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Behavioral health care must be integrated with primary care to ensure that people get access to effective care quickly and in a trusted setting.        (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - August 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nathaniel Counts, Celli Horstman Source Type: blogs

Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Alan S. Gutterman (Entrepreneurship), Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2023): The World Health Organization has reported that approximately 16% of the global population, over 1.3 billion people worldwide, had some form of disability, and that an additional 190 million... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 16, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

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Payers are making equity a core goal of their models, but if these efforts don’t address structural flaws of past models, efforts to advance equity will be limited.        (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - August 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Celli Horstman 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

Equitable health care guidelines for minority populations
Health care data analysis has shed light on significant disparities in health care across various locations. To address these inequalities, institutions, payers, and regulators have distinct options at their disposal, both socially and economically. Concurrently, individual health care providers can take their own initiatives while collaborative efforts are made to establish checks and balances to Read more… Equitable health care guidelines for minority populations originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Access to Public Health Services in South Africa ’s Rural Eastern Cape Province
Michael Mncedisi Willie (CMS), Mudasir Maqbool (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences), Access to Public Health Services in South Africa ’s Rural Eastern Cape Province (2023): Socio-economic issues, such as poverty levels and high levels of unemployment are among the impediments to accessing... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 13, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Iranian doctors ’ bravery: Upholding medical ethics amidst oppression
According to Sir William Osler, “The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business …” This calling inherently involves sacrifices. How many of us would sacrifice our freedom, livelihood, or even lives for this calling as the clinicians in Iran have been doing? Iranian doctors demonstrated their bravery in Read more… Iranian doctors’ bravery: Upholding medical ethics amidst oppression originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

The Abolition of Food Oppression
Etienne C. Toussaint (University of South Carolina), The Abolition of Food Oppression, 111 Geo. L.J. (2023): Public health experts trace the heightened risk of mortality from COVID-19 among historically marginalized populations to their high rates of diabetes, asthma, and hypertension,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 11, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

The Little Mermaid ’ s impact on storytelling [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join Erkeda DeRouen, a family physician, as we delve into the recent remake of The Little Mermaid. Discover how this Disney film led Erkeda on a journey to explore the inspiring story of Howard Ashman, his battle with HIV during the AIDS epidemic, and Read more… The Little Mermaid’s impact on storytelling [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

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Since the COVID-19 public health emergency ended, millions of people have lost Medicaid coverage because of procedural reasons despite still being eligible.        (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - August 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Akeiisa Coleman Source Type: blogs

Reshaping opioid policies: a patient advocate ’ s call [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join patient advocate Richard A. Lawhern as he challenges prevailing myths surrounding the opioid crisis. With insights from medical literature, he questions the link between opioid prescribing and toxicity, highlighting the need for evidence-based public health policies. Learn about the human toll of opioid Read more… Reshaping opioid policies: a patient advocate’s call [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Pain Management Source Type: blogs

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Health systems wanting to reduce carbon emissions may wish to switch from a focus on treating sickness to supporting health and wellness.        (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - August 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Emily Hough Source Type: blogs

Bacteriophages to Diagnose and Treat Bladder Infections
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a bacteriophage system to identify and treat bacterial bladder infections. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria, but these microorganisms have fallen out of favor as a treatment method for infection since antibiotics came along. Well, antibiotics are looking increasingly shaky as bacteria evolve to resist them, so researchers are returning to bacteriophages as a way to treat antibiotic-resistant infections. However, these Swiss-based researchers have turbo-charged bacteriophages by genetically modifying them so that they are more effective at killing bacteria, and also so...
Source: Medgadget - August 8, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health Urology bacteriophages ETH ETH_en Source Type: blogs

Campaign to End Diabetes Stigma
Currently, there is a global effort to pledge to make the world a more supportive, understanding, informed and caring place for people living with diabetes by eradicating " diabetes stigma " . This has been a matter which Renza Scibilia has invested considerable effort to address (catch her post athttps://diabetogenic.blog/2023/07/31/sign-the-pledge-to-end-diabetes-stigma/ for details) and I wish her well in the venture. To sign the pledge, visithttps://enddiabetesstigma.org/. Diabetes stigma is something I ' ve been forced to endure for nearly a half-century (I was diagnosed with T1D in 1976; you do the math). When i...
Source: Scott's Web Log - August 7, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 diabetes stigma renza scibilia Source Type: blogs

Kaiser-Geisinger vs. Amazon, Walmart, CVS: Who will reign supreme?
For decades, research studies and news stories have concluded the American system is ineffective, too expensive and falling further behind its international peers in important measures of performance: life expectancy, chronic-disease management and incidence of medical error. As patients and health care professionals search for viable alternatives to the status quo, a recent mega-merger is Read more… Kaiser-Geisinger vs. Amazon, Walmart, CVS: Who will reign supreme? originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs