health funding health systems models of care Source Type: blogs
Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps
Each year 2-3 million non-melanoma and 132,000
melanoma skin cancers occur globally according to statistics from the
WHO. Thus, every tool has to be deployed for early detection and
intervention. As smartphone penetration already reached the quarter of the
Earth’s population, smartphone apps seem to be a viable way to go against skin
conditions. Here, we collected the top dermatology apps to aid your digital
skin care.
As smartphones take over the world, dermatology apps
multiply
As technology continues to advance, so too does its
accessibility to the general population. In 2013, only 56 percent of Americans
owned ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 4, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones dermatology Health Healthcare Innovation patient patient information skin smart health smart healthcare smartphone apps technology Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: British Journal of General Practice Agrees to Correction about MUS
By David Tuller, DrPH This week I’ve been taking some days for family stuff. But I have a minor victory to report. After a series of e-mails with the British Journal of General Practice about a false statement concerning the cost of “medically unexplained symptoms” to the UK National Health Service, the editor has agreed […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - May 29, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Clinical reasoning models: what ’ s wrong with them?
I’ve been interested in clinical reasoning and models used in clinical reasoning for quite some time. Occupational therapy has several models, including the “occupational therapy problem solving process” by Lela Llorens, the Model of Human Occupation by Gary Kielhofner, and the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance by Polatajko, Townsend and Craik in 2007. All of these models were designed to support occupational therapy clinical reasoning processes, and to capture the essence of what occupational therapy is about.
When it comes to pain rehabilitation, I’ve found the occupational therapy mo...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 26, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Clinical reasoning Occupational therapy Pain Pain conditions Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice hypotheses models theory Source Type: blogs
