MedEssist is Helping to Transform Pharmacies into Pharmacy Health Clinics
The healthcare system in many countries is stretched thin. To help relieve the pressure, governments are starting to allow pharmacists to treat a growing number of minor ailments. MedEssist’s technology platform is helping pharmacies transform into health clinics.
Healthcare IT Today got a brief demonstration of the MedEssist platform from Joella Almeida, CEO and Co-Founder at the Collision Conference. We also asked her about the expanding role of pharmacists in healthcare.
Pharmacies Are Already in the Community
“We are focused on helping independent pharmacies,” explained Almeida. “There’s one on every bloc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Collision 2023 Collision Conference Joella Almeida MedEssist minor ailments Pharmacies Pharmacists pharmacy health clinics Source Type: blogs
Defense Budgeting and the Dilemma of Lost Time
Since 2011, Congress has routinely struggled to pass a budget on time. Instead, Congress leverages continuing resolutions to fund the government and prevent shutdowns. This flawed process that relies on temporary fixes is hampering Pentagon planning and could pose long-term risks to U.S. military readiness and competitiveness. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 16, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: John Hoehn; Paul Cormarie Source Type: blogs
Proactive Transformation: Why Healthcare Organizations Need to Digitize Before (Not During) the Next Crisis
The following is a guest article by Shawn Henners, Electronic Business Process Manager, Montgomery County Hospital District
The Montgomery County Hospital District (MCHD) is a local government agency that coordinates indigent healthcare, and provides 9-1-1 emergency medical services and public health services for Montgomery County, Texas — our mission is to care for the indigent while ensuring long-term stability through fund development.
Though the agency serves more than a half million people, our process automation department is a two-person team. This small but mighty enterprise is responsible for ensuring behind-the...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Digital Care Digital Transformation Digitization Healthcare Automation Laserfiche MCHD Montgomery County Hospital District Proactive Transf Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Rapid Response to Anti-NICE Whine de Coeur; UK Government Seeks Input to Interim Delivery Plan for ME/CFS
By David Tuller, DrPH The Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry (JNNP) has finally published a cogent rapid response to its recent whine de coeur from the PACE authors and their cronies. In the commentary, the co-authors criticized eight purported “anomalies” they believe occurred during the process of developing the 2021 ME/CFS guideline from Britain’s … Trial By Error: Rapid Response to Anti-NICE Whine de Coeur; UK Government Seeks Input to Interim Delivery Plan for ME/CFS Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 15, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized JNNP MEAction UK UK ME/CFS plan Source Type: blogs
THCB 20th Birthday Classic: McKinsey wants to inspire lots of change; caveat emptor
by MATTHEW HOLT
So to celebrate 20 years, we’ll be publishing a few classics for the next week or so. This is one of my faves from the early days of THCB, back in 2006. It’s interesting to compare it with Jeff Goldsmith’s NEW piece from yesterday on vertical integration because at the time a pair of Harvard professors, Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg were telling hospitals to change their operations in a way that seemed to me were going to destroy their business–cut down to one or two service lines they were best at and stop with the rest. McKinsey picked up on this and I went to town on wh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: The Business of Health Care Elizabeth Teisberg Hospitals Matthew Holt Mckinsey Michael Porter Source Type: blogs
A whole new perspective
Through a chain of events that I won ' t bore you by reciting, I find myself the Democratic candidate for First Selectman of the very small town I live in. (I expect that ' s surprising. It is to me.) This suddenly makes me think about problems I really hadn ' t considered much before.Our town ' s main industry is agriculture. We don ' t really have a main street. There ' s a liquor store, an auto repair business, an acupuncturist, a seamstress (really) and a chain saw shop. We have a sawmill and a campground. That ' s about it. Our problem is that agricultural land pays very little in real estate taxes, which means that a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 12, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Naive Realism and the Legal Profession
By MIKE MAGEE
In 2002, psychologist Emily Pronin and her co-authors, in an article titled, You Don’t Know Me, But I Know You: The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight, laid out the concept of “Naive Realism.”
As she explained, “We insist that our ‘outsider perspective’ affords us insights about our peers that they are denied by their defensiveness, egocentricity, or other sources of bias. By contrast, we rarely entertain the notion that others are seeing us more clearly and objectively than we see ourselves. (We) talk when we would do well to listen…” Point well taken, but these (most would agree) are tryin...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Jan 6 Lawyers Mike Magee Trump Source Type: blogs
Prescribing Algorithmic Discrimination
Jennifer D. Oliva (Indiana University), Elizabeth Pendo (University of Washington), Prescribing Algorithmic Discrimination (2023): In response to America ’s escalating drug poisoning crisis, the federal government has funded, incentivized, and mandated that states adopt and implement prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs)... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 9, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
NeuroFlow Acquires Parent Company of BHL and BHL Touch to Expand and Support the Delivery of Integrated Behavioral Health Throughout the VA and Other Healthcare Partners
The Virginia-Based Technology Firm, Capital Solution Design, Owner of Behavioral Health Lab (BHL) and BHL Touch, Works with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs among other Leading Healthcare Organizations to Improve Access to Behavioral Healthcare
NeuroFlow, the leading provider of behavioral health technology infrastructure, today announced that it has acquired Capital Solution Design (CSD), the parent company of Behavioral Health Lab (BHL) and BHL Touch, a leading provider of measurement-based care solutions for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other healthcare organizations. The acquisition makes CS...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 4, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Behavioral Health Lab BHL BHL Touch Capital Solution Design Cerner Chris Molaro CSD Dr. Dave Oslin Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A John Boles Kent Reynolds MIRECC NeuroFlow U.S. Departm Source Type: blogs
The ultimate sanction
Some while back I discussed the death penalty here, in response to a couple of atrocious crimes that happened in Connecticut and provoked a lot of controversy. The first person to be executed in the state following the Supreme Court moratorium was a man named Michael Ross, who raped and murdered young women in what is now my neck of the woods as it were, a bit before I moved out here. He asked his attorneys to stop trying to prevent it, in other words he went to his death willingly, evidently preferring it to life in prison. So in that situation one has to ask, what ' s the point? One element of controversy was whether his...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 3, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
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The federal government updated its regulatory approach to short-term insurance plans, and states also may determine the time is right to revisit these products.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - August 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Justin Giovannelli, Kevin Lucia, Christina L. Goe Source Type: blogs
Republican Misbehavior Promoted Health Professional Activism
By MIKE MAGEE
If you wanted to create a motto for the summer of 2023 – one that would stand the test of time from the medical exam room of Ohio to the gilded bathroom of Mar-a-lago – it would have to be Jack Smith’s “Facts matter!” If that is true on a national scale, it is equally true in states across the nation where doctors increasingly are coming out from behind a self-imposed clinical curtain and going public.
As reported in ProPublica last week, “Doctors who previously never mixed work with politics are jumping into the abortion debate by lobbying state lawmakers, campaigning, forming polit...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Abortion Activism health care providers Mike Magee Physicians Trump Source Type: blogs
IP and Public Research in Health Emergencies: U.S. Law and Best Practices
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette (Stanford University), IP and Public Research in Health Emergencies: U.S. Law and Best Practices (2023): The urgent demands posed by the COVID-19 pandemic galvanized the scientific research community, with substantial support from government funding. The results of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 2, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
It Looks Like Digital ID Is Really Coming To Australia This Time.
This appeared
a few days ago.
Eight things businesses and customers need to know about digital ID in
Australia
Tegan
Jones
July 28, 2023
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week has seen a resurgence in discussions around the roll out of a national
digital ID in Australia, after Finance Minister Katy Gallagher spoke on th e
subject at the Australian Financial Review
Government Services Summit. This has sparked a fresh (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
IoMT – Helping Data Reach Its Full Potential
The importance of data in healthcare has been beaten into our heads again and again and again. Healthcare runs on data, all good decisions are backed by data, etc. I think we’re all on the same page about making sure our organizations have all of the healthcare and patient data we can get our hands on. But in repeating the simple message that data is important, we tend to leave out that even more important is the ability to properly manage it to make it accessible, especially with the sheer amount of data that healthcare organizations need to run properly. One tool that can help in this endeavor is the Internet of Me...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Asensus Surgical Dustin Vaughan Grayson Miller Internet of Medical Things Source Type: blogs
