A New Approach for Occupational Licensing in Wisconsin
A decade ago an errant pass in a basketball game hit my thumb hard along the nail. After a couple days of intense pain, the thumbnail fell off and then grew back misshapen. It turned out that the injury killed a portion of the nail bed. As afflictions go it is pretty minor, but it is a tad grotesque and makes a few tasks a bit more difficult.An orthopedic surgeon suggested I either opt for surgery —which may not have worked or been covered by insurance—or else have the entire nail permanently removed for aesthetic reasons. I oped to leave it alone and began getting a regular manicure to keep the thumbnail under control...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 8, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Ike Brannon Source Type: blogs
How America Dropped the Ball on Sports Concussions
By JASON CHUNG & AMANDA ZINK
As GOP lawmakers grapple with the “replace” aspect of Obamacare and seek to overhaul the subject “nobody knew could be so complicated,” we must remember that one of the best ways to reduce spiraling healthcare costs is to improve health through preventive measures.
For instance, increased participation in youth sports would help control rising obesity and sedentary rates which are responsible for 21% of annual medical spending – a staggering $190.2 billion a year. Inactivity among youth spiked from 20% in 2014 to 37.1% in 2015. But while the NIH identifies preventing weight gain ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: OP-ED Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Through the Revolving Door, Darkly
While the rare appointments to top health care positions by the Trump administration deservedly get considerable media coverage, lower level appointments sneaking through therevolving door do not. So we hereby present our latest roundup of same, in chronological order by first coverage.Lance Leggitt from Health Care Lobbyist at Baker Donelson to Chief of Staff for the Secretary of Health and Human ServicesThis appointment first appearedin StatPlus on March 2, 2017 but was behind a paywall. It was more recently covered in the New York Times in along article about revolving door appointments not specific to healt...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 2, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: conflicts of interest DHHS health care corruption regulatory capture revolving doors US Department of Justice Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Mythbusters
Here’s an excerpt from my new book, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor. Here, I bust many commonly-held myths about healthcare that can impair your ability to take back your life and health, undoctored. Get beyond these myths and you are on your way to embracing the strategies I discuss in the book that provide spectacular health, slenderness, and high levels of day-to-day functioning.
Healthcare Mythbusters
While not as dramatic as a TV Mythbusters episode blasting a school bus into the air with a jet engine, we can still bust a few widely held myths sur...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 27, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Diet gluen grains health healthcare Weight Loss wheat Source Type: blogs
Kathy Greenlee ’s Reflections on Paths to Person-Centered Planning
Challenging Us to See the Whole Person at All Stages of LifeKathy Greenlee, VP for Aging and Health PolicyThe Center for Practical Bioethics hosted the Joan Berkeley symposium on Thursday, April 6. The title for the day was “Paths to Person-Centered Planning.” In planning the event, my objective was to focus on tools and techniques grounded in a disability policy perspective that could benefit healthcare professionals and bioethicists. The day brought articulate and engaged speakers, raised new questions, introduced different language, and ultimately affirmed the strength of a multi-disciplinary approach t...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 18, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care bioethics chronic pain healthcare decisions Opioid Epidemic Paths to Person-Centered Planning syndicated Source Type: blogs
Dire Fears of Trump Deregulation
Four decades ago, the United States began a dramatic change in domestic policy, repealing swaths of economic regulation and abolishing whole agencies charged with managing sectors of the U.S. economy.If you mention this “deregulation” today, most people think it refers to wild Reagan administration efforts to undo environmental, health, and safety protections. In fact, the deregulation movement predated Ronald Reagan’s presidency, had broad bipartisan support, and had little to do with health, safety, or envi ronmental policy. Rather, deregulation targeted regulations that directed business operations in different se...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 13, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Firey Source Type: blogs
Foundation Blogs Round-Up: Social Determinants Of Health, Kansas Medicaid, And More
Data Analytics In Health Care (And Baseball)
“Bringing Moneyball to Medicine,” by Andy Bindman of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on the California Health Care Foundation’s blog, February 15. Bindman, who is now a professor of medicine, health policy, epidemiology, and biostatistics at UCSF, directed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) from May 2016 until the conclusion of the Obama administration. In this post (and when he was at AHRQ), Bindman uses the example of the movie Moneyball (which is about baseball) to make his point about how data analytics help. He says, “It was my ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lee-Lee Prina Tags: GrantWatch Medicaid and CHIP Environmental Health Health Philanthropy Health Reform Nonmedical Determinants Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
ACA Repeal Would Mean Massive Cuts To Public Health, Leaving Cities And States At Risk
When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed a little over six years ago, it brought with it the promise of health insurance for all Americans. It also sought to begin to shift the paradigm for health care in this country, emphasizing value over volume, and recognizing the importance of prevention coupled with appropriate access to care.
By now, it is well known that repealing the ACA could leave nearly 20 million Americans uninsured and simultaneously result in millions of job losses across the country. An associated cost that has been less discussed, but no less relevant, is what repeal could mean for the nation’s alr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Chrissie Juliano Tags: Costs and Spending Following the ACA Public Health Big Cities Health Coalition Community Health Prevention and Public Health Fund. Source Type: blogs
Reproductive Health Under Assault
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Monday, January 23rd, 2017. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health law over the previous year, and preview what is to come.
American political, social, and religious history has made abortion a deeply partisan issue. This despite the reality that many women (as well as trans and gender non-conforming individuals) from diverse racial, cultural, class, and religious backgrounds regularly access abortion-related services. The outcome ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 3, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Aziza Ahmed Tags: Featured Global Health Policy Public Health Quality Abortion GOP platform Helms amendment Purvi Patel Reproductive Health The Health Law Year in P/Review Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Trump Executive Order Targets Regulations
On one of his first few days on the job, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would require all government agencies to eliminate two regulations for every one new regulation instituted.
The order was characterized by the Administration as a plan to help benefit small businesses. However, it is likely to have an impact on the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as it applies to every agency (other than those related to military or national security), or any other agencies exempted by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
How this plan will work for an agency like the FDA is hard to compr...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 27, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
The Urban Institute Model Of Financing Long-Term Services And Supports: A Critical Review
For some time now, certain analysts, advocates, and policymakers have recommended the creation of a new social insurance program to finance long-term services and supports (LTSS) for the working-age disabled population and, in particular, the elderly disabled population. This demand came close to fruition when the CLASS program was included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and used in the estimate of its budgetary effects (scoring) to help fund that legislation over Congress’ 10-year scoring window. CLASS (Community Living Assistance Services and Supports) would have been a national, voluntary insurance program, sponsore...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 15, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Mark Warshawsky Tags: Long-term Services and Supports Aging CBO Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Congress Source Type: blogs
What parents need to know about baby monitoring apps
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If you want to know how your baby is doing, checking your smartphone app may not be your best bet.
That’s the bottom line of an opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association about the new apps that monitor the heart rate, oxygen level, and other vital signs of babies, using sensors that go in clothing or bedding, and sound alarms if something seems awry.
I’ve been a new mom a few times, and I totally understand the appeal of these apps. I have gone in repeatedly to check my baby’s breathing, getting my face down to hear them, putting a hand on their back to feel its r...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
Exchange Value: A Review of Our Bodies, Our Data by Adam Tanner (Part 1 of 3)
A lot of people are feeling that major institutions of our time have been compromised, hijacked, or perverted in some way: journalism, social media, even politics. Readers of Adam Tanner’s new book, Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records, might well add health care data to that list.
Companies collecting our data–when they are not ruthlessly trying to keep their practices secret–hammer us with claims that this data will improve care and lower costs. Anecdotal evidence suggests it does. But the way this data is used now, it serves the business agendas of drug companie...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 26, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Healthcare Business Medical Economics Adam Tanner Data Data Brokering Data Marketing Deborah Peel Healthcare Data Medical Record Sales Patient Privacy Rights Source Type: blogs
Why medical experts say that teens should be allowed to make the abortion decision without telling their parents
I am the mother of three daughters, and if one of them were to get pregnant and be thinking about an abortion, I’d want to know. It’s heartbreaking to me to think about not knowing — and about them going through that alone.
But for their own safety and well-being, they should have the right not to tell me.
That’s the consensus of several medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the Society for Adolescent Health Medicine, the American Public Health Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. And I agree.
Here in the United States, m...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 24, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Parenting Women's Health Source Type: blogs
The “Disconnects” That Threaten The Connected World
I’m betting that most readers are intimately familiar with the connected health world. I’m also pretty confident that you’re pretty excited about its potential – after all, who wouldn’t be? But from what I’ve seen, the health IT world has paid too little attention to problems that could arise in building out a connected health infrastructure. That’s what makes a recent blog post on connected health problems so interesting.
Phil Baumann, an RN and digital strategist at Telerx, writes that while the concept of connecting things is useful, there’s a virtually endless list of “disconnects” that could lead...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 11, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Digital Health Digital Therapies Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare HealthCare IT HIPAA General Connected Health Internet of Things IoT Phil Baumann Telerx Source Type: blogs
