What Is The Good Samaritan Law?
The term “Good Samaritan” comes from the gospel of Luke. In the parable told by Christ, a Samaritan helped a Jew who had been beaten and robbed. At the time, the Samaritans and Jews were mortal enemies. Through the parable, Jesus attempts to redefine what it means to be a good neighbor.
Reading some recent conversations on the good Samaritan law in a few online forums, I’m reminded not of the biblical parable, but of the parable of the six blind men describing an elephant. Remember that one? One guy feels the side and thinks an elephant is like a wall, the other feels the tail and thinks an ele...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 10, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They ’ re No Cornucopia
This article focuses on revenue, because I and other writers frequently cover impacts of televisits on access and care plans. (Still, I haven’t been able to hold back from some other related observations.) What I found is that televisits don’t seem to make a big difference, either positive or negative, on the money clinicians are making. As usual, sites that are already flush with cash and well-endowed with resources can find more cost savings.
How televisits improve clinical revenues
Obviously, televisits saved the health care system from collapse when COVID-19 was first recognized as a major threat. But as we...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Behavior Health Behavioral Telehealth Costs Revenue Telehealth Reimbursement Source Type: blogs
Another Curious Way The Internet Has Changed How We Think (M)
How the internet has changed our confidence in our own knowledge. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - November 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Cognitive Psychology subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
What Are K2 and Spice Anyway?
Chances are, you’ve probably heard about the new trend in synthetic cannabis products either from your local news media or from your ongoing EMS education. Over the past few years, these products have been increasing in prevalence around the US and in Europe. But what are these products anyway? Are they cannabis or not? Are they legal to posses? Are the effects similar to traditional marijuana?
Here’s a quick rundown of what EMS folks should know about this new and growing trend in street pharmacology.
Synthetic cannabis products have a variety of street names including Spice, K2, Herbal Incense, Potpourri, Barel...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 7, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – November 5, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Healthcare IT Podcast. John Lynn and Colin Hung took a trip down memory lane and recapped the first 100 episodes of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. Listen to their take on the most memorable topics, trend, and announcements in health IT over the last four years – and hear what they think will be in store for the nex...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 5, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Repurposing My Defunct iPad Mini
I hate Apple.
Everything they make becomes useless over time.
Take my iPad Mini. I purchased it in 2013 so that I’d have an easy-to-carry device to showcase our mammogram decision aid at the MedX Conference, where I had a poster presentation. It’s been rarely used since then. But yesterday, as I was squinting at a movie on my iPhone’s little screen while working out at the gym, and wondering if I needed new readers, I remembered that iPad mini. I could use it at the gym!
When I got home last night, I pulled it from the back of the desk drawer. After charging and resetting it, I was thrilled to...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 4, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Technology Apple hacks Ipad Ipad mini Old Uses Source Type: blogs
CheckedUp Acquires Health Media Network
Acquisition Creates One of the Nation’s Largest Specialty-Focused, Digital Point of Care Advertising Networks
CheckedUp (or the Company), one of the leading providers of 100% digital healthcare solutions at the point of care, announced today that it has acquired Health Media Network (HMN), a provider of digital healthcare solutions and wellness content to health venues across the country. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CheckedUp is backed by Rockbridge Growth Equity (Rockbridge), a partnership-oriented middle market private equity firm with a differentiated approach to building and growing compani...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Care Advertising Networks Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey CheckedUp Comvest Covington Associates Dr. Richard Awdeh Greenberg Traurig Health Care Networks Health IT Acquisitions Health Media Network Source Type: blogs
101 Things We Should Teach Every New EMT
1) You aren’t required to know everything.
2) You are required to know the foundational knowledge and skills of your job. No excuses.
3) Always be nice. It’s a force multiplier.
4) There is no greater act of trust than being handed a sick child.
5) Earn that trust.
6) Don’t ever lie to your patient. If something is awkward to say, learn to say it without lying.
7) Read Thom Dick’s, People Care. Then read it again.
8) You can fake competence with the public, but not with your coworkers.
9) Own your mistakes. We all make them, but only the best of us own them.
10) Only when you’ve learned...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 2, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Overcoming Barriers to Emergency Care During a Telehealth Appointment
The following is a guest article by Alexander Chiu, MD at Telemedicine911.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought a quick pivot to telehealth, where patients in any location can connect with a provider from any location. The rapid adoption of telehealth and virtual provider brought light to the following question – What happens during a telehealth visit if the provider recognizes that the patient needs urgent help due to an emergent situation?
Telling a patient to “hang up and call 911” or “hang up and go to the ER” is like telling a person who just walked into the provider’s office to leave and go somewhere else ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 911 Dispatch Air®GeoLocate Alexander Chiu Emergency Medical Services EMS PSAP Public Safety Answering P Source Type: blogs
Who Will Benefit From New Wireless Internet Bandwidth?
When WiFi was first launched in the 1990s (based on the growing set of IEEE 802.11 standards, for those who care about provenance), it had a small range at the 2.4 Gigahertz (GHz) radio frequency. In 1999, a more capable range at 5GHz range was added. And now 6GHz is just appearing on the market.
Radio waves are sort of all the same, no matter the space between their peaks. Therefore, the differences between 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz are a matter of quantity and the trade-offs they make. We shouldn’t expect a sudden new capability just because we’re in a new frequency band. On the other hand, the quantitative differenc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 31, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops 6 GHz Wifi Healthcare Bandwidth Healthcare Wifi Roger Sands Smart Devices Wyebot Source Type: blogs
Balancing Personal Privacy with Freedom of Speech
Thomas A. BerryI ’vepreviously written about the serious First Amendment problems with the “judicial privacy” bill which was recentlyadded to theNational Defense Authorization Act.If passed into law, every American would risk facing mandatory takedown orders for posting basic facts about federal judges online, including their birthdates, the colleges attended by their children, and the jobs of their spouses. The bill stifles access to relevant information about public officials, arbitrarily limits its restrictions to the internet but not other media, and allows speech to be suppressed even if it poses no possible sec...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 31, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry Source Type: blogs
The Supreme Court Should Protect Online Editorial Rights
Thomas A. BerryIn May of last year, Florida enacted a law imposing severe restrictions on the editorial freedom of large social media platforms, ostensibly in an effort to stop “censorship” of conservative viewpoints. The law imposes both content moderation restrictions and transparency requirements. The content moderation restrictions require platforms to host and display any and all posts by registered political candidates and “journalistic enterprises,” ban plat forms from changing how they moderate more than once every thirty days, and allow platforms to be sued for up to $100,000 for each post they modera...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 27, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas A. Berry Source Type: blogs
Is Disruptive Innovation Really Such A Good Thing?
This week I read an essay by Health Futures President Jeff Goldsmith which made a case for moving beyond a much-beloved way of thinking about innovation and growth.
In his essay, which appeared in The Health Care Blog, author Goldsmith argues that the concept of disruption as having “passed its sell-by date” after mass adoption by those who see it as gospel.
To be certain, there’s much to admire in the theory, which was outlined by Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail.
In this book, Christensen defines disruptive innovation as the process in w...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation Disruptive Technology Healthcare Disruption Healthcare Innovation Healthtech Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - October 25, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and any related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon, a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
