Mental Health and Wellbeing Platform, Spectrum.Life Raises a Further €5 million
Spectrum.Life, a leading provider of mental health and wellbeing services for insurers, employers, employees, and students is pleased to announce the successful completion of a €5 million raise, resulting in a total of €9 million raised for the company. The round, again led by Act Venture Capital, included strong participation from existing and new investors.
This investment comes at a time when alternative and new approaches to mental health provision are of critical importance as traditional channels are increasingly overburdened and waiting lists in the sector continue to grow.
Spectrum.Life has set itself apart fro...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 27, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT ACT ACT Venture Capital Clinical Efficacy Debbie Rennick Digital Health EAP Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Holistic Care mental health Mental Wellbeing Spectrum.Life Source Type: blogs
Deciphex Secures €3.9m Funding to Boost Digital Pathology and AI Services
The company is seeing a ten-fold increase in demand quarterly and this strategic investment will allow them to grow their capacity, increase headcount, further improve services and expand to new markets
Deciphex, a leading provider of pathology software and services, announced today a further €3.9m in funding bringing its full Series B round tally to €14.4m. The additional investment, led by Seroba Life Sciences and existing Deciphex investors, will allow Deciphex to continue developing its innovative products and services, to expand its presence in the UK, Canada, the Middle East and the US, and to strengthen its posi...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Chronic Issues Deciphex Diagnexia digital pathology Digital Pathology Funding Donal O’Shea Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Jennifer McMahon Optimal Patient Care Patholyt Source Type: blogs
Top tip for fellow book authors
Top tip for fellow authors (of books). Register with your national public lending rights organisation (PLR at British Library) and claim the books you wrote or co-wrote. In the UK, an author gets 30 pence every time one of their books is borrowed from a library.
There are about 5000 libraries in the UK lending out 165 million books a year. So it could add up and for some authors probably earns them more than sales!
3D-printed model car and stack of books
I think Ireland and Canada also have this system in place, so worth registering there and with the other countries that do if your books are sold abroad. It’s not av...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Stuff Source Type: blogs
Transforming lives, improving health outcomes: tackling the true cost of variation in uptake of innovative medicines
This report considers how to ensure patients are able to access and benefit from innovative medicines – wherever they live in the UK. The joint report with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) makes thirteen specific recommendations (focusing on England, Wales and Northern Ireland) to support progress in tackling the unwarranted variation in the uptake of innovative medici nes.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 17, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
83 You Are Amazing Quotes for Empowerment and to Make This Your Best Year Yet
On some days we just need a bit of encouragement.
Sometimes you need that to renew your motivation or self-love.
At other times someone amazing in your life that's having a hard time or is being needlessly hard on himself or herself needs to hear some loving and kind words.
In this post I’d like to share 83 of the best you are amazing quotes.
I hope these timeless thoughts will be helpful both for you and the people in your world.
And if you want even more uplifting and comforting inspiration then check out this post with quotes on being proud of yourself and this one filled with you are worthy quotes.
You Are Amazing Q...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - January 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
The Employment Equality Directive and Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities: Some Reflections in Light of Tartu Vangla and Komisia za Zashtita ot Diskriminatsia
Delia Ferri (National University of Ireland), L éa Urzel (Maynooth University), The Employment Equality Directive and Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities: Some Reflections in Light of Tartu Vangla and Komisia za Zashtita ot Diskriminatsia, Euro. Y.B on Hum. Rts.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 8, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
My Trial of the New Abbott Freestyle Libre 3
There are many compelling features on the new Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 and I may decide to switch; but I may wish to first try the new Dexcom G7 once it ' s FDA-approved. But I won ' t wait forever...In my 15 years of writing this blog, one thing I have never done is something I occasionally see some younger, less-discerning members of the blogging community do: which is to pimp their blogs (and themselves) out to receive free so-called " blog-ola " . I ' ve been blogging since 2005, and I have never endorsed a product in order to get free things, nor have I ever used my blog to even solicit free stuff from companies which...
Source: Scott's Web Log - December 7, 2022 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2022 Abbott Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 CGM CGMS Dexcom Source Type: blogs
Ranked Choice Voting: Some Notes on the Politics
Walter OlsonRanked choice voting had a good showing at the polls this month,meeting with approval in eight of the ten cities and counties to consider it, including Seattle, Portland and surrounding Multnomah County, Ore., Fort Collins, Colo., and Evanston, Ill. (Two Washington counties, Clark and San Juan, rejected the idea.) Perhaps most significant, Nevada votersapproved Question 3, which would make Nevada the second state to adopt the double reform pioneered by Alaska: replacing conventional party primaries with a universal qualifying round from which the top five candidates (four in Alaska) advance to a ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 29, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2018-20
This report finds that pregnancy remains very safe in the UK. In 2017-2019 191 women, of the 2,173,810 giving birth, died during or up to six weeks after pregnancy; 495 during or up to one year after their pregnancy. This is a small, but not statistically significant, decrease in the overall maternal death rate. It outlines a need for recognition that women can be placed at additional risk by clinician behaviours which focus on concerns over a woman ’s pregnancy rather than concerns over a woman herself. It also highlight the gaps that remain in mortality rates between women from deprived and affluent areas, women of dif...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 11, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient safety Source Type: blogs
Election Reform on the November Ballot
Walter OlsonOn November 8 voters will consider a wide range of state and local ballot measures. Here are some that relate to voting and election reform.Nevada voters inQuestion 3 will decide whether to join Alaska in adopting the innovation known as Final Five voting (Final Four in Alaska), in which a single all ‐party qualifying‐round primary is followed up by a ranked choicevoting (RCV) general election. As I ’veargued, while RCV tends toget more attention, it ’s the first of these paired reforms that could pose the more systematic challenge to current practice by offering a way to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 26, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Philly Block Party Lemon Bars
We’ve owned our house in the Fairmount section of Philly for almost three years now, in anticipation of the day when we are ready to trade money for time, give up the daily grind that is the price for life in New York City, and move back home.
Well, I’m here to tell you that day has come.
A little sooner than anticipated.
You see, our landlord has decided to sell our Upper West Side apartment, and is not renewing our lease. Though I adore the apartment (small, but airy and sunny and the nicest kitchen I’ve ever had), we’re not going to try to buy it. Now is not the time to sink any part ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - October 25, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Desserts Lemon Bars Philly Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – October 2, 2022 – Tech vendors commit to standardizing SDoH data at White House event, 1 in 3 patients using telehealth to manage a chronic condition, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News
Last week’s White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health pledged to take action to reduce hunger and diseases related to poor diets in areas such as food access, healthy food choices, physician activity, an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring ACEP AGS Health Andrew Hine athenahealth Avel eCare Babylon Boston Scientific BrightInsight Brightwork Health IT Butterfly Network Clearsense CliniShift CRISP Source Type: blogs
Health Care Execs Behaving Badly
BY KIM BELLARD
In the midst of a pandemic during which health care workers proved themselves to be very bit the heroes we like to think of them as being, it’s sobering to be reminded that the system they work in is filled with perverse incentives that work against patients’ best interests. Four pieces of excellent journalism – two from The New York Times, and two from Kaiser Health News — this week brought that front and center.
If you haven’t read them yet, I urge you to do so, but, while you might enjoy the writing, don’t expect to enjoy their content.
Let’s start with two arti...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: The Business of Health Care Health Care Execs Kaiser Health News New York Times Providence Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
September 29, 2022 Edition-----The world seems to be lurching to be overwhelmed by issues around most of the major powers being in conflict for a real risk of a global recession affecting the UK, Europe, the US and much of Asia. We seem to be in some pretty difficult times right now …In OZ Parliament is now back after the death of the Queen and it will be interesting to see how things play out and what the Budget looks like in the face of an upcoming recession.-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/a-nation-shorn-of-britishness-is-still-waiting-for-the-republic-20220915-p5bi90A nation shorn of Britis...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
It Seems Australia Is Really Finding It Difficult To Make The Hoped For Digital Transformation!
ConclusionThe aspiration of the PC interim report is clear: it is about how declining productivity can be addressed through a better digital economy. Earlier this month, Treasurer Jim Chalmers also said that he hoped the digital dividend report would spur a genuine national conversation about how to reverse the poor performance, and flagged that boosting productivity would be a focus of the Jobs and Skills Summit.While the PC interim report is a strong statement of why Australia should be doing better than it is, its recommendations seem to fall short of the mark. Better digital infrastructure, data sharing, data skills an...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
