Announcing 1st And Future, A Startup Competition from the NFL and the Texas Medical Center
The Texas Medical Center has been working with Health 2.0 to promote startup competitions, incubators and health tech innovation for a while now. But this is the first time that I recall them giving the opportunity to win Superbowl tickets. Intrigued? Read on–Matthew Holt
On February 5, Super Bowl LI will take place in Houston, Texas at NRG Stadium. Houston is home to technology breakthroughs across all sectors: Spindletop, the Port of Houston, the Houston Ship Channel, Johnson Space Center, and the Texas Medical Center (TMC). With every discovery comes great benefit to those locally, and beyond.
With that spirit of ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health 2.0 1st and Future Innovation Contests NFL Texas Medical Center Source Type: blogs
How to Talk to Your Family about Drinking this New Year ’s Eve
How to Talk to Your Family about Drinking this New Year’s Eve
Talking with friends or loved ones about being more careful when they drink alcohol can feel uncomfortable. But for thousands of Americans who die from alcohol poisoning every year or are killed by a drunk driver on New Year’s Eve, one uncomfortable conversation could have made the difference between life or death. Here’s how you can broach the subject with friends, children, siblings or parents, and help them stay safe and healthy as they welcome 2017.
Your loved one may brush off your concerns about their drinking on New Year’s Eve by blaming the holid...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - December 29, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Richard Taite Source Type: blogs
12 Ways to Have a Healthy Holiday Season
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has some tips for making your holiday season as healthy as possible. Brighten the holidays by making your health and safety a priority. Take steps to keep you and your loved ones safe and healthy—and ready to enjoy the holidays. Read more here: https://nnlm.gov/bhic/4jir (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - December 23, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: terri ottosen Tags: Articles General Public Health health tips healthy lifestyle safety resources Source Type: blogs
Want Accountability in Education? Empower Parents
The selection of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education hasexposed longstanding tensions among education reformers who are united in their support for expanding educational choice but divided over the government ’s role in regulating such programs.The schism is oftenportrayed as being between those who support or reject “accountability,” but thisisn ’t quite accurate. The real disagreement is notwhether there should be accountability, but to whom schools should be held accountable: parents or bureaucrats. As Lindsey Burke and I argue in anew report published by the Heritage Foundation and the Texas Public Policy...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 15, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Jason Bedrick Source Type: blogs
D.C. District Court Should Issue an Immediate Injunction Against Enforcement of FDA Deeming Regulations
According to anABC News story, a Connecticut man was injured when an electronic cigaretteexploded in his mouth. The problem, according to the local Deputy Fire Marshal, is that " cheaply made aftermarket batteries can short circuit in milliseconds. " The article reports that there have been at least 92 other documented explosions.There seems to be a simple solution to the problem. The company that manufactured the defective e-cigarette used by this Connecticut man should find a different source of batteries, instead of using the cheap aftermarket batteries that can short circuit in milliseconds.However, there is just one p...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - December 15, 2016 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Jahi McMath Federal Lawsuit Stayed Pending Outcome of Brain Death Diagnosis Issue in State Court
Judge Haywood GilliamOn December 12, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued two rullings in Jahi McMath's federal lawsuit against the State of California and Alameda County.
1. Rooker-Feldman Doctrine
The Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal courts from exercising subject-matter jurisdiction over a proceeding in which a party losing in state court seeks what in substance would be appellate review of the state judgment in federal court.
In 2013, the Alameda County Superior Court found that McMath had suffered brain death and was deceased as defined under Heal...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 14, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Technology Will Change the Future of Professional Sports!
Technology is rapidly changing professional sports similarly to any other field. Let’s look at how technology can help athletes to reach their maximum potential, while keeping in mind how important it is to preserve the fun and happiness sport brings in people’s lives.
Technology hijacked sports
Instead of the stairs, you use an elevator to get to your office. You work on your desktop computer or laptop and use a smartphone. You use your credit card to pay for lunch. Technology became gradually part of our life, so it is normal that professional sports also started to exploit its possibilities.
In Formula–1, cycling,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine diet GC1 genetics Health nutrigenomics Personalized medicine sensors sport technology wearables Source Type: blogs
Tenet Healthcare to Pay $514 Million to Settle Kickback Allegations
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a settlement with Tenet Healthcare Corporation and several subsidiaries, resolving criminal charges and civil claims relating to a scheme to defraud the United States and to pay kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals.
Criminal Charges
Two of the subsidiaries, Atlanta Medical Center Inc. and North Fulton Medical Center Inc., agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the Anti-Kickback statute by paying health care kickbacks and bribes.
Atlanta Medical Center Inc. and North Fulton Medical Center Inc. were charged in a criminal in...
Source: Policy and Medicine - November 21, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Agricultural Worker Health: Resources
Workers in agriculture can experience numerous health issues, including pesticide and dust exposure, injury and stress. Many may face additional challenges due to language barriers, access to healthcare and poverty. The Rural Health Information Hub has information about the health status of farm workers and organizations that support agricultural health initiatives. ToxTown has occupational and environmental health resources for providers, employers and employees. ToxTown is available in English and Spanish.
Rural Migrant Health (Rural Health Information Hub): https://nnlm.gov/bhic/qh6r
Rural Agricultural Health and Safety...
Source: BHIC - November 14, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kate Flewelling Tags: Environmental Health Minority Health Concerns Multilingual Source Type: blogs
These Scope of Practice Laws Don ’t Improve Health Outcomes, Serve Mainly as Barriers to Entry
Scope of practice (SOP) restrictions in health care professions are often portrayed as a necessary intervention to protect consumer health and safety. Given how common this argument is, there have been surprisingly few studies trying to determine whether SOP restrictions actually have any impact on such outcomes. A newworking paper seeks to fill this gap in the literature by determining whether SOP laws for certified nurse midwives (CNMs) affect health outcomes. On average, it turns out that the restrictions do not have a significant impact on maternal behaviors or infant health outcomes. Instead, they “primarily serve a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Charles Hughes Source Type: blogs
Have a safe Halloween!
Before you get dressed up and start trick-or-treating tonight, check out these sites for safety tips from food to streets to costumes.
Halloween Health and Safety Tips (CDC)
A Safe and Spooktacular Halloween (KidsHealth from Nemours)
Make Halloween a Sweet Dream, Not a Nightmare (Foodsafety.gov)
‘Lucky 13’ Tips for a Safe Halloween (FDA) (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - October 31, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: Articles Children and Teens Public Health Public Library Source Type: blogs
From my totally nonprofessional viewpoint, it looks like at least the first two of these hospital deaths were directly related to bad health IT
The Connecticut " Health I-Team " site (http://c-hit.org/data-mine/data-mine-hospital-inspection-reports/) provides access to a database sourced from the Connecticut Department of Public Health that includes reports of violations at Connecticut hospitals found during inspections, as well as corrective actions taken to prevent similar future violations.Their Mission Statement is as follows at http://c-hit.org/about/:Mission StatementThe non-profit Connecticut Health Investigative Team [C-HIT] is dedicated to producing original, responsible, in-depth journalism on issues of health and safety, in Connecticut and the...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 6, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: Connecticut Health I-Team EPIC Yale Medicine Yale-New Haven Hospital Source Type: blogs
Transgender healthcare coverage: Prevalence, recent trends, and considerations for payers
The post originally ran on Milliman, Inc. on July 28, 2016.
Recently, the concept of gender identity and what it means from a health insurance coverage perspective has been receiving increased attention. This paper lays out recent trends, including recent federal and state laws affecting health insurance benefits for transgender individuals. We also examine health insurance clinical coverage policies related to gender reassignment surgery as well as prevalence estimates. Finally, we provide future considerations for healthcare payers, including appropriately capturing data relevant to the healthcare needs of the transgende...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Transgender Healthcare Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How Can The Government Improve Prevention Programs In The Workplace?
In the U.S., over 150 million adults go to work daily and spend the majority of their waking hours engaged in some form of employment. Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the federal government had not seriously considered the workplace as an appropriate venue for improving population health, although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had funded a small number of workplace projects dating back to the mid-1980s.
In a bipartisan manner, the federal government can play a significant role to engage the business community in building and sustaining workplace health promotion programs that w...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 2, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Ron Goetzel Tags: Costs and Spending Organization and Delivery Population Health Quality health promotion Prevention Workplace Wellness Source Type: blogs
5 Things to Do if Your Job Makes You Cry
Frequent tearfulness, anxiety, fearfulness, insomnia and changes in appetite are likely first symptoms of workplace stress. My clients who report these symptoms are also somewhat baffled by what could be the cause. They tell me, “I love my job and I’m good at it, so why does it suddenly upset me so much?”
Joan works as a nurse in a local hospital. She came to see me complaining that her panic attacks were getting worse and she was crying most days, unable to cope with a workload that, just a few months previously, had been no problem for her.
Joan said she was intending to build a new house. Her bank manager tol...
Source: World of Psychology - August 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sophie Henshaw, DPsych Tags: Bullying General Industrial and Workplace Money and Financial Psychology Self-Esteem Self-Help Stress E Mail Workplace bullying Source Type: blogs
