Digital Health Technologies Bring Change To The World Of Autism
People living with autism
are sensitive to the social world and the environment in general. They could
experience great difficulties in social situations, have anxieties, fears,
phobias, or sensory sensitivities. On the other hand, they could be on good
terms with technologies: social stories apps can navigate them in difficult
situations, virtual and augmented reality can offer a safe space for them to
exercise, and artificial intelligence helps in early detection. We scoured the
ground carefully and hereby present you the intersections of autism and digital
health.
Raymond
Babbitt’s heritage and the chronicles of a...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine AI app AR artificial intelligence autism digital digital health digital technology games genetics health app health apps Innovation virtual reality VR Source Type: blogs
Understanding Machine Learning And Deep Learning In Medicine
Algorithms, datasets, machine learning, deep learning, cognitive computing, big data, and artificial intelligence: IT expressions that took over the language of 21st-century healthcare with surprising force. If medical professionals want to get ahead of the curve, they rather get familiarized with the basics of A.I. and have an idea of what medical problems they aim to solve. So, let’s take a closer look at machine learning and deep learning in medicine.
The
ante-room of artificial intelligence
The term “artificial intelligence” might be misleading
as due to the overuse of the expression, its meaning started to...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 30, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine AI algorithm deep learning Health Healthcare Innovation machine learning smart smart algorithm smart health technology Source Type: blogs
Podcast: What ’s So Inspirational About a Bipolar and a Schizophrenic?
Throughout our lives, we are inspired by many people, from our parents to our teachers to celebrities to great thinkers of the past and present. And sometimes, we find ourselves being an inspiration for others. Also, sometimes, this fact surprises us. In this episode, Gabe and Michelle talk about both being inspired by others and how it feels to be an inspiration to others.
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“In the right light, all of us are fantastic. In the right, light we all suck.”
– Gabe Howard
Highlights From ‘Inspiration’ Episode
[00:30] Is Michelle amazing?
[3:30] Is Gabe an inspirati...
Source: World of Psychology - May 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Inspiration & Hope Schizophrenia Success & Achievement Source Type: blogs
How the Heck to Get Organized and Stay Organized When You ’ve Got Young Kids
You have a toddler—or three. You work from home. You work outside the home. You’re a stay-at-home-mom or dad. You volunteer. You have hobbies.
Whatever the specifics of your situation, spending a lot of time organizing and tidying up just isn’t a reality for you. You don’t have whole weekends to devote to decluttering, or even a whole day.
And you probably don’t want to. Understandably, with your limited time, you want to do something else: hang out with your family, be outside, have a date night with your spouse, read a novel, write your novel.
Still, it’d be nice to find your stuff, and keep a relatively ...
Source: World of Psychology - May 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Family General Habits Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Success & Achievement Source Type: blogs
A Spring Cleaning Primer: 15 Ways to Get Organized in 5 Minutes or Less
Getting organized can sound exhausting, especially if your house is filled with heaps and piles of stuff. Maybe it’s on the counters. Maybe it’s on your dining room table (and every other table in your home). Maybe it’s your entire closet.
Wherever the clutter resides, you’re finding it incredibly frustrating. Because for one, clutter is all you can find—your keys, your home insurance policy, that bill that’s due any day now, not so much.
And rest assured you’re not alone.
Ashley Hatcher, the owner of Neat Method in Washington D.C., cited the following statistic: Americans spend 55 minutes a day looking ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Habits Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Perfectionism Self-Help Stress Source Type: blogs
How to Spring Clean All Areas of Your Life
Come springtime, many of us start refreshing our surroundings, yearning for brighter, tidier spaces. But spring cleaning doesn’t only include decluttering and deep cleaning our homes. We can spring clean all areas of our lives to create greater meaning, fulfillment, and happiness. Here’s how.
Spring Cleaning Your Career
What does spring cleaning your career look like? It’s reflecting on “what is truly fulfilling and helping you achieve your bigger goals, and what [you’re] doing out of fear, habit, [or] confusion,” said Aurora Meneghello, founder of Repurpose Your Purpose, a program for individuals who want to ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Family Friends General Habits Happiness Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Relationships Self-Help Success & Achievement Productivity Spring Cleaning Source Type: blogs
Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 74 | European Money, Postpartum Care, & Social Determinants of Health
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are standing on a roof answering health tech questions from the Digital Health Commercialization Panel event in San Francisco. In this episode, Jess asks me about all the money that is being raised or spent in the health tech worlds of Europe and the US. DoctoLib, a company that is like ZocDoc in the US, raised a 150 million Euro which is probably the largest raise for a European company involved in health tech. Meanwhile, in the US, Teledoc also stretches its way into Europe, buying MédecinDirect, which is a telehealth company in France. We also see health tech companies in the e...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zoya Khan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Health Benefits of Staying Organized: An Interview With John Linden
Ever since I moved into my very own office — away from the dirty laundry and magazine piles of my home office in the bedroom — I’ve been studying the relationship between space and productivity/mood. As I organize my files, hang paintings, and eliminate the first threats of clutter, I am paying special attention to what promotes health and creativity and what destroys it.
Interior designer John Linden knows this subject well. He is a nationally recognized designer of mirrors and other wall décor and is the editor of TheMostChic, where he shares some excellent advice and knowledge he has gained over the year...
Source: World of Psychology - March 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Organization Productivity Source Type: blogs
Toxicology Mnemonic Challenge
There are multiple learning tools used as an adjunctive aide memoire. Herewith a collection of Toxicological related mnemonics used with varying frequency throughout the conundrums. Let us know if you have any more to add...
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 18, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Toxicology anion gap Anticholinergic bradycardia CAT MUD PILES charcol coma hypertension hyperthermia hypotension Hypothermia MDAC miosis mnemonic mydriana seizures tachycardia Toxicology Conundrum Source Type: blogs
Where Is Digital Health Heading In Denmark?
After reading the Danish digital health strategy, one
of the most forward-looking examples of a government-supported objective to adjust the medical arena to the 21st century,
we looked around what real-life projects aim to transform patients’ and
doctors’ lives for the better in the Scandinavian country. Our findings are
thrilling: the newly established Danish National Genome Center strives to have at least 60,000 whole-genome
sequenced in the next 5 years, while the Copenhagen Healthtech Cluster wants to
set up a network of data registers updated so fast that it might enable helping
doctors real-time – perhaps even...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 7, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy big data Danish Denmark digital health digital health strategy genetics genomics health data healthcare design Innovation technology Source Type: blogs
The Ice Cream Inquiry: Scooping Up Life and Savoring Sweetness
When your eyes open in the morning light, what gets you out of bed, and into your day? For some, it is their children calling for their attention, their dog needing to be walked, or their boss expecting them to get to work on time. For others, particularly those who face depression instead of the sunshine, simply pulling back the covers feels like a daunting task. What drives you to motor on when your ‘get up and go has got up and went?’
In my therapy practice, I sit with people who question their motivation to do much more than merely survive from one day to the next, rinse and repeat. They express discouragement ab...
Source: World of Psychology - January 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Source Type: blogs
Improving Healthcare Efficiency with Incentives: Interview with Ben Kraus, CEO of Stellar Health
We present simple reminders to the provider at the point-of-care. For example: “There are two things that you really need to do for this patient today, based on their history.” It simplifies everything and prioritizes the actions that contribute to a healthier patient in the long-run. Trying to use an EHR to do this doesn’t work because EHRs were designed to serve as a complete clinical record of a patient, which is cavernous and lacks actionability. EHRs were not designed to align payor and providers incentives and create a prioritization framework to maximize health outcomes.
There are innovative companies out th...
Source: Medgadget - January 23, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mohammad Saleh Tags: Exclusive Informatics Medicine Public Health Society Source Type: blogs
9 Productivity Hacks for Working from Home
Working from home can be incredibly convenient. You get to skip the long commute and rush-hour traffic. Your schedule is flexible, and can bend and bow to fit whatever you need to do (like picking up your kids from school and actually getting to the bank before it closes).
But working from home isn’t without its challenges. For instance, distractions are aplenty: dishes in the sink, piles of laundry, and interruptions from everyone from your kids to UPS to your next-door neighbor.
It’s also hard not to let your work bleed into your personal and family time, especially if you tend to be a workaholic as it is.
For writer...
Source: World of Psychology - January 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Success & Achievement Productivity Working From Home Source Type: blogs
New Study: Medicare ’s Readmission Penalties May Be Killing Patients
By KIP SULLIVAN JD
On the morning of December 21, I opened my copy of the New York Times to find an op-ed that said almost exactly what I had said in a two-part article The Health Care Blog posted two weeks earlier. The op-ed criticized the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), one of dozens of “value-based payment” programs imposed on the Medicare fee-for-service program by the Affordable Care Act. The HRRP punishes hospitals if their rate of readmissions within 30 days following discharge exceeds the national average. The subtitle of the op-ed was, “A well-intentioned program created by the Affordable ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medicare Politics CMS Congress Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Kip Sullivan MedPAC value-based care Source Type: blogs
Writing a Book
by Robert MacauleyI could write a book about that …But do I really want to? That ’s the question I asked myself a few years ago, when I was invited by Oxford University Press to submit a formal proposal for a comprehensive book on the ethics of palliative care. So I reached out to mentors for advice, and they all said the same thing: Enlist twenty of your friends to each write a chapter, and you can be the editor.Sage advice, which I didn ’t take. Partly because I like challenges. Partly because I don’t really like the unevenness of multi-author texts. And partly because I drastically underestimated how much time a...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 1, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: ethics macauley The profession writing Source Type: blogs
