Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –17th September, 2022.
This study adds to the evidence showing that expanded access to these services could have a longer-term positive impact if continued.”Roughly 1 in 8 beneficiaries in the pandemic group received OUD-related telehealth services compared with 1 in 800 in the prepandemic group, the research revealed. Access to telehealth services was associated with better treatment retention and lower risk of medically treated overdose in the pandemic group compared to those not receiving telehealth services.-----https://healthimaging.com/topics/management/education-training/ai-deterring-students-pursuing-radiologyConcerns about the future ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Chaos Continues After Ransomware Hits UK ’ s NHS
The following is a guest article by Itay Bochner, Director of Malware Analysis at OPSWAT.
Patients can’t get their medicine, psychiatrists can’t add reports to the system and provide their professional opinion in court, and only last week was the medical helpline number 111 restored. The manual logging of patient records is resulting in piles of paper documentation, which doctors are saying could take months to input into the online system once it’s restored.
The ransomware attack on Advanced, one of the UK’s biggest software providers for its National Healthcare System, is turning into one of the biggest c...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Security and Privacy Advanced AWS CDR Center Hospital Sud Francilien Content Disarm and Reconstruction Cybersecurity Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare Malware Healthcare Ransomware Itay Boch Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
August 18, 2022 Edition-----The main issue, probably of the year, is the increasing tension across the Taiwan Strait with all sorts of worries about how conflict can be avoided and prosperity maintained at a reasonable level as tensions continue. And hopefully ease.The impact of climate change in Europe is really becoming obvious and worrying. I am not sure just how a realistic response is possible in any reasonable time.In OZ the PM has come back after a week off to have the Chinese Ambassador tell us we are a vassal and to just shut up and behave. Astonishing and serious stuff IMVHO.-----Major Issues.-----https://www.smh...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
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Op Note XXVIIIWell there comes a time when you have to just cut it all out. All the grit and gristle. The uncooked fat. The bad dad. The bad husband. Bad son. That ’s me. Never mastered any of it. Time for a little chop chop. Terrible poet so this will be the last one. All the others I ’ll change author status to anonymous. Too embarrassing. Can ’t run anymore, ankles breaking like balsa sticks. Cut the gym membership card in half. Burned out surgeon. Give it a rest. A nest of gray on my chest at the barber shop. Bad drinker. Bad tipper. Bad road trip companion. Bad fr...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - August 7, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Young children think that teachers who count out rewards are fairer that those who don ’t
By Matthew Warren
In just the first few years of life, children develop a strong sense of fairness. At 16 months old, toddlers will reward someone who has fairly distributed food or toys between two other people, for example. By two, they tend to share toys equally themselves.
A new study shows that children’s judgements of fairness also take into account the method by which resources have been allocated. Kids as young as four think that a teacher who has counted out cookies for a reward is fairer than one who gives that exact same reward without counting. The research, published in Cognition, suggests that when...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Source Type: blogs
Simplify Tax Code to Solve IRS Mess
Chris EdwardsThe filing deadline for federal income taxes this year is April 18. Hopefully, your return is straightforward and you won ’t need help from the Internal Revenue Service. The tax agency has been plagued by awful phone service, piles of unopened mail, backlogged return processing, and rising numbers of taxpayer disputes, asdescribed in a recent report by the Taxpayer Advocate.The Government Accountability Office has releaseda new report highlighting the IRS ’s troubles during last year’s filing season:More than 10 million returns had still not been processed by the end of the year. [p. 11]The num...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
IRS Train Wreck
Chris EdwardsAmericans don ’t expect to get great service from government agencies, but the current performance of the Internal Revenue Service is a train wreck. The pandemic slowed IRS operations and exacerbated the agency ’s existing deficiencies. At the same time, Congress has been loading up the tax code with new and expanded benefits and tasking the IRS with handing out hundreds of millions of aid checks.The IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) recentlydocumented the operational mess at the IRS:IRS telephone service is “the worst it has ever been,” with the IRS answering just 11 percent of incoming calls i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 7, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
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AsphaltHere they come again, dump trucksFull of steaming hot asphaltTrundling around corners to patchAll the fatigue cracks stellatingAcross the thawing ash-gray roads Of my half moon Midwestern townI hate the need to pave over such minor faultsIt ’s still safe. Drivable. Un-potholed. I like it shattered, patterned like crocodile Skins or the baked dry bed of the Nile.Or a floor map of an undiscovered countryDeep in the heart of a dark continent Parceled by reasonable men intoProvinces, parishes, arrondissements,I could spend hours gazing at mapsMarveling at how well it all fits Each shape ...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - January 15, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
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SeptuagintThe past is a vast cemeteryOf the finished and the dead.Plots for spinster aunts.Mausoleums slotted with memoriesLike cold stone filing cabinets.Cavernous pits for all the rest,Half filled with cracked bones, locks of hairClattering piles of dulled bracelets,Scuffed shoes, unmatched, without laces,Crisply folded handwritten letters,Yellowed soft like lost books of Septuagint,Feelings you always thought would last forever. Even my love for you Had its own assigned grave.Names and dates deeply carved.But we are here, the two of us, alone,Again, the weather unseasonably warm,Both bearing bundles of v...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - December 14, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
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AcousticsThere are those who hope thatThe other side of suicideIs a white room with perfect acousticsPerfectly calibrated to amplify The whispered reminiscencesOf familiar voices who haveBorne witness to the otherwise fullnessOf a prematurely curtailed life.The sonorous resonance of sadnessReverberates off these wallsAnd the lone curtained window is alwaysTangentially on the verge of shattering.This dream is the last Solace of all defeated souls,Where there is a first realization,Finally, once gone, of whatIt means to be deeply missed.But this was never a real placeNor even a conceptual solaceWhere fearful ...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - September 30, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
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AcousticsThere are those who hope thatThe other side of suicideIs a white room with perfect acousticsPerfectly calibrated to amplify The whispered reminiscencesOf familiar voices who haveBorne witness to the otherwise fullnessOf a prematurely curtailed life.The sonorous resonance of sadnessReverberates off these wallsAnd the lone curtained window quaversAlways on the edge of a radial shatter.This dream is the last Solace of all defeated souls,Where there is a first realization,Finally, once gone, of whatIt means to be deeply missed.But this was never a real placeNor even a conceptual solaceWhere fearful sto...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - September 30, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
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CurrencyConsider a world where love is a currency. A means of exchange, to be traded for items or experiences of equivalent value. Or you could simply invest it in arcane financial instruments that earn interest and become a source of passive income. Ten percent growth year after year without holding a door, remembering a date, tending to anyone ill. Without doing anything at all. A perpetually appreciating asset. Plenty of people just hoard it. Store it behind iron clad vaults of impenetrability. Save it up for down turns, for hard times. These are the people who never had much of...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - September 23, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Lost in translation
I have warned you that some weirdness goes down in 1 Samuel. Exactly how weird Chapter 6 is depends on whether you ' re reading the King James or the New International Version and kindred later translations. The Philistines realize that holding on to the Ark is probably not a good idea so they ask their priests how to appease Yahweh. In the KJV they propose sending the Ark back accompanied by 5 golden mice and 5 golden hemorrhoids. In the NIV it ' s 5 golden rats and 5 golden tumors. The tumors seem strange enough but it ' s hard to imagine what a golden hemorrhoid would look like. (I suspect the Hebrew word encompasses bo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 22, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Private Partz, Major Bummer, and General Payne-Diaz
Well, maybe. In the KJV, the Philistines are afflicted with hemorrhoids. (Actually it uses the archaic word emorods, but that ' s what it means.) In verse 9, they specifically had emorods in their " secret parts. " Hey, it isn ' t funny -- Preparation H had yet to be invented.However, later translators have decided that the Hebrew word has a more general meaning, and most translate it as tumors. One hypothesis is that this is intended as a reference to bubonic plague. A footnote in the New International Version, which I ' m giving here, says that the Septuagint has rats appearing in the land in verse 5, which would support...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 19, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The End of Bretton Woods, Jacques Rueff, and the “Monetary Sin of the West”
Lawrence H. WhiteAugust 15, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the day President Richard Nixon “closed the gold window,” ending the postwar Bretton Woods international monetary system. It is an appropriate moment to reconsider the internal inconsistencies of the Bretton Woods system. As its contemporary critics understood, Bretton Woods was doomed to fail if it could not be fundamentally reformed. One of its chief contemporary critics was the French economist, Jacques Rueff.Jacques RueffRueff (1896 –1978) was the most important French classical liberal economist of his generation. As a young economist, he worked unde...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 10, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Lawrence H. White Source Type: blogs
